ERIC Number: ED376742
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 34
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44+ Ways To Integrate Telephone Messages in an Adult ESL Curriculum.
Bello, Tom
An approach to adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching that incorporates everyday telephone use skills is described, and a series of related class activities is outlined. The discussion begins with a method and form for assessing student needs and learning styles. Subsequent sections present specific activities in several categories: getting weather information; getting information about tourist destinations or other places; gaining information about legal requirements and services; telling stories; and leaving a message on an answering machine. Each group of activities begins with preliminary exercises and continues with more advanced or complex activities. The final section provides encouragement and guidelines for teaching those wishing to develop their own classroom activities or homework assignments. (MSE) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiotape Recordings, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Daily Living Skills, Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Field Trips, Idioms, Information Seeking, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Strategies, Legal Problems, Listening Skills, Literacy Education, Needs Assessment, Second Language Instruction, Skill Development, Story Telling, Telephone Usage Instruction, Tourism, Vocabulary Development, Weather
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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