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Techniques and methods in Language Teaching > ....I NEED YOUR OPINIONS....., PLEASE
....I NEED YOUR OPINIONS....., PLEASE
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cheezels
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Personally I would not have the first session as an hour. Let them know that the first session is a 20-30 minute getting to know you, find out your level, evaluation meeting.
THEN arrange when to start the proper lessons a week later so you have time to actually plan things that are appropriate for your student.
Trying to fill an hour with a student who could be anything really could end up feeling unsatisfactory for both of you and it doesn �t make for a good start.
OR before the first lesson get them to do one of the many online level tests and send their results to you.. or send them a basic level test to fill and and email back. The you at least have some sort of a starting point.
If it was a class situation my advice would be different... but it sounds like a 1:1 regular private student the way you have explained it?
I don �t know if you have any flexibility in doing this, but if you are working for yourself then I would definitely do a short meet and evaluation session before starting real hour long sessions.
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16 Dec 2010
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dawnmain
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You ought to get hold of a beginners book - I imagine you can download some from englishtips.org - reward starter is very good, also business starter, headway starter, market leader elementary
If your student is a beginner eh won �t be able to do the things you mention.
I start with very basic presentation of personal information, name, nationality, I �m from,
followed by:
numbers and phone numbers
alphabet and spelling
countries and nationalities
BE
flash cards are essential
with lots of repetition and revision
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16 Dec 2010
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caracola90
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I agree with most of the answers posted here. I would like to add something that could make the class easier for you: prepare an easy reading comprehension about somebody presenting himself/herself as an example of how him/her should introduce him/herself, and do it before asking questions and the rest of the stuff. That way I think it would be easier for the person to elicit the vocabulary and structures that s/he has to use and probably the speaking and writing part would be easier too.
Hope this helps!! |
16 Dec 2010
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