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Elementary and/or beginner
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crissorrir
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Elementary and/or beginner
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Hello everyone! I´ve been teaching private classes for long, but my students are usually intermediate or English for trips. But now I have the chance to teach someone who is a beginner (adult). But the book I love to use (New American Inside Out) has the Beginner and the Elementary levels, What is the difference between them? Which one should I use? (I never had the chance to see the contents of each one). Thank you very much, in advance! Cris |
23 Mar 2015
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ohermann
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Maybe this can help you a bit: |
23 Mar 2015
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joannajs
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Hi Cris, Beginner is meant for people who had never any experience learning English. So it starts with total basics and progresses pretty slowly (though Inside Out are quite ambitious ;-). Elementary level presumes that students are FALSE BEGINNERS which means they were studying English before. So it moves quicker with the material, too. When deciding which coursebook to adopt, think of your students - if they are working adults or older people, sometimes they don �t have that much time (1st group) or they simply acquire knowledge more slowly (2nd) and may have problems following the Elementary coursebook. My experience teaching from New Inside Out was such that the Elementary one should ONLY be used with false beginners, true ones get lost easily and some of them drop out because of the fast pace. Perhaps a solution to this would be to conduct 2-3 classes using xeroxed copies of the book you think is suitable and then decide finally which book to adopt. Hope that helps - overall it �s a fun book to use with many extra resources and a dvd :-) |
23 Mar 2015
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crissorrir
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Thank you very much Ohermenn and Joanna, both answers were/are very useful! Hugs Cris |
24 Mar 2015
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