The Ultimate ESL Teaching Manual: No textbooks, minimal equipment just fantastic lessons anywhere

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.

I purchased “The Ultimate English as a Second Language Teaching Manual” 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.

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!

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.

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.

lovely easy and ready to go

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!