The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere: 1
£13.80
Thinking about teaching English, but don’t know where to start?
Pick up a copy of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual and discover a skill that will serve you for the rest of your life.
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‘What a great book! Andromeda’s knowledge and experience shines through. She gets straight to the point, gives very clear grammar explanations and loads of practical help,’ Sheila Longden.
‘This is a one-stop shop for preparing powerful classes that throws out the need for costly and confusing text books. Priceless!’ Amazon Customer.
‘Great book, saved me hours of prep! Each grammar point comes with its own speaking activity so you won’t run out of ideas about what to teach your students,’ TeacherA24.
The Ultimate Teaching ESL Manual is a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.
With this book you will have the power to:
o Start teaching English online or in the classroom now with a step-by-step guide on how to teach every grammar point in the English language.
o Teach vocabulary with over 60 lexical sets covering beginner, intermediate, advanced to super-advanced levels.
o Keep your students engaged with follow-on activities for every lesson including role plays, games and problem solving activities.
o Cut down on preparation time with lesson plans for all language points.
o Add interest to your classes with an appendix full of illustrated worksheets which manual owners can download in high resolution from the book’s website.
o Travel light and save money on expensive textbooks with everything you need to teach English in one book.
o Provide students with fantastic lessons they want with a methodology focused on language learning through speaking practice.
The Manual teaches a methodology whereby students learn through speaking activities (rather than traditional textbooks) mimicking how we learnt our native language as children.
Students make rapid progress with the constant speaking practice, while for the teacher, lessons are creative and rewarding, giving you the power to decide what to teach and how.
Classes are simple, effective and take less time to prepare as there are no handouts to worry about, exercises to mark or any of the other work that comes with traditional ESL teaching.
The Manual includes lesson plans, drills and speaking activities for every grammar point as well as methodology, games, vocabulary sets and a whole host of other stuff to make your classes special.
Dive in and discover a skill for life.
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by Ashley
The author has obviously put a lot of work into this book so I don’t want to bash this unnecessarily. However; as a complete newbie to TEFL (studying a TEFL now), I find this book a bit unstructured and a bit confusing. There are no formal lesson plans per se for each topic, it’s just text. You don’t know how long to spend on each part of the lesson. Where’s the presentation, production and practice bits go and for how long on each? Is Lesson 1.1 a complete lesson in itself or not? I don’t know. What would make this book much better is if a structured lesson plan came with each topic in the book. For example, if you’re teaching the first lesson why not have a link to a properly planned out lesson plan on the author’s website where we could download it, print it out and take it to the class? We could also see how long to spend on each section. Maybe it’s me being a complete plank, but I kind of need a formal plan to follow because as a TEFL newbie I’m like a rabbit in the headlights. Now, saying that, it’s still a good book with good information so I’ll keep it but I am bit lost with it at the moment. It might be one to come back to later on.
by Jude
This is exactly what I was looking for to support my decision in teaching ESOL students using minimum paper materials. It gives me a reminder of which structure to teach next and a prompt for key points. As always I prepare the lessons beforehand and this book makes it easy and exciting as it takes out the research for materials giving me confidence to use my knowledge and creativity in TESOL. Thank you Andromeda Jones for sharing your work and skills. I immediately bought your speaking activities book too. Kindle editions are perfect for these books with materials to download.
by Carol French
Had I realised the resources were all DIY I’d never have bought it. Not impressed!
by Julie T
I wish I had read this 6 years ago when I started teaching. It is a really practical and useful guide, straight to the point and well-organised. I really recommend for new teachers and even experienced teachers could benefit from refreshing some knowledge and gaining some new tips about the organisation of lessons like I did. I now have everything I need to reorganise my lesson plans. Thank you.
by Titchywitch
Lesson plans done so you won’t have to, allowing more time for collecting/compiling resources to engage your students.
by Liz
I enjoyed using this resource, it’s well structured. The topics are perfect to develop conversations at all levels.
by Olly
This book helped me understand that when it came to teaching English as a second language, less is more. By this I mean that the key is not to overload the students with textbooks, vocab sheets etc. The main resource you have is yourself, and only a few bare essential items (these items such as picture cards are needed for grammar games and role play situations etc.) apart from this book are needed to help successfully teach English as a second language.
I also found it works well as a digital format as this sort of book would normally be quite a large textbook, something I’d only ever use when I’m actually home, or in the library. With this though I was able to go through the book on my kindle over my large stretches of travel I find myself having to go through, as I’m sure many people who are teaching English as a second language will also be doing.
by E
This is actually a really good book – it’s packed with ideas for teaching and a lot of the advice on it correlates with the CELTA course I have just completed. It goes from A1 to C1 in the activities it suggests, and also includes a dedicated section on business English (not something I’m planning on teaching!)
Instead of reading it one go like I did, I think it would be better to dip in and out of. The main reason I haven’t given it a higher rating is using techniques from this book would involve a lot of TTT; it says the dreaded word ‘explain’ all the time! Some of the follow up activities are strong but others are very repetitive and done are just to difficult for me to understand!
It’s definitely worth having a copy though – it’s a brilliant reference book, and has vocab lists for related topics, scenarios in which you can teach modal verbs etc.
If you want to work in the voluntary sector, most likely with assylum seekers and refugees, bear in mind that quite a lot of them games may be impossible either because of lack of knowledge or because they’re inappropriate in some way or other.
Overall, a really strong book that I’m sure I’ll come back to when looking up specific grammar points etc. It also contains a code to access worksheets you can print out for your students – a very generous author.
Overall, with dipping in and out of for an my ESOL teacher.