TESOL Manchester New York

This unit covers teaching English to different groups namely beginners, individual students, children, business English learners, monolingual classes and multilingual classes. I learnt the difference between the various types of beginners for instance false beginners who have previously been exposed to some English and absolute beginners who have no English experience. When teaching children attention, peer pressure and boredom are under the teachers control but not problems outside the classroom/at home. In your first class teaching business English you need to do a needs analysis. Short stories, postcards and goal orientated activities are useful activities when teaching one on one classes. An advantage of multilingual classes is that it often means the students must use English to communicate with each other and an advantage of monolingual classes is that they will often have the same difficulties with the language.