Video: How to Teach Basic Conversational English

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Teach basic conversational English to people by keeping things simple, practicing introductions that provide personal information and discussing topics relative to their homes and family. Teach English sentence structure, grammar and vocabulary with help from a teacher in this free video on education.

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100000587432369 Jan 23, 2012
good leasson....
100000587432369 Jan 23, 2012
good leasson....
JaviVi May 03, 2011
I like
Menchie Apr 11, 2011
this is amazing it will definitely help us teachers to be more effective in teaching english language to our students.

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Hi, my name is Mike Mitchell, and today I'd like to explain how to teach basic conversational English. In the conversational English lesson, the first rule, especially at the basic level, is to keep things simple, and to keep things at a level that a person would already know in their own language. So, the most basic topic is going to be personal information. When you're teaching somebody English, the first thing that they'll need to know is how to introduce themselves and how to react when people ask them things like what's your name, where do you come from, what country do you live in, things like this. So, personal information, which they already know in their own language, will be the easiest thing for them to explain and to say in English. The second thing would be things that are close to them. So things about their home, or their family, and these are also topics that they already know inside their own language, and so they will be able to more easily transfer these themes over in to English. Also in English, these topics are generally sentence structure, and the easiest grammar and vocabulary to learn, so most of your textbooks and English teaching materials will also start with these basic conversation topics.

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How to Teach Basic Conversational English

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