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I was hired for a job to teach adults conversational English (12 lessons, one and a half hours each class). What is the best way to go about this? I was thinking of doing communicative language teaching and have the class do dialogues each week. Any ideas? Any good books?

Thanks. I am looking that them now. However, they mostly deal with students who are not motivated to learn. Mine are motivated and full of energy alright-energy to do ANYTHING, but learn in my class. I teach 13-15 year olds. Part of the reason is I do not speak the home language, though I have good ...

I am a beginning teacher, in a classroom of 45 students. I am having a very difficult time with classroom managment, and I don't know what to do. THere are a few students who are very hyper, and in a domino effect the whole class seems to blow up in the matter of minutes. I don't know the home langu...