Hi teachers.
I'm a student of English at university and a friend of mine has asked me to teach English to her and her husband, because their son is going to marry an English girl and she can't speak Spanish at all. This will be my first experience as a teacher and I don't know how to organise the two one-hour lessons a week.
First of all I guess I should do a syllabus with all the things I think are important for them to learn. (could you help me with that? Is there any site where I can find it?)
They are not completly beginners, they know some basic grammar and vocabulary and they are interested in improving their speaking skills; so they don't want to 'waste our time doing boring grammar exercises', they just want 'to be able to make ourselves understood'. But I think that some grammar would be necessary, how would you deal with that? I have thought that the best thing to do would be to prepare oral activities related to the the grammar learned, but I'm not sure how to do it.
I also think I would tell them to read a lot at home to improve their reading skills and to learn more vocabulary, and to listen to English music or watch English films. I will ask them to do writings at home, probably letters or other kind of compositions. What do you think about this?
And one other thing. Which book should I use?, any suggestions?
Oh, gosh! I'd never thought that teaching was such a hard job.