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anonymous
Q: Teaching New Concept English
Hi there does anyone how to teach New Concept English 1 and 2.
11 years 16 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
in light of recent events I doubt anybody will want to answer vague anonymous posts
for awhile
however I maybe wrong
suggest you add more info
sorry it is just the way it is at the moment
One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given: "don't teach the textbook, teach the class".
Learn your class - their goals, their abilities, their weaknesses, and then take a good long look at your textbook. Use the textbook when it will help them achieve their goals and/or the goals you have for them.
Little known fact about New Concepts; it, as well as the accents found in Northern England and Scotland, are part of a plot that we Americans, with the help of the 5th column north of the boarder that we all know as Canada, cooked up to undermine Commonwealth English.
Anyway, here's what I do when teaching that abortion of a book.
First, I make the class go over the new words. They repeat after me, they list all them off one by one in order, and they use the more difficult ones in sentences. Pay attention to, and correct pronunciation
Second, everyone reads the text aloud. If its a block of text, like in NC2 or a few of lessons in NC1, they can read them individually. If its a dialog, like most of the lessons in NC1, assign the students parts. Whether they end up reading both parts or just one of them is up to you entirely. This can take awhile depending on the number of parts and the size of the class, so remember to budget your time.
Third, I ask questions based on content. I try to integrate whatever the grammar rule for the lesson might be into your question and what I anticipate their responses might be.
Fourth, I explain the grammar rule, I have the students practice using it to make sentences. Like a substitution drill, where they plug in different nouns or verbs or whatever around whatever it is they are trying to learn.
Fifth, I leave the written excersizes in the book and the work book to the Chinese teacher assigned to the class. If you work for EF or its an otherwise all foreign teacher class, then tough shit and have fun correcting stacks of worksheets.
