Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Pulgasari]

I have been teaching Kindies and Elementary school kids in Korea for 1 year and now am moving on. I have a job interview for a job teaching adults this week and will need to do a 20 minute mock class.
If it was teaching Kindies or Elementary students this would not be an issue I would just teach a bit of vocab and then maybe do a bit of grammar but as it is I really do not know what I should be teaching to adults. What does an adult ESL class normally look like?
I was thinking that I could just pick a topic, do a short reading and then follow this with some discussion questions. But I do not know if this is exactly what the school will be looking for.
Does anybody here have any advise or know of any good resources/websites that could provide good information on developing ESL classes for adults?

[lifeinkorea]

I would prepare 2 related lessons, and be ready to choose one after you meet the students. You make one easy and one harder. You could do it on the same lesson, but then you will only have that type of lesson to teach.

For example, you could get an adjective/comparison lesson ready with grammar. From just the vocabulary alone, you could have different sets depending on the students' levels. As a secondary lesson, have home objects and prepositions. They could do an activity where they have to draw their house or one room, showing where the objects are located while using prepositions.

A more diagnostic approach is a routine lesson. This is something I often do with adults to assess their level. Even higher level students have a hard time finding the right words. You could focus on routines based on the day or different periods of time. If they breeze through this, I usually move on to adverbs of frequency.

These ideas are more geared for the actual first time lesson you give a student, which to me is the real "mock" lesson. You are finding out about the students and deciding what direction to take.

In an interview setting, they probably want to see organization more than learning, since they probably will know the material in order to assess you. So, have the easy and harder parts easily defined so they can see what you would do in case a student didn't understand something as well as what you would do when the student quickly learns what you are explaining. It's almost like 2 mini lessons in these cases.

Make sure to wrap things up after 15 minutes so they can see how your lessons can end. This is for me the most difficult thing, but it is important so you aren't covering too much. The students and whoever is interviewing you will be confused as to what your intended lesson was for. So, for example, in the beginning of lesson write the word "Comparisons" if you want to do that.

The students in an actual class may not know what that is, and you can forget that when you actually teach, but the interviewer can see that and know what you are trying to teach. If it is more descriptions and not comparisons, then write "Adjectives". Abilities is a third one that I mix in with adjectives and comparisons, but I don't like to do this as a first lesson or in interviews.

For more ideas, please check out http://englishlessons.wikispaces.com