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If you're an English teacher and run one-on-one private English conversation lessons then you may find these simple lesson plans useful. If you're a student planning to hire a teacher to practice your English then these are great topics you can practice discussing.

Following is a list of links to pages that contain great discussion topics as well as some lesson plans created by the team at Speakoz. For all English language ESL EFL TESOL TEFL TEFOL teachers, tutors and students. Speak Oz Lesson plans These are assorted exercises for use in one-on-one or private tutoring lessons. Some of them are quick comprehension exercises and others might take an hour or two to work through. Literacy Net has some great CNN and CBS stories online, specifically designed for English learners. Interesting conversation topics as well as full and abridged news stories makes creating a lesson plan much easier.

http://st.n-junshin.ac.jp/Project/conversation/Inoue/ This page contains some interesting free online videos that can be useful in starting a conversation.

English College TV is an online English conversation video course that can be useful if you have an elementary student that prefers to watch and listen rather than talk. You can pause the online lessons to review and practice with your students what they are learning. (Currently offline 04/06) 

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These are based on current topics and contain assorted jargon or controversial subjects to promote discussion in your tutoring lesson. Some articles are great for pronunciation practice. Others a good for teaching someone about a particular subject.

ESOL Home Tutors. This site features great downloadable pdfs for tutoring intermediate ESOL students. Teaching materials and resources.

Breaking News English. Click on a recent news item to see a selection of exercises for it. Ready-to-use ESL/EFL current affairs lessons. Graded news articles, audio and communicative activities uploaded daily.

English Club has a great page about Small Talk. It focuses on basic conversation starters as well as various topics for discussion. Worth a look.

The International Center has a short list of general but challenging conversation topics here and in their archives here.Very easy to adapt these topics for your own situation.

ITESLJ.org has a great page of topics with assorted questions to keep the lesson interesting. Also a quick teachers guide if you get stuck. The Tsunami questions would be a relevant topic for many in 2005.

ESL Site has a great list of discussion lesson plans. These are designed for a classroom situation but can be easily adapted for a one-on-one tuition lesson.

Canadian Living English has some dialogues that can be used in a one-on-one or classroom situation. The most popular is their Doctors and pharmacists page. Very useful for any English learners who have found themselves in a translation job at a medical centre.

Frontier College has great list of questionaire one-on-one lesson plans that can be read online or downloaded in pdf format. Especially useful is the Using the Telephone conversation lesson plan. Other plans have a Canadian focus but can be easily changed to suit your situation.

English Skills have a Reschedule an Appointment online lesson plan with audio that is very comprehensive.

Other guides
"Help. They don't speak English" - Escort

ESOL Starter Kit - Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. Includes an assessment exercise.

English Conversation Partners Program pdf from Rutgers. Conversation topics lists.

Become an English Language Conversation Tutor - This is a great pdf ebook that has steps, guides, advice and exercises for someone wanting to run their own business tutoring students. It would also be useful for current conversation tutors to get some more ideas.