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Hello, I work with adult business students on a 1:1 basis. If anyone has any good ideas for strategies for improving verbal fluency, I'd be grateful to hear them: not so much game ideas or conversation starters (I'm great at that already :lol: ) but the strategies or pedagogy behind it. For example,...

Hi, I have a job teaching my daughter's French-speaking class of 6-7 yr olds. This is their first year so we're at the basics stage: colours, numbers, my name is etc.... Focus is entirely on oral skills. Any ideas for fun games to encourage them to talk? I've downloaded lots of flashcards as prompts...

I'm so sorry this is a horribly late response (the lengthy French summer holiday intervened!), but thank you so much for the extremely useful and constructive reply. Very helpful indeed, and recommended to anyone else in this situation, in France or elsewhere.

Kate

Hello, I work in France mainly 1:1 (sometimes 2:1) with 15-16 yr olds who're already behind at school, low in confidence & therefore interest. Could anyone recommend good quality textbooks or sources of texts which teenagers can engage with? I can't afford to buy all so need to buy wisely! Texts wit...

Merci mille fois Brad, very helpful indeed!

I can already picture you in EFL heaven where every day is a motivated student enthusiastically brandishing a copy of Headway........

Hello there I teach in Toulouse (home of Airbus), so have several students needing English for aviation, but who can't afford the very expensive specific courses (flight dispatchers, check in staff etc):? I've found a small section of material on the English Club website, but not much else online or...