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morneau33 · Joined: 21 Jun 2009

Hello everyone. I am teaching "English Conversation" during the summer camp at my school. My school is so disorganized, it's not even funny. We are nearing the end of our spring semester and the summer camp is coming up soon. It lasts about 15 total classroom days. I am teaching level 3 English. There will be 3 levels (level 3 being the most advanced), and we have not been given ANY materials whatsoever. I am supposed to find my own.

Okay - so I understand what I have to do. I have about 4 hours with them per day, so that means about 60 total classroom hours. I have decided to have 2 "conversation" hours per day that, meaning I have to prepare for 30 class hours of "conversation class". The other classes I will fill with various activities. I can't make them speak for 4 hours straight or I'll commit suicide.

Does anyone know where I can find some really useful materials for conversation classes? 30 total classes. Does anyone know of any good syllabus for this? Please let me know. Thank you.

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

Buy marshmallows and hotdogs. Tell ghost stories around the campfire.

Summer camp!

Seriously though, suggest a book to them like English Time or something. I don't know what level 3 advanced is. Could be anything. If they don't want to spend a lot of money, get them to buy one book and photocopy it. You can use that or any other book and make conversation. Just go to the bookstore and have a look.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

Sounds like you need a couple of books.

1, 2, 8 and 26 might be useful.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

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

busanliving · Joined: 29 Apr 2009

Try www.scribd.com and search for timesavers, also look for some of the communication activities books on there.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Hi OP,

Okay, here are a couple of lesson plans/worksheets I have created. I hope it helps your conversation class. It was a smash hit in mine!!!

www.ralphsesljunction.com

then go to worksheets

it's the bottom 2:

driving cars

catastrophes

nicam · Joined: 14 Jun 2008

This site is great for basic conversational questions arranged by topic:

http://iteslj.org/questions/

This site is truly amazing. Some of the stuff is hard for my kids, but most articles have an "easy" version, and if you look up top there's a "print" option which will give you a 13 page hand-out (that's right, 13 pages, 4 hours wouldn't even be enough time to finish all of the activities) that's mostly geared towards group conversation.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

Hope that helps.

espoir · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Incheon, South Korea

I had to do the same thing in the winter camps. And 4 hours straight of teaching is beyond difficult. The kids lose attention after about the first hour. So what I did, was start off with the most boring crap. Then at the 1hr mark its break time, so for 20min I let them play english songs on the big projector and do whatever. After breaktime was games for 1hour. then another 20min break. Then for the last hour I do another part of the boring lesson or we watched some tv shows/movies. And I let the kids out early for lunch.

I only had 6 kids in my camp so this was a bit easier and I made everything very informal (not on purpose actually, I just had no idea what/how to teach them at this point, was still fairly new to everything)

morneau33 · Joined: 21 Jun 2009

morneau33 · Joined: 21 Jun 2009

seonsengnimble · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject:

http://bogglesworldesl.com/ also has a decent amount of stuff

ekul · Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Location: [Mod Edit]

http://englishkorea.110mb.com/ has some good extra lessons that could kill a few hours

harlowethrombey · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Location: Seoul

Elementary?

Buy a copy of Shrek or Finding Nemo from a street vendor.

Watch it.

Talk about it.

High School

Watch episodes of 'The Simpons'.

Talk about them.

The catch-all 'make a conversation class' is a b.s. idea. They tell you that because they dont have a clue what 'a conversation class' is so you can, literally do whatever you want.

If anyone complains about all your movie time just explain that if the school provides you with a book and curriculum you'd be happy to teach it.

Or, just go to the park every day and write bad poetry and demand all the students call you 'captain, my captain.' That works too.

Joe666 · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Location: Jesus it's hot down here!

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