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Arrive at 8:45 a.m.
Ask your students "What do you want to learn tomorrow?"
Bring stuff from home.
Push the students to studying a new page by themselves and then each student can present information from their page. For example, one guy can study car parts, but another student can study parts of the kitchen.
Check pronunciation, Check their notes, give homework, don' stand over them, sit or squat to stay at their eye level.
Students who live in the USA tend to want ESL -- "how to live in the USA"
Level 3 really needs some "extra materials" and we can do some photocopying from grammar books. The key is to give at least ONE worksheet each day IN ADDITION to the material in the grammar book that they have (Book 2, the blue book).
You don't have to do EVERYTHING in the blue book. You can listen to their needs.
I have placed some worksheets in a binder labeled "Original Worksheets" in the Teachers' Room at NOVA.
They want to receive some "extra materials." They appreciate it when you can give them something. The cost of a grammar book from England is $25. If we use the class sets and photocopy the writing section of the book, the cost is 5 cents for a page. If you do 2 page a day, 5 days a week for 8 weeks, that's 80 pages. $4 That's cheaper than a $25 book.... if you have questions, call me.
We want to give them value... the class generally does NOT have time to stay at school to use a media center and audio tapes, so we need to find a way to get them to study and listen to tapes and review their homework. I'l show you the tapes that I have loaned them (They were NOT given tapes, the tapes are on loan.)
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Students from overseas want EFL (How can I speak with a guy from Norway when we are both in Germany?)
Arrive 8:45 and help a student who is working on a problem.
At 9 am talk to students and take attendance. When they walk in late, shake your finger. If they are late after 9:15, you can lock the door. If students are late after 9:15 two days in a week, the second LATE is marked as ABSENT.
Warm up with some pronunciation, or tell a story. "I went to Publix to buy....
Students: Milk cheese eggs
You: "Eggs, and then I drove home. I went in the kitchen and I picked up a ...."
Students: pan pot
You: a pot and I put some ______ in it.
Students: water etc.
Then you can move to the lesson. Perhaps the students did the first grammar section for homework.
Show them how to say the conversation. (You can use the tape or read it with great acting) Then listen to pairs read it. They can read to each other, but then you walk from pair to pair listening.
When it gets boring or they are tired, move to a handout.... You can bring in 4 or 5 class books and the stduents share. Photocopy 10 exercise sheets from Grammar in Use (red book) but hand out only 5 (make them work in pairs). Ask one student to read the instructions in a loud voice.
When they finish the page, give the remaining students the photocopied page.
Ask them to write something. "write a letter to complain about something." "write a letter to ask for better tickets for the trip to your country." "Describe a good place in your country."
GIVE HOMEWORK....
USE the sheets in their binder. Everyone needs to fill in the worksheets in their binders...
Ask one of the students to speak to the class or lead the class in a discussion. Ask the best student to read a summary from the newspaper about an important news story. Then the class can write a summary of what was said. (practice for taking notes in a college class.)
At the end of the class, make a note in the teacher's binder about what you covered in class, then make photocopies of the grammar worksheet that you will present the next time.
