Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Bubbliee]

My problem is this, I have been asked to teach a demo class as part of the interview process at a new school here in Canada. I have never done this before. Sure I have taught before, in Seoul for 9 months and as a private tutor here, but I have never had to teach a demo class. I can handle teaching the class, but what really freaks me out is the topic and length of class. I have to teach a 90 minute class on grammar. It is all review for the students. I am suppossed to teach (review) Present Perfect, Simple present, and Present progressive. The students I will be teaching range in age from 20-35 and there are only 4 students in the class so I imagine they go through material quite quickly. I have never taught a strictly grammar class before. I would really appreciate any hints and tips any of you can give me.

Thanks,
Bubbliee

[teachingld2004]

One thing that you can do, is get a copy of the book they have used, re-write one of the paragraphs from the book incorrectly. Give it to them to correct. Give a time limit. After they have done that, have them trade the papers. Let the other person look it over. Or if you cant get a copy of the book they used, find an easy article, re-write it with alot of mistakes. The give them the correct article and have them self correct it. Again with a time limit.

You then can review it.

Or, introduce yourself, and then have then introduce themselves. Just give them a guidline like for example.

Name
birthday
siblings
favorite hobbies
best friend
person you admire.

What ever you fancy, they can talk, or write. You cant just "pull something out of a hat".

You can take a seat and have them each teach something.

You first have to find out what their level is. You can ask the person who is interviewing you to give you a copy fothe book they have finished.

Many ideas, look on the internet.

Good luck

[Kimchieluver]

Explain each grammar point, give an example and then randomly ask a student to change an incomplete sentence into the example given. Do this as many times as it takes for each grammar point to fill up ninety minutes.

[Hanson]

I just taught something on simple past vs present perfect the other day from New Interchange 2.

Check p.20, 21 or 67-69 (One of my lessons was on the passive... I'm going by memory here).

Also check American Headway, Unit 7. It has some excellent activities in the workbook as well.

[canuckistan]

You can use the TESL grammar bible:
Betty Schrampfer Azar's textbook: Understanding and Using English Grammar will walk you (and the students) through all English tenses--explain the idea of time they convey, how and when to use them, along with follow-up exercises for each tense, as well as exercises that contrast different tenses. Also has suggestions for unstructured speaking exercises for each tense that you can do in class.

2nd (black cover) or 3rd (blue cover) edition is good.

To order:

ISBN 0-13-958661-X

Pearson Education, Prentice Hall Regents

[Derrek]

Try to make the sentences you use funny/interesting. If you've got people sitting through that for 1 1/2 hours, they're going to die of boredom.

Gosh, 90 mins of watching someone else teach grammar... zzzzzz... I'd hate my boss for making me sit through that.

Keep the activities moving.

[buymybook]

It sounds like to me you are being completely used. Don't do it or at the very least negotiate for a less amount of time.

[hari seldon]

Word order and irregular verbs tend to challenge my students:
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslirrverb.html

[rapier]

[agraham]

[Bubbliee]

Thanks for all your tips everybody! I taught my class this morning and I blew them all away. The head teacher said she has never seen anybody take control of a class and get the students to warm up that quickly before. I got the job! YIPPPEEEEEEEEEE! They want me to basically be the activities teacher, take the students, all university age on field trips and get paid for it. Just have to throw in a conversation class every now and then. Once again thanks!

[schwa]

Congrats!

[jazblanc77]

[buymybook]

[Hanson]

Good for you. Congrats!