Coming soon: Extra Easy (ESOL) Puzzles
It’s already July, the month I’d hoped to launch the next ESL Extras book, Extra Easy Puzzles – and we’re still doing the last few tweaks. My wonderful editor found a glitch I hadn’t even spotted (not a typo, but something that made a puzzle hard to do). Isn’t it always the way that you can look at something a … Continue reading
The ESL Small Publishers Independent Network: ESL-SPIN
If you’re interested in books written by other Australian EAL/ESOL teachers, look out for the ESL-SPIN table at your next event, and come and say hello to some members of the ESL Small Publishers Independent Network. We’re all long-term teachers and writers, creating the resources we’d like to use ourselves… then being challenged by the need to let people know about … Continue reading
Which ESL Extras book do you read first?
I got a lovely comment recently from a teacher asking which book follows Six Stories from Hope Street, so I thought I’d list the ESL Extras reading books in order of difficulty, starting from the easiest… Prelim and literacy Welcome to Hope Street (Prelim) is a ‘prequel’ to the Hope Street stories, specifically for preliminary or literacy learners who are … Continue reading
New ESL Extras title: ‘Welcome to Hope Street’
The new title in the ESL Extras series is out: Welcome to Hope Street. This introductory reader, at sentence level only, is designed for migrant learners still gaining literacy skills in English. So if you have learners who aren’t quite ready for Maybe Next Year or My Job is the Best, this might work for them. The challenge of the ‘prelim’ class … Continue reading
A free-to-download Australian ESOL resource
My Job is the Best There’s a new book out in the ESL Extras ‘Hope Street’ series, but this time it’s not available through bookshops…it’s free to download from the ESL Extras books page of this site. Like Maybe Next Year, My Job is the Best is at Beginner A level – for learners who are moving beyond reading single sentences, … Continue reading
