ESL Lessons Beginner – Our beginner lesson sets are designed to provide you with the foundation you need to start speaking and understanding English. Each lesson covers essential grammar and vocabulary topics and includes speaking exercises to help you practice your skills. Whether you are a complete beginner or have some knowledge of the language, our lesson sets will help you build your confidence and improve your communication skills. Each lesson can be used to strengthen the foundation of beginner learners.
Absolute Beginners are students that have had no (or very little) exposure to English lessons or the language in general. On the other hand, false beginners have been exposed to some formal or informal English language lessons yet have not acquired any functional grasp of the language. Absolute beginners generally have very little knowledge of the English alphabet or it major sounds.
So let’s begin! The following is a recommended pathway through our lesson library when you are presented with the exciting challenge of teaching Absolute beginners!
Disclaimer: This is not designed to be a prescriptive structure. We truly believe that teachers know their students best. The design of Off2Class has always kept this principle at the forefront. This pathway is only meant to provide a starting point. It can and should be adapted for the unique needs of your students as you progress through our lesson content and self-study activities.
Recommended Pathway: Absolute Beginners
Step 1: Letters & Sounds
We recommend starting with our Letters & Sounds category. This category uses an image-heavy approach to teaching the alphabet and major consonant and vowel sounds in English. Like all of our lessons, they are designed for live conversation and contain bright and colorful images.
Goal: Familiarize your students with the major sounds on the English language.
Step 2: Basic Nouns Lessons
When your students are comfortable with the Alphabet and major sounds of the English language, you can progress to basic nouns lessons. Here are some recommendations that have worked for our ESL Absolute Beginners in the past:
N6.1 – Singular-Plural-Regular-Nouns
Goal: Basic understanding of pronouns and simple sentences. Exposure to a large number of nouns and their regular plurals.
Step 3: Beginner Listening Activities Next, we suggest using our beginner ESL listening activities. Each of our listening activities and attached homework contains audio recordings of native English speakers. Your students listen for specific information and content. You also have ample opportunity to drill your students for pronunciation. which students at lower proficiency levels usually enjoy.The initial lessons in the series cover topics such as Hello and Goodbye, Giving Your Name and Personal Information.
Goal: Increased familiarity with basic sentence structure and parts of speech.
Step 4: The Verb To-Be
Next you can exploring the conjugation of the verb to be for all subjects. If your students respond well, you can progress naturally the negative and question form.
Goal: Expressing basic ideas and thoughts using the verb to be and familiarity with the contracted forms used in everyday spoken English.
So there you have it! Our first in our Recommended Pathways series.