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[real2104]

Hello!

I'm starting work shortly in China.

I have zero teaching experience and just need some links to some sites that have activities, lesson plans, teaching resources, warm up activities... anything that will help me!

My students are from 6 - 16 and are mainly beginner/intermediate.

If you have any advice or suggestions on where I can go (online) I'd love to hear them.

Nick.

[7969]

http://iteslj.org/questions/
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/WordSearchSetupForm.html
http://www.bogglesworld.com/
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/index.html

[real2104]

Thanks! Those are helpful.

[Kram]

http://www.englishdroid.com/

http://www.englishteacherx.blogspot.com/

http://tefltrade.blog-city.com/

[tw]

PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send you my bookmark folder full of web sites that have lesson plans and ideas.

[real2104]

Wow, thanks for the quick responces guys.

[brsmith15]

6 - 16? Intermediate? RUN!!!!!

Seriously, though, come with lots of patience and NO pre-conceived ideas.

[SnoopBot]

Also the school might provide a book, such as:

New Concepts English or Person to Person are common ones used in China.

You might want to ask them if you are required to produce your own lesson plans or what book is used.

It sounds like New Concepts English 1, 2, 3 might be used.

This is a common book in China and is often used for the student age groups you mentioned.

The book allows the more advanced students to use the higher versions (book 3).

Beginners use 1 to the more advanced students that use 3. Hopefully, they will place the students in the classes based on some measured benchmarked English ability. So you can teach at that designed level.

If they don't supply books for your students I would be surprised, they often do.

Most universities and some training centers expect you to produce your own.

[kev7161]

[vikuk]

I don�t want to spoil this lovely party - but do people here really think that teaching English is just about practical teaching materials????
OP I would suggest another first move is to get some material regarding teaching method/learning theory with regard to child development (particularly apt for planning lessons for the 6-10 group).
And why should you do this since your job is focused on the practical side of teaching???
Well...
- reading this kind of material will give you a more qualified ability/vocab to talk/write about your experiences/your plans/your problems etc etc - so if you ask for help and guidance (for example through Dave's), you can give more specific qualified questions that will get more qualified answers.

- this type of material gives you clues to why the things that result from your teaching actually happen (and this isn't just focused on the English learning aspect - but on the way your students may behave). It�s by thinking off the back of educational theory with regard to our own experience that the teacher fine-tunes a lesson (even if that theory is home baked).

- having this kind of knowledge may give you a bit more protection from the white monkey situation - where you could be persuaded to do something in the classroom because you didn't know any better!!!!

Educational theory is much maligned in these forums - but the funny thing is that because education isn't a science � and there exists no direct measurable recipe for teaching (an A-Z plan that can work identically in each classroom), since all teachers, students and classroom situations are unique non-measurable entities - that writing/talking/thinking about your own teaching can't help but being theoretical in nature - and of course these forums are just full of theory (most of it home brewed). So getting a bit of expert theory to sharpen up your own ideas on teaching can't be a bad idea.
And where do get it - well so much of the stuff is right here on the Internet.

[SnoopBot]