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Activites for private lessons

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 3:22 am
by naturegirl321
Anyone know good activities for private intermediate level students? Most of the game in activity books require at least 4 students.

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:15 am
by stephen
What is the focus of the class? Is it intergrated skills, or are you working on something specific eg. writing or business English?

Also how many students do you have?

Stephen

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:30 am
by naturegirl321
There is only one student and he is learning intermediate English. No-specific purpose.

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:06 pm
by stephen
Sorry, you are still a bit vague, but I appreciate your problems.

Pairwork will still work, you provide the other member of the pair.

For grammar: P.Ur, Grammar Practice Activities (good for groups, but a lot of stuff can be used/adapted for one on one.) [If I had to recommend one book for elementary to intermediate grammar for adults this would be it!]

Reading: possibly look at doing extensive reading with graded readers. (Penguin does a good series, I here the Cambridge series is good, but I have not used them personally.) The book should be something the student wants to read and should not be too challenging (you want the student to be able to read it reasonably quickly,) maybe 2 to 4 new words a page. The book can then be used as a basis for discussion and writing in class.

Writing- difficult to say, depends on what you want to work on, eg. grammar & sentence structure, letter writing, paragraph development.

Good luck
Stephen

Best ESL activities

Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 5:34 am
by iann
Hi, the best I have found for that type of student is at
http://eslgames.com/edutainment/

and the best game is at

http://eslgames.com/wordup/

With those two I have every student older than 12 covered, they are GREAT tools ; )