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[rhian]

Anyone have any tips for this? Need to find the right balance for these lessons, activities that aren't too childish but are at the same time easy enough for them to understand . . . .?

[JW]

I hope this helps. It's not a lesson plan but a quick tip. Learning some of my lesson in Korean helped me out a lot. They know more English than you think. It's like when we were in school and had a language requirement. Unless we kept up with it (ie. Spanish) we would forget. I'm sure, however, that if you take the same class now, you'd pick it up a little faster. The main problem in intimidation and nerves. Speaking or writing a few of those same sentances in theis mother tongue may set them at ease. It helped my class a lot. Now they are eager to try when they saw that I made the effort . They laugh at me instead of feeling like the other students would ridicule them. It's a matter of pride sometimes when it comes to English. Pep talks help too. Getting their confidence up is really important. I've taught several beginner adult classes and these were the main blocades in each of them. Good luck

[Eazy_E]

When I want some of my classes to practice conversation, I use a game for which the idea came from a drinking game. Unfortunately, getting the students tanked might not be a good idea, but anyways....

Get a deck of cards and assign a conversation question to each number in the deck. For example:

Ace = What is your favourite Korean food? International food?
King = What do you like to do on Sundays?
Queen = What is your favourite sport?

etc....

Shuffle the cards and place them face down on the table. Decide who goes first and go clockwise from there.

Admittedly, I don't teach adults but this game works on the middle school students as well as the lower levels of primary. It's a good way to get them talking without feeling like an interrogator. I hope it works for you!

[jajdude]

Both good ideas. Low level adults can be tough. I also used that card idea, though with higher level. Just wrote words for each card, that were topics to talk about at random whenever things got slow in class.

[Toby]

English Upgrade is quite a good book. You can use about 85% of it with adults as it talks about families, directions, food etc. I find it good with beginner level adults.

[Ghostinthemachine]

JW wrote

[peppermint]

i play a guessing game with them.. i made a deck of cards with pictures of different things on there. One student has the card, the others have to ask questions.

first write some sample questions :
is it big?
what color is it?
can i eat it?
etc.

it gets them talking, and you can adapt it for vocab, or grammar as you see fit.

[Squid]

Take them to the pub.

[Ilsanman]

Something to make them laugh after a stressful day at work.

Also, something related to their jobs.