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ESL with Tammy: Alphabet game

Hello, everyone! Today I'd like to get back to basics. It is on my mind lately since I have just started working with a new group of tutees who are starting from the very beginning. One of their favorite games to play as a warm up is the alphabet game.

This is a fun English learning game either as a group ESL or one-on-one with a student. It is also easy and inexpensive -- two great things for a learning game!

So how to play? Start by going around the room, each person yelling out the next letter in the alphabet. I start with A, the tutee to my left yells out B, to her left the student yells out C, and so on until all the letters have been said aloud. Yes, I know this sounds simple, but when you have tutees who are starting from square one, this game is a fun way to reinforce foundational learning. I remember learning a foreign language, and it was really helpful to repeat the alphabet daily.

The next step is the fun part -- start playing the game. Remember those long car trips with the "I'm going sailing, and I am taking..." game? Where each person in the car yells out a different item, and each item is consecutively represented in the alphabet, A-Z.

Example: You say: "I'm taking an apple." The next person says: "I'm taking an apple and a banana." The next person: "I'm taking an apple, banana, and chocolate."

This is is similar to that game. You start with "A," and give a word that starts with that letter. The next person then does the same for "B," the next person does "C," and so on until you all reach "Z." No need to remember the other people's words in the early learning stages, as that would make the game a bit too difficult.

If it is just you and a tutee, this is still a fun game, and you simply take turns between the two of you. This alphabet game has always been a hit in my ESL tutoring sessions, and I even have more advanced tutees asking to play it again so that they can try out some new vocabulary words! Fun, educational, and easy to add to ESL tutoring - what's not to love?

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ESL with Tammy: Writing stories and papers

Hi, everyone -- Tammy, here, checking in with another idea for ESL tutoring. As I was sitting here looking over the latest batch of ESL homework papers, I wondered if I had mentioned one of my favorite homework ideas for my ESL students. I looked back on the posts, and realized that somewhere along the way it had completely slipped my mind. So what is this cool ESL learning idea? Story writing. Writing a story is an excellent way to boost vocabulary, work on grammar, employ critical thinking, and infuse creativity into language learning. In other words, it is one of the most fun homework activities possible! To make it easy, straightforward, and fun, I print out a sheet of story ideas ahead of time. Then, I hand the ideas sheet out to my ESL students, and let them pick the topic that is most interesting to each of them. They can be fiction or nonfiction, and can be any length you or your tutee chooses. A few words of warning: Make sure to stress the point that only ONE topic needs to be chosen for a story. I once had a very studious tutee write full papers about each of the 10 topics on the handout. He looked exhausted, and I can see why! Here are a few of the topics I use. You can customize them based on your preferences, and the learning level of your students: • What are the top 3 countries you would like to visit? Why? • Write about something funny that happened to you recently. • What type of pet have you always wanted to have? Why? Do you have that pet now? • What is you favorite school subject? Why? • Tell me about your favorite season, and why you like it so much. • Write a letter to a friend telling him or her all about your time here in North America. • Write a story about your dream job. • Make up a fictional character, and send him or her on an adventure. • Take a walk, and tell me all about what you see, smell, hear, and experience. • Do you believe in ghosts? Why or why not? • Write a short story about something funny. • Write a short story about something scary. Also, make sure to give feedback, both positive, and constructive, so that your tutees feel encouraged while they learn. Happy reading!

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ESL with Tammy: 2 Learning Tools in 1!

Today I'd like to talk about an idea that I use when I tutor my older ESL students. The idea actually came about nearly two decades ago when I was talking with my ESL tutee about how things were going in his daily life. (So, I can't take full credit for this one! Without my tutee, this idea might have never been!) He had just moved to the US, and was actively seeking a job as he learned English. As we talked more about his job hunting, he mentioned how difficult it was to read through the newspaper classifieds for jobs. We talked about the lingo used, the shortened versions of words that show up in newspaper ads, and talked at length about how to contact the prospective employers and companies. We had a lot of fun, and my student asked if he could bring in the paper at our next tutoring session. It became a habit with us, in fact -- at every meeting, my tutee would bring in the latest copy of the newspaper, and we would spend a few minutes going over the job classifieds together. As the years went by, I realized how useful the exercise could be to my tutees, and I kept it in my arsenal of tutoring tools. As my students and I read through the job classifieds together, they are improving their conversational skills, building their vocabularies, and learning a useful life skill that will help them find careers. So, how can you use job classifieds during tutoring? First step -- get a newspaper, or have your tutees bring them to tutoring. Once you find the job listings, talk to your tutees about what types of jobs interest them most. Talk about salary expectations, discuss cultural differences in work and pay scale, and help your tutees understand the lingo (abbreviated words, vocabulary specific to job listings, etc.). For some real fun, spend 15 minutes or so of your session role-playing. Have your tutee "call" you (or another student in class) about a job that he or she read about in the paper. You may even want to both be holding cell phones to make the "phone call" seem more realistic. Trust me, this can be really fun, and it is also really helpful practice for your job-seeking tutees. Enjoy, and if any of you have tried this, please stop by and tell me how it worked for you!

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