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Easter Clark · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong

In short, buy a textbook. There's no need to reinvent the wheel!

Cornfed · Joined: 14 Mar 2008

sojourner1 · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

Do they have printed dialogues for the simulated role playing? Our English village provides an English curriculum with printed dialogues. The dialogues are also in a fake passport we give the students. They buy a flight, take a flight, check into the hotel, go shopping, go to the bank, go to the post office, go to the library, and go to a restaurant. We call these small rooms, "booths."

If you don't already have printed dialogue text, it's not hard to write it. Think of everyday conversations people have when doing common business transactions.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

Do a google search "online ESL resources". You should find something helpful.

Don't be afraid to use videos (if possible) from youtube or other sites.

There are some pretty interesting things you could use.

Check out Ddeubel's site, he has some pretty neet stuff.

This one is good for a laugh, probably not so good for a lesson though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkk6NGpng2I

Or on the other hand...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjP2NTxOyY&feature=related

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

Nothing more annoying than having to plan a curriculum for a bunch of lazy, cheap peanut heads, eh?

Bunch of dorks.

PeterDragon · Joined: 15 Feb 2007

PeterDragon · Joined: 15 Feb 2007

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travelbender · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Location: Seoul, Seongbuk-gu

There are a few great lesson planning sites
www.bogglesworldesl.com is great for quick printables

BBC has some writing lessons
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/resources_for_teachers/default.stm

Education World has writing lessons as well
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp258-04.shtml

Basically you can just google whatever your topic and add "lesson plan" and there are tons of resources online available if you don't want to use a textbook.

jadarite · Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:45 am Post subject:

Use the internet. I am in the same boat, but I am having a fun time with it. The only thing I don't like is that I am supposed to only meet each class once a semester. Who was the Einstein that drummed up that idea? They want every public school in this area to have an opportunity.

Doesn't matter to me, but kinda dumb. The students won't learn that way.

wings · Joined: 09 Nov 2006

Check out www.englishtips.org You can download whole textbooks, as well as videos and sound files. It has really helped me with my extra classes which have no textbook or curiculum either.

maingman · Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea

www.lessonwriter.com

Very Happy

glimmer · Joined: 01 Feb 2008

Here's some paid subscription sites with printable lessons and worksheets. Some of them have limited free samples:

www.english-4u.com
www.handoutsonline.com
www.esl-library.com
www.esl-lounge.com
www.teachitworld.com
www.english-to-go.com

Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

http://iteslj.org/t/tmm/.

The textbook the Korean English teacher uses belongs in a kitty litter box.

Louie · Joined: 12 Oct 2008

Buy a textbook and look at the lesson from the communicative approach.

I have a question- are you actually teaching a lesson or acting it out for the students to see?

I would say that if you are acting it out, then simple videos would be sufficient. But if you are actually teaching the vocabulary, grammar, terms and conversational examples related to dining, then you are better off getting a textbook.

You can go to Yongpoon and Kyobo book stores in Seoul, or English+ in Kangnam and elsewhere. You can also try Kim & Johnson's in Gangnam, you can find some excellent resources there.