Using the Press as a Language Teaching Tool
Giving him the opportunity to pick the content was also a good strategy, as I was getting an idea of what sort of things interested him. I knew about the music - that's what he's studying at home - but the art and the dogs, that was a good cue for me. I was able to follow up the interest with visits to a gallery to see the artist's work (which we didn't like), and also a visits to see the dog at the kennels. The key here is that the teacher has got to find the buttons to press to get conversation going. From conversation comes vocabulary, confidence, and practice - all the things that the teacher wants to get across! Week two's paper saw the results of a week's immersion in my language: he chose the headline article (about the closure of local police enquiry offices); we considered an advertisement for a job at a local (world famous) tourist attraction; and we discussed a review of a classical concert which took place during the previous week. Again, the paper stimulated words, grammar, phrases, sentences, points of view. What makes this tool particularly useful is that it keeps the course content fresh, and, most importantly, is based on the interests of the student. When the student is trying to understand the English for something that interests him or her, THEN he will want to learn: and teaching a student who wants to learn is the only kind of teaching that's going to work well!
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Andrew is a qualified TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher, with 15 years experience of the global Automotive Industry as a Sales manager with an International component and systems supplier. For more information about learning English with Andrew at his home in the UK, visit the Lets Talk 2 website.
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