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[passport220]

The suggestions from previous posters are all very good. A simple lesson on prepositions of place and keep in mind that AEON's classes are designed to improve students English speaking skills. I would recommend you end the lesson with an activity that stresses speaking time for the students. Maybe a sample conversation were at the end of your demonstration students would be expected to have a period of speaking practice using the target language that you illustrated meaning for and modeled in controlled practice.

A long way of saying�.demonstrate that you can get the students to practice speaking.

Good luck

[jerkytheturkey]

I'm at the same interview Rezz, it's good to know that someone else is stressing too

I'm going to be using some simple vocab in my demo. I was thinking of something along the lines of fruits e.g. Drill some different fruits then use 'Is this an Apple? Yes, that is an Apple / No, that is a Pear'. First giving examples and then allowing the group to get into pairs to practice.

My biggest worry is whether this is creative enough? I've been trying to think of / find an exciting activity to finish with. Any ideas?

[Rezz]

Haha jerky, 2 weeks to go now! I wish they didn't tell us about it until a week or so before, had this hanging over me for like 2 months already

Anything that gets the "students" talking is good from what everyone else has suggested, so as long as you apply the example as well as giving practice time I think you should be fine

[easyasabc]

Apart from the listening/drawing items activity (which I used to use and works well) you can just do an activity where you hide something and get them to guess where it is. "Is it under the chair? "Is it behind the trash can?" etc. Review some vocab first to make sure they know the names of the things they might want to say when guessing.

It depends a bit on what age group this activity is supposed to be for. If it's for kids you could also do a colouring-in activity. I used to have a cute cartoon-ish picture showing little mice in/on/under/next to things in a room. The kids had to listen and colour each mouse a certain colour as I described where they were. E.g. "the blue mouse is in the cupboard" "the red mouse is under the chair" etc. The loved this and you could check it at the end by then asking them things like "where is the blue mouse?" and getting them to tell you.

[jerkytheturkey]

Soooo... How did it go Rezz?

My lesson went down pretty well, I made it through to the next stage. The personal interview was interesting, having to come up with a short demo in 5 minutes was quite stressful. I think it went okish, plenty of smiling and gestures

[Rezz]

Only just got back home (stayed in a hotel until this morning). Anyway, I made it through to the second personal interview too so thanks to everyone for suggestions in this thread!

Unfortunately I don't think the 2nd interview went too well, I gave a fairly good demo (I thought) but apparently I was making it a bit too easy for the student. She did say she liked some of the visual aids I came up with though and that I created a good teaching atmosphere.

The worst part was the questioning for me, I just went blank when she asked "Why should we choose you out of all the 100s of other applicants?". I can't even remember what I said really, but as soon as the interview was over I started thinking of loads of stuff I could have mentioned! Doh! I also forgot to show her a letter of recommendation that I had with me from a TEFL course I did

Anyway, we get to know either way in 2 weeks so good luck!

[jerkytheturkey]

Yeh some of the questions she asked were difficult to answer. I guess just being yourself is the best course of action. I'm sure you did better than you think. Now comes the hard part... Waiting 2 weeks

A few people I spoke to forgot to give her their letters of recommendation, if its that important they will contact them using the details on the application.

Let us know how you get on anyway