Help Your Students to Speak English Like a Pro E-Book

Alex Simonini

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Fremdsprachen
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Whether you’re just having a conversation session with a student or it’s time for speaking practice during a group lesson, involving ESL students in engaging discussions can be a real challenge. So how do you get them to open up and start speaking? This practice book contains over 300 questions on a variety of topics. Each set of 15 questions is designed to elicit and review specific grammar points as well as boost and consolidate vocabulary. There are also 30 pictures covering 15 more topics, with follow up questions. Help your students to Speak English like a Pro is the book for you if: • you have students who want to improve their spoken English, but are hesitant, quiet or lack the confidence • your students need to learn or improve grammar through speaking practice • you are in short of fresh teaching materials to spark conversation • you need a source of example sentences to support grammar explanations • you want your student to boost their vocabulary and fluency • your students are preparing for an oral exam • you are a student and need a self-study book to practice speaking

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Grammar-based questions

Present simple or present continuous?

Past simple

Past simple or present perfect?

Narrative tenses

Future forms

Time clauses, conditionals and wish

Present and past modals

Passive forms

Comparatives and superlatives

Used to/would/be used to/get used to/usually

Gerund or infinitive?

Prepositions

Quantifiers

Phrasal verbs (1)

Phrasal verbs (2)

Word form

Picture-based topics

Eating ln or Eating Out?

How Sporty Are You?

A Thing of the Past

Do You Play By the Rules?

Rush Hour

We Love Animals!

Fast and Slow Food

That's a Bargain!

Learning and Growing

Let Your Hair Down!

Lifestyles

Getting there

Thirst for Knowledge

‘A Friend in Need ls a Friend lndeed'

Keeping in Touch

Alex Simonini

Help Your Students

to Speak English Like a Pro

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Title I Help Your Students to Speak English Like a Pro

300 grammar-based discussion questions

30 pictures with follow-up questions

Author I Alex Simonini

ISBN I 979-12-20307-57-4

Copyright 2020 © Alex Simonini

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Some tips to use Speak English Like A Pro!

How do you get 'em talkin'?

Whether you're just having a conversation session with a student or it's time for speaking practice during a group lesson, involving ESL students in engaging discussions can be a real challenge. So how do you get them to open up and start speaking?

While in a group dynamic this could be easier (as the more talkative students will take the initiative), in one-to-one sessions sparking conversation can be more challenging, especially at lower levels.

As an ESL teacher and language student myself, l've realized that having a wide selection of stimulating materials at the ready can make your life a lot easier: with a broad choice of interesting topics, questions and images, chances are that one of them will spark an interest and stimulate your students to initiate a dialogue. Speaking practice is also critical for students to learn or consolidate grammar by using it in context. That's why the first part of this book features 16 sets of questions, each requiring a different use of grammar.

The picture-based topics are also useful to elicit different uses of grammar, but especially for freer speaking practice, to acquire new vocabulary and help in the preparation of oral exams.

How to make the most of Speak English Like a Pro!

Grammar-based questions

This practice book is best used for students from A2 (pre-intermediate) to B2 (lower advanced) level and it's ideal to consolidate and review their grammar and improve their fluency. You can use them for guided speaking practice to elicit the grammar you've explained, as example sentences or simply to get to know each other/break the ice.

Picture-based topics

These pictures are ideal to spark conversation with ESL students as they touch on 15 different topics. Depending on the type of lesson, you can point to the 'suggested grammar' and ask them to use it in their description. This is particularly useful to prepare for oral exams including the description of pictures. However, tell the students not to worry too much about the grammar as they are speaking as this could hold them back.

You will notice that a lot of pictures lend themselves to using modals of deduction to guess things that are not evident in the photo. (She must be feeling… He might/must have just done…He might/must have been doing…They might be doing etc…). In fact, speculating on the situations in the photos is extremely useful when students run out of words too quickly. At the same time, don't forget to allow your students sufficient time to think.

Also, try asking your students to use comparatives, or any other relevant grammar, when comparing the pictures. The present simple tense isn't usually in the 'suggested grammar', but tell your students that they can use there is/are and prepositions of place in every picture. Besides, remind them to use a continuous tense to say what the people are doing.

The photos are also effective as a nice warm-up at the beginning of the lesson or as a freer speaking practice on a topic of their choice based on the title and the follow-up questions. This will also help you keep your talking time low and have a pleasant student-lead discussion. Enjoy your discussions!