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reading materials for intermediate-advanced students
« on: March 25, 2015, 01:05:03 PM »
Hey folks. So I'm soon going to be teaching supplementary classes for my intermediate and advanced students at my high school. I have to teach reading, writing, speaking as well as listening during this time. I have no resources at all at my disposal. So I have to make my own curriculum and its about 20 weeks long. I want this to be a discussion course where we talk about heavy and interesting topics like  stereotyping, politics, dating, education,etc and I want to use current event articles and have debates with my students. Do you guys know any websites where I can find decent reading materials for my students? Also if anyone has a sample curriculum for advanced students, I would appreciate that.
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Re: reading materials for intermediate-advanced students
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2015, 01:20:03 PM »
I think if I did something like that, I'd watch some TV shows and then discuss what issues each show brings up. Also, how different shows frame the same issue. Etc.

Read The Onion or advice columns.

How advanced are your students? My advanced high-schoolers could only do a debate if they were able to write out everything before. I guess I'm saying I'd be careful making this a discussion course in which the focus is not them just communicating, but them making and defending arguments.
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Re: reading materials for intermediate-advanced students
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2015, 05:06:44 PM »
I bought a book called Active English Discussion  (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=340604874 ) and used that with my students for night classes. They have the types of conversations you are talking about. The book starts with an activity for the students to talk about/do, and then the 2nd page has an article to read. I did a translation with the students of the words they didn't know, to give further understanding of what they are reading. The following page is 10 questions about the article and the topic in general, to make the students think more in depth about the topic, and then the 4th page sets up a debate.

This book was invaluable for my students. I just photocopied the pages I needed to use, and spent 2-3 weeks on each topic, as I only saw these students for 45mins a week in a night class. They really enjoyed the topics, and with 15-20 topics in the book, there was more than enough to last them the semester.

There is a second book available as well (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=227952902) both have teachers guides if you feel you need to locate those as well, but I did just well with one book.

I paid for the book, so it's mine to keep, and I can use it if I move on from Korea/ this school with students elsewhere.  I found this book really useful for creating guided debates, and if your students are advanced enough, you may be able to get them to create their own debates based upon the guiding of the ones in the book.
 
There is another book that I use with adult student, Impact Issues, (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950403, http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950323, http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950284). These books have a script/story first, and then questions and ideas to write on, but you can adapt these again, to suit your needs.

Check out the links, I think almost all of them allow previews to the books so you can see for yourself what kind of thing you would be working with. You have the choice, of course, of asking the school to purchase a class set of books for you, or having the students buy their own books, or just photocopying the one book, as I did.

I hope this helps you a little.
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Re: reading materials for intermediate-advanced students
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2015, 08:20:41 PM »
Quote from: nzer-in-gyeongnam on March 25, 2015, 05:06:44 PM
I bought a book called Active English Discussion  (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=340604874 ) and used that with my students for night classes. They have the types of conversations you are talking about. The book starts with an activity for the students to talk about/do, and then the 2nd page has an article to read. I did a translation with the students of the words they didn't know, to give further understanding of what they are reading. The following page is 10 questions about the article and the topic in general, to make the students think more in depth about the topic, and then the 4th page sets up a debate.

This book was invaluable for my students. I just photocopied the pages I needed to use, and spent 2-3 weeks on each topic, as I only saw these students for 45mins a week in a night class. They really enjoyed the topics, and with 15-20 topics in the book, there was more than enough to last them the semester.

There is a second book available as well (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=227952902) both have teachers guides if you feel you need to locate those as well, but I did just well with one book.

I paid for the book, so it's mine to keep, and I can use it if I move on from Korea/ this school with students elsewhere.  I found this book really useful for creating guided debates, and if your students are advanced enough, you may be able to get them to create their own debates based upon the guiding of the ones in the book.
 
There is another book that I use with adult student, Impact Issues, (http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950403, http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950323, http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=318950284). These books have a script/story first, and then questions and ideas to write on, but you can adapt these again, to suit your needs.

Check out the links, I think almost all of them allow previews to the books so you can see for yourself what kind of thing you would be working with. You have the choice, of course, of asking the school to purchase a class set of books for you, or having the students buy their own books, or just photocopying the one book, as I did.

I hope this helps you a little.

Looks like an amazing resource thanks! I think I'm gonna just by one copy of the book and use the readings and maybe some other activities as I would also like to add my own stuff to it. And when I say my students are advanced, that means they can make sentences and get their thoughts out and they're pretty good at understanding what I say.. but they by no means are anywhere near fluent. In fact, they're not really advanced students to be honest, more like intermediate-to upper intermediate. However, the vast majority of my students have a hard time making even more than a sentence so in my eyes, they're quite advanced  ;D
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