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[RuffledFeathers]

So I have a so-called "advanced" English class that I do once a week, it's a special class for higher level high school students, and so they can fill my contractual 22hrs a week.

I was doing news paper articles, that have a series of questions attached with an article. This fills up the full 50mins of the class. It is more of a reading/comprehension style of teaching.

The students want more of me speaking, and them talking. I was using the article so the students had something to actually talk about! I can't just walk into a class and start talking, every native English teacher knows this. The kids will sit there with a thumb up their ass.

Anyone have some suggestions on lesson plans?

[T-dot]

debate

[julesk]

I am having a very similar problem with my Advanced Class. I am stumped, and a reponse like "debate" is not helpful.

[jellobean]

Take 15 minutes and develop 5-7 discussion questions related to the topic of the article. That should get them talking. That's what I do when I pull English articles of the internet.

I also have a book called Small Group Discussion Topics by Jack Martire published by PNU Press that almost exactly work out to a 50 minute class if you start out by reading the articles so the students can here the proper pronunciation of the words.