Online English Teaching-Speaking Listening- Due to Coronavirus

Quarantined? NO PROBLEM! Let's Learn English Online!

Online learning and teaching because of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has changed everyones lives. This podcast is just one demonstration of that. Keep reading below to learn more.

About This Podcast

Enjoy this uncut version of my online listening and speaking class (Academic English) class for advanced level students in the U.S.A.

You can click here to watch the recording of this.

Stuck at home due to the Coronavirus but still want to improve your English? This is my advanced speaking and listening class (Masters Listening & Speaking) class of online learners. Keep reading to find out what was taught, and how to be an online learner.

In This Lesson

This podcast is for teachers AND learners!

If you are a teacher and are wondering "how to teach online," here is a great example.

If you are a student (learning English online), you will see an example virtual classroom and learn some tips on how to be successful. 

Tools Used:

Zoom® 

Macbook Pro

Company curriculum

Enthusiasm and biting wit...

A Couple of Things

I used Zoom® to teach online, which is great, but you could use other programs. If you ever learned online before? No problem! Neither had any of these students from Gabon, Japan, Taiwan, China, Saudi Arabia, and South Korea. They did a great job!

I explained to them some procedures, rules, and expectations for learning English online, or being an online learner in general, and how to be success in this class. What type of learners are these? These students come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are studying abroad, some are pilots (or studying to become one), while others are increasing their knowledge of English to study at a university in the USA.

So, essentially, this class is a college prep. class. We focused on Turn-taking and social movements. We watched two videos to help us visualize AND increase our knowledge of different types of social movements and those who become leaders & followers of one.

Tell Me:

Have you ever joined/created a social movement? What was the outcome?

What other suggestions could you make to students learning online for the first time?

Links to videos referenced:

Social Movement 

Julio Diaz

*Willie & Yelitza 

(*Note: the students did not listen/watch this one. I only referenced it and posted it in our virtual classroom homepage called GEL)

**Sorry, due to copyright laws, I cannot post the book or pages we used to learn about turn-taking in conversation/conversational discourse.