I need ideas to start sort of teaching English casually, informally

[Bill]

When I left a post in the "How important are free learning materials ?" forum, I used Bervan as my user name. I am soryy about that. It is Bill actually. Here is what I wrote :

Dear people,

I am a retired teacher of English. I am French. I am a member of two town twinnings with british towns. The people who contacted me are not all that keen to be faced with formal lessons. They had rather we used , say, games that could, together with set expressions such as, "Well,... I presume..., It could...," and plenty of others alike make up some sort of conversation and help them out when we travel over to Britain.

Has anyone ever come across this sort of request ?

Yours,

Bervan.
Bervan
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[Our Tort System]

I agree with your students. Learning set expressions is a sure fire method to get a handle on the language. You don't spend much time on Grammar but instead skip right into the thick of it, taking in as much of the language as possible. In the end you will be able to get across many things without factually knowing much of Grammar.
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