English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures (Free Online Audio)

Using for a very elementary start for ESL.

Um bom recurso para professores de inglês usarem nas aulas, mas não indico para quem quer aprender pois pode ser bem confuso se você não entende a língua.

Very satisfied.

Greet

My teenage son has gaps in his language comprehension. This book, designed for ESL, is a good one for him because it has drawings and very repetitive characters, scenerios that are common in everyday life but he needs help understanding. The speech bubbles help represent family relationships and pronouns. "HE is MY brother" for example (when it comes from the daughter in the family) helps him better understand the familial labels.I also bought Volume 2 , thinking Vol 1 would be too boring and basic for him...but it wasn't. It fills in some gaps I wasn't even sure existed. He needs me to read it along with him, asking questions, pointing, correcting, but it is better than flashcards because he can detect PATTERNS in the panels. For example, relationships illustrated all on one or two pages of cartoons: He is my father. He is my son. She is my wife. She is my mother... etc. all on one page with correct corresponding speech bubbles.And the drawings are not comical or talking animals or but depict obvious male/female parents/adults and male/female children (who are shorter than the adults so we can tell which is which) ... women have longer hair. men have short hair. simple and necessary sterotype distinctions NEEDED for my son to absorb the generalizations and helpful for me to teach him.