Beginners
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Bibliographic Information
Beginners
（Resource books for teachers / series editor, Alan Maley）
Oxford University Press, 1994
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Note
Bibliography: p. 147
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beginners contains over 100 original, ready-to-use activities for beginners' classes. These include activities for both absolute and 'false' beginners, and a section for use with learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.
Table of Contents
- Note: A full contents list at the front of the book provides a complete list of the activities, the suggested level at which each activity can be used, and the language it practises. The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book's organization.
- Foreword
- Introduction: What is a beginner?
- How to use this book
- 1. Decisions
- Decision 1: Syllabus options
- Decision 2: Content or method
- Decision 3: Product or process
- Decision 4: Teaching strategies for beginners
- Decision 5: Classroom activities
- Decision 6: Introducing supplementary materials
- Decision 7: Giving instructions
- 2. First Lessons (10 activities)
- First lesson ideas. Several are also suitable for lessons other than the very first one, and some can be used a number of times, often with small variations.
- 3. Basics (15 activities)
- Activities to help teach numbers, time, and colour in the first stages of learning English.
- 4. Language Basics (11 activities)
- Activities which introduce several of the basic syntactic structures and phonological features of English.
- 5. Roman script (11 activities)
- Activities to help learners unfamiliar with Roman script.
- 6. More words (13 activities)
- Activities to help students acquire vocabulary as fast as possible in the early stages of learning.
- 7. Firsts (16 activities)
- A series of 'firsts' (e.g. First mime, First autobiography, First traveller's tale), so that students feel they are passing a number of landmarks in their language learning, which in turn leads to a greater sense of progress.
- 8. Games (10 activities)
- Language games, each mirroring the routine of a well-known game.
- 9. Interactions (7 activities)
- Activities to give students practice in interacting with the world outside the classroom. There are rehearsals for real encounters, as well as activities which involve actual interaction with native speakers.
- 10. Self-improvement (13 activities)
- Activities which focus on developing learner strategies, promoting self-reliance, classroom support activities, peripheral learning,and self-study.
- Bibliography
- Indexes
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