SE Teaching Methods for Consultants
Notes Formatting
Strikethrough:
Word = Big Mistake
Italics:
Word = Student’s words / Mistakes
Bold:
Word = Correction / Missing Word or Phrase
Underline:
Word? = A Teacher’s Question for Student
Conversation:
USE INDENT BUTTON
Teacher: Are you busy today?
Student: I no busy. – I’m not busy.
Teacher: Do you have any free time later?
Student: Yes, have time. – Yes, I have time later. What do you need?
Teacher: Can we review the plan? I still have some questions.
Student: Yes, is nothing. Can review with you together. – Yeah, no problem. We can review
it with you together.
HOMEWORK
Ensure homework is based on today’s class AND/OR the student’s specific English needs
A: Grammar (Automatically generated instructions)
Homework
B: Grammar (Custom)
Homework
Insert instructions – eg. Write about the topic we discussed today and focus on using “have done” and “had done”
C: Vocabulary (Automatically generated instructions)
Homework
D: Vocabulary (Custom)
Homework
Insert instructions – eg. Write about your trip next week and try to use higher level words for some of the simple words you use.
E: Custom Homework
Homework
Insert instructions – eg. Read the plot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bicycle_Thief_(Modern_Family) and write down any words you don’t know. Talk about them next class.
GRAMMAR
Corrections
From conversation or writing or speaking exercises
Grammar
I go went to the office yesterday.
He was cooking dinner.
Is Are they coming from your home country?
I see the news before. – I have seen that news before.
Writing Homework
Writing exercise
There are many different kinds of species live in forest. Some are very cute animals like rabbits and deers, others are predators like snakes and lions. One day, there is a tiger walking in the forest and other animals are afraid of it. A little fox follows that tiger, it is the associate of the tiger, so it seems like animals are afraid of that little fox. The fox feels so elation. But a tiger is always a tiger, at the end of that journey, the tiger eats that little fox because it feels hungry. They will never been peers because they are quite different species and they can’t translate others “languageâ€.
There are many different kinds of species that live in forests. Some are very cute animals like rabbits and deer, others are predators like snakes and tigers. One day, there was a tiger walking in the forest and the other animals were afraid of it. A little fox followed that tiger, it is the associate of the tiger, so it seems like animals are afraid of that little fox. The fox feels so elated(adj). But a tiger is always a tiger, at the end of that journey, the tiger eats that little fox because it feels hungry. They will never be peers because they are quite different species and they can’t translate each others “languageâ€.
In Class Speaking Exercise
Speaking exercise
You know that I have a kid, mty son 1.5 years old. I bought him a tool, a big one that you can climb to top and foo, up and down. yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play it, actually he a little bit scared, but I think he pretend to be funny because everyone in the family are encouraging him from up to the bottom, and after that he just smile, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video, for the whole from the start to the end. So everytime I watched the video its really funny.
You know that I have a kid, my son who’s one and a half years old. I ordered him a toy, a big one that you can climb to the top and slide up and down down. Yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play with it, actually he was a little bit scared, but I think he pretended to be happy because everyone in the family was encouraging him to slide down, he did and after that he just smiled, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video from the start to end. So everytime I watch the video its really funny.
VOCABULARY
Focus on WORD CHOICE and teaching vocab PHRASES
Corrections
Vocabulary
it’s ok it’s delicious – it was ok / it was pretty good / it was decentÂ
we are university classmates / we went to university togetherÂ
super – incredibly – amazinglyÂ
we should get lunch together with you
we created made plans
eg: We made plans to go to Beijing.
it will get red
eg: My eyes will get red if I sit too close.
New Words Â
1. You MUST write EXAMPLE SENTENCES for each new vocabulary word.
2. Use   Learnersdictionary.com (APP available for 30 Yuan) for simple English definitions. Or create your own simple definition with easy words that the student can understand
regulate (v) – to control something, usually by making rules or laws.
eg: It is important to regulate medicine so people know it is safe.
eg: They need to regulate some websites.
cream (n) – a very thick liquid or soft substance, can be from a liquid
eg: I put a little cream in my coffee.
eg: I like milk coffee, it is very creamy.
comfortable (adj) – shu fu
eg: this chair is very comfortable
eg: the weather today is so comfortable!
“What goes around comes around” – if you do something bad, bad things will come to you in the future
UPGRADING
Use speaking text or written text and upgrade vocabulary from corrected version.
You know that I have a kid / child / son, my son who’s one and a half years old / one and a half / 1.5 years old / 18 months old. I ordered / bought him a toy, a big / large / huge one that / which you can climb to the top and slide down. Yesterday / the other day it arrived / was delivered and I asked / got him to / requested that he play with it…
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