Berkmar Middle School
ESOL Workshop
Oct, 19, 2010
12:00 and 6:00 p.m.
Presented by Melissa Martin
Parent Instructional Support Coordinator
Certified in ESOL, Spanish, Portuguese

Where are there English classes for adults?
• Gwinnett Tech
• Churches
• Schools
• Language Schools
• Latin American Association
• Gwinnett Public Library

• www.meetup.com
(English, ESOL, ESL, Moms)
• Gwinnett Public Library:
“Let’s Talk”
 To practice English with other adults
 Informal conversations
 Variety of times/dates

• http://www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com/
• http://www.englishmedialab.com/beginnervi deos.html
• http://www.quia.com/shared/search
• http://www.linguisticfunland.com/teslact.html
• www.youtube.com
(look for “ESOL” o “ESL”)

• Children’s educational programs
• Soap operas
• News
NOTE: If your television can show closed captioning, you can read English while you watch your favorite programs.

• Practice your vocabulary out loud each day.
• Try to speak as much English as possible.
• Speak with different people in the community
(For example: Go to a restaurant and order something in English.)
**Note: Remember that you don’t have to speak perfectly to communicate!

Magazines
Advertisements
Newspapers
Books
Information on boxes or bottles
Yellow Pages
Lyrics while listening to music
**Note: Read with your children—learn with and from them.

• Set aside time in which everyone in the family speaks only in English.
• Write the names of objects on cards and place them throughout the house.
• Increase the minutes (until you are speaking
English all day and eventually, all week)

• Videos: English Yes I can!
• Workbooks: Side by Side
• Dictionaries
• Books
**Note: You can check out resources for up to two weeks using your child’s student number.

• English-(your language) dictionary and something to read
• Cards/Flashcards
• Recording equipment (tape recorder or VCR)
• Time: at least 20 minutes a day
• The desire to learn and practice
• Patience
• Good sense of humor about yourself

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Learning English through Music
“Beautiful Day” by U2
The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there's no room, no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck and you're not movin' anywhere
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace
It's a beautiful day,
The sky falls and you feel like
It's a beautiful day,
Don’t let it get away
You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over and it’s been all over you

It's a beautiful day,
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day,
Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me love, I know I’m not a hopeless case
See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
A beautiful day
Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
Don’t need it now
It was a beautiful day

• Newspaper
• Highlighter marker
• Flashcards
• Dictionary (English-your language)
• Envelope (to store the cards)

Melissa Martin
770-638-2310
Melissa_Martin@gwinnett.k12.ga.us
Open:
8:15-4:15
Monday-Friday