As your question deals with different issues, I will answer it
in separate postings. Here I will look at issues to consider
when teaching and in the next post, I’ll discuss your question
about what to leave behind. If you haven’t yet put together your
classes, you should try to group the primary age children (5 to
10) by age. At primary school age, a year can make quite a
difference to skills, general knowledge and interests. If your
children are grouped by age, it will be easier to find a topic
that they all like. For the 11 to 15 age group, you should group
them by level, except try to avoid putting the two extremes of
age into the same class. The best thing you can hope to do is to
leave the children with a positive attitude towards learning the
English language. You should encourage and praise all their
efforts and try to handle errors sensitively. If errors are not
handled sensitively, they may be wary about trying to express
themselves. If you can instil in them a positive attitude
towards English, they