5 quick tips for teaching english to adult beginners | Teaching ESL with Jackie

Do you need help with planning ESL lessons for adult students? Look no further, because this video has 5 tips for teaching a successful class to adult English learners. Find out all the details you need to know to make a lesson plan for adults with these five tips. ------- • Check out this blog post for more details including more teaching games, worksheets, and lesson plans for this unit: https://eslspeaking.org/make-your-life-easier-esl-lesson-plans/ • Want another video on teaching adults? Watch @NormasTeaching video "Teaching Adults English: Your First Lesson" here: https://youtu.be/h6BbL81jA8Y • Want a video on lesson plan tips? Watch that here: https://youtu.be/NmG214ENH2g ------ Check out my book ESL/EFL Teaching Practice and Methodology here: https://amzn.to/3CFNEWs https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #teachingtips -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript: The first one is repetition. You only learn how to play a musical instrument, a sport, a language. By repetition, you have to do something many, many times before it becomes automatic. I always like to keep this principle in mind in my classes, especially for beginners. I'd rather do a few things many, many times and students can leave my class with something very tangible that they can hold on to. This is much better than doing like a million things and kind of only hitting surface level on each of them because students will leave and everything will kind of be maybe in their heads a little bit, but it will also be a little bit fuzzy. The second tip is confidence. Students are often beginners because they actually haven't studied English that long. However, there's a whole group of false beginners. These people have maybe studied English for many, many years but for whatever reason they aren't that good at English and they're kind of in your beginner classes again and again and again. A big problem with this is confidence. Many of those students feel like they're really not making progress in English and they might not actually be making that much progress, so their confidence can kind of be down and maybe they're kind of feeling bad about themselves with regards to learning English, that kind of thing. I really try to build my students up as much as possible, so if they do even the simplest thing well I like to give them a bit of praise. I do positive reinforcement The next one is simple is best. I mean sometimes you have a textbook that you have to get through and I understand that if you are teaching in a university or a Language Institute or something like that however it's not always helpful just to power through the textbook. Especially the more difficult things if the students are not at that level. What I kind of do in this situation is I pick out some of the simpler things and then I'll kind of build upon that and make a whole lesson based on a little bit of a simpler listening exercise, or a simple reading exercise. You need to know around like 1,000 words to have a minimal basic conversation in another language. If you know two thousand, three thousand, four thousand words, you can kind of get around in most situations where native speakers are approaching more like ten thousand plus words. So our students beginners, if the faster that you can get them up to those 1000 or 2000 words the most common words in English, the better off they'll be. Final tip is to find out why your students are studying English. There are likely a ton of different motivations. Maybe someone wants to have an American boyfriend or they want to watch a TV show, they're traveling, they have to do it for work, they want to pass the TOEFL or the IELTS exam. Something like that. Ask students what their motivation is and then try to tap into that whenever possible. This is the key to increasing motivation, key to getting students to study outside a class if they're doing something fun that's interesting to them and is relevant to their futures. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:13 Repetition 0:47 Confidence 1:48 Simple is best 2:29 Focus on vocabulary 2:59 Find out why your students are studying English 3:30 Outro Tags: tips for teaching english to adults, teaching esl to adults lesson plans, free esl lessons for adults, esl adults lesson plans, tefl lesson plan, esl lessons for adults, esl lesson plans adults, esl lesson for adults, english as a second language lesson plans for adults, esl english lessons for adults, esl elementary lesson plan, adult esl lessons, esl lesson plans for adults, esl adult lesson plans, lessons for esl students,