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McQwaid · Joined: 18 Jan 2004

I teach 3 kids in the evening. One is 11 and the other 2 are 8 yrs old. The 11 yr old is higher level. I spend an hour with all three at the same time.

I know that some of you have been teaching English for years here and easily come up with lesson plan ideas like it's a puzzle. I was hoping to get some good ideas.

Thanks to anyone that can help....

peppermint · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

In order to help we'd need tons more info. . how are the kids levels, what books have they used, etc. .

McQwaid · Joined: 18 Jan 2004

They have a low vocab...good pronunciation....no conversation skills. We're talkin introductory stuff here. Please help....

mezdupa · Joined: 11 Jul 2004

nev · Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Location: ch7t

I don't have any children for privates, so I'm not talking from experience, but if they are beginners I'm sure you could use a textbook, maybe workbook too, and work from there. Lots of repetition but try and make it lighthearted.

In the classroom I've taught the Lets Go series to very small classes and found it to be good. Break it up with the occasional game. Every week do plenty of revision and consolidation of what they have learnt, and you can adapt the lesson as time goes on according to the kids' needs.

Dalton · Joined: 26 Mar 2003

There are lots of online lesson plans for ESL/EFL. I have about 30 links for various things. Here's one that may be useful to you:

Teacher Lesson Plans -Absolute Beginner English -20 Point program

This site also has a link to a list of the 1000 most common words.
My link sends you to the beginners section but this site has plans for all levels not just beginners.

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

Don't be planning out lessons from scratch for kids that age. They need a good all round text book, with colorful pics, langauge work, conversation drills, the usuall stuff. Combine that with a phonics book that you work through. And then spice it up with original stuff that you create in a word document, there are so many ideas. Take a very simple short article about something that might interest them, blank out of few words, start with nouns, but adjust that to what ever you're working on that week. Put the blanked words in a group at the top. They have to pick where the words go. Scrambled sentences are cool, if they're already familiar with the structure you're dealing with. Another more challenging one I like is to present a sentence with a missing word, and they have to formulate the correct question to get the missing information ...

Jack had ______ for lunch

They have to come up with "What did Jack have for lunch?"

This is actually very hard, so you have to work with question structures that they are familiar with.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Kiwiboy's right on the money here. There's no need to reinvent the wheel, especially since it looks like you wouldn't know how to build it in the first place. Neither would I, or most of the people here. After all, they do keep hiring us clowns with BAs in any subject.

For textbooks, I like the Let's Go series for grammar and vocab, plus Up and Away with Phonics for a supplement to help them learn how to read.

Good luck, it sounds like you're a resourceful guy, you'll do just fine.

McQwaid · Joined: 18 Jan 2004

Thanks alot everyone....this really helps. Now if I could only get the two 8 yr old boys to sit still and listen. I can't discipline them -- if ya know what i mean.