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Greetings, I am fairly new at teaching ESL. I just started teaching in a grade 4 classroom with one ESL student. He has been in the country for a few months but is picking up English very slowly. I would like to work with him while the rest of my class goes to French but I am told I cannot do this. ...

First, I know nothing about teaching esl. I have two ukrainian boys coming to my grade 4 classroom tomorrow morning. They can say 'hello' and 'thankyou' in English but do not know any other English. I will have an older lady from the community who can speak Ukrainian volunteering in the morning but ...