Conversation Class

I started teaching a new class today - a conversation class (CC) for students who have already failed their English proficiency test at least once. I have one student who's already failed 3 times. And they can't graduate without passing either the FEOT or COT, so it's obviously a big deal. CC is an intensive 6-week course in which I'm supposed to cram these kids (some older than me) with as much English as possible and fill in the gaps of their 10+ years of English language education. That's a big project! But the first class went really well and I'm looking forward to the rest of it. Tomorrow they're interviewing me with what they promise will be "exciting" questions. That should be fun. My only goal for this week is to get them talking as much as possible and get them comfortable with me and each other.