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senor boogie woogie · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:33 am Post subject: Topics for adult class.

Hola!

I will start a new job teaching University students and young professionals for a private school.

The format is this, I have to bring up a topic for discussion. Can be about anything. I can talk about elephant farts Embarassed

if I wanted to and the class goes along. I do a presentation on the topic and then put some questions on the board. Then I and another teacher split the classes into two or three small groups (depends on size) and speak about the questions on the board.

I do want to make the class interesting. I also want to do a "warmer" to start to get the students talking. Where is a good place on the ESL internet to give me ideas on how to do this?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Senor

Buttercup · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 54 Location: Shanghai

Here's one:

http://iteslj.org/questions/

May I also suggest this? I read about Dogme recently and it makes a whole lot of sense to me. Also, with this approch, you don't have to prepare lots of materials! Wink

http://www.teaching-unplugged.com/dogmaarticle.html
http://www.teaching-unplugged.com/sources.html

whitjohn · Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 124

G'Day Senor,
This past term, I used Chinas future in 20 years...Environment, Economy, Political Changes, World Leadership Role and Social Changes. We all know they are in for these changes and the uni level students got a blast out of expressing their opinions on these topics. Good luck.

struelle · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 2372 Location: Shanghai

I will start a new job teaching University students and young professionals for a private school.

Congrats! This sounds like an ideal job, actually, as far as age range and employer type goes.

I don't want to spoil this new job with a nitpicky question, but I'm curious as to how your visa situation and release letter from the other place worked out. You did indeed take a new job, as I suspected from the previous post!

Cheers,
Steve