[etni] Fw: Fw: Teaching English to adults

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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:50:11 +0200

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From: "byk" <byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Teaching English to adults

Hi Hadas,

I am sending this to the list as the information might be useful to others.
I am using Chance at the moment to teach adults in jail.  It works quite
well. Don't let the word 'jail' give you the idea that these are dumb,
uneducated men; they just haven't learned English and need to take the
reading slowly.

By the way, interestingly enough, beginning readers don't feel insulted by
things which seem childish.  Some of the First Unseens work well too, as
well as Grammar for Starters or the UPP one whose name I can't remember, but
which is better.

Jennifer

Hadas wrote:
> I have been requested to teach a learning disabled, 30-year-old learning
> disabled adult. She has little knowledge of reading and wants to expand
> her reading knowledge and to increase her vocabulary.
> I have looked at books that I have intended for remedial teaching - Goals
> 1 and Goals 2, the Entry Point series - but have found them to be too
> childish
> for an adult. I have not found a good subsitute on the ECB website. On the
> UPP website I found the book "Chance" by Susie Russak, however, I know it
> is a rather old book.
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a good textbook for this purpose
> that would not be too childish or insulting for a 30-year-old? Would it be
> better to look for a book published in Israel or to look for books 
> published
> abroad?

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