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Quick Talks
A Quick Talk has one job: warming a group up at the start, closing a class down, or filling the fifteen minutes left over when the coursebook lesson runs short. It has its own topic and its own task, so it isn't a shrunken version of something bigger. Print it or put it on screen and you're ready.
10 to 20 minutes
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How to run an English conversation class that isn't just chatting
Chatting is easy to start and impossible to sustain for a term. A sixty minute shape that keeps adults talking, plus what to do about the student who never speaks and the group where levels do not match.
ESL speaking activities that don't end in awkward silence
Ten discussion questions on a slide are not a speaking activity. What actually makes adults talk: something to react to, the language delivered before it is needed, and a task that ends in a decision.
Teaching English to adults: what changes when the student is forty
An adult brings expertise, an ego and a week that keeps eating the homework. Six things that change in the classroom once your student has a job, a mortgage and opinions of their own.
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