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Bobs12, Excellent advice for teaching private students. I totally agree with you and am starting to use more articles as well as free conversation. If the student wants free conversation I find that just asking questions, and wanting to learn from the student really helps, as well as being patient a...

Beata,
My junior and senior high school classes in Japan would certainly be interested in doing some projects. would you mins sending me some details?

Jaime

I wonder at what level you students are.

I teach each class once a week so I seems difficult to continue with a project especially having them perform takes a few classes. I don't know why but I feel like with the limited time I have I wouldn't be able to do this. What do you think?

Well I've asked the teachers about the goals for both Junior and Senior classes. They say that it is a comunication class, they want me to use the text as a guide line, teach about the different cultures between japanese and english, practice speaking and listening. For the most part it seems they o...

Thank you so much for the realization Lorikeet. You are right about the planning I just can't seem to focus when I plan. I always think of such broad topics and have trouble narrowing them. I need help in knowing what is best for the students in the hour they have with me. . . The first 5 lessons in...

Hello Undeterred No I don't have a text with the junior classes but sn.1 I use On Air and Sn.3 I use Hello There. They are really boring and I find it difficult to find intresting things to do with them. I feel really bad because I don't have a unit plan for my classes. I plan for my classes the day...

Hello everyone, I am teaching at a japanese private junior and senior high school. My 3rd year high school class has 40 students. I should teach listening and speaking while following the text. I have 65 min. a week with each class. I am trying to figure out what is the best way to have them listeni...