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TEACHING DIFFERENT CLASSES - Coggle Diagram
TEACHING DIFFERENT CLASSES
C
ontent and
L
anguage
I
ntegrated
L
anguage
Some approaches are:
Separate language support
Fully Integrated Classrooms
Integrating themes across school subjects
Small segments of some lessons
E
nglish for
A
cademic
P
urposes
Usually taken by teenagers between 16-20 years old in order to get the most out of their coming course study.
It may include work on the next elements:
Essay Writing
Making presentations
Effective reading and Researching
Taking part in seminar discussions
Note Taking
Learning to learn, etc.
Listening to and Understanding the pictures
Exam Classes
Refers mainly to how we prepare students for taking an exam.
when teaching these clases we can:
Specific practice on Exam Techniques
Bring tasks and activities to increase general awareness, abilities and skills.
Work on study skills
Work on Language Work
There can be different types of Exams like:
Cambridge
IELTS, etc
TOEFL
E
nglish for
S
pecific
P
urposes
Some purposes for taking these classes may be:
English for hotel Receptionists
English for Pharmaceutical Salesmen
English for call Center Operators
English for architects, etc
A good and starting point for ESP teaching is to take:
Needs analysis
To discover your students' real needs besides needs analysis, you can:
Focus into one specific task
Explore wide-ranging details of the task
Start with the general Job
Dig deeper
Young Learners
There's a lot to say about them
They wan to use the languge
Children see the point of doing interesting tasks, games and activities.
Children are noisy, curious, get easily excited, want to have fun, etc.
Some popular activities you can try with them can be:
Teach around a book
Show and tell
Teach around the topic
Circle time
Total Physical response
TPR fairy stories
Carousel
Community Language Learning
Teenage Classes
Teenagers may be difficult to teach for some reasons:
They get bored quickly
They may lose their motivation
They tend to be moody
They may cause you discipline problems, etc.
Teenagers are unsure about themselves
some activities and hints that may help us are:
Mix activities
Project work about topics selected by the learners.
Do more Class work.
Ask questions about the structure of the classes.
Avoid anything that might be seen as childish to students.
Business English
Pre-experienced courses (Before they work)
It may include:
Telephoning and conferencing calls
Talking about facts, figures, diagrams, etc.
Negotiation
Making presentations
Reading reports and business-related articles
Using social English, so on
Writing Letters and Email
In-service courses (When they are working)
In this courses you can:
Give them Diaries and Bogs
Use diagrams and Models
Role Play
Assign them presentations
In-company courses (The Company hires the teacher)
In this courses we have to:
To talk with the manager about the attendance policies
Emphasize the importance of regular and on-time attendance.
Be clear that for the course to achieve its goals, it has to be taken seriously by the Company first.
Large Classes
some difficulties can be:
The seating arrangement seems to prevent a number of activities.
There's a limited eye contact from you and your students
Students can't move easily
People hide away, etc
Lecturing seems to be the only workable lesson type
Some good ideas are:
Go outside on the grass
Ask other teachers what they do
Move to a different classroom
Push the seats up against the wall, etc
Rearrange the seating