Teaching Middle School
So I'm looking for some advice for how anyone may approach teaching middle school kids.
As the foreign teacher I'm expected to teach them listening, speaking and writing. There is a book we use for the listening but for SP + WR I design my own lesson materials.
I'm expected to design my speaking + writing lessons from the Junior Times newspaper. Any of you done that before? Mostly I have the students write summaries or opinion pieces about articles we read.
However, I've been struggling teaching them. They seem really disengaged, bored, and uninterested with the material. And they absolutely hate speaking English which makes the classes difficult to conduct. I think they view my class as being unimportant compared to the Korean teacher's class.
Any tips would be appreciated!