Need help teaching English

**Mouzafphaerre** · 01-08-2005, 01:35

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Hello mates,

They taught us how to comprehend and use it, not how to teach it.

A group of close friends, whom I cannot refuse, plead me to tutor them. I'm trying my best but the whole process is becoming a trial/error roundup...

I can just fetch a set of textbooks and follow it but there is a big problem: There are way too many of them in the market and I can't know which one to choose. What do you fellow speakers, native or not, suggest?

I prefer the English dialect btw...
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**SwordsMaster** · 01-08-2005, 03:11

The Big Oxford Dictionary. Make them learn 2 pages a day. And they´ll be done in just 1200 days.

Seriously now, it depends. Do they have any idea? If they don´t just make them learn the irregular verbs and some vocabulary before thinking of following any book.

**Byzantine Prince** · 01-08-2005, 03:17

Anything made in Cambridge. That's how my parents learned English.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 01-08-2005, 05:11

I myself love the Irish, English and Scottish slang and accents, unfortunately do not have one........ All the textbooks we use in school are bad, do not buy the books used by American schools, they suck.
Good luck!

**Togakure** · 01-08-2005, 05:24

Have you done a Google search on "teaching" "learning" "English"? Usually, when I have a question like yours, I just start searching for things. If I don't find useful information immediately, I almost always find links that lead to other links, etc. A very useful resource that you can happen upon when searching is a forum relating to the search topic. When you find one, you find others engaged in doing what you are interested in doing. They, more often than not, can recommend useful resources if you post and ask them.

Another method is searching Amazon and the like for books on the subject, identifying the authors, and then searching the Internet for the authors' websites. You can usually find lots of useful information on their sites, which might help you to determine which books or teaching CDs are right for you.

Just some ideas ... good luck in finding what you need.