Tips from a teacher and a humanitarian:

• You don’t need to be an experienced teacher, you do need to be compassionate and be able to adjust to the English level there. Motivate people to tell their story. You’ll be helping them most if you practice speech and listening together. So don’t waste a lot of time on spelling and grammar.

• Remember that the students level is usually less or the same as a first year student.

• Respect the teacher, never correct them! You’ll lose all respect that way.

• Turn teaching into a game, give lots of compliments when people pronounce a word correct and divide the compliments between all your students, and also the teacher!

• Keep it simple. Find the students level and stick to that. You’ll really be helping people if you practice basic sentences and pronunciation of the first 200 words. 

• Repeating stuff in a fun way will give the students a lot of gratification because they’ll notice that they start to speak less formally and more clearly.

• Practice a lot, point out things or show them to your students. Write down a word on the board and have every student pronounce it. Then write down a simple sentence.

This way a class will be fun and fulfilling for everyone!