How to Teach English to Beginners: Creating a Full Lesson
Welcome back to my ESL beginner video series. This is part 3 in the How to Teach English to Beginners. Make sure to watch all of the other videos below if you missed them.
Part 1: fundamentals • How to Teach Beginners...
Part 2 teaching vocab • How to Teach English t...
Part 4: teaching grammar • Teaching Grammar to Be...
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Beginner English students require different lesson planning and a different lesson structure than higher levels. Since they don't have a good command of English, you need to guide them a lot more if you want them to be able to communicate. Most ESL teachers struggle with this level and their lesson plans are just a mixture of different worksheets and study-like activities. The result is that ESL students never actually learn how to communicate with each other.
In this video, we cover a great lesson planning structure that I created called The 5 Points. Essentially, it's a useful way for English teachers to structure/plan lessons for beginner ESL students from A-Z. More so, it gets beginner students, even at low levels, to truly communicate with each other.
Here's a basic breakdown.
Pre-work: Think of 3-5 questions that you want your students to be able to communicate with. Pull out all of the necessary language they will need.
Point 1: Teach and practice vocab
Point 2: Practice the statement of your first question.
Point 3: Practice the question and the question and answer of your first
question.
*Practice all of your statements and then question/answers in chunks this way.
Point 4: Practice everything together with help and assistance.
Point 5: Free usage of all of your questions with natural language, past language, and zero notes.
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Hey Chris, please keep doing this. You are an amazing teacher for teachers haha! I really learn with your videos.
@Supr93
6 ай бұрын
I’m I in
Thank you for these lessons. I'm from the Dominican Republic. I teach English and French to high schoolers. I really want my students to speak the L2.
Before watching your videos I was clueless about where to begin. Thank you Chris for making this video. So detailed. Big up
This is great. I am going to go back and watch the whole series. Thanks!
Thanks Chris! Helped me with ideas for structuring my first lesson for true beginners. Keep it up.
I'm training nowadays..you made these series in the right time..thank you❤
This video gave me more information about lesson plan !Thank you ,Chris !
Thank you Chris. Great content.
Brilliant teaching method! I will be incorporating much of it in my classes. Thank you.
Thanks for this video!
Love this! Thank you so much
Awesome as usual. You changed my life Chris. Greetings from a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language in Seville. Just writing to tell you that these tips are also suitable and extremely useful for teaching any language.
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Жыл бұрын
Ahh thanks 🙏
I've been waiting for this, thank you so much, Chris !!! 🙏
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
3 ай бұрын
My pleasure!!
I wrote down two of your videos already! You are great!
Fantastic videos! Just on time. I just started going back to teaching after about 10 years. I love being ESL Instructor, with CELTA Certification but I definitely need to brush up on my teaching techniques. Many thanks for these awesome videos!
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome 😇
Thank you for sharing your experience, your insights helped our class.
Do you already have or would you be able to show an actual beginners class. So we see all three videos in action. Btw your videos are greatly appreciated. So much wisdom and straight to the point 😁
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
7 ай бұрын
Yep I do! I have a beginner class demo you can look at.
This is really helpful, thank you!
Thank you very much for this series of 3 videos 🙏 . Isn't there a part 4?
Thank you VERY VERY much!!.... I'm using this strategy with some of my students and it Is working wonderfully!!
Am Zambian teacher,I teach alot of people who speak French English,am happy to learn from you how to teach English in simple but effective way
Thanks a lot for all these videos really helping 👍👍
This is super helpful, I'll rearrange my lesson plan according to this 5 point methodlogy. I hope it goes well.Thank you sir.
Thanks a million
Thank you million times
Great video Chris! I was wondering how long this lesson plan is and how long your lessons typically run for? I have my first official class in three days and it will be lasting around 5 hours with a thirty-five minute lunch break. Thank you for your helpful tips and demos!
Your video is bloody brilliant. I'm a new volunteer ESL teacher with absolutely no experience or education on how. to. teach. I need exactly the lessons you're offering: 1) Walk into the classroom. 2) Say hello. 3) Walk over to the board. 4) Write your name.... I've been looking for this PRACTICAL guidance since I started teaching (accidentally, I have to add) five weeks ago!
Thank you
Thanks Chris. Your videos are amazing and really helpful.
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
8 ай бұрын
Glad you think so!
Dear teacher , I'm always inspired to listening all your vedios your great teacher...
Good stuff, Chris. Thanks!
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Ай бұрын
Any time!
thank you for these. so helpful. teaching in Israel.
This is so helpful to us thanks so much sir
I liked the metaphore "remove the training wheels"
Thanks
Excellent. Good for teaching all languages. I wish teachers teaching Quechua would use this methodology.
Chris your videos are insane..Period!!!
teacher.thank u
Hey dear teacher! Hopefully you're doing well! I just came across your channel and what you're providing is actually amazing. I am a teach as well. I have taught beginners for months now and I see they have not progressed a lot as I think I focus more on drilling exercises and neglect the speaking side. Hopefully you can share with us more tips and tricks on how to get students speak as soon as possible
@jernjustyle
Жыл бұрын
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you are just very articulate and creative!! wow thank you so much
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
2 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you!
Great videos, thank you so much. How would you manage 1:1 lessons? Same back and forth with the teacher for drilling purposes?
I am from India. Your classes really attractive n useful. Thank you.
Hi Chris I really love these videos, and the methodology seems very logic. Your tips are great, I am one of those teachers that need to talk less. I have a question about the sequence of the lessons, or the type of content presented in each lessons. First vocabulary, then a grammar lesson, then what? And until when? Thanks for your help!!
Thanks ☺️ a lot 😌😁😁😁😁😁.
Hi Chris. I love teaching English. But sometmes I think how to teach first. Thank you for your video.
hey chris i just found this video and ima start teaching my family they are native spanish speakers will i have to make adjustments to hwat you mentioned in your video ?
Hey Chris! Do you guys have an online course that goes through all of this?
How would you teach the concepts ‘part-time’ and full-time’?
Do you start with aphabet...and how would you teach it for Ukrainians. Brilliant videos
thank you!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE A QUESTION!!! SO students have to learn to read first&
Good clear plan for teaching beginners, thank you. I teach a lot of 1:1 online classes here in France. Have you any ideas of how to adapt this technique for this kind of lesson please. Without the group dynamic how do you complete step 5 without using loads of gap fills etc? Help please!!
@jernjustyle
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Thank you, Chris! I teach middle level English with some students who aren't there yet. How can I apply this method to the more advanced middle level English students? Do you have any resources or links? Thanks in advance.
❤❤❤❤❤thank you you are amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
5 ай бұрын
You’re welcome 😇
You're a genious! Thanks to you now I see what I have to improve and all that I've done not that well haha :') Hope learning more from you!
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome. I’m making a q & a about beginners next week
@electronicsafrica
10 ай бұрын
correct spelling: genius
Hello! Do you consult teachers via Zoom or Skype?
The videos were awesome thanks a lot 👏🏻 the question that I have is do you use any special books or something?or just the things you write on the board?
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Жыл бұрын
You can always supplement any kind of teaching with textbooks if you want.
Hi there! Do you have any tips on teaching English on Zoom? Primarily work with Afghan clients.
Great work! Thanks a lot. A bit confused with the sequence of the videos though. Maybe you can show us which videos to watch first?
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
8 ай бұрын
Check the description of this video.
@santanap8645
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tip@@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Dear Chris, could u pls highlight tips for keeping Elementary students' attention for 4 hours in a row ? My lessons start 8 AM to 12:30 PM? (incl. 15 min break). Thanks heaps.
Your videos are of great help. Thank you. I need a book focusing on speaking. Do you have a recommendation?
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Жыл бұрын
Hey Alpert, what kind of book are thinking about, like an activities book?
@alperkaraa
Жыл бұрын
@@TheLanguageHouseTEFL I don't want grammar or reading but activites that offer a chance to speak for sudents. They have basic knowledge, at A2 or even B1 level but they have problems with speaking. They want to be able to speak better and I'm looking for ways to do it and it will be a lot easier for me to have a book and follow the activies in it.
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Thanks for watching! You'll see links in the descriptions for the other beginner videos. If you would like to train with me to be an English teacher, please check out The Language HOuse TEFL in Prague - www.thelanguagehouse.net
Think that goes without saying that your videos are great! The thing is i get i little bit confused on how to proceed with the lesson? I would love to if you give a detailed plan on how to do that like how to manage the first very lesson with beginners🙏 i would be more than happy, otherwise, i believe vid are so thoughtful and inspiring hope u keep doing that for us. My greetings from Algeria.
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
7 ай бұрын
First lesson with beginners would be to start with the verb ‘to be’
Hello! Thank you so much for this! I have a question: You said that you erase the vocabulary and phrases from the board when it's time to do some writing (in Point 1). Do you ask students NOT to write the words in their notebooks when you present them and write them on the board? I find that my students write down everything as I present. Or, do you just ask them not to look at their notes when they do a gap-fill or other exercise?
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
10 ай бұрын
It’s all about not looking at notes as much. If students are just copying from their notes, they are not pushing themselves to remember the vocab.
@juliemoulton9533
10 ай бұрын
@@TheLanguageHouseTEFL Got it. Thank you!!!
hi chris! your videos are awesome. I really liked them. i have a question, when i teach some new vocab and how we use them in real conversations , should i teach them how we form the questions because they are already vey beginner and dont know how we form them .. they might be confusing for them.. and at the same time its very complicated for them to understand this in the beginning ..How can I deal with that??
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
Ай бұрын
Check out my second video in the series on teaching vocab. You’ll find the link in the description
@godislove6541
Ай бұрын
@@TheLanguageHouseTEFL I've almost watched all your videos in this series but still don't know should I explain the form for the questions I'm using or not ( the questions are not the targets lesson and students haven't study them before) Should I use only the questions we already studied when it comes to the activation part??
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Excellent if you please make videos of teaching english
@jernjustyle
Жыл бұрын
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Good
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
3 ай бұрын
Thanks
genius
Hi I am teaching a child and he is a beginner level in English. I made him repeat after me vocabs but sentences he finds super hard to follow and remember I am doing that because his parents asked me to make him memorize phrases and sentences .He is totally new into English I think I should teach him how to create simple sentence .Any tips how he can memorize daily conversations like dining out to restaurant with his parents? He can't even read in English .By the way,the parents told me I shouldn't teach him alphabets and reading their main focus is speaking skills.
G 9 English
I want to try teaching online but I’m scared I won’t do a good job 😭
G9 English speaking
6:47 I just realised that AM is a verb 😶🌫
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
3 ай бұрын
Gotcha!
I am a surgeon I am a surgeon I am a surgeon
@TheLanguageHouseTEFL
7 ай бұрын
I am a surgeon … then, I’m a surgeon. - don’t forget the contractions 😉
Appreciate... but doesn't it take a lot of time...i mean wasting the time
Hi Thank you for giving instructions . I asked something in your whatsapp please check 🙏
G9 English speaking