Complete practical guide
The language teaching book that starts with a generous folder and one sentence said warmly
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on teaching a language as a side hustle - what you cannot promise, what you may hand out, what you may never repeat, and how children are taught.
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What this guide is
Most guides to teaching a language are about method. This one is about the four decisions that are too important to make in the moment. It opens with a teacher who kept a shared folder full of scanned pages and ripped audio, out of generosity, that nobody ever complained about and they never once checked - and who repeated, warmly and harmlessly, something an adult student had told them during conversation practice. Neither ever went wrong, which is exactly the point. The book's central argument is that you are not teaching a language at all: you are buying somebody the speaking time they cannot get anywhere else, which makes the measure of a lesson how many minutes the student spoke - and most new teachers, timed honestly, speak seventy to eighty per cent of their own. It also makes an argument nobody else makes: that a language learner cannot be careful, because at intermediate level there is no hedging available, so students disclose things they would never say in their own language. That is why privacy is a rule here and a courtesy elsewhere.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - promises, material, privacy, and children
- Why a learner cannot be careful, and what that obliges you to do with everything you hear
- The folder audit: if you cannot say where it came from, it does not go back in
- The one number that measures a lesson - and the honest range most teachers find the first time they use a stopwatch
- A four-item homework format where the item that changes completion most is the one they bring back
- Why a policy in the target language a beginner cannot read is decoration rather than a policy
- Section 37.3 on why AI is not an authority on the language - four errors it makes that your students cannot detect
- 148 AI prompts with their safety constraints written in - and not one asks AI whether something is correct
Ideal for
People who speak a second language well and have been asked to help somebody with it, native speakers told they should teach, working teachers who have never audited the folder they teach from or timed their own talking, and marketplace teachers who want students of their own.
- Anyone starting language teaching alongside other work.
- Working teachers who have never audited the folder they teach from, never timed their own talking, and never established who they would report a safeguarding concern to.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with a materials register they can account for entirely, a privacy and data register with deletion dates, a designated safeguarding contact and escalation if they teach children, purpose-specific consent records, a written variety statement, two refusal lists, a cost floor divided by lessons actually taught and net of every fee, a measured student-talking-time figure, a four-item homework format with a tracked completion rate, a block-payment obligation tracker, a seven-item never-skipped check card, and a thirty-day, ninety-day, and one-year plan.
A complete working system for teaching a language alongside other work - built on four rules covering what may never be promised, what may be handed out, what may never be repeated, and how children are taught - with the student's speaking time treated as the actual product.
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