Advanced Students

I have begun to do away with the need for an agent to help me locate students and through social net working I am now beginning to teach an even wider variety of nationalities.The demand for lessons is relatively high within the UK ,particularly among the more advanced speakers.
In the last week I gained two more students who are both at this level.The main problem they feel they have is the confidence to speak and they often find themselves not finishing a sentence because to their ears it just doesn't sound right.They have lost confidence in their abilities with the language.
For these students the important thing for me as the teacher is to very quickly develop a rapport so that the student feels safe to communicate and make mistakes.

I use a fairly clear structure in my lessons with advanced conversational /general English students.We usually have a warm up -a word game related to the topic.This is followed by a questioning activity based on the topic.I then provide a piece of text ,usually with underlined phrasal verbs(to highlight their use) and some more complex vocabulary.The student reads the text ,we discuss unfamiliar words and phrases and this is followed by more questions which requires the student to respond using the new language.The lesson ends with another game which highlights the that the learning outcome has been achieved.These types of lessons do vary a little.Sometimes a student will have watched a talk,video clip or read a newspaper article in advance of their lesson and we use this material for our lesson.
For advanced students its not just about chatting.Error correction is essential as is the introduction of new phrases,idiomatic speech and so on. Using more complex grammar easily is also very important so I try to include a grammar element to our lessons.Here are links to some sites I use as a basis to these lessons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts
http://www.ted.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/
This is really just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what resources I use.Because of how long I have been teaching English I have now created and built up a range of lesson types for different abilities.