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New edition: Now with 7 NEW speaking drills
Thinking about teaching English, but don’t know where to start?
Pick up a copy of The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual and discover a skill that will serve you for the rest of your life.!
What people are saying about The Ultimate ESL Manual on the Amazon.
‘What a great book! Andromeda’s knowledge and experience shines through. She gets straight to the point, gives very clear grammar explanations and loads of practical help,’ Sheila Longden.
‘This is a one-stop shop for preparing powerful classes that throws out the need for costly and confusing text books. Priceless!’ Amazon Customer.
‘Great book, saved me hours of prep! Each grammar point comes with its own speaking activity so you won’t run out of ideas about what to teach your students,’ TeacherA24.
The Ultimate Teaching ESL Manual is a complete English teaching system designed so that any native speaker (with TEFL experience or not) can pick up the book and start teaching.
With this book you will have the power to:
o Start teaching English online or in the classroom now with a step-by-step guide on how to teach every grammar point in the English language.
o Teach vocabulary with over 60 lexical sets covering beginner, intermediate, advanced to super-advanced levels.
o Keep your students engaged with follow-on activities for every lesson including role plays, games and problem solving activities.
o Cut down on preparation time with lesson plans for all language points.
o Add interest to your classes with an appendix full of illustrated worksheets which manual owners can download in high resolution from the book’s website.
o Travel light and save money on expensive textbooks with everything you need to teach English in one book.
o Provide students with fantastic lessons they want with a methodology focused on language learning through speaking practice.
The Manual teaches a methodology whereby students learn through speaking activities (rather than traditional textbooks) mimicking how we learnt our native language as children.
Students make rapid progress with the constant speaking practice, while for the teacher, lessons are creative and rewarding, giving you the power to decide what to teach and how.
Classes are simple, effective and take less time to prepare as there are no handouts to worry about, exercises to mark or any of the other work that comes with traditional ESL teaching.
The Manual includes lesson plans, drills and speaking activities for every grammar point as well as methodology, games, vocabulary sets and a whole host of other stuff to make your classes special.
Dive in and discover a skill for life.
From the Publisher
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 21, 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 323 pages
ISBN-10 : 1537511114
ISBN-13 : 978-1537511115
Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
Dimensions : 6.69 x 0.73 x 9.61 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book provides useful teaching information and grammar lessons. It saves them time in preparations and research. However, some feel it’s not worth the money and has typos and editing mistakes.
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VSB/MMB –
Most useful resource I’ve used for my ESL students!
My husband and I retired from telecommunications and moved to rural New Mexico. We signed up as volunteer tutors at the local literacy program, took the required training, and began our new careers shortly thereafter. We soon learned that our training didn’t completely prepare us for teaching the complexities of English to our adult (mostly ESL) students.For me, drills and roleplays are my least favorite ways of learning, and up to now, I’ve avoided employing them in the classes I teach. About a month or so ago, one of our fellow tutors lent me her copy of “The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual”. I was so impressed with the step-by-step process Ms. Jones outlines in her book that I ordered my own copy. I began using it, and the shift in student attention and engagement was palpable! The drills and roleplay suggestions were just what I needed. I highly recommend this book.
Stephen Getchell –
Excellent book for Spoken English Schools
I purchased âThe Ultimate English as a Second Language Teaching Manualâ so we could start a Spoken English school in India. We had never taught or started a language school before.English is a poorly spoken third language to most of our entering students and This book helps take our students through Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Spoken English (90 hours of training) and though we charge separately for each class many of our students move onto the next level.I appreciate the diversity and balance of grammar, vocabulary, examples and guidelines for how to plan a class in this book. The best methodology of teaching for us (which this book supports) is having the students create their own Spoken English text in class from the lessons created in the book and presented on board. This helps our students to retain even more English with their own handwriting and a Textbook that they have created themselves at no cost to us or them except the cost of a blank notebook and pen.The lessons allow us to move as fast or as slow as we want with many great ideas and creative games and discussions for retention and review.This is the only textbook our trainers use to teach Spoken English after purchasing and reviewing many others.The worksheet book is an optional addition but not necessary.
Katelin –
A good guide overall for ESL teachers…
I’ve been tutoring ESL students for a while now and toying with the idea of teaching my own ESL classes, too. I purchased this book as a reference guide so I could see how other ESL teachers and experts present grammar lessons to their students. I find that this book teaches grammar in a very interesting order, one that is different from how I would normally teach it. I will have to try out the book’s order for myself to see if it helps at all with student progress. The explanations for each grammar topic and the class discussion ideas are useful, and I shall implement some of these ideas alongside the workbook materials and flashcards that I have. Overall, this book is filled with valuable information for any ESL teacher, whether it is one who is new to teaching or one who wants to freshen up their teaching method.My only complaint is that there are typos and errors in this book that are frustrating for me as an English teacher to see, such as missing commas, lack of indentations, and lack of proper spacing between paragraphs/ideas, which reduced sentence fluency and made the writing look chaotic. There were also charts that are half on one page and half on another. Readers need to be able to view charts as a whole, they shouldn’t have to flip between pages to see the information. One example of a concerning typo was when the author referred to the first letter of a noun as a “constant” rather than a “consonant.” I do hope a second edition is published that has been significantly proofread and updated so that the information is easier to digest, because it IS good information!
Johanna Bronsztein –
Just whta I wnated
lovely easy and ready to go
mary ann meola –
good info but not a textbook
this book has great info on teaching but I don’t think you could use it as a textbook., It is more of a resource for me to enhance teaching.
Meghan Posey –
This book is great! It is very helpful and laid out well
This book is great! It is very helpful and laid out well! It is not made for teaching younger students, so if that is what you are looking for you will only get a little from this book.
JMP –
Just what I wanted
I had searched through a lot of ESL books and finally settled on this one. I’m glad I did. I have just finished my TEFL and will start online teaching soon. What I like about this book is that it gives me a solid sequence of lessons, and then adds creative ideas for each. This is just what I wanted since I won’t be working with a supplied textbook or other materials. I can evaluate each student and find a good starting place in the sequence. She also covers all levels from beginner to advanced, and has included many specific and clever ideas. Love it!
elizabeth –
I bought this book on my kindle and then later as a hard copy.The sequence of learning is logical and teaching ideas helpful.I have achieved more success using this method than the traditional textbook method.It’s great for students who come from countries where they’ve never been exposed to English before.Great resource!
Amazon Customer –
Of all the English training manuals that I have bought, this one has proved to be the best. It gives one a clear direction about how to teach English as a second language. This book is simply amazing.
Jude –
This is exactly what I was looking for to support my decision in teaching ESOL students using minimum paper materials. It gives me a reminder of which structure to teach next and a prompt for key points. As always I prepare the lessons beforehand and this book makes it easy and exciting as it takes out the research for materials giving me confidence to use my knowledge and creativity in TESOL. Thank you Andromeda Jones for sharing your work and skills. I immediately bought your speaking activities book too. Kindle editions are perfect for these books with materials to download.
ZORA AUGER, a Slovak teacher in France teaching English –
Thank you for sharing your teaching experience with us, Ms Jones. I honestly believe that this is one of the best ways how to teach any language. Your approach is very simple but very efficient. Itâs not the rules and definitions who are at heart of your approach, itâs the student himself who discovers the language. You give them precious space to observe the language and then using it straight away, which is a real gift. Your book is packed with plenty of exercises, games and role-plays to get that precious practice.Since I have started implementing your advice, I spend less and less time on both paperwork preparation and my TTT (teacher talking time) = meaning more time for students.This book is clearly an excellent tool for any teacher who wants to bring students to a higher level of speaking, grammar and listening comprehension.I would also like to mention that Ms Jones was extremely helpful and reactive when I contacted her through the webpage. She really cares about her readers and students. So far, I have bought 2 books written by Ms Jones and they are worth every single penny of it. Can we have some more, please?
Graziella Gallinari –
Usato per il mio Lavoro, Mi ha aiutato molto. Tante buone idea. Mi aiuta a mantenere il interesse della classe. Prodotto molto valido, tutto come nella descrizione. Contenta del prezzo, servizio. Grazie Amazon.