Language teaching is changing faster than gasoline evaporates. Follow one ESL teacher's career from the classroom to cyberspace using a customized speaking program, LinkedIN and Skype.

1. Teaching Speaking Online
TESL Ontario
Judy Thompson

2. Technophobe’s Journey to Online Teaching
• LINC, Peel Board, Sheridan College…
• Speaking specialty
• Developed some materials
• Posted a LinkedIn profile
• Trend Business School in Brazil – had a program
• Got hired all over the world – my own program
• Teach executives online

3. Agenda
1. Basic Technology
2. Assessment and Program Content
3. Online Market/|Marketing

4. Tools of a Technophobe
• Audacity – free voice recognition software
recorder that shows amplitude
• Skype – free voice, text & video sharing
software
• Dropbox – free cloud stored/shared files
• Pamela – 90$/year Skype recording program
• Otterwave – 10$ app voice recognition
amplitude and individual sound assessment

5. Audacity

6. Skype Screenshot

7. Otterwave Screenshot

8. The Content is the Thing
Coaching vs. Teaching
Teaching is traditional, broad and forgettable –
lots of information they can’t remember or use
Coaching is customized, razor sharp and starts
where the student is and takes them where they
need to go - you get paid a lot more
Get a niche and be the best at teaching it.

9. X Ray of the Fracture

10. Cry Wolf Diagnostic Passage
Date: ___________________
Reader’s Name: ___________________
Listener’s Name: ___________________
Cry Wolf
Once upon a time, a lonely shepherd boy sat watching his sheep. Nothing unusual ever
happened on that quiet hillside, so the boy decided to play a trick on the townspeople. He
cried, “Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!” The villagers ran up the hill armed with sticks to drive the wolf
away. There was no wolf.
Everyone was angry that the boy was just pulling their leg, but the boy enjoyed his little
joke. The next day he cried, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is eating the sheep!” Again the villagers
ran to help. The boy laughed at them.
On the third day, a big hungry wolf attacked the sheep. The terrified boy screamed for help,
but no one came. The wolf ate all the sheep. The boy realized too late the importance of
telling the truth.
Comments:

11. You
Are
Here

13. Pattern Teaching Techniques
1. Unteach – Remove blocks that aren’t real
2. Only teach what is missing for each individual
3. Anticipate issues from first language and use
appropriate exercises
4. Leave them with HW and real world examples
5. Shift from teacher’s responsibility that they learn
– to theirs
6. It’s very fast, 10-15 hours for the complete
program

15. The Color Chart is Loaded
• Vowel sounds in an easy logical format
• Bridge to pronunciation from spelling
• Access to spelling from listening
• Priority - All vowel sounds are NOT equally
difficult they’re missing short vowels and
Purple
• Word stress dictates the word color
• Linking is in the letters

16. Words
The single most important feature of English
• Stress-based language
• Accents don’t matter
• Use their names first
Every word in English is a color on that one page.

17. Sentences
• Some words are important and some are not
• Grammar doesn’t matter when you are speaking
• Grammar words are reduced to tiny grunts
* Wolves Eat Sheep

18. Clear, Powerful Demonstrations
WOLVES EAT SHEEP
The WOLVES EAT SHEEP
The WOLVES EAT the SHEEP
The WOLVES will EAT the SHEEP
The WOLVES have EATen the SHEEP
The WOLVES will have EATen the SHEEP

19. Understand your Topic Deeply
Linking is for better listening skills, they don’t
have to do it themselves.
1. Consonant Consonant
bus _ stop bu stop
2. Consonant Vowel
turn _ off tur noff
3. Vowel Vowel
go _ away go waway

20. Expressions
Conversation works because of:
• Context
• Collocations
• Conventions
Expressions and humor are marks of fluency.

21. Marketing
• Who has money to pay for an expert and no time
for English lessons?
• Make graduated proposals – levels of content
Budget, Standard, Deluxe and outline clearly
what the client can expect
• LinkedIn provides a world of possibilities for
experts who make a difference quickly
• Flesh out your profile and join groups
• HR hires your niche for their bottom line

22. Big Finish
http://elearningindustry.com/top-10-e-learning-statistics-
for-2014-you-need-to-know
In 2011, it was estimated that about $35.6 billion was
spent on self-paced eLearning across the globe.
Today, e-Learning is a $56.2 billion industry, and it's
going to double by 2015.
Teach what no computer can teach
www.thompsonlanguagecenter.com
judy@thompsonlanguagecenter.com
(905) 757-1257