A Primer for teaching English to speakers of other languages

Product Name: A Primer for teaching English to speakers of other languages By: Stefan Chiarantano Format: (114 pages) PDF Price: $5 (Canadian Dollars) Note: Proceeds from the sale of the primer will be donated to relief and development agencies working in Southeast Asia.

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Table of Contents (114 pages)

Introduction to Teaching
The classroom - The physical environment
Your attitude is showing!
A Guide to Lesson Planning
Outside the classroom

A Selection of Articles

• Realia
• Fruit Basket
• Using fairytale plays in the EFL classroom
• Creating an English Atmosphere outside the classroom
• Language and Culture
• Clichés
• Cinquan Poetry
• A reflection on lesson planning for young learners
• A recipe for humanizing language teaching: Hand made interview/conversational board games
• Swear Words: Do they have a place in the EFL classroom?
• A bag of tricks for the traveling YL ESL Teacher
• YL Games for L2 - Practical games and activities for Young Learners
• Self-introduction Lesson Plan for ESL students
• Why I use pop music in my junior high school EFL classes!
• A special challenge
• Tips and Suggestions on public speaking
• “What if” questions
• What am I?
• Here are some warm-up activities for EFL students of any age.
• A lesson plan to educate high school students (advanced level) about the dangers of intolerance.
• Lesson Plan: What’s this?
• Staying Positive in the Face of Racism
• EFL and Conficius

VII A selection of handouts

• Do you want to improve your writing skills?
• Christmas letter to Parents
• Samples of dialogue practices
• Big, Bigger, Biggest
• Fastest, Longest, Biggest, Highest
• Samples of Oral tests for 1st YR, 2nd YR, and 3rd YR JHS students
• Listening Exercises
• Can Canadian students...?
• may must have to
• Pronunciation Quiz
• Numbers listening Test
• Role plays
  • Let’s eat!
  • Plastic Surgery
  • At the Bookstore
  • Suicide
  • What’s your name?
  • Staying Healthy
• Conversation Starters
• Reviews
• Unscramble the sentences
• Useful classroom English
• Student Evaluation Form
• Presentation Evaluation Form
• My Suggestions
• Unchanging Nouns
• Jeopardy
• Snakes & Ladders

VIII Useful resources and Internet sites

IX Useful Classroom Gestures

• Pardon?
• Be quiet.
• Hello or Good-bye.
• Good! Great!
• Bad.
• Open your books.
• Close your books.
• Read.
• Write.
• Yes.
• No.
• Okay. (Yes)
• Me.
• Listen or I can’t hear you.
• I don’t know.
• I don’t understand.
• So, so.
• Time out.
• Come here.