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Teaching adults
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valeria_on
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Teaching adults
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Hi everyone!!!
I �m Valeria from Argentina.
I have an adult student who has an intermediate level of English, the thing is that he understands a lot but he cannot produce anything, and at the same time he doesn �t want to speak. He �s graduated from marketing and wants all the material related to that.
Any suggestion for this special student??
Thnks!!
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2 Aug 2009
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sarahgriffin
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He will have to speak. He doesn �t want to do it, because he can �t. But what use is literal fluency if you can �t put a sentence together?
Whatever you decide, I would suggest slyly introducing conversation at first, until he becomes confident enough to ask for your help with it. It seems wrong, but as I said before, he needs the conversation. He needs to know its okay to make mistakes and sound a bit funny at first, maybe that might relax him
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2 Aug 2009
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moravc
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How about a summary? Give him a marketing article and ask him to summarize it - in spoken English or written English... Give him / highlight key words...
Hope it helps...
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2 Aug 2009
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