Anyone have experience doing eikaiwa for seniors? I work at a juku and we're kind of branching out into eikaiwa work, or more like I am… The plan at the start was just elementary kids and under, real beginners play around and learn kind of stuff which I'm new to but not too worried about, plenty of lesson plans out there and I even made some of my own stuff for the first month. But then my boss came up with an idea for seniors eikaiwa afterwards and I'm kind of at a loss here. Depending on the turnout, it might be group, we don't have any numbers yet it's all still in planning.
Absolute beginner kids are easy because I know what they know, which is nothing lol. Seniors, like retired folk when I say seniors by the way, they're going to be all over the place in speaking level.
I feel like this will be popular around here too because I often get random grandpas coming up to me in supermarkets and asking if they can speak for a bit. Do I assume they know all the basics? Do we just dive into some kind of topic? Maybe read some news article and use that to lead into an issue we can discuss? I don't want a snooze fest because unlike the kids (not that boring lessons for them are fine either) these people can just decide to not go anymore, not like their parents are paying for them to be in there and urging them to give it a try for a few classes.
The first one we're doing is in July and it's a free trial to kick things off and see if they like it or not
by JP-Gambit