5 quick tips for teaching English to advanced learners | Teaching ESL with Jackie

If you’re looking for some lesson ideas for advanced English conversation classes, then you’re certainly in the right place. In this video, I share 5 tips for teaching advanced English learners. Keep on watching for some of the top picks for TEFL classes for higher-level learners. ------- • Check out this blog post for more tips for teaching adult beginners: https://www.eslactivity.org/advanced-english-conversation/?expand_article=1 • 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: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Here are my top five tips for teaching English to Advanced Learners. Tip number one is to use authentic materials. If a student is Advanced at whatever language they're studying, chances are they've seen every textbook under the sun and they've been studying the same old units over and over and over again about the weather, sports, TV, movies, hobbies, that kind of thing and they probably don't want to talk about that stuff again in your class. I use authentic materials whenever possible. I use like some podcasts, some news articles. You can use like a simple book even or maybe a novel, a movie, whatever students are interested in. That's what I try to use and I build entire lessons around that. The second tip I have for advanced Learners is to find out what they need in their lives. By that I mean maybe they're preparing for an English job interview. Maybe they need to make a resume, maybe they have to do presentations in English or they have to talk to clients over lunch during a business session. That kind of thing. They might want to practice small talk, so ask your students why they're studying English and then Target your lessons towards those things. This will really help to increase motivation. The next tip I have for advanced Learners is to really push students to learn new vocabulary. If they are Advanced Learners they already know a good bunch of vocabulary. However it's easy just to use that vocabulary kind of forever and never really get better at English. I push my students to learn kind of the higher level stuff and then to start trying to use it in their conversations and kind of in their daily life. You can do this in various ways. So you could do some news articles or movies and picking up some vocabulary out of that. You could give them some vocabulary tests based on their motivations or what they want to learn. That kind of thing. Whatever you do don't let students just kind of maintain their level, always push them to get a little bit better in English through your classes. The next thing that can really help students is extensive reading and extensive listening. So by this students will read a book or listen to something that's slightly below their level and the key is they just do it for fun and they don't have to like have a dictionary at their side like every single second of the time they're doing that. This is really what I encourage my students to do outside of class is really help to consolidate vocabulary and grammar for them and it's a nice way to kind of push them up to the next level a little bit. The next tip I have for teaching Advanced Learners is error correction. It can be tempting to just kind of not do a ton of this with your Advanced Learners because you can communicate with them probably quite easily and yeah it's easy enough just to like Let It Go and you're like oh I basically understood. They like kind of explained what it was instead of using some exact word. However students actually want you to correct them even the advanced Learners. Timestamp: 0:00 Intro 0:12 1. Use authentic materials 0:44 2. Find out your student's needs 1:13 3. Push students to learn new vocabulary 1:55 4. Extensive reading and listening 2:22 5. Error correction 3:18 Outro Tags: conversation classes in english, easy ted talks for esl, teaching conversational english lesson plans, advanced conversation, advanced esl activities, advanced esl, esl advanced level, esl advanced, tefl conversation lesson plan, esl advanced lesson plans, advanced english class, advanced english worksheets, esl dialogues, esl conversation, esl advanced speaking activities, advanced esl lessons, esl advance, advanced english speaking,