Communication Skills

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1. Talk Slowlyyou have time, never rush 2. Maintain eye contact as much as possible 3. Give compliments (unique) on meeting people 4. Ask questions so that the other person can talk about himself or herself. "What do you like to do?" "What sort of things have you done in your life?" "What is happening to you now?" "What did you do today or last weekend?" Identify things about them that you might be interested in hearing about, and politely ask questions. People love having a chance to discuss their passions or their subjects of expertise. 5. Being a good listener: Paraphrase back what you heard the person say. "So you're saying that skydiving is the biggest rush you've ever experienced?" Doing this shows respect for the other person and gives him or her the chance to correct your understanding, affirm it or embellish upon it. "uh-huh," "hmmm," and "ohhhh," to encourage them 6. Smile, state that you enjoyed the conversation and say goodbye. Ending on a positive note will make the other person want to talk to you again. 7. Give good responses to questions. Say you pass Julie in the break room and she asks you, "how are you?" You say "good, thanks" and then go on in silence. Wouldn't it have made an enjoyable conversation had you said, "Good - I just finished a really big project at work and Im so happy that its done. 8. To start a conversation: talk about the weather, the season, holidays coming up, etc. location, good view, etc. 9.

Thank you Please Sorry Listen to greetings

Listen to basic words and phrases such as "please," "thank you," "you're welcome," "please speak more slowly," "please write that down", "no problem," "don't worry about it," "I don't know," "I understand" and "I don't understand," as well as variations of these phrases. Repeat each phrase out loud after each time you listen to it. These basic phrases can get you very far if you need to make basic conversation with native English speakers. Learn to introduce yourself and ask people for their names. Useful questions of simple English involve asking things like "What time is it?" or "Where is the train station?" or "How much does it cost?" Make a vocabulary list. Write down all the words you miss in a notebook, along with their definitions. Review it every week or so. good morning, afternoon, evening how are you, i am fine what does ____ mean? how do you say ____ in english? can you repeat that, please. where is the bathroom? my name is __ what is your name___

6/25/2013 9:25:00 PM There are four past tense forms in English: Past simple: Past continuous: Past perfect: Past perfect continuous: I worked I was working I had worked I had been working

Practice Past Simple of regular verbs Go around the class and make statements in present simple, which students must change to past simple: T: I sometimes walk in the park. S: You walked in the park yesterday. Introduce the Past Simple of irregular verbs Give an example in present simple: I have lunch at 12 every day. Lead in to past simple: Yesterday I had lunch at 12. Write this on the board. Give more examples with irregular verbs and write each verb in its past form on the board. T: Yesterday I spoke to a friend. We went to the movies. We saw Eclipse. My friend ate popcorn. I drank soda. Make sure students understand that the past form is the same for all persons. Give as many examples with irregular verbs as needed.

Introduce the Past Simple Negative forms Say, 'Yesterday I talked to John. I didn't talk to Sarah.' Give more examples alternating between affirmative and negative statements: Sarah had lunch at 12. She didnt have lunch at one. You went to the gym yesterday. You didnt go to the movies. And so on with all persons, singular and plural. Write the negative form on the board. Then have students do the same, always alternating between affirmative and negative statements. Irregular Verbs:

Worksheet

ESL English

Irregular Verbs: Group 1 Verb List: begin/began, blow/blew, bring/brought, buy/bought, catch/caught, come/came, do/did, draw/drew, drink/drank, eat/ate, get/got, give/gave, go/went, grow/grew, hear/heard, know/knew, make/made, meet/met, read/read, run/ran, say/said, see/saw, send/sent, sing/sang, sit/sat, sleep/slept, swim/swam, take/took, throw/threw, write/wrote. Irregular Verbs: Group 2 Verb List: become/became, bite/bit, break/broke, choose/chose, drive/drove, fall/fell, feel/felt, fly/flew, fight/fought, find/found, hold/held, hide/hid, hit/hit, keep/kept, leave/left, lose/lost, mean/meant, pay/paid, put/put, quit/quit, shut/shut, sell/sold, spend/spent, speak/spoke, stand/stood, teach/taught, tell/told, win/won, wear/wore Irregular Verbs: Group 3 Verb List: beat/beat, bend/bent, build/built, burn/burnt, cost/cost, cut/cut, dream/dreamt, dig/dug, feed/fed, fit/fit, forget/forgot, hurt/hurt, leap/leapt, learn/learnt, lead/led, lend/lent, let/let, light/lit, ring/rang, rise/rose, sink/sank, set/set, shake/shook, shoot/shot, slide/slid, stink/stank, steal/stole, stick/stuck, tear/tore, wake/woke. http://bogglesworldesl.com/irregular_verbs.htm

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Parts of Speech

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6/25/2013 9:25:00 PM In/At/On

I'm in/at/on Describes an action you are doing. Most commonly, you would use the word 'in' when entering a physical location such as a room or a building. Here are some examples: "I'm "I'm "I'm "I'm "I'm in in in in in the shower." the lobby." a car." a house." a school."

Using the word 'at' helps tell someone where you currently are. The difference between 'at' and 'in' is that the physical location is general. Here are some examples: "I'm "I'm "I'm "I'm "I'm at at at at at the the the the the grocery." mall." doctor's office." park." airport."

However, in some cases you can use 'at' and 'in' interchangeably. Here are some examples: "I'm "I'm "I'm "I'm at the mall." in the mall." at the park." in the park."

"I'm at the grocery." "I'm in the grocery." Using the word 'on' is referring to a non physical location such as your time being utilized by something else. Here are some examples: "I'm on the phone." "I'm on my computer." "I'm on a bus."