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Just keeping the brains working is easy; they �ll be happy with almost anything. For business/career/job, teach vocabulary related to their professions or that they need at work. For travel, teach words not only about travel but also banking and medical emergencies. And finally, for media, teach some slang and contemporary English, even if it isn �t standard.

 

Grammar is grammar. You may need to teach some "catch phrases" early on, but start with easy and work up to more difficult, just as you would with children. Just use adult-appropriate vocabulary and books that aren �t childish. Be sure you point out the ways English is LESS difficult than Russian, too. Our nouns are much easier to deal with than Russian nouns. We change only for plural (-s or -es with a few exceptions) and possessive ( �s or s � with no exceptions). Russian has, what, 7 cases? Ouch!

It �s good to know the purpose, why our adults want to study English, it helps. The adult learners, unlike children, most often want to know the grammar and they help the teacher asking many questions, so TriumphTriumph you will learn very quickly how to teach them, your group will show you soon the way they like... Without any doubt you need to repeat many times and talk a lot with them. I can suggest you a game:

After each lesson with them, at the end, ask them to write the words that they considered difficult on small pieces of paper, on one side they need to write the words in English or in their mother tongue and then collect them. Ask them to draw at random and to translate into their mother tongue (or English) each time they draw, if they can�t, then the group helps... Collect the pieces of paper and at the beginning of each lesson ask them to draw the �old � words to check if they memorised them... It �s good to continue the game ... you will see how much it helps and how exciting it will be for them... my teacher of Italian did it with the great success when I studied Italian (being an adult).... I liked the game myself and then as a teacher of English I tried it many times with my adult students... and it worked with them as well ;-)!