As an ESL teacher finding great resources and teaching aids can be an absolute life saver. Your role as educator is simplified with easy to understand references and examples helping cut your workload in half. As we know not all students learn the same way or at the same pace so good resources also helps you provide easy to follow additional exercises for the more advanced students. Here are ten great books to help you on your way.
A fun way for your students to learn American English, just like they hear in the movies and on TV. The aim of this book is to make learning fun with helpful tips, phrases and real language spoken in everyday life. Idioms and even slang are also included with simple explanations to help students gain confidence speaking in an everyday conversational tone. The Audio CD gives real world examples for students to practice and repeat aiding them with pronunciation so they can sound just like a native speaker in no time. This will have them running out to talk to every American they can find.
Even adults enjoy quizzes and games. Aimed at adults and teens, this book helps engage their curiosity by covering topics and questions they may want to ask in any social setting. Jam packed with creative activities, games and insights specifically designed to help you as a teacher deal with adult student’s needs. Covering all bases from how to engage your students to classroom management, it will assist you in every aspect of your lessons. Designed to break down the barriers of culture, gender and different learning styles and paces, these games help you to focus and motivate your students.
Helping your students gain confidence quickly as they feel they ‘get it’ faster. This brilliant book for beginners helps them understand and make connections quickly through pictures and text. Seeing what they are learning is helpful to a majority of students assisting them to learn faster in a more positive and enjoyable atmosphere. Designed to help cut down frustration levels while learning, every unit also tells a tale reviewing language, vocabulary and phrases learnt which is great fun for your student. Overall, a very positive way for beginners to progress quickly and stay motivated. Suitable for all learning styles.
Help your students speak like a native, quicker and with confidence. Part of the Practice Makes Perfect Series that is hugely popular with ESL teachers, this easy to follow guide to grammar covers everything. Everyday speech patterns are given as examples right alongside sentences considered better grammatically. Highly beneficial whether for everyday fluency or more eloquent speech patterns preferred for higher education. Clear examples are outlaid in straight forward easy to understand exercises. Every chapter covers one section of grammar, for example: Nouns, Verbs, Contradictions with samples of real world language helping students speak like a native.
A teachers’ dream, including 250 exercises you will never run out of ideas to make your classes fun and engaging. Simple exercises help your students grasp concepts and learn quickly by making comparisons in their own language. By using easy references to their own language students find the meanings and reinforce the connections themselves. An app accompanies this book to help students master pronunciation and gain confidence in speaking. Smaller lesson sizes mean they don’t get ‘brain drain’ and lose concentration which is the number one concentration and motivation killer for ESL students.
Your life raft in the sea of teaching abroad, this is for you as a teacher. Designed for teaching all levels from beginner through to advanced, this book is for every teacher experience level as well. Covering topics and questions even the most experienced ESL teachers have never encountered, it is the book to keep in your top drawer as a reference when you may need a fresh set of eyes or ideas. Full of tactics and strategies, tools and helpful tips to ensure your classroom runs smoothly every lesson, every day. Tackling the ‘big’ issues we as teachers face, it’s a support network in one handy little book. And let’s face it, that is something every teacher needs.
Help your students speak like a native in no time with commonly used phrases. It adds a lot of fun to your lessons. Providing every day connections between languages with phrases like ‘wake up’ or ‘get up’ help students draw comparisons to their own lives. Two word or three word phrases help them understand common English verbs in a fun way. So popular it’s on its third edition, this gem helps your students gain fluency faster and also make classes more fun as they gain confidence in their speaking abilities. With hundreds or phrases and exercises don’t be surprised if there ends up being a lot of laughter in your classroom as a result.
With simple explanations like ‘words for people’ and ‘words for places’ it’s no wonder this an ESL Teachers favourite. Fantastic for Beginners and Intermediate students alike, its clear and easy to follow format takes some of the frustration out of learning another language. The huge range of vocabulary within its pages is also used to explain grammar as well. For example: nouns can be counted – one friend, two friends, and also aids an understanding of plurals. Wrapped up in simple sentences and exercises means this is a powerful learning tool full of examples for you to use. Whether for student reference or to help you plan lessons this book is a powerhouse of information.
Often the least favored topic by students, all of your grammar questions are answered within its pages with clear examples providing ideas on how you can make grammar fun. Helping ESL teachers worldwide, this is an excellent reference book giving detailed explanations on all aspects of grammar. Lovingly called the ‘Grammar Bible’ it is something every teacher should think of having to help those tricky questions students always seem to come up with. Although written for teachers, the wealth of information and background on language helps with lesson planning, great examples to use, knowledge refreshment and confidence in subject matter when teaching students.
A dynamo of discussion topics as the title suggests, this book is a terrific resource for advance students to practice conversation and obtain fluency. Practicing conversational speaking and skills with each other, friends or family both inside the classroom and out, this book gets them out there and talking! With over 1400 questions and 45 thematic chapters full of vocabulary, quotations and proverbs the subject matter knows no bounds. American idioms are also included adding to the fun. Just choose a topic and let them go to explore the wonderful world of language. A wonderful resource for teachers and students alike.
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