Adult: teachers' English class materials

[matthew254]

Here's a few materials that I use for my Teachers' English class. We meet twice a week for about an hour each time. I usually go over more natural ways to express what they already know. I also type up a summary for the month and add to it what we have learned. All Korean is typed by myself and therefore, all mistakes are my own. I also compiled a Korean-English conversation set from Galbijim (http://blog.galbijim.com/) which we use for reading aloud and the like.

For the conversation classes, I use "Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans" (http://www.yes24.com/24/goods/3619964) as a conversation starter but I have also used videos like Matt Strum's Common English Mistakes by by Koreans (http://micurl.com/vedDE) and Roboseyo's How to Chat with Foreign Beauties/How to make Korean buddies series (http://roboseyo.blogspot.com/2010/04/wanna-chat-with-foreign-beauties-cross.html). Lastly, for "homework" or what have you, this English practice website seems to be a hit for my coteachers: http://www.ekay.co.kr/main/

UPDATE: I used this American idiom "game" today and they loved it. http://www.quiz-tree.com/American_Idioms_main.html

Hope this gives you some ideas.

[Brykyile]

My first workshop is tomorrow. This is going to help a lot.

[lindsayforrest]

I have been using this site for my low loevel teacher workshops.  The articles are fairly easy to understand and the supplementary worksheets have given me some great ideas!

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

[matthew254]

I also modified and cleaned up these idiom powerpoints. Props to the original creator but they were looking kind of dated and messy so they should be much easier on the eye now.

Also, to practice what they have learned, log onto http://www.quiz-tree.com/American_Idioms_main.html and do their American Idiom quizzes. Great fun!

I also used these "root word" and "prefix.suffix" PPTs that they liked. Hope it helps.

[DaeguTeacher]

This adult class can be adapted for multiple lessons. These materials create a conversation about determining personality based on blood type (popular in Korea) and on birth date (popular in the USA).

[DaeguTeacher]

"If I Had A Million Dollars"

First, I played this video to the song, If I Had A Million Dollars, by the Barenaked Ladies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM. I handed out the lyrics to my students to follow along.

We watched it a few times, and talked about the singer's ideas for spending one million dollars. Next, they filled out the attached worksheet and shared their ideas for spending the money.

[foreverJ]

some lessons that worked well in my adult class

[Hello]

Thank you

Going to try the idiom quiz tonight. It will definitely make the idioms more fun.

[Hello]

Hey! Just wanted to say that the idiom quiz was really entertaining and Thanks again!

[strawberry]

Hey!

My boyfriend just sent me this link for conversation question topics - so if you're running out of ideas or need some questions added to your topic... this is pretty neat.

http://iteslj.org/questions/ 

[ramackenzie]

Here are some tongue twisters I did with my teachers class. They had a blast trying to pronounce all the words.

[SunilMahtani]

My principal asked me to create dialogues for our teachers to help them learn English. During the teacher's class, I teach them expressions, they listen and repeat after me, then they role-play first with me, and finally with each other.

It's going very well and I try to put a little humor into it.

Feel free to use them to teach your teachers English expressions in conversation. I will keep adding them as I do them.

[SunilMahtani]

Here's another dialogue, this time centered around shopping.

[Zeegs]

Here are some rebus puzzles I have used at the beginning of class.

[communityproperty]

I'm basically starting from scratch for my teachers class.  I think they can read and write english, but speaking and pronunciation are going to be big challenges.  Here's a handout I put together with common greetings (both formal & informal), goodbyes, and some phonics work.  I used www.mes-english.com to find some alphabet/phonics flashcards to use. 

[klin062]

Just a basic sheet to help get some conversation going.  The topic is vacation.  Can be used for pair discussion or if you have a smaller group you can use it for the entire group.  Pairing can be helpful if you have mixed level teachers, higher level ones can help the lower levels and they feel a little less embarrassed talking to each other first, rather than having to speak up in front of everyone.

[fogsy]

Cheers for the materials. Wont be so nervous about my class now.

[YouBetcha]

I gave this class last week; the PowerPoint was mainly used to generate conversation and we stopped often to define terms.
The handout was for their reference and had a short worksheet to help them build conversation material.

[Jrong]

Thanks for the conversation ideas! (I'm using some things off of:  http://iteslj.org/questions/freetime.html)

If I'm lucky enough to have intermediate-level teachers, then most of my class is taken up by showing a Ted Talk (I'm showing this one today: http://iteslj.org/questions/freetime.html), stopping it every 20-30 seconds and talking about what we saw. If not, then I just resort to discussing hobbies, mostly drinking. I might show some facts on liquor which always keeps them interested. Lol! Anything to do with alcohol will keep their attention and motivate them to speak :-).

[wondershot]

Jrong,

What's that TED talk? You gave the wrong link.

I figured TED talks would be too advanced for an intermedia class, but I guess if you showed a short one and paused it to recap every 30 seconds, then it might not overwhelm them.