This handout is for a somewhat advanced Intro A class. We won’t work all of the structures in the first class, just say the first 3 or 4. But the interview will be the fun bit of class. The secondary bit will be assigning people to write, using either questions or in declarative form, a personal ad for the newspaper. It’s the same as what’s included as a handout in the teacher training files uploaded on the same day, and I think it’ll be a fun exercise.

This is a lesson plan for this summer’s teacher training session, for use with Unit 6 of the TELL ME MORE! ESL textbook. Some of it is highly cryptic, and might not be much use to anyone but me. But I’m putting it here anyway. If nothing else, they illustrate one principle of my teaching (and also of my learning strategy when it comes to a foreign language), which is, hammering away at a given structure until it comes somewhat naturally.

This is a page that has links to Career Centres at most of the major universities in Canada. Cool, huh?

Here is an interview paper for beginners in Intro A, with some original question formation activities at the end.

Here’s a handout for the first day of my intro class… to be tamed a little, as I think this looks a little overwhelming…