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Saturday, December 31, 2016
Self-improvement: Teaching English as a hobby....(Are you a genius?)...
Self-improvement: Teaching English as a hobby....(Are you a genius?)...: Materials: Worksheet 2 Dynamic: Whole class Time: 20 minutes Procedure: 1. Distribute one copy of the worksheet to each studen...
Teaching English as a hobby....(Are you a genius?)
Materials: Worksheet 2
Dynamic: Whole class
Time: 20 minutes
Procedure: 1. Distribute one copy of the
worksheet to each student. Tell students to circulate, asking the questions on
the worksheet.
Example: On the worksheet:
is afraid of spider
Student A: Are you afraid
of ghosts?
Student B: Yes, I am.
2. When the
questioning student gets a yes answer, he/she fills in the answerer’s name. If
the answerer answers no, the questioning student continues until he/she finds
someone who answers yes.
3. When a
student completes the worksheet, he/she sits down, but still answers other
students’ questions. Not all students may be able to complete every entry. If
they have asked all their classmates a question and no one has said yes, they
can also sit down.
4. Go over as
many of the questions/answers as time allows.
NOTE: You can limit answers
to only one yes answer per student.
This avoids students pairing
up and talking to only one or two other students. Or you may allow students to
write a classmate’s name as many times as that student answers yes.
SHORT ANSWERS 1
Materials: Strips with answers (Worksheet 3)
Dynamic: Pairs/Small groups
Time: 20 minutes
Procedure: 1. Divide the class into pairs or
groups of three or four.
2. Give each
group several strips with short answers on them. Have the students work
together to write questions for the answers.
3. The
members of each group can take turns reading their questions and answers aloud,
or one student can read for the group. The rest of the class judges whether the
questions are appropriate for their answers.
SHORT ANSWERS 2
Materials: None
Dynamic: Pairs/Small groups
Time: 30 minutes
Procedure: 1. Divide the class into pairs or
groups of three or four. There should be an even number of groups if possible.
2. Each group
writes five short answers on a piece of paper, exchanges answer papers with
another group, and writes appropriate questions for the other group’s answers.
Examples:
Group 1: Yes, I do. Group 2:
Do you walk to school?
No, he wasn’t. Was Adel late
for class?
No, you aren’t. Am I from
France?
Yes, they did. Did they
leave at 12:00?
No, she didn’t. Did Nada
lend you her car?
3. Put the two groups
together and have them return the answer papers. The group who wrote the
answers checks that the questions are appropriate.
NOTE: This activity can be adapted to a
higher level by using different tenses, such as a mixture of perfect tenses.
SUGGESTION: Before dividing your class into pairs, tell them
what tense to use or, for the higher-level class, if the activity is intended
to be a verb review.
INFORMATION, PLEASE
Materials: Worksheet 4 (optional)
Dynamic: Pairs
Time: 30–45 minutes
Procedure: 1. Divide the class into pairs.
Assign each pair a different topic to discuss. Partner A asks the questions;
partner B provides his/her own answers. Partner A can use the worksheet
questions as a guideline, but encourage students to think of other, more
specific questions. For low-level students, you may want to provide answers for
partner B or have the partners work together to create answers. Higher-level
students can use the worksheet as a guide and then develop their own questions
based on the situation.
SUGGESTED TOPICS: mall information, desk airline
information, ticket booth, county fair information, office bus information, college
information, line library, hospital information desk, local tourist attraction
2. Have the
students practice their questions and answers several times. They will do a
telephone role played for the class, so they should be familiar with the
questions and answers. Circulate, helping the pairs with their grammar and
checking their answers.
3. The
partners take turns presenting their role played to the rest of the class.
Self-improvement: Teaching English as a hobby (Present Simple)
Self-improvement: Teaching English as a hobby (Present Simple): SIMPLE PRESENT 1. IN COMMON Materials: Worksheet 1 Dynamic: Whole class Time: 20 minutes Procedure: 1. Create a worksheet,...
Teaching English as a hobby (Present Simple)
SIMPLE
PRESENT
1. IN COMMON
Materials: Worksheet 1
Dynamic: Whole class
Time: 20 minutes
Procedure: 1. Create a
worksheet, perhaps by using the blank Worksheet 1, by listing your students’
names in the left column. Another way to do this is to use the attendance list,
block out everything but the name column, then draw lines across.
2. Give each student a copy of the
handout. Instruct students to cross out their name and the names of any absent
students.
3. Instruct students to circulate
and find one thing they have in common with each other student on the list.
They must find a different thing for each student. For example, Mariam: might write:
Yusuf: We both like sports.
Loya: We both have dark hair.
Mohamad: We both have two older brothers.
Rgaa: We both drive a car.
5. When they have finished, the
students sit down. Ask which verb tense they used most often (simple present)
and why (facts). If the students cannot provide these answers, give them clues
by soliciting some of the sentences they wrote down. Ask if these are true
statements, etc.
6. For fun and to learn more about
the students, ask individual students at random what they have in common with
someone on their list. (It would take too long to go over all the answers.) You
may want to collect the papers to use as a source of information for preparing
other activities or exercises.
NOTE: This is a good culmination game at a lower
level, after completing the present tense chapter. It also works well as a
review for higher students to see if they remember why they use the present
tense.
Self-improvement: Fitness as a hobby
Self-improvement: Fitness as a hobby: Fitness Become a personal trainer. Personal training is learning how to become a mentor, a motivator, and a friend. It's findin...
Fitness as a hobby
Fitness
Become a personal trainer.
Personal training is learning
how to become a mentor, a motivator, and a friend. It's finding out what makes
people tick, what drives them to succeed, and, perhaps most importantly, what
limits their capabilities.
None of these skills mean anything, however, if you don't have a
clientele. Building a solid reputation and a positive brand is what's going to bring you clients. You can have a lot of
letters behind your name and a hundred certifications in your pocket, but
without a plan for your business, you'll never get to utilize them.
Personal training is all about what you know. If you build a strong
network, success will follow.
Social life and business go hand in hand for an entrepreneur, so never miss
out on potential net working opportunities.
It may be difficult to balance socializing and a healthy
lifestyle—your body is your business card, after all—but meeting new people and
engaging in your community are essential components of building your network.
Take every opportunity you can within the limits of your own health
and wellbeing.
Local clinics, wellness fairs, fitness expos, workshops, and even business events are great
places to start. They'll provide you the opportunity to meet new people, and a
platform for new people to meet you. When you attend events like these, be sure
to bring fliers or business cards that include your contact information.
Many trainers and entrepreneurs hype themselves up to obtain a client or
business relationship, only to fall flat once the client is secured. This is
probably what destroys most personal training careers. Word of mouth is the best
type of advertising, so if a client or business partner doesn't have a good
experience with you or your business, you can kiss your good reputation and
your hopes of new clients goodbye.
Instead of promising the moon, create goals with your client. More importantly, treat
every single client like they are the only client you have.
Build relationships with your clients by asking them about their families, their
lives, and their passions.
A little extra effort on your part to be kind and friendly will go
a long way and it will honestly make you a better trainer.
Recognize your strengths as a trainer and use them to your advantage. Do you
excel in small group sessions, or do you work better in a one-on-one environment?
Are you comfortable working with teenagers, or do you prefer training adults?
Working with and highlighting your strengths, rather than hopping on whatever
training fad is most popular at the time, will help you gain and retain
clients.
Pick a training area you are familiar with. It doesn't matter what type
of fitness you have experience doing—strength and conditioning, TRX, Pilates,
or bodybuilding. Having an area of expertise will set you apart from your
competition.
Find one or two areas you're passionate about, and then
educate yourself as much as you can. Your goal should be to become the go-to
expert. When your name becomes synonymous with your niche, marketing yourself
and gaining new clientele becomes a lot easier.
Target high-end, exclusive clientele and focus on catering to their specific needs
and lifestyle. Build a profile of your ideal client, what their day looks like,
and what they typically want to achieve from training. Build your business
around catering specifically to their needs and their needs only. Obviously,
this approach may be more challenging to start with, but you can promise it
will build you a strong business long term. Know that one client would lead you
to more.
If you want your business to grow, you have to continually learn,
improve, and evolve. Attend fitness conventions and training workshops, and
sign up for personal training webinars.
Don't spend time worrying about what others are doing—focus on
always putting out your best product. You are your business.
To alleviate boredom for the client, you should change the grip up.
Additionally changing the grip can be a great way to continue training through
injury.
The more they can talk the talk the more comfortable they’ll
feel in the gym. It may not be the only reason they stay training but it will
help their adherence.
Learn how to unload a bar
without breaking your back.
Remove clips
Remove all weight from one
side
Tip the bar dumping weights
off the other end
Wipe the dust off of your
shoulder
Ask open-ended questions often
like “how did that feel” or “are you enjoying the work out so far” and be quiet. Prepare for everything.
Have a soft copy of everything.
Have all of your clients
workouts stored on a file on the computer, teach the receptionist at the club
how to access your files so if you’re not around they can help your client as
well. If you don’t have an internal network open a separate dropbox folder for all of your
clients workouts.
Check out the Block
System. It’s how you organize your clients and gives you time to
start this bomb website and write a book.
Introduce your clients to
everybody to make them the most popular people in the gym. Introduce them to all of the other trainers
and members. Doing this involves them into the community right away. Adherence
increases as a result.
Training 10-12 clients in a
day do not leave much time to consume 3000+ calories. Add 10-15g of BCAA powder
into your water and sip it throughout the day. It gives you a hit of energy and
helps you maintain muscle mass.
Super
shakes saved you life.
Step 1: Pick a veggie
(spinach)
Step 2: Pick a healthy fat
(coconut or almonds)
Step 3: Pick a protein source
Step 4: Pick a topper (coconut
shards and cinnamon are great!)
Step 5: Add in a liquid
(almond milk)
Step 6: Never go hungry
training 6 clients in a row again.
Learn about the aura of the
expert and how to help others using it.
Learn to make connections
with experts who specialize in those areas.
Always. Smiling is
contagious. It makes people want to talk to you even if you have a wicked cool
handlebar mustache.
Do great work; hang out with great people; ignore
shitty people; never call out anybody publicly and always deal with disputes
behind closed doors. Have an intangible element for everything you sell; create
better free content than anybody else; and, perhaps most importantly, when you
do decide to sell, make sure that it’s fucking awesome and sell hard.
Marketing Your Personal
Training Services
Building and maintaining
relationships is truly what your business is going to be built upon. Because it
is so relationship focused, you need to use that to your advantage in marketing
your personal training services.
You need to let customers know
who you truly are. Building trust in a consumer does take some amount of time, but it
will be mostly based on the quality of the service. The value they receive from
your services will ultimately instill trust in you and your brand. A very
practical way to do this is to have a well developed website for your services.
Remember, a service is about the value it gives. Most of the time money is not
the issue.
Show all of your potential
clients that your personal training
service provides more value than
your competitors. Yes, you might pay a little bit more, but you will train them
to get results over the long haul. Again, show them that personal touch.
Give them a couple free sessions to see what your services are
like. Don’t just be all business all the time, learn about these people. Find
out a couple facts about them and impress them with that personal interaction.
Another huge way you can market to your potential and current clients
is to be a part of their lives. Show them that you care about them and
communicate that.
Send them a card on their birthday. Send an encouraging text
a couple times a month.
Give them some inspiration
via social media when you see they are struggling with something.
Make sure you are communicating with them on a regular basis. The
flip side of that is not to overstep boundaries.
Don’t get annoying with it, but a gentle sales pitch or marketing campaign
doesn’t hurt either. Not only will this keep your current clients, but a constant
flow of communication will make it easier for you to ask your currents about
giving you referrals.
While marketing for a service-based business like personal training has a lot of challenges, they
can be easily turned into positives for you. Just remember that the basis of a
good service-based business is that personal touch.
Write down the characteristics of
your target customers including their genders, ages, fitness levels, exercise
knowledge, educational background, income levels and what services they require
from you. Knowing who can benefit from your business determines the strategies
you should engage in to reach that market.
Develop Internet
properties such as a website, blog and social media profiles. A big advantage
to these methods is that they can cost relatively little.
You can implement and
change them quickly. They are also more effective in targeting the generation
that grew up with websites and computers.
Use a relatively static
website, such as those available on Google Sites or your Internet service
provider, to describe your basic offerings, explain your fitness philosophy and
post pictures of your clients who have achieved their goals.
Proceed with a blog on
either Blogger or WordPress where you can write frequently about useful diet
and fitness tips, and make announcements about your services.
Finally, leverage social media
such as Facebook and Twitter to highlight your daily work or fitness
achievements, and to interact with potential clients through comments and
chats.
Donate prizes or offer sponsorships
at events where your target customers are likely to congregate.
The obvious choices are fun runs, marathons
and sports competitions. You can give away t-shirts, water bottles and trophies
to athletes and weekend warriors.
Hold free seminars or speak at clubs and
meetings. For example, you can explain how you started your enterprise at an
executive organization. While at a martial arts facilities, you can show
techniques for building strength and endurance.
Hire traditional media to reach customers who
are not comfortable with the Internet and mobile communication. The middle-aged
or older may prefer to read information in marketing letters, books and
magazines, hear it on the radio or watch it on TV. Aside from buying ads in
these venues, you can also distribute a free fitness newsletter at sporting
good stores or by subscription, discuss diet tips on a radio food show, or be
interviewed by TV news about your new exercise techniques.
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