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Hi
I am a 46 year old IT/programming Teacher from the UK, I have move to Vietnam and i have landed my self a Adult English teaching position at a local school.

I got my TEFL years ago and i have not used it since, so i am a bit out of touch. I have met another Teacher who just reads the unit from the New American Streamline book and the students to repeat it.

Now for me that is not enough and leads to a boring class and a bad way to teach as he does no planning and has no creativity. When i was teaching IT and Programming, it was easy to be creative and vary the classes as it is my favorite subject. So my questions are:

Can i just use the unit as a subject heading and make my own explanations, ideas and questions?

Do they expect me to just to the Read and Repeat classes?

What is expected of me on my first day.

Hope you can get back to me soon as i am teaching Book 3 in a few days.

Trish x

You'll need to see what the school expects you to do (too much initiative is sometimes frowned upon, even from an experienced teacher), and how much in need of "something in black and white" the students themselves are too; if the school seems happy to leave what's taught pretty much up to you, and the students seem capable of more than is on the page, then by all means knock yourself out!

Generally, don't underestimate the value of repetition, review and recycling, when the input seems likely to be useful in light of the students' needs (current and especially future).

Sally Olsen posted what might well be for you some very relevant links:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/v ... 3973#23973