High School Practical English Conversation Textbook

[horiconnights]

Amazing materials horiconnights. Pity it's come too late - i finished those topics weeks ago! Thanks, though. I loved the Putin pictures!

Haha, thank you for the kind words!  The Putin pictures were my favorite part of that lesson too.

[Andyroo]

Here are the PPT files I have made for lessons 7 through 10. I hope they are of some use for your own classes, after the usual custom-tailoring and modifying...

Looks like quality material. Thankyou for uploading.

I wish i could contribute too... but I'm supposed to be teaching the "challenge yourself" part of the text book. I really don't think thts a good use of the NET so I dobt other schools re asking you guys to teach that.

[horiconnights]

Here are my lesson files for units 11 and 12. I had put these up a while ago but deleted them because I forgot they had some personal stuff (mostly pictures of me and/or my friends) so I edited them to take those out. Hope you can use them!

[lostprofit]

Guts sorry to ask silly questions, my school doesnt even know what book they are supposted to be teaching out of and none of the studnets bring it in anyway. Is this normal??

[Andyroo]

Guts sorry to ask silly questions, my school doesnt even know what book they are supposted to be teaching out of and none of the studnets bring it in anyway. Is this normal??

Here is no set text book for high school.
It’s not unheard of for the NET’s class to be “Free English” with no text book.

You could be in for a tough year in regards to keeping your students motivated (no text book means your class isn’t important for exams) but there aren’t great expectations on you.
It is a bit tough coming up with your own lessons completely from scratch so you may want to just choose your own book as a rough guide and then just go from there trying to make/find stuff that is fun.

Try and get as much information from your Korean co teaches as possible as to what they expect. If they are happy with what you plan to teach then your life will be a lot easier.

Is it an academic school or vocational?
If it’s the later and your Korean teachers don’t tell you anything* then I would just go with 12 fun themes and build lessons based on that.
Music English lots of Kpop and listening activities
Shopping English (money, prices and counting are important)
Food (work in how to serve a customer)
Soccer English
Baseball English
Video game English
Geography (different countries lots of quizzes and dialog material)
Movie English (movie quotes, themes etc)
Music English 2 (more Kpop and a tiny bit of western music)
The future (what they think technology will be like what job they want etc)
Local English (try and gather as many examples of English and places to use English in Ulsan as you can)


*frustratingly they tend to be pretty sparing with advice before you teach but will give you plenty of feedback on your lessons…a lot of it stuff that would have been good to know a lot earlier.

[lostprofit]

Cheers Andyroo thats very helpful, thanks.
I have a few ideas already but you just gave me a few more. Appreciate the help

[taebaekluke]

Here's my material for Unit 12, some of it based on the textbook.

I use Jay Walker's inspiring speech as part of the lesson (English Mania - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html)

You have a choice of two worksheets here - one I used last year and one this year.

[Pieter1987]

Thanks for that lesson plan, taebaekluke! Looks great!

[fraise82]

This is really surprised. I always try to make my students join the activity,,,,,but it is really hard,,
I think it can help my students!!!!!!

[ahshulee]

Thanks so much! I have to use practical english converstation for my G2 and G3 high schoolers. I think I have a different version of the book but these look like great ideas anyway!

[ESmith4]

pdfs for units 1-3. text and images are copiable.

[ESmith4]

Unit 4-6

[ESmith4]

units 7-9

[ESmith4]

units 10-12.

n.b. this is the copy of the 'conversations' book with units on 'let me introduce myself' (unit 1) and 'you are what you eat' (unit 2). fyi

[biancafrench]

SOUNDS SUPER. Thanks guys. Will def make use of some of your suggestions.

[sindta]

Yes, they gave me that book to use as well, but I found the following problems:

1. It is either too high level or too low level for my students
2. I find the material very unrealistic
3. The recordings are not done by native speakers and are very unnatural

All in all, it is obviously the cheapest text book they could find!

So if you are going o use it, you will need a lot of your own work to make it more interesting and relevant!

[Jameskenpo]

This is the book I am using. I just started am starting with unit 5. I made a lesson plan, but it seems rather dry. I need ideas to make it exciting. pushing play, or reading is not exciting. I made a PPT but it just has the foods of the world on it. perhaps I should add the skript on the PPT too? any ideas?

[hellllostrange]

I'm currently using the Practical ENglish Conversation book for the grade 2's in high school.. (it's orange and white) but this textbook is SO BAD!!!
The book has nothing really significant.. i have no idea how I'm supposed to plan a lesson using the stupid book....
how can I make the book seem more intersting?