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 English: 13 Fu...  
Part 2 teaching vocab    • How to Teach English to Beginners: Te...  
Part 4: teaching grammar    • Teaching Grammar to Beginners: Tips a...  

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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 studylike 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 AZ. More so, it gets beginner students, even at low levels, to truly communicate with each other.
Here's a basic breakdown.
Prework: Think of 35 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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