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Sashadroogie · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:06 pm Post subject:

They sound like a barrel of laughs. But I do not see any point in fighting them on what the lessons should be. If they are so sure they know better how to hold a class, then there is not much you can do to change their mind.

Why not just go with some ready-made discussion materials?

http://www.eflbooks.co.uk/book.php?isbn=1899396411

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3947457/Instant-Discussions

In any case you can still do teacherly things like feeding-in language and give delayed feedback and error correction later - even in a talk-shop lesson.

fluffyhamster · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject:

There might be an idea or two in the following thread (not all the sublinks are still working, though):
http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?p=14751#14751

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Some teachers at my school put together a packet with topics and questions. I could email it to you. Just PM me your address. There are about 80 pages, so good for 80 lessons. At least.

iteslj also has some good info.

Mr. English · Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 298 Location: Nakuru, Kenya

Thanks again to all for your help.

dackinator · Joined: 17 Sep 2010 Posts: 105

Look up the Discussions A-Z books (intermediate and advanced.. but I regularly adapted them to lower levels). They got me through 2 long years of conversation classes with the same set of students. They're quite easy to find online.