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klement
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 Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:10 am Post subject: AEON interview - conversation vs. vocab |
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I have an interview with AEON in two weeks, and the demo lesson only gives a very vague objective:
"teach a lesson focusing on english conversation"..
does this require me to teach a dialogue type conversation
eg. "how are you?" "good, and yourself" etc etc...
or do you think it would be okay if i taught vocab - in particular, i wanted to make my demo lesson about animals, but wasn't sure if this is classified as "english conversation" |
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guest of Japan
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Teach functional English for a communicative situation. A conversation about animals is really only good for zookeepers. Useful situations include: restaurants, stores, hotels, business meetings, customs. on the airplane, in a taxi, subway, hotel, bus (are you getting bored yet?).
Focus on the vocabuary and grammar necessary to succeed in one of these situations. The show an example dialog from that situation. Then have a role play portraying that situation. Review the key points, pat yourself on the back and get through the rest of the interview process. |
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Temujin
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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They will ask for 80% student talking time, which is very difficult to pull off in a demo lesson so design it with that in mind. Keep it functional and go for style over substance.
I had an activity where the "students" got up and asked each other questions based on a handout I had prepared. I hardly said a word - I just introduced the activity and then watched them get on with it. I was successful in this stage of the interview and my lesson certainly went down a lot better than the more teacher centred lessons. |
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angiestar
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
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Location: shiroi-shi, chiba prefecture, japan
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| Temujin wrote: |
| I had an activity where the "students" got up and asked each other questions based on a handout I had prepared. I hardly said a word - I just introduced the activity and then watched them get on with it. I was successful in this stage of the interview and my lesson certainly went down a lot better than the more teacher centred lessons. |
Great idea! (I have an interview coming up on Sunday and I'm scared as hell.) |
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Jazz1975
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Location: Zama, Kanagawa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Temujin wrote: |
| I had an activity where the "students" got up and asked each other questions based on a handout I had prepared. I hardly said a word - I just introduced the activity and then watched them get on with it. I was successful in this stage of the interview and my lesson certainly went down a lot better than the more teacher centred lessons. |
I've thought about something like this as well. Mind you, I had a few ideas, but this will probably work best if they're expecting 80% student talking time. Come to think about it, I can adapt my activity to fit this format. Now let me just get an invite first for an interview... |
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