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    39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults
    39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults
    39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults
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    39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults

    By Jackie Bolen

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    Teach fun, effective one-on-one English lessons for teenagers or adults with these engaging and interactive ESL games and activities.

     

    Are you tired of spending too much time planning one-on-one, private ESL lessons, only to end up wishing that the clock would move faster? Do you find that students drop off after only a lesson or two? How much time, energy, and stress could you save with dozens of student-centred activities at your fingertips which could easily be used to teach the material of your choice?

     

    The authors, Jackie Bolen and Jennifer Booker Smith, have over 25 years of combined experience teaching and creating materials for fun ESL classes. They have spent countless hours creating original materials and compiling useful and enjoyable activities for use with all kinds of classes. These are the things they use in their own private lessons for teenagers and adults.

     

    Pick up a copy of the book if you want to...

    • Have better private tutoring classes
    • Add some variety into lessons
    • Have students coming back for more of your classes!
    • Save time on lesson planning
    • See happy, smiling students!

    This book gives you the inside scoop on one-on-one lessons both you and your students will enjoy. With its broad variety of activities across the four skills, you are sure to find exactly what you need, saving countless hours of preparation. If you have thought about creating a profitable sideline with tutoring but were unsure of what to do in your lessons, this book has everything you need! This is the fourth book in the ESL Activities for Teenagers and Adults series by Jackie Bolen.

     

    Buy your copy of 39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities today to have better one-on-one classes tomorrow!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackie Bolen
    Release dateSep 28, 2020
    ISBN9798201407407
    39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities: For Teenagers and Adults

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      39 Awesome 1-1 ESL Activities - Jackie Bolen

      120-90-60 Fluency Activity

      Skills: Speaking/Listening

      Time: 10 minutes

      Level: Intermediate to Advanced

      Materials: None

      If you want to help your student speak more quickly and fluently, this is the perfect ESL speaking activity. Give your student a topic that he/she knows a lot about. For example: good or bad points about his/her school, university, or hometown. Give 3-5 minutes to prepare depending on the student's level, but emphasize writing just one or two words for each point—rather than full sentences because it is a speaking activity and not a writing one. Afterward, instruct the student to give a speech and talk continuously for two minutes, while you listen. I use my phone as a stopwatch so that the student can see the clock count down.

      Next, instruct the student to repeat the activity, except now he/she has to include ALL the same information as before, and this time, there will only be 90 seconds. Then, tell the student to do it one more time within 60 seconds. One way that you can help your student make the transition to less time is by providing 30 seconds between rounds to think about how to say something more concisely. He/she can go over the parts of the speech where he/she had to slow down for some reason and think about where they to use conjunctions.

      You could give an example of something like this: I like watching The Simpsons. It's funny. It's interesting. My mother, father, brother and I watch while we're eating dinner almost every night of the week,—-> I like watching The Simpsons because it's funny and interesting. I watch with my family almost every night while eating dinner. 

      For lower-level students, you can adjust the times to make them shorter and easier because talking for two minutes can be quite difficult for a beginner.

      Teaching Tips:

      It can be really difficult to find good speaking activities that are focused on fluency instead of accuracy, but this is an excellent one and I use it often.

      Something that you can remind your student of is that speech is more informal than written discourse, particularly in the areas of sentence length and connectors. When we write, words like however, although and moreover are common, but in speech we mostly just use simple connectors like and, but and or. Also, in spoken discourse the length of an utterance is much shorter and we don't need to use complicated grammatical

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