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Offline margus101

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Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2011, 10:01:24 am »
My co-teacher has advised me that a budget has been set for purchasing English resources, predominately books. Does anyone have any ideas?

A mix of books- grammar, novels, non-fiction books, anything that would be suitable for intermediate-high level high school students.
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Offline ntbrewer

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Re: Need to find a list of good high school English resources (books).
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2011, 02:24:16 pm »
Same here. I have to find books for my after school classes that start next month.  I'm in a Medical Info H.S. but the kids English ability is very low so I'm not sure where to begin looking.  Any advice would be great.  Thanks!
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Re: Need to find a list of good high school English resources (books).
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2011, 08:32:12 pm »
Hey, looks like quite a few of us have this predicament. My head English teacher gave me a form today for requesting books for the English Cafe or as teaching materials. Deadline Monday. I'm like, WTF? I wasn't expecting to need anything. Anyway, I might just tell him the class text and any materials I (i.e. Waygook*) supply will be sufficient.

*Actually I made my first from-scratch lesson yesterday. I'll post it soon and finally contribute!
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Re: Need to find a list of good high school English resources (books).
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2011, 09:54:06 pm »
I had this situation a few years ago
In the end I requested English teaching methodology books to improve my teaching and the teachers after me in my school.
They got them all!! :o (maybe a hint LOL) but I do use them and found them useful for reference when doing essays for my online TEFL course and put me in a mood for doing an MA.
i suppose you could get the reading list for your online MA course and just order them!!! see what happens..
just a thought if you need to spend a few thousand bucks,we  got a load of cool dictionaries too and movie DVDs which are now covered with dust and have never been touched
the travel scrabbles are not covered with dust, that was a good buy, we got 6 travel scrabbles, custom designed for after school classes and winter/summer school camps
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Re: Need to find a list of good high school English resources (books).
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2011, 10:27:47 pm »
http://www.oup-bookworms.com/oxford-bookworms.cfm

The Oxford Bookworms series, which consists of ESL adaptations of classic literature. I use them for some of my extra classes, and the students enjoy them.

Also, Jeremy Harmer's "How to Teach English" is a classic...

http://www.amazon.com/How-Teach-English-Jeremy-Harmer/dp/0582297966
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Offline sammyjones

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Re: Which textbook, if any, do you use in your high school classes?
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2011, 10:45:58 am »
I'm teaching Practical English Conversation too. At a technical High school. The book is for basic level but it's way too advanced for my lot :/
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Offline expat2001

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Re: Which textbook, if any, do you use in your high school classes?
« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2011, 10:16:34 am »
How did you guys get a text book ? I tried asking for one last year , yet nothing materialised. Im running out of practicle ideas .
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Offline a4nebou

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Re: Which textbook, if any, do you use in your high school classes?
« Reply #27 on: May 11, 2011, 02:39:44 pm »
I'm using highschool english 1 for the 2nd graders.
I don't think it is interesting though.  :(
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« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2011, 01:21:27 pm »
This is the first quarter of a writing book the other foreign teacher at my school and I put together for our students for next semester.  I still have to finish editing and formatting the rest of it but since my deadline is this Wednesday, I'll post the rest of it by the end of the week.
Each unit is designed to cover four 50 minute lessons. There are 12 units in total and three supplementary units of additional notes with an answer sheet.

A brief overview of contents:
Unit 1 - Punctuation (periods, commas, colons, semicolons, hyphens and dashes)
Unit 2 - Comics and Advertising
Unit 3 - E-mailing and Texting
Unit 4 - Letter of Complaint
Unit 5 - Topic and Supporting Sentences
Unit 6 - Paragraph Structure and Organisation
Unit 7 - Newspaper Writing
Unit 8 - Writing a Personal Essay
Unit 9 - Writing an introduction (Argumentative essay)
Unit 10 - Writing a conclusion (Argumentative essay)
Unit 11 - Writing the Body of an Argumentative essay
Unit 12 - Editing
Appendix A - Plagiarism and Referencing
Appendix B - Summarising
Appendix C - A description of some basic academic task vocabulary
Appendix D - Writing Checklist


I've now uploaded the entire book in one file.
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Offline sweetiesmith

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Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #29 on: October 26, 2011, 03:19:07 am »
Next week I start work at a high school. I've worked in elementary for two years, so I'm a little nervous. The school doesn't have a textbook, nor do they want one for that matter. I would like some sort of guidebook/website for myself for lesson ideas. The school wants basically culture lessons. So if anyone has a good culture book that I can create lesson plans out of, or a good website, that would be sooooo helpful. Any input will help.
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Offline taebaekluke

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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #30 on: October 26, 2011, 01:33:34 pm »
i've heard waygook.org is a pretty good resource for that kind of stuff...
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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #31 on: October 26, 2011, 09:11:35 pm »
Thanks for the sarcasm . I can't really use waygook all that much because that all the previous teacher used with the students for the last year and half.  I'm not going repeat the lessons....but thanks for your idea. ::)
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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #32 on: October 27, 2011, 01:21:38 pm »
I would suggest going to your local bookstore and seeing what books they have available there. I know Kyobo bookstore in Seoul has a collection of high school English textbooks that might be helpful if the school hasn't supplied you with one.
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Offline sweetiesmith

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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #33 on: October 27, 2011, 01:32:14 pm »
Thanks, but the school doesn't want a traditional textbook. My other coteachers are teaching grammar and conversation in their classes. To my understanding, they just want the cultural aspect of the English speaking countries.
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Offline roentgen15

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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #34 on: November 04, 2011, 02:47:19 pm »
I'm in a similar situation. I'm at a high school that did not provide a book so I went through Waygook materials and changed some things and presented some content to students. It has worked ok but I'd like to have a textbook or workbook for the next school year. My concern is that the school is not going to pony up the money or ask the parents to do so either. I think the most valuable thing would be something you can make on your own or with the help of others. I'd love a text book just so that there's a shared reference and I don't have to print a million handouts each week.
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Offline shhowse

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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #35 on: November 05, 2011, 07:59:35 am »
This website might help a little bit: http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/

The lessons are mostly based on small articles and then grammar and vocab review, but at least it could give you some topic ideas for celebrations (=culture) to discuss. You could use it as a starting point to build other activities around.

I also recommend another user's suggestion of going to a bookstore and checking out what they have. Not necessarily to purchase something for your class, but just to browse and flip through books, looking for topic / activity ideas.

Maybe you could turn your class into mini project based lessons, revolving around the major English speaking countries of the world. Break it down into looking at their food/celebrations/music and movies, etc.

And, as others have already said, waygook.org is probably one of the best places to get started, again if only for ideas. As the person looking after this board, I can say that it definitely is not up to date at the moment, but the master list of high school topics would be a good thread to check out. There are tons of cultural lessons here that could be useful to you.
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Offline kcholak

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Re: Textbook or websites for High school students
« Reply #36 on: November 08, 2011, 01:18:14 am »
I would use textbooks as guides for the flow of the course, but I would always call upon online resources and technical books. Even getting guest speakers in who are experts in a topic is more valuable and engaging than having kids read page after page in the same old textbook.
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