Lesson Plans for Adults

[Niko]

Sample Lesson Plan: Age 20+. Group size 1.

A private lesson allows the teacher to concentrate on key weaknesses of a student and progressing the students' level faster as opposed to a group lesson. Typically, private lessons range from 45 minutes to 1 hour.

A private lesson should consist of general conversation and text work. Supplementary activities can be used where appropriate.

Do not fall into the trap of using the entire lesson for conversation. Free conversation without structure can only make slight improvements on a students' level.

A private lesson is similar to a group lesson with the exception of pair and group work.

Task 1: Small Chitchat

Discuss certain topics or ask certain questions of each other. This helps to ease the student into the lesson. It's a good idea to steer the conversation into the topic of the textbook topic that follows.

Task 2: Textbook work

Student listens to the teacher presenting a new topic or grammar focus. To guage student understanding, the teacher will ask questions relating to the lesson of the text.

Complete set activities as prescribed in the textbook. If some of the activities take considerable time to complete, it may be a better to:

• assign some activities for homework
• only complete half of each activity
• only undertake the more relevant activities

Task 3: Role Play

Using the vocabulary and phrases in the textbook, conduct a short skit or role play. If the lesson was on shopping, the teacher can play the role of the shopkeeper and the student play the role of the buyer.

Where role play cannot be used for the lesson, then supplementary material can be introduced. If the lesson was on movies and actors, then discuss the latest movie, recent movie watched, worst movie seen etc.

Task 4: Small Chitchat

Spend a few minutes talking about topics of interest or plans for the remainder of the day.

[rwall7943]

Those are some great tips for teaching adults. I find that teaching adults is harder then teaching children. Adults relate better if you can put it into real life perspective.

[Potter]

The most important part about giving lessons to adults is making things concrete.
They need to be connected to what they are learning.
So you constantly need to refer to live examples.

[reviewer]

Remember, adults have much more difficulty learning language skills than children. It's simply due to the way the brain changes as we age. High amounts of repetition are very important in order for skills to be maintained.