Rbt: Beginners

Description: Beginners contains over 100 original, ready-to-use activities for beginners' classes. These include activities for both absolute and 'false' beginners, and a section for use with learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.

Contents: Note: A full contents list at the front of the book provides a complete list of the activities, the suggested level at which each activity can be used, and the language it practises. The summary below aims to give a general idea of the book's organization. ; Foreword; Introduction: What is a beginner?; How to use this book; 1. Decisions; Decision 1: Syllabus options; Decision 2: Content or method; Decision 3: Product or process; Decision 4: Teaching strategies for beginners; Decision 5: Classroom activities; Decision 6: Introducing supplementary materials; Decision 7: Giving instructions; 2. First Lessons (10 activities); First lesson ideas. Several are also suitable for lessons other than the very first one, and some can be used a number of times, often with small variations; 3. Basics (15 activities); Activities to help teach numbers, time, and colour in the first stages of learning English; 4. Language Basics (11 activities); Activities which introduce several of the basic syntactic structures and phonological features of English; 5. Roman script (11 activities); Activities to help learners unfamiliar with Roman script; 6. More words (13 activities); Activities to help students acquire vocabulary as fast as possible in the early stages of learning; 7. Firsts (16 activities); A series of 'firsts' (e.g. First mime, First autobiography, First traveller's tale), so that students feel they are passing a number of landmarks in their language learning, which in turn leads to a greater sense of progress; 8. Games (10 activities); Language games, each mirroring the routine of a well-known game; 9. Interactions (7 activities); Activities to give students practice in interacting with the world outside the classroom. There are rehearsals for real encounters, as well as activities which involve actual interaction with native speakers; 10. Self-improvement (13 activities); Activities which focus on developing learner strategies, promoting self-reliance, classroom support activities, peripheral learning,and self-study. ; Bibliography; Indexes