How To Teach English

Hi, I'm Carolina Massie from Greater London Tutors, and I am going to give you some information on how to teach certain subjects. So these are the basics on how to teach English. You can divide English up into speaking, writing, reading and listening.

You can ask yourself if the student is working towards a particular exam that they need help with, and then cater your information and your teaching towards that particular exam. You can divide English up into poetry, fiction and nonfiction and drama and use as many different literary texts as you can find. A great thing to do is to teach your students literary devices and techniques.

For example, alliteration, onomatopoeia, the power of three, et cetera. Find some exam practice questions and help your students to go through those and that will help them. It's a good idea to identify whether the piece of the text that they are reading, or writing, is trying to "analyze, review and comment," "argue, persuade and advise," "entertain or imagine," or "inform" and a great way for them to be able to identify this is by using G.

A.P. and L.

I.S.T.

G.A.P.

is Genre, Audience and Purpose, so what genre is this text, is it a letter, is it a newspaper article, is it a literary text? Who is the intended audience? Is it written for adults, children or the general public? What's the purpose? Is it to inform, imagine, entertain, argue? Look at the language. This is where the literary devices come in handy. What techniques have they used in that particular text? What's the information that's being given? What's the style of the writing? And what's the tone? If you read it out loud, what would be your tone of voice? Would it be sad, would it be angry? Make sure you use current texts that are suitable for the level of your student, and you can use anything you like- the more current and the more suitable for their age, the more interesting it will be for them.

There are plenty of resources online that the students can also use to help them, for example spark notes or bite size, and be sure to use a multi-sensory approach, as many different aids and tools as you can, whether they be visual, or audio. So these are the basics on how to teach English! .