MES-English curriculum - Part 2

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:04 am

Listen to the show.

Mark has added some phonics games for students at Fun Fonix.com.

This show discusses MES-English.com's curriculum for young learners. This is the second part of teaching without a textbook or teaching oral English only. For the first episode of this check here.

The curriculum covers the same core sections:

TPR

Phonics

Mark covers Units 4-6, explaining what vocabulary he uses for the content section, why he chooses those and how they work to achieve the target language goals for each unit, and how those vocabulary units tie into the target language. There are also a few ideas for practicing the different parts.

The materials for this curriculum are all available for free from MES-English.com.

We'd love to hear how you use you MES-English resources or your own curriculum ideas. Post them here or over at the ESL Teacher Talk forums. Ask questions or leave comments about the show. You can also just pop-in and introduce yourself. We'd love to know who's listening.

Game of the Week: Flashcards and Board Games

This is an activity for making a board game more of a conversational activity. Using a board game for practicing simple vocabulary or one taget language and combining that with another target language to form mini-speech acts. This is a great activity for changing a board game into a communicative activity and is useful for adults down to elementary school students. You can make boardgames here and get free printable flashcards here.

We hope it helps. Happy teaching!

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:33 am

Hi there,

Thanks for the new episode on your curriculum. It was really interesting. As a new ESL teacher to Primary aged ESL children and one without a course book for my lessons i've found your two episodes so far really helpful, in thinking not only about the vocabulary I want to teach the children. Ones that they would be interested in but now the structures that come with those vocabulary families.

I feeel its given me a much better structure and clearer goals to where we're heading to the end of the year and hopefully in the coming years.

The advise as always is great on the website which accompanies the sets of flashcards - thanks again for all your FREE advice and support!

Looking forward to the next instalments.

Bye

Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 7:47 am

SandyP - That's great to hear that the curriculum episodes have been helpful. I've also started to write this up - www.mes-english.com/curriculum/

If you have any questions about the curriculum or suggestions on how to improve it, please let me know.

Part 3 should be coming out soon. We're just trying to space out the MES curriculum shows, as they might not be that useful to a lot of people.