I have experience in teaching primary students where kids responded really well to the topic based/project learning. Now I was given a class of ten 13-15 year olds (a mix of elementary and lower intermediate levels) and I tried the same approach but it didn �t quite work...Kids seemed to be tired of having to look at the same theme for a week, although there were different activities and �angles � we looked at it. My new teenage students used to working using a course book, page by page, which I find not very effective and to be honest, boring.

My question is, how would you use 10 hours a week with the kids of similar age?  Do you use topic based learning? If so, do you link almost all of your activities throughout your week to the topic? Or do you just let it go for a lesson or two and do something else?

Thank you