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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: any ideas for teaching teachers/parents? |
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| I've got a few more classes left this year where I have to teach other teachers and parents of students, but I'm running out of ideas. They usually want to practice situational type of activities and have told me they don't want to use a textbook. Anyone have any ideas for a lesson? I'll be so glad when these classes are finally over |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: Re: any ideas for teaching teachers/parents? |
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| xCustomx wrote: |
| They usually want to practice situational type of activities and have told me they don't want to use a textbook. |
It is too much of a burden to make up many situations.
I got a text book for our teachers classes.
Instead of just teaching one way of saying something, I got another 3 or 4 sentences which were a different way of saying what the dialogue in the text book said. I used Everyday Survival English, and the teachers really liked the handouts I made. Each picture from the book had one way of saying something, so I made a sheet with a variety of sentences for most of the pictures. We also discussed different habits/methods of doing things in UK/USA/Korea.
It will be as fun and interesting as you make it.
I done 9 or so before numbers dropped too low, you're welcome to it as a guide although it's not much use without the book.
How about discussing/describing pictures from the web? |
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LateBloomer
Joined: 06 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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Mine liked variations of "pick a question". I'd type up a list of questions and cut them into strips. Then the teachers or parents would draw one of the questions from a box or bag.
There are many ways to use this theme. You can go with straight questions. "What's your favourite food/color/sport?" .....or depending on the dynamics of your group, you can have some fun with it. "What bugs you most about your husband/wife, best friend etc. ?" If I got a blank look in response to anything, I'd give them an example. "My best friend is a wonderful person...but she's always late. One time....."
Other times, I'd do up some answers. " I like adventure movies." and whoever drew that paper would have think of the appropriate question. In that case...."What kind of movies do you like?"
Another variation is to prepare sentences containing grammatical mistakes . "She like apples." Each person has to try to correct the sentence and tell the rest of the group. The others either disagree or agree before the teacher provides the answer.
If you have access to some flash cards, you can have them pick a card and make a sentence to illustrate various things you are trying to teach.
If someone picks a picture of a dog and you've been working on prepositions...."The dog is on/beside/under the chair/sofa/bed".
Or, for past tense...."The dog jumped on the bed." You can do the same thing by preparing a strip of paper with "dog.......jump" on it. I have some that I've used over and over to illustrate various grammar points.
They say they don't want grammar but they really need it so I find ways to disguise it and make it fun. Both the parents and teachers seem to enjoy lessons that enable them to learn more about each other.
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Bear256
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Location: Anacortes, Washington USA
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If you are just down to a few classes left and looking for filler what I did with my parents class was sessions on practical English usage. I had them:
Order food from a restaurant menu (soup, salad, choice of potato, drink and dessert) I made up more like a western style menu with Steaks, seafood platters, lasagna, Mexican food, fish and chips. Kind of like a Denny's family style place.
Go shopping in a 3 story major mall type store and have to ask and give directions. I gave them each a shopping list and they would have to ask where are men's socks or coats for teenage girls or jewelry for the wife, etc. I made a floor plan with floors and aisles.
Invite your friends to the movies night: I made up a list of current movies and show time and they had to invite another couple. I had them choose what movie they were going to see, which showing they were going to and give the price for the movies depending on whether or not is was just adults or they were taking the kids.
I had them buy a pet for someone as a present. They had to choose from everything from snakes to monkeys to cats and dogs to guinea pigs. They had to inquire about the prices, what else they needed to buy (cage, aquarium, doghouse) and inquire about the care and feeding and buy the appropriate starter kits.
They had fun both being the person inquiring and the salespeople. It gave them greater confidence in their ability to use their English when they have gone on vacation.
I just had one of may families go on vacation to Saipan and the wife, who attends my parent class, made the hotel reservations, arranged a rental car, checked them in to the hotel and made reservations for the family dinner that night all in English, to the proud amazement of her family.
Computers are great and I was able to whip these up (complete with movie posters, pictures of the food and animals, and the floor plan) in almost no time. Good luck! |
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anyangoldboy
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Try this... |
Do they actually find that stuff interesting? I'm very familiar with the site but have never tried using it |
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anyangoldboy
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| Well try it and find out then. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| xCustomx wrote: |
| anyangoldboy wrote: |
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
Try this... |
Do they actually find that stuff interesting? I'm very familiar with the site but have never tried using it |
This site is very very good. However you need to tailor it to your needs. If you use the lesson's straight up they seem to be designed for about a 3hr class; there's a LOT of stuff in them.
I've used them in class before but I've taken a specific lesson that I thought my students might find interesting, then cut down about 75% of the stuff to fit the 50minute small adult group lessons I was teaching at the time. I think the whole lesson is designed for about a 3 hour class or so and a lot of the topics are of no interest to Korean adults. I wouldn't use these lessons every day because a lot of the topics simply wouldn't interest the students I've had in the past. I think it's pretty Euro/Western -centric.
It's a great resource though and I'm sure I'll use it in the future if I teach intermediate to advanced adult students in small groups again. For teachers in Korea I'd say you need to select the lessons you use from the site and edit them accordingly. |
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