confidence building exercises, please

stromfi · Post by **stromfi** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:16 am

I have a Korean student who speaks well, but lacks confidence. What kind of exercises are you doing with your adult students to turn them into confident speakers? I was thinking of having her read out some of Shel Silverstein's poems. It would probably be a bit of a jump, though. Anyway, it's only one idea and I'd like to have more to juggle with. Any suggestions?

Thanks a million.

Superhal · Post by **Superhal** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 7:01 am

Just one? I usually use activities that achieve the "flow effect" and then when I have the student in the zone, I snap them out of it so they can see how well they were doing.

stromfi · Post by **stromfi** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:55 pm

"I usually use activities that achieve the "flow effect" and then when I have the student in the zone, I snap them out of it so they can see how well they were doing."

Could you elaborate on this one? I'm not sure I'm following you.

jori · Post by **jori** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:23 pm

Give the student a task that he can handle and point out only his good points. Be descriptive, not evaluative.