Talk a Lot - Spoken English Course - A Great New Way to Learn Spoken English. The units are: Learning English, Films, Hospital, Books, Airport, Money, Places in the UK, Politics, Internet, and Australia.
Elementary Book 3
• Complete 12-week spoken English course
• 300+ hours of learning materials – with full answers
• Brand new and unique learning method
• Learn and recall questions, answers and negatives using 8 common verb forms
• Learn 400+ essential vocabulary words
• 100% photocopiable
This book is called Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3, but the skill range is fairly wide, including students at all levels between Elementary (CEF Level A2) to Pre-Intermediate (CEF Level B1). This means that the course is suitable for students studying for the Cambridge KET or PET examinations. Of course, teachers know the level of their students and will use the materials in accordance with what the students are able to (and want to) do. The verb tenses that are covered should be studied by all students at these levels, and the vocabulary words should be generally useful to students from Elementary upwards. However, some of the units may pose more of a challenge to true Elementary learners, because the vocabulary may be less familiar, e.g. Places in the UK and Australia. Similarly, some of the activities are more suitable for students at Pre-Intermediate level than Elementary, such as the Multi-Purpose Texts and Role Plays (although the teacher could adapt the role play situations for lower level students by simplifying them).
As before, the aim of this book is to teach students to think in English and Talk a Lot!
The Talk a Lot course objectives are very simple:
• Every student talking in English
• Every student listening to and understanding English
• Every student thinking in English, and
• Every student taking part in class
Talk a Lot is structured so that every student can practise and improve English grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, word and sentence stress, and interpersonal skills, by working in pairs, groups and one to one with the teacher.
The main benefits of Talk a Lot are:
• Students have to think in English during lessons in a controlled and focused way
• Students learn how to memorise correct English structures naturally, without abstract and unrelated grammar lessons
I have made a broad ranging collection of resources on this topic. I have covered modern and ancient beliefs and cultures. I have included both presentations and English story writing prompts. Try them today!
Practise…
• speaking and listening skills
• sentence building with 8 intermediate-level verb forms
• connected speech
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• information exchange
• reading comprehension
• role playing
• discussion questions
…including tests and full answers!
Discover…
• 20 common English idioms
• 20 common English phrasal verbs
• 20 common English slang words and phrases
• 40 essential vocabulary words and phrases
100% Photocopiable
Note: all activities include full answers. For detailed instructions please see P.xiii.
Contents
Sentence Focus Activities
2. Sentence Blocks + Sentence Blocks (without Function Words)
5. Sentence Block Extensions
6. Sentence Blocks – Sentence Stress and Vowel Sounds
8. Connected Sentence Cards
11. Connected Sentence Cards – with Consonant & Vowel Sounds
14. Connected Speech Template + Cut-Up IPA Sentence
Word Focus Activities
19. Discussion Words + IPA Version + Visualisations
22. Discussion Words Question Sheet
25. Information Exchange
28. Multi-Purpose Text:
• Original Text + Spot the Difference
• Guess the Function Words
• What’s the Question? + True, False, or Unknown?
• Glossary of New Words
Focus on Non-Literal Speech
34. Role Play with Non-Literal English + Features of Non-Literal English – Part 3 39. 20 Common English Idioms + Matching Game + Activities
42. 20 Common English Phrasal Verbs + Matching Game + Activities
45. 20 Common English Slang Words and Phrases + Matching Game + Activities 50. Unit Vocabulary Reference: Radio, Television, Journalism, and New Media
Free Practice Activities
56. What Would You Do?
57. Discussion Questions
59. Agree or Disagree?
Continuous Assessment Tests
60. Vocabulary Test + Lesson Test
I have collected together some of my most popular science related presentations and teaching ideas and offer them to teachers at a greatly reduced price to celebrate Science Week.
I created a huge set of teaching resources for getting students to speak in English and still have fun. This set of resources above provides an ESL teacher with approximately 1000 hours of teaching resources. I have added lots of motivational pictures and made the process as simple as I can. The resource starts with the simplest, elementary English and works up to much more complex intermediate English.
Elementary Book 1: Topics Covered
Town, Food, Shopping, Health, Transport, Clothes, Work, Family, Home, and Free Time.
Elementary Book 2 Topics Covered
Crime, Sport, Music, Weather, Animals, Cars, The Human Body, Colours and Numbers, Life
Events, and Nature.
Elementary Book 3: Topics covered
Learning English, Films, Hospital, Books, Airport, Money, Places in the UK, Politics, Internet, and Australia.
Intermediate Book 1: Topics covered
1. Hotel 2. Problems 3. Media 4. Getting a Job
Intermediate Book 2: Topics covered
Holidays English Language