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Tam Posted 23 years ago
Teaching

Teaching Basic English to Adults

Does anyone know any good exercises for teaching things like numbers and the alphabet to adults with close to no English. The things that I know are more for kids and they don't seem to enthuastic to do chants etc.

HELP!
  

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0 To be honest, I have very little experience in teaching absolute beginners English. However, I am a firm believer in phonetic script as being the most solid base of English language learning, therefore I would recommend starting with some phonology. Once a student has a stong grasp of the sounds of the language, speaking becomes somewhat easier.

— Chris

  • 0 To be honest, I have very little experience in teaching absolute beginners English.
  • However, I am a firm believer in phonetic script as being the most solid base of English language learning, therefore I would recommend starting with some phonology.
  • Once a student has a stong grasp of the sounds of the language, speaking becomes somewhat easier.
  • 02br 02br 00It's a little late now but tomorrow evening I'll try and find a couple of sites which may help you.
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0 To be honest, I have very little experience in teaching absolute beginners English. However, I am a firm believer in phonetic script as being the most solid base of English language learning, therefore I would recommend starting with some phonology. Once a student has a stong grasp of the sounds of the language, speaking becomes somewhat easier. 02br
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0 Anything you have would be great! So far I have them doing alot of spelling and getting used to letters producing certain sounds (ie: ish, ion, ch) but its getting a bit dull. I need something to liven it up a bit. 02br
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0 I've foung some excellent activites along with teachers notes for you. I get a lot of resources from the site and it's worth browsing through. 02br
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0 no probs, I'll probably end up using them too one day! Plesase do let me know how they work out 0-
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Hey Tam,

I actually just finished a training class geared towards students with basic English skills. One of the websites that you might want to check out is http://www.eslcafe.com/ . I wish I could send you some of these hand outs that we got. They are really good for basic ESL students!

Now for my questi
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Hi Greg,

At first this might look a little complicated however take half an hour to read it carefully and it should give you a few ideas to help your student. Good luck!

http://buckhoff.topcities.com/new_page_14.htm

chris
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Hey Greg,
Thank for the tip I'll have a look at the site.
I found a great activity for sentence structure is the following game, known in my old staff room as ADD ONS. With students advanced enough it can spiral off into an entire class and can have hilarious results.

Begin by writing a verb at the top the board, making sure not to use any capital letters. The students
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Post that as a game in Foo!! nice
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can anyone help me i´m taking a course in teaching and on and i would like some ideas or site i can visit to help me teach adults basics...
please help me A.S.A.P
rose...
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