Basic English lessons for Taxi drivers

[soundar]

Hello,
I live in Mysore, India, quite a popular tourist destination. I find most of the taxi drivers here do not know to speak in 'understandable' English, from the tourist point of view. I wish to help a couple of them. Please let me know whether there any online / downloadable lessons, or guidelines which are specific to teaching these taxi drivers?
Thanks in advance!
Soundar
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N.S. Soundar Rajan
Mysore, India

[Tdol]

I don't know of any courses that specific, but there are loads of courses for general toursim, which might help:
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/...rism/index.htm

[soundar]

Thanks for your reply, understand Thailand / Singapore Governments have a syllabus to help taxidrivers learn English. If you're aware of this programme kindly let me know where I can get the details.

Soundar

[Tdol]

I'll ask around, but I haven't worked in either of those countries.

[Fazzu]

Maybe I can help you.This website isn't a syllabus for taxi drivers but an online lesson introduced by PM Lee:

http://www.goodenglish.org.sg/SGEM/o...sson/index.htm

[soundar]

Many thanks to Ed and Fazzu, the Singapore website is useful to a limited extent. A syllabus specific to helping Taxi drivers would be of great help, kindly keep the search on.

Best wishes

Soundar

[englishstudent]

Soundar,

you may try posting to the craigslist site(s)
and perhaps someone from Thailand/S'pore
may respond with the information.

http://singapore.craigslist.org
http://bangkok.craiglist.org

I had read that taxi drivers in Beijing are
being trained in English conversation
to prepare them for the 2008 Olympics.
I don't know if they have a course such
as the one you mentioned in your post,
but again, you can try to post at the
Beijing Craigslist site.
http://beijing.craigslist.org

Good luck.

[soundar]

Many thanks English Student, if I succeed would post the details here.

Best wishes

Soundar

[Rio_teacher_Brazil]

Dear Soundar,

I´m from Brazil. Because football cup and olimpic games I want to teach english to taxi drivers. Let´s exchange informations. What did you find until now?

Best wishes.