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[Nierlisse]

Has anyone ever had to do this? I am now being told I need to come up with a schedule for teacher's camp...apparently I'll be teaching other teachers English for an entire week. I'm totally lost as to what to do here; for kids it's much easier...they are easier to please. Adults are much more difficult! And the few teachers I've talked to about it have never heard of such a thing and are horrified that they might have to participate.

(as such, I am assuming that it will never get off the ground, but I still have to come up with a plan this week)

Any advice? Anyone else have to do something like this? It's 3 hours per day, for 5 days.

[prideofidaho]

Why not focus on a TV show....watch some episodes and discuss. I know some teachers who have based lessons around friends, etc.

Make it fun for you, too. I feel for you, this would be my worst nightmare.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Mine would be 15 hours of me asking questions to stunned mullet silence. I've found the best way to clear the room is to study a novel. How many teacher will there be?

[Misera]

If you're female, and they're all female too, it should be easy to come up with topics. Teachers are generally late so the time period would probably be shortened by a lot too. You can also end early or just have a chat to wrap up >_>

For my classes (all female teachers) the topics have been:
Yellow dust (vocab, basically how to carry on a convo..)

Food (what they like, purposes of food, what goes well with what, how to cook/make certain kinds of dishes, learning about steps)

Describing a person & standards of beauty (hair length, style, eyes [colors, size, shape], body shape, height, what they think is beautiful or perfect, plastic surgery, celebrities)

Ideal man (face shape, body & height, hair cut/style, facial features, drawing him, blood type & personality)

Clothing (diff cuts for tops & bottoms, more describing to incorporate stuff from previous lessons)

Woman's period (yes...........................)

Falling in love (phrases to use during a date, blind date stuff, practicing with partners, what presents you want or how you'd like to celebrate important dates, ideal spouse characteristics, the ring, proposal, etc)

Divorce/Betrayal (lol..)

Of course some work with classes with males too.. teachers basically just want to learn stuff useful in convo. Use a lot of repeating, drawing, discussion.. making them speak takes up a lot of time. Asking them what words they want to know or phrases to use at certain times takes up time too.

edit: Some other topics I have lined up not yet taught: Preference for sons, korean holidays, tv dramas, "my students" (talk about their own students). Also, if there is some sort of budget, preparing some snacks for them is good. Ours was pretty non existant.. the cookies and candy and stuff I bought got old pretty quick so the teachers opted to chip in and buy stuff. Like each week someone brings a bunch of popsicles Oh also, review games are fun for them.. they like hangman just as much as the kids. On worksheets have a big variety of stuff (writing, matching, translating, drawing, fill in the blanks, etc).