zetigrek
29 Sep 2010 / #1
I'm going to take a course of English but I can't decide which method choose. As you know I'm on the level of "Upper Intermidiate" and can easly write in English intelligible texts (I hope...)
I just need some speaking training and to make my ear more sensitive for English talk (when I watch a movie in original language version I understand only about 60% of the dialogues). So I'm hesitating between Avalon method course (modernized Callan) or just simple conversations with native speaker. I know what is the idea of callan method as I was on few lessons when I was still a teenager. Although it's boring as hell sometimes (and makes people absent-minded during lessons) I consider it as a good method if you are desciplined person and work regulary and I would choose it if it wasn't so expensive!
In the other hand I have much cheaper offer of a conversation with native (in English school of course) but I afraid it will look like: "oh what will we talk about today? Anyone?"
I know lots of you are teachers and I wonder what would you suggest me more in my case? :)
I just need some speaking training and to make my ear more sensitive for English talk (when I watch a movie in original language version I understand only about 60% of the dialogues). So I'm hesitating between Avalon method course (modernized Callan) or just simple conversations with native speaker. I know what is the idea of callan method as I was on few lessons when I was still a teenager. Although it's boring as hell sometimes (and makes people absent-minded during lessons) I consider it as a good method if you are desciplined person and work regulary and I would choose it if it wasn't so expensive!
In the other hand I have much cheaper offer of a conversation with native (in English school of course) but I afraid it will look like: "oh what will we talk about today? Anyone?"
I know lots of you are teachers and I wonder what would you suggest me more in my case? :)