I'm only dorsum from a fantastic trip to France, talking to teachers inward Strasbourg, Lille too Paris almost the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Most of the teachers I met were freelancers, getting operate from a mix of in-company training, one-to-one's too only about full general English linguistic communication courses for adults. Nothing novel there. But the theme that kept emerging from conversations that struck me most was how many mentioned teaching classes of largely retired people.
It seems that, inward French Republic at least, there's a demographic who studied English linguistic communication at school, agency dorsum when, but who likely learned rattling piffling too who now, with fourth dimension on their hands too coin to pass on lessons, are returning to the classroom. Some are using their retirement to go the earth too recognise how useful English linguistic communication is equally a tongue franca, others convey children who've moved abroad too discovery themselves with English-speaking grandchildren.
I was chatting to my colleague, Julie Norton, almost it on the prepare from Lille to Paris too nosotros were speculating almost whether there's a marketplace position for materials aimed at "the older learner". OUP's novel Navigate serial (which both Julie too I convey worked on) is aimed squarely at adult learners, avoiding the fluffy celebrity-focused topics of many courses for the teen too immature adult market, but what mightiness a course of teaching inward EOAP (English for OAPs) hold off like?
Would it comprehend topics similar gardening? (One I've had rejected when I tried to skid it into materials before!) What almost useful linguistic communication for describing daily aches too pains? Could "hip replacement" go target vocabulary? And equally my mum suggested when I was telling her almost the persuasion on the telephone yesterday evening, how almost classic sports cars for the older gentleman?!
And of course, this would endure amongst all those useful go expressions too how to Skype your grandson inward Canada. Just a persuasion ...
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