teaching formal spoken english

dirtybird · Post by **dirtybird** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:10 am

Hi everybody!

I am going to teach a class of students who want to learn "speaking formal english". Does anyone have any ideas that i can use? i have 3 years teaching experience but this is a new kind of class for me. thanks

Jim

dduck · Post by **dduck** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:06 pm

Here's a link I prepared earlier:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1134

Iain

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:14 pm

Thanks for the link Iain--I'm having trouble trying to figure out why someone would want to study "speaking formal English." Are these students planning to give lectures? Or make presentations? A quote from the website I went to in the forum link Iain mentioned says, "Written and spoken versions of a language use different styles, different registers. To talk in "written English" may be no more appropriate than to write using a "spoken" variety of English."

I'm just curious as to what the students plan to do with their formal spoken English, and where dirtybird is located!

dirtybird · Post by **dirtybird** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:22 am

thanks for the info lori and ian.

i am in shanghai, china. i dont know why these students want to learn spoken formal english. my first class with them is on sunday. so your guess is as good as mine!

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:28 am

Ah, well maybe you can start by finding out what they plan to do with it! Maybe you will have a class of business presentations.

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teaching formal spoken english

teaching formal spoken english

strange class, i know