My one-to-one student just wants to chat | Recipes for the EFL Classroom

My one-to-one student just wants to chat | Recipes for the EFL Classroom

timjulian says:
May 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm

Hi Jonny, really nice idea and template, which I’m going to nick! I also find it useful (on occasions) to record my private students on my phone using an app like Recordium (I’m sure there are many others). I often do this to practise presentation skills. The student thinks for a sec what he/she wants to say before beginning. I normally limit the recording to a couple of minutes, then we playback, analyse errors, and, most importantly the student has another go, trying to improve accuracy and fluency. I’ll often say after the first attempt, especially if there were a lots of ums and ers, “OK, that was 2′ 36″ – now try to say the same thing in less than two minutes. They find it really helpful in my experience.