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Resources are presented in three sections :      grammar       beginners       college level

 

You are welcome to use my TESOL/TEFL resources free of charge for non-commercial purposes including teaching.

 

The resources are suitable for (and probably only suitable for) use by a native English-speaking teacher working with Chinese-speaking students and were devised for use in studies supplementing regular English classes. The college level resources might be just about enough to keep a class seen once a week entertained for a semester.

Please note, this is not a complete course of study but a mixed-bag of resources ranging from brief ideas for a class through to fully prepared sessions complete with lesson plans. I have taken reasonable care in preparation but as you might expect you are invited to use at your own risk. I cannot guarantee accuracy or suitability for any particular group of students.

The resources are in UK English however, I have tried to make this usage as international as possible. Though I am from the UK, I have some editorial experience in US English and guess these materials might also be helpful for an American teacher (or Australian etc).
 

I strongly recommend new teachers should check out online study courses. I studied online for my Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language with Global English. If you're going to teach English competently and without undue stress you need to know what you're doing. Even with a degree level education in another discipline, just being a native English speaker is not quite enough. Can you really remember your English grammar and do you know how to hold the attention of a class for an hour or more, several times a day, every day?

 

Teachers might also consider using some of the short stories or poems on this site as texts for class study. Stories are often presented in easy-to-follow English as they are intended for the international reader. Poems with Chinese or Malaysian themes might interest local students and of course, haiku can be useful in addressing the existence of syllables within English words.    

Please remember that these free-to-use resources are copyright and acknowledge the source. A simple reference to www.colincampbell.org would be just fine and a link to this site would be welcome.

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