Teaching conversational English

Right now, Fulbright is hosting an English immersion camp for grade school through high school students. The theme for camp is holidays. I had the chance to teach two conversational English classes this past week. Both classes were with advanced students. This means that they can read and write really well. The can also mostly speak in complete sentences.
My first lesson was on "New Years Day" a mostly cultural lesson. We watched the ball drop in NYC. I taught students about travel vocabulary, i.e. destination, vacation, attraction. I showed them an example of a flier, and introduced the concept of what a flier does. They then had to make their own flier for an attraction in NYC. Students were engaged (and so great!), but I had a lot to improve on- such as speaking slower.
The second lesson was to the same group of students, and was on Independence Day. I taught about the importance of flags in a society. I used a lot of questions in this lesson, and the students really responded! We played a game, where students were in teams and had to decide if the fact given was for the American flag or for the Korean flag. We talked about symbols. Students then had to make their own flag, with symbols and colors. They also had to write sentences about why they chose those particular symbols or colors. Then, they had to share with the class. We hung up the flags in the room and they looked great! This lesson went a lot better, my questioning was better, as well as my pace and repetition of terms.
During this lesson, the director of Fulbright South Korea, came in and watched me teach for about 15 minutes. I feel honored for her to observe me teach, and I hope I did a good job representing our group. It is very cool that she is so interested in what we are doing!
I will teach again on Wednesday. It is Thanksgiving. I will be teaching an intermediate class. When I observed, they are not as comfortable using sentences. First, we will talk about emotions and emoticons. We will define thankful. Then, we will be writing and speaking sentences using "I am thankful for_______ because ______". They will write these on feathers for a turkey, and eventually make a turkey. They will be reading these out loud for speaking practice. This group may be more challenging, as they are not as comfortable using English. I hope it goes as well as the second lesson.
I hope to have more pictures added to photobucket soon, and will post a link when I do. I hope you are all doing well. I think about you often!