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jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

I am about to finish the first grammar in use book. But I found the students to get very bored with it, so I am not really sure if we should continue on with the next one. Are there any books of the same quality that are better suited for young learners?

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

I suggest you go to your nearest Kim and Johnson's and have a look through some of the kid's EFL books. You could try New Parade or Let's Go or something along those lines.

I can't believe anyone would be using "Grammar in Use" for young learners, but this is Korea.

If they really are "advanced", which I highly doubt, you could try a reading series, something like Easy True Stories or
Can You believe it?

yoda · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Location: Incheon, South Korea

How advanced?

At some point it is just more effective (especially in the long term) to ween them off ESL books entirely and try teaching language arts style(literacy based or content-based socials and science) classes from back home. To that end, I use the Treasures series put out by McGrawHill. It has a pretty good workbook to go with it (though the grammar book is a bit monotonous). Parts of it are skills based as well --something I really enjoy teaching.

It is a different style of teaching, but as I say it is also much more rewarding.

But again, how advanced?

Added: McGrawhill also has a graded version of their treasures series under the name Triumphs. It is meant for teaching struggling readers with a very leveled approach to phonics built into the stories and articles. I have also used this series as well.

Binch Lover · Joined: 25 Jul 2005

The best I have found for high level young learners is the Boost Series. There are separate books for grammar, listening, speaking, writing and reading, but you could just use the grammar book and supplement it with your own materials.

jiberish · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler

We use the let's go book for other classes and they are ok. Then we have some crummy books like all aboard and english land. But yeah, they are quite good students. I think the foreign materials sounds good along with stories etc. I will give that a whirl. Thanks

DavidVance · Joined: 21 Apr 2007

Jiberish,
Go to:
http://sites.google.com/site/multifactoreslenglish
Plenty of material, with Korean vocabulary, and translations when necessary - print and hand out, or bring onto the screen.
Regards,
David Vance.