Best Teaching Tips for Zero Level and

Adult Learners

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Objective
By the end of the training session, teachers should be
able to:

 Teach absolute beginners

 Apply the best practices in praising, rewarding and
giving corrective feedback to students

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Training Flow

Activate
Engage Study
DEMO
(10 minutes) (30 minutes)
(20 minutes)

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Let’s Rank!
Teaching Aids

Student Disposition

Student’s Level

Difficulty of Material

Teacher Preparedness
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 Who are the ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS?
My student doesn’t answer my questions.
Is she an absolute beginner?

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Let’s Get to Know our Learners!

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Age and grade appropriate
topics and approach

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Authentic Opportunities for
children to use English
CLASS TALK TIME
Teacher/Trainer Talk Time
Student Talk Time

30%

70%

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Let’s practice!

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Recycling of Language Elements

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How about Adult Learners?

The time is right for them to learn

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to remove the mystery from; make clear
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No matter how hard a teacher tries, if a student isn’t ready to
learn, they won’t. Luckily, adult students chose to be in your
classroom, which means they have already determined that the
time is right.

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 How do Adults Learn?
Discussion

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How Do Adults Learn?
VARK Learning Styles

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HOW ARE WE GOING TO GIVE MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK
AND PRAISES TO OUR
YOUNG and ADULT LEARNERS?

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Tolerance of Language Errors

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Creative Ways to Say "Good
Job!"

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 Why it Pays to Praise in different Ways?
You know how powerful your words can be: especially when you’re
giving praise to someone for a job well done.

To empower children to continue to grow and develop more.

To let us know that “Good Job” doesn’t teach students

anything since they are already used to that phrase.

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Ways to correct student:

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Facial Expressions

Gestures

Identify the mistake!

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Plant or Animal?

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Take a Bath

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Let’s Play Soccer

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Learn more about

COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-
comprehensible-input.html

RECYCLING LANGUAGE ELEMENTS:

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/recycling
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