[etni] Question about easy travel stories

From: Margie Cohen-Jackel <margiecj@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Etni <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Audrey Sivan <audrey_5@xxxxxxxxxx>, DaphnaMalka <elidafna@xxxxxxxxx>, DZ <daphnaz19@xxxxxxxxx>, Freida <freida18@xxxxxxxxx>, Margie Cohen <margiecj@xxxxxxxxx>, Ravit <ravit_burg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, susie serenevich <serenevich@xxxxxxxxx>, Tanya <tansky1@xxxxxxxxx>, Tzipi <itzik1310@xxxxxxxxx>, Oranit Goldberg <orng50@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Sarah Maoz <srmaoz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:54:14 +0300

Hi to all-    May 27, 2012
Recently, I have begun teaching a 21 year old young man who has just
completed his army
service. He is working now, trying to earn money to travel to the USA
sometime in the fall.

It turns out that he was a student of mine when he was in 7th grade.  A lot
has happened
 since then. He said he didn't really study to well during high school,
both in Hebrew subjects and
of course English. he wants to start from the basics in English, but every
time I mention tenses/
helping verbs/parts of speech, his eyes glaze over. (He doesn't know this
information in Hebrew either.)

Of course I have told him that the English language is more than grammar,
and that he will only
learn what he needs to function in English.( I made the analogy of the
carpenter who needs to
use a hammer and nails in order to create a beautiful piece of furniture.)

So I have decided to approach this from the direction of content. To that
end, I am looking for
 stories/articles about interesting places/travels, traveling in general.
In addition, I will work with
him on functional spoken language that he needs, such as what to say at
check-in at a foreign
 airport, etc.

Do any of you have easy-to-read /understand  unseens/stories to suggest?
The Survival English series,
while just right content-wise, is MUCH too hard for him at this point.

TIA,

Margie

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Margie  Cohen-Jackel
M.S.S.A, MAJEd.

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Rehovot 76472 ISRAEL

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[etni] Question about easy travel stories

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