Focused especially to fit the needs of ESL students, this handbook for communicating in business situations describes a wide variety of business writings, and recommends appropriate styles and formats for each. This book will meet the needs of all ESL students–especially those in business schools–but can also serve as a general quick reference guide in any business office Continue reading
Sequences: Picture Stories for ESL is a reproducible book for beginner ESL students. It includes 60 units. Each unit contains a drawings page. On each drawings page there is a sequence of six drawings, mostly without words or captions. The drawings show the sequence of events that go with a particular activity, such as going grocery shopping or visiting a doctor. Your students, with your input when necessary, identify the items and actions in the drawings. Each drawings page is complimented by a page of vocabulary building exercises. Continue reading
Levels: Beginner to Intermediate. Primary to Adult. 49 games for practicing specific grammar in the ESL or EFL classroom. With clear instructions for the games, there are 96 pages of photocopyable masters. The objective of these activities, aside from practicing the grammar, is natural student interaction and conversation. Students from 7th grade to 107 years will have fun working together playing the games while they pick up new vocabulary and use the grammar they’ve been studying. Continue reading
Compelling Conversations provides teachers and tutors with a rich collection of diverse conversation material for hundreds of hours of conversation practice. The ready-to-use materials make it easy to create lively classroom conversations. As the old American cereal commercial used to say, “try it – you’ll like it! Continue reading
Discussion Starters Speaking Fluency Activities for Advanced ESL/EFL Students
Book One of the most common problems facing ESL teachers is the advanced speaking class in which the most confident students dominate the discussion and the weaker students quickly withdraw. Discussion Starters is designed to balance the oral participation of all the students in the class and thus promote an environment in which everyone has not only a chance but a real need to speak out. Continue reading
This work attempts to fill an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they must have the foundations of language in place – the language tools (grammar and vocabulary) they need to build a text. This text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar and lexis to second-language learners that will help teachers effectively target specific problem areas of students’ writing. Based on the findings of current research, including a large-scale study of close to 1500 non-native speakers’ essays, this book works with several sets of simple rules that collectively can make a noticeable and important difference in the quality of ESL students’ writing. The teaching strategies and techniques are based on a highly practical principle for efficiently and successfully maximizing learners’ language gains. Continue reading
Edward Swick, American Idioms and Some Phrases Just for Fun (ESL Series)
Barron’s Educational Series | February 1, 1999 | ISBN: 0764108077 | 144 pages | CHM | 2MB