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The Ultimate English as a Second Language Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere
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.
What people are saying about The Ultimate ESL Manual on the Amazon.‘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 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!
What people are saying about The Ultimate ESL Manual on the Amazon.‘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 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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325 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2016
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About the author
Andromeda Jones
21 books7 followersHello there and thanks for stopping by. My name is Andromeda and I am a writer and online ESL teacher living in Scotland. I am passionate about languages and through my books I have two goals.
Goal one is to help people without a TEFL qualification, or those new to the profession, teach English, either as a side hustle or a fulltime profession. My book, The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual offers hundreds of fun, effective lessons covering every grammar point, helping tutors to craft quality ESL classes with minimal effort and keep their students coming back for more.
For a deeper dive into ESL materials, check out the other books in the series: The Ultimate Teaching ESL Online Manual and The Ultimate ESL Vocabulary Manual.
Goal two is to help ESL learners break out of ‘grammar book’ English and speak naturally with the comprehensive English language book, Next Level English: 50 Lessons to improve your English conversation. Next Level English is packed full of real-world vocabulary and advanced grammar, plus exercises to help learners reach their fluency goals – all in one easy-to-use manual.
Languages are tons of fun, boost confidence and can earn you a good living.
Thanks for reading and enjoy your new talent!
Goal one is to help people without a TEFL qualification, or those new to the profession, teach English, either as a side hustle or a fulltime profession. My book, The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual offers hundreds of fun, effective lessons covering every grammar point, helping tutors to craft quality ESL classes with minimal effort and keep their students coming back for more.
For a deeper dive into ESL materials, check out the other books in the series: The Ultimate Teaching ESL Online Manual and The Ultimate ESL Vocabulary Manual.
Goal two is to help ESL learners break out of ‘grammar book’ English and speak naturally with the comprehensive English language book, Next Level English: 50 Lessons to improve your English conversation. Next Level English is packed full of real-world vocabulary and advanced grammar, plus exercises to help learners reach their fluency goals – all in one easy-to-use manual.
Languages are tons of fun, boost confidence and can earn you a good living.
Thanks for reading and enjoy your new talent!
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December 19, 2022
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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.
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.
January 16, 2018
All her Esl books are fantastic! I have been teaching English to adults for years and couldn't find relevant material that would get to the point and have them speaking most of the time and really enjoying the class. This is a must have. Ever since I discovered Andromeda Jones' books and method I have been enjoying teaching much more and my students are really engaged and finally are able to see progress. I have tried countless Esl books and they are the only ones that really hit the mark.
The most effective and enjoyable teaching method for ESL students. Gets them engaged, interested and speaking throughout most of the lesson, building their confidence through fun roleplays and speaking activities. I absolutely love it!
The most effective and enjoyable teaching method for ESL students. Gets them engaged, interested and speaking throughout most of the lesson, building their confidence through fun roleplays and speaking activities. I absolutely love it!
January 13, 2018
This book is a great resource for teachers who teach ESL and as a resource for any ESL Program. The book includes ready to use lessons and can be opened p to an action item right away, with little or no planning. It will meet the needs of your struggling students and allows you to turn to section to meet a specific need of a student.
February 6, 2019
This has some good information and several really good activities for ESL students. I think it's a little more geared to someone teaching overseas to adults, rather than in a k-12 public school setting, but ESL is pretty much ESL, so it was useful. I'd recommend it.
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