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MrCAPiTUL
Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 232 Location: Taipei, Taiwan
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: NOVA/AEON Interview Lesson Plans |
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A friend of mine is interviewing w/them this month. He's concerned about the lesson plans he must create.
Advice? Ideas?
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Hoser

Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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For NOVA you dont have to prepare anything. |
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womblingfree
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 826
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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OK, if my hazy memory serves me right a basic idiot proof Aeon lesson goes something like this:
Teaching Point - "What do you do?"
i) Warm up (a silly game to get everyone into English, any drinking game is fine)
ii) Listening (a brief tick the box test)
iii) Drills - this is the teaching point: 'I am a ____.' Followed by 'Doctor', 'Student', 'Office worker' etc.
iv) Conversation - listen to a pre-recorded conversation, something like:
a. What do you do?
b. I'm a student.
a. Wow, that's great.
Then repeat it in pairs.
v) Exercise - This is just the conversation which you've written yourself with a few words blanked out so that the students can practise. As the students practice you gradually hide the dialogue until it's all gone.
vi) Exercise expansion - Basically the same but with a few flash cards, say with job titles on. Students must perform the pattern sentences with the flash cards as prompts.
It's something like that for absolutely every Aeon lesson you will ever teach, give or take a few details.
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justuspost
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Berkeley CA
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:01 am Post subject: drinking games? |
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'any drinking game is fine'
Huh? im sure your not talking about beer pong here, what are you talking about. hehe that would be great though. How popular would you be if you taught english to 'drinking games' HAHA geese i would take that class for sure.
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stillnosheep

Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe
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Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:35 am Post subject: |
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womblingfree wrote: |
OK, if my hazy memory serves me right a basic idiot proof Aeon lesson goes something like this:
Teaching Point - "What do you do?"
i) Warm up (a silly game to get everyone into English, any drinking game is fine)
ii) Listening (a brief tick the box test)
iii) Drills - this is the teaching point: 'I am a ____.' Followed by 'Doctor', 'Student', 'Office worker' etc.
iv) Conversation - listen to a pre-recorded conversation, something like:
a. What do you do?
b. I'm a student.
a. Wow, that's great.
Then repeat it in pairs.
v) Exercise - This is just the conversation which you've written yourself with a few words blanked out so that the students can practise. As the students practice you gradually hide the dialogue until it's all gone.
vi) Exercise expansion - Basically the same but with a few flash cards, say with job titles on. Students must perform the pattern sentences with the flash cards as prompts.
It's something like that for absolutely every Aeon lesson you will ever teach, give or take a few details.
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Superb! Were you ever an Aeon Trainer by any chance?
You missed i) b) pre-activity - This is where you try to get the students to use the Target Language without them (and just as often you) having a clue what is going on. Something like:
"Asuka. What do you do?"
"I look for book?"
"Err, Tomoko?"
"Yes?"
"Err, What do you do Tomoko?"
"Yes?"
"Err, Keiko, what do you do?"
"I don't understand"
"Are you a student Keiko?"
"Yes"
Yes, you are a student."
"Yes?"
"Errrrrr.... |
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womblingfree
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 826
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:27 am Post subject: |
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stillnosheep wrote: |
Superb! Were you ever an Aeon Trainer by any chance?
You missed i) b) pre-activity. |
Knew I'd forgotten something!
I taught those bloody lessons 4 or 5 times a day for two years!
As for being a trainer, I didn't even make it into the dizzying heights of Emergency Teacher/Corporate Spy
You have to be a certain kind of 'special' to make it as a trainer.
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womblingfree
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 826
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:29 am Post subject: Re: drinking games? |
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justuspost wrote: |
'any drinking game is fine'
Huh? im sure your not talking about beer pong here, what are you talking about. |
Any game requiring co-ordination whilst speaking or a memory game etc. |
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