Confidence in Conversation English Classes for Young Learners

In this Ongoing course, children will start to develop their speaking and listening skills. It can be a challenge for children aged 7 to 10 that speak English as a second language to grasp complex writing idea's before they can speak and express idea's confidently. 

The aim of this course is to teach children to do the following:

- Understand the difference between, 'open', and 'closed', questions to encourage wider verbal expression and to avoid, 'yes', or 'no' answers.
- Explore the importance of asking, 'WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, WHEN, and HOW'. Developing questions and answers will help children develop their idea's and increase conversation time.
- Work on grammar points, children often make mistakes when expressing idea's talking about the past, present or future. Through practising the use of verbs, adjectives, prepositions and connectives, children will clearly identify how to talk about actions correctly.
- Vocabulary building, including the introduction of new words, with explanation of their meaning. This will help the student know how to express idea's using different contexts.
- Clearing up the homophone issue of words that sound the same, are spelt the same or have a different meaning. We will explore the common words so that learners will know which vocabulary to use.
- Conversational topics will relate to young people, including topics of personal interest to engage the student.

The class will be structured in a small personal classes  to ensure each student gets maximum talking time. 

As an experienced TEFL/ESOL qualified teacher, I am to speak only 30% of the time.

My focus is on pronunciation errors, improving grammatical usage, and confidence in expressing idea's.

The class is structured in a way that learners will learn using the following resources/methods.

- games
- role play
- reviewing comprehension
- reading written texts and discussing/summarising

The only experience a learner needs is a command of basic English, I will evaluate every child that I teach and ensure each lesson is planned for the needs to the student.