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[I_Am_Wrong]

for two classes. I'll be teaching the two classes three times a week for the next five weeks. Basically, I've already taught them for five weeks but the director picked the books from his hagwon (the classes are elementary school) and the books suck. The lower class is a grade 4/5 level split and the upper is a grade 5/6 level split. The books that my director had me teaching did nothing more than basic vocabulary (chair, desk, table, sunny, cloudy) and have the worst songs and most repititious amounts of writing simple vocabulary over and over. This kids are quite beyong this and are incredibly bored by this. However, they are great kids and deserve better so I have been supplementing all the material with speaking activities, songs, and games of my own. My director told me that I can have my choice of new books for the remaining five weeks. I'm looking for something that will up the difficulty a bit without being too hard, increase the amount of speaking practise and decrease repititious/boring writing, and something that will allow the class to be more interactive and fun in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[ThePoet]

Children's Talk 1 - Duane Vorhees: A series of topical conversations with comprehension and questions about the topics that can be used for discussion.

I use the Teen Talk 1 book for my middle school and they really like it.


If they are decent at talking, and you want lots of conversation scripts, you might also consider Expressways 2 -- although there is some writing in it.


Poet

[I_Am_Wrong]

yeah, I've been using Children's talk one with my elementary students and teen talk with my middle school students here and there. for these class my director told me that the books were my choice so I picked some great comprehensive books that were less writing intensive and focused more on Listening and Speaking called Backpack. Of course, my director then decided that 14,000 won for the student book and work book was too much and made the decision himself....so now I'm stuck teaching garbage again.

[Derrek]

Get Real! if they can handle that. Mixes in lots of listening and prompted conversation.