How To English For Beginners
How To English For Beginners
If you’ve ever done any form of TEFL training, you’ll know that not
only is it possible to teach English to beginners purely using English, it
is also arguably the best way for students to learn. Plus, seeing your
students’ English levels improve in front of your eyes as a result of
your teaching always gives a great sense of satisfaction.
So, even if your students don’t even know their ABCs yet, take heart
that you CAN teach them and they WILL learn English. To help
you along the way, here are our top eleven tips for teaching English to
beginners. These will work for both EFL and ESL students.
1. Keep instructions simple
Don’t use too much English! When teaching absolute beginners you
should avoid lengthy explanations. Instead, you should use as few
words as possible allied with helpful gestures. What do you think is
clearer to a newbie? “Hi everyone, thank you for coming in. Now if you
don’t mind, I’d appreciate it if you can turn to page one in your
textbook.” Or “Hi everyone, please open your textbook” with a hand
gesture or demonstration of opening the textbook.
In other words, don’t over complicate it. You can save your complex
language, phrases and idioms for your more advanced students.
For beginner students, gestures and visual cues are super important
and help them understand even if they don’t know the meaning of the
words yet. This one tip alone could be a life saver for you when you
teach English to complete beginners for the first time.
Remember, your students can come from different cultures and not all
of them will necessarily be familiar with raising their hand to get your
attention.
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For example, once you have taught your students to ask and respond
to “how are you?” and “how was your weekend?”, you can incorporate
this into the start of each lesson. This way you help them regularly
practice what they have learned.
You can also teach students to use key phrases such as “I don’t
understand”, “what does that mean?” or “can you speak more slowly?”.
This will greatly aid your communication with them and help the
lesson go more smoothly for everyone.
7. Make it interesting
English teaching for beginners doesn’t have to be boring. Nothing is
duller for you and your students than just making them read from a
text book and fill out worksheets.
8. Prepare well
The old phrase ‘failing to plan is planning to fail’ certainly holds true
in English teaching. If you want to deliver a good lesson to your
students you need to prepare it well and plan for any eventualities.
Just make sure that you have a good understanding of their English
level to begin with, as you don’t want to assign something too difficult.
This will lead to frustration with the student when ideally you want it
to be something that they enjoy.
The objective is to help them to learn and use the English language
correctly. We should therefore encourage them to speak it all times
whilst in class, and try to avoid them using their own language as
much as possible.
When you teach your students to speak English, you are also helping
to set them up for success in other areas of their life. Seeing your
students start from nothing to going on to hold full conversations is
very rewarding and a great reason to get into teaching
50+ CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES English (Practice writing the words on the lines )
1 Hello -------------------------------------------
3 Hi ------------------------------------------
5 I'm okay
6 I feel good
7 I feel bad
9 And you?
11 My name is...
13 What's up?
14 What's new?
22 You're welcome
23 Yes
24 No
25 I don't understand
26 Really?
27 Please
28 I like it
29 I don't like it
31 I am...
32 Bye
35 Cool 36 Great
37 Good
38 Bad
42 Let's go eat
45 I like...
46 Delicious
47 It is delicious
48 It tastes good
30 Greetings English
(Practice writing the words on the lines below)
1. hello _____________________
2. hi _____________________
4 .good afternoon
5. good evening
6. good day
7. hey
9. how is everything?
12. excuse me
14. bye
15.good bye
19.have a good d
21.good night
23.What's new?
24.How's life?
28.Hello everyone
30.I have to go
2 arm
3 August
4 back
5 bad
6 beautiful
7 beef
8 beer
9 body
10 calendar
11 can
12 chest
13 chicken
14 clock
15 coffee
16 come
17 cook
18 december
19 Delicious!
20 difficult
21 do
22 doctor
23 easy
24 eight
25 employee
26 engineer
27 far
28 February
29 finger
30 fish
31 five
32 foot
33 four
34 Friday
35 go
36 good
37 Good afternoon.
38 Good evening.
39 Good morning.
40 Good night.
41 Goodbye.
42 hand
43 head
44 Hello.
45 hour
47 I'm...(name).
48 January
49 July
50 June
51 lamb
52 laugh
53 leg
54 make
55 manager
56 March
57 May
58 minute
59 Monday
60 near
62 nine
63 No.
64 November
65 nurse
66 o'clock
67 October
68 one
69 police officer
70 pork
71 programmer
72 salesman
73 Saturday
74 second
75 see
76 September
77 seven
78 six
79 small
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80 stomach
81 Sunday
82 tea
83 teacher
84 ten
85 Thank you!
86 three
87 Thursday
88 today
89 tomorrow
90 Tuesday
91 two
92 ugly
93 use
94 water
95 Wednesday
96 week
97 wine
98 year
99 Yes.
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100 yesterday
101 zero