Last year I taught most of the year without a book or set curriculum. I got a class of fairly advanced 12 year olds and just worked on whatever I saw they were missing in their English. It means you have a lot of work since you need the prepare all the worksheets and materials yourself but, hey, that is where this site proves its value!! Lots of great material here.

 It is a lot of work, much more than just following a book or other framework but the advantage it that the lessons are much better catered to the student �s needs and there is no pressure to progress in or finish a book. Towards the end of the year I did give my students a copied chapter of a coursebook to work with simply because I couldn �t handle the workload anymore, especially making sure they do cover the basic tenses and writing all the readings myself was just too time consuming and stressfull (I was a new teacher and I didn �t know this website yet). It made life a lot easier, following the book, but it also made the lessons less adapted for each specific student and it for sure was a lot more boring...! Before each exercise would have the names of the students and situations from their lives, the book talked about a trip to London and buckingham palace.....