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anonymous
Q: best english books to teach two 9 year olds, they will be going to australia
hello all
two kids will be going to australia for middle school and i need help, what are the best books for this age (british english only)
their mother is a head master here in Guangzhou so she will have high standards
what are the books to go for
thanks
12 years 4 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
This will help big time.
dyanisis:
thanks for the heads up man, but this is not what i had in mind, its more of formal education books im after eg, interchange, new concept that sort of stuff
Nine years old that's around Grade 3-4, right?! Anyways, according to my teaching experience I would suggest a few British text that MAJOR learning center's in Hong Kong (an ex British colony) are using.
Firstly, do they know how an Australian accent differs from a British accent? Because for a young ESL learner it might be difficult to tune into one accent and then suddenly going to another.
You want to be HOLISTIC and cover every aspect; Reading, Writing, Listening and Oral. I have a few text suggestions that target each of these pretty well....here goes~~
1. READING --- I suggest you get real books! For example Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" or Dr, Seuss' collection "The Cat in the Hat"
**** You can use these sort of books to teach - There are online worksheets and ESL ideas that echo infamous children books like these.
or you can just stick to the Oxford "Read + Write" series. The teacher gets 2 stacks of Phonics cards with picture description. You can play blending games and HIT THE SOUND CARD games.
2. WRITING --- Longman exercise books. Chinese parents are into their kids doing a lot of DRILLS. They explain grammar & sentences throughly.
3. LISTENING --- Cambridge's "PLAYWAY 1 & 2" series is all about listening. It includes stick-ons, story cards, chants, DVDs and CDs. Alot of listening comprehension. The old PLAYWAY series have limited writing in the text as most of the instructions are lead by the instructor.
4. ORAL --- (TEXT FREE/ They've got you!!)
Hope you'll find some of these reference useful. Oh yah, best to buy them on Amazon China (the order form isn't in English but you are able to search for your book in English)... because they almost have everything and they deliver SOOOOO fast!!
Cheers!!~
