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Lobster · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject:

An "outline" is not a curriculum. Sounds a bit, no very, amateurish. Better get on the suggestions made by the other posters and start downloading. As you're still in the US and have access to decent materials, you'd better pick up a few texts there, because once you get here the pickings will be slim. Hello extra unpaid hours!

You could adapt Mr. Potatohead to Mr. Mantouhead to make him more marketable, durable and culturally relevant. A spud gun would also be a good fit and would be useful for discipline. As well, you could discuss the business model of and savings realized by running courses without having to pay for texts, handouts, curricula or other "minor discretionary items". Analyze the costs and profits gained by hiring an FT for less than $1000 USD per month and making them work unpaid overtime. Mad

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Song&Dance · Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 176

If your school is too cheap to purchase texts that will be reimbursed when students purchase from the school; or if the students are too poor to afford texts; or if this is just a lazy way to higher education, what problems may you encounter come payday? Just a word to the wise.

At one school I used my own textbooks but the students were so poor that I was required to waive my author's royalty. Then Crazy English was allowed to come to our campus and bilk 16,000 rmb out of our paranoid students who buy that line "we will improve your English in 2 days." My royalty was only 4,000 rmb.

I refuse to use PowerPoint. That is for robot teachers teaching robot students.

Were I in your shoes (and decided to stick it out instead of sticking it to the employer) I would locate reading materials on the web and assign them as homework. Each class would begin with a 5 question quiz mainly to determine who had done the assigned web reading homework. (1 rmb per hr for most Internet bars)
F = failed to do homework. 3 -F and do not qualify to take final exam. F for entire class.

I know, I know, strict, tough, you will not be popular. Just apply the doctrine of T.S. (tough situation). lol

killian · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:46 am Post subject:

righ now i am teaching w/out books. takes alot of effort.

'business enlish" is broad indeed. which part of business english.

even more importantly, how many students per class? 60? i'd renege. 10 or 15? such has the potential for a great time.

find out the answers to the above questions ASAP.