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[nomad-ish]

sorry, i know this has probably been covered before, but i was having trouble searching for relevant threads.

i'm starting a 10hr session for parents during the vac period, and i'm told that they are beginners. sooo.... i'm assuming they know the standard memorized stuff, "i'm fine, thank you, and you?" and hello, goodbye, etc.

Can anyone give me some pointers for how to communicate with true beginners? i teach MS kids, and they are mostly beginners too, but i usually have co-teachers with me during term time and in the camp time, i just do fun games with the kids...so it's not hard at all. but parents are another matter, i can't make them play the silly games like i do with the kids.

suggestions please?

[mrsquirrel]

Adults love games.

Singing songs with them.

That Beatles song Hello Goodbye or whatever it's called is always good.

[thatwhitegirl]

I used to teach adult beginners. They weren't total beginners though. They really enjoyed games like charades (not the real version...just acting out a phrase or verb or whatever) and pictionary.

My friend did a total beginners (really no English whatsoever) and said that doing rhymes was good...really simple ones like cat, hat, rat, sat, mat...and so on. Taught them loads of words and how to make the sounds. They progressed quickly doing it.

Selling/shopping with flashcards of food and fruit. Teach a set of phrases to use when shopping/selling and have them sell things to each other. Make a list half the Ss have to complete, set up stalls for the other Ss to sell at.
MES-english has loads of flashcards for that.

Directions are good, with lots of activities to do with them. Also appearance, clothing, weather, professions, hobbies, a family tree...

Would you have mostly women? That would be great, as you can focus on things women like to do.

Have fun! I liked teaching adults...they are so much more studious. Actually took notes and wrote down new vocab.

[drkalbi]

I assume this would be 2hrs a day for 2 weeks? I had to do this type of class each semester at the college I work at. We called it a community class. Basically, what I did was for the first hr I would do one unit from Interchange 1. The second hr would be something basic from bogglesworldesl.com. The basic students liked the structure of Interchange and the better students liked the freedom of the handout from Bogglesworld. It seemed to work. As well, I would suggest going out for dinner or a drink on the last day.

[nomad-ish]

[Juregen]

I always do tongue twisters in my first class of adults.

They really dig it.