I'm writing to ask for some advice about a recent development at my hagwon. You see, over January, we will be having an extra class in addition to our normal workload. I will be seeing the same class everyday for a month but luckily they will be at least solid intermediate speakers and higher.

The interesting thing is that I have a lot of freedom over how I conduct the class. My supervisor suggested that if he were to run a course, he would maybe teach economics because that's what his major is in. It sounded like I could pick a theme or subject and make the course about that.

Call me lazy, but I would really like preparation time for this class to take up as little of my time as possible. Given that my supervisor has stated that I could even teach the class without a book if I wanted to source my own materials, I was wondering if you all had any advice on what the easiest (to plan for) and most interesting topic would be for the students.

Hey, thanks a bunch for your reply!

Based on your advice and the advice of some of my co-workers, I'm leaning towards trying for something like an "Ethics of Science and Technology" class. My boss thinks the course would be more appealing to the students if it is themed, and I think there's a lot of stuff that can be done with the theme that I've chosen.

Do you have any advice for what to do in a debate class when we're not debating? My boss doesn't actually expect me to have a debate every class as he fears the students will get bored. I can think of having a few activities to practice science, technology, and ethics vocabulary and maybe some sort of "Colonize Mars" roleplay / project where the students have to pick from a pool of candidates, but I'm having a bit of trouble coming up with more general purpose activities to fill the void.