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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

Here's a link I prepared earlier:

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

Iain

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!

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!

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.