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CanadaExpat1980 Member

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9 years ago

I'm living about 30 minutes outside Nha Trang.聽 There aren't many (if any) expats out this way.聽 I'm getting a lot of offers to help tutor some students out this way.聽 I was wondering what books I should have.聽 If someone could give me a break down of the best English books in Vietnam for each level, it would be appreciated.

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Bazza139 ViP

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9 years ago

Try typing 'Tesla books' in Go Ogle.聽 Or you could try the long-winded way...?

'Books for Teaching English As a Second Language'

But do you really need books?聽聽Even the 'online colleges'聽 simply use sub-titled movies
(which can be cartoons, classics or even horror!)聽聽Point out they are learning accent, context, body language (and that languages are fun to learn!)聽聽Other methods include simple picture books聽 a.k.a. children's...聽 or draw a face, car, house (etc) on a blackboard and point and write.聽聽Look at curriculums and vocabulary, then trash them and invent your own.

聽 Draw up your own lesson plans.聽聽Use humour.聽聽keep it interesting or they won't bother.

Let me say it again.聽 Interesting=Attention=Remembering.聽聽 Too much of the same stuff is boring.聽聽Vary variety and intensity.聽聽Keep it light.聽聽Learn from your mistakes.

There is no mystery.聽聽Just application.聽聽Use higher levels of fluency to delegate monitors.

Reward their interest and rewards return to you.聽聽聽聽

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Teacher Mark Serial expat

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9 years ago

English Banana would be a good place to start.聽 The books were written and published by an angry English teacher and made available free of charge.

Another renegade English teacher's work:

Gogeometry.com has a lot of good ESL material:

Here's a link to thousands of conversation questions:

Busyteacher.org rocks:

That should be enough to keep you busy for a while...

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