Bøger af Chris Balli

ESL Workbook for Beginners. Here at last is a classroom-ready workbook for beginning ESL, ESOL, EFL, and ELL students. All lessons are NO-PREP to LOW-PREP activities that have been classroom-tested and honed to perfection with proven techniques developed by ESL teacher Chris Balli for over 20 years. The greatest impact this book will have is that zero-English or minimal-English speaking students will begin speaking immediately! Reading and writing will also be advanced. These language activities were designed for immediate use in authentic, everyday situations, and this workbook excels to provide the necessary language needed for these everyday situations. Most life skills, such as driving, typing, and learning a new language, for example, are learned through constant practice and repetition. The lessons in this book were therefore constructed with this in mind - with ample repetition and practice in many varied drills and exercises. Each grammar and communication objective is practiced at great length in different formats with drills, role-playing, stories, interviews, conversations, and worksheets. This particular feature, of multiple formats for the same skill, is what makes this workbook unique.Most texts or workbooks have only one or two lessons for each skill, forcing teachers to research other books or create additional supplemental material on their own. But these lessons, activities, and worksheets have more than ample practice for students to achieve mastery as the lessons build on each other and become more difficult in tiny, incremental steps. The primary objective of this book is communication: speaking, reading, vocabulary, and writing, and these lessons deal with personal information that every student should know and be able to communicate. Consequently, this is the perfect material for use in class surveys, pair-reporting, and drills. Right from the start, students get a sample of the activities and written lessons that will be used throughout the book and gain an opportunity to practice speaking immediately. They will be practicing skills that are relevant and necessary and not just bland and random language drills. This book is for any basic/beginning ESL, ESOL, EFL, and ELL students who are zero-English speakers or minimal-English speakers. Foreign students with complete education from their own countries do not always require the entire set of exercises provided. Lessons can be selected to target specific trouble spots or for additional practice and reinforcement. Students from war-torn countries, illiterate students, or students with gaps in their education benefit from doing the entire set of exercises in this book. Teachers using this workbook will find the lessons in this book classroom-ready, easy to implement, and they can expect students to start speaking sooner than usual. They can expect vocabulary development for an improvement in reading. Teachers can also expect students to advance quickly in writing independently. This workbook is simple to use, easy to teach, and, best of all, it is proven after decades of practice in the classroom, to be effective. This book works!

ESL Workbook 2 is CLASSROOM-READY and EASY-to-USE. All lessons are NO-PREP to LOW-PREP and are designed for beginning ESL / ESOL / EFL / ELL students who speak little or no English. The developmental lessons in this book progress in difficulty in tiny, incremental steps, and lessons are brimming with a wide variety of worksheets, drills, pictures, stories, spelling exercises, role-playing activities, vocabulary practice, quizzes, surveys, presentations, conversations, drama activities, and pair-speaking exercises. Topics covered include the high-interest subjects students love: sports, recreational activities, food, daily and weekly routines, and their likes and dislikes. Workbook 2 picks up where Workbook 1 leaves off and begins with the PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE in a chapter dealing with sports and recreation themes. The SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE is then introduced and studied extensively. These topics are within the grammar lessons in the following chapters: SPORTS AND RECREATION, POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES, SIMPLE PRESENT AFFIRMATIVE, SIMPLE PRESENT NEGATIVE, and SIMPLE PRESENT INTERROGATIVE. Beginning ESL / ESOL / EFL / ELL students have significant difficulty with the affirmative, the negative, and the interrogative in the SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE. For example, a beginning student might rely on voice inflection to ask questions. The student might say, "She ride the bus," ending the statement with a high note, instead of "Does she ride the bus?" The negative might be said as "She no like...," instead of "She doesn't like..." The error for the third person singular is also apparent in these examples. Vocabulary such as DO, DOES, DON'T and DOESN'T are not in the beginner's repertoire. For this reason, ample exercises and opportunities to use this vocabulary are provided. The beginner's language skills will show a marked improvement after the study of the SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE. The beginner's language skills will be more developed, and each student will be able to understand and to communicate much more effectively. The material in WORKBOOK 2 was written and developed to include the needs of students with minimal educational skills. These students might be illiterate or barely literate in their native languages, or they might have several years of schooling missing from their education. Ease and repetition are critical, so grammatical features are practiced in many different formats. A component to written exercises is that students are expected to also practice the content orally. Consequently, students are practicing writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills in a very controlled environment, so there is little room for error. The controlled exercises are then followed by authentic communication exercises where students are given an actual reason to communicate. For example, they might have to gather information from other students and present their findings to the class in a presentation. The intent of so much written and oral practice is that the student will internalize the grammatical feature that is being taught and then turn around and be able to use it naturally in normal, everyday situations. The UNIQUE feature of this book is the VOLUME of material included to teach every grammatical point presented so that students may practice them until they are mastered. Teachers will save time and energy from having to search for additional material to supplement problem spots because abundant LOW-PREP to NO-PREP material is provided in this book. Students will benefit by learning the material through constant repetition, practice, and use in a wide variety formats and activities that they enjoy. The material in this book has been proven to be highly effective in helping beginning ESL / ESOL / EFL / ELL students to learn and to speak English throughout the United States and in countries all over the world.