How can I use my textbook?
Posted: 11 Nov 2006, 22:37
Dear Lucy,
I am a new ESL teacher for French high school-age students (3-6 years of English). I am finding that the textbooks that the school currently uses are really really bad. Most of it is in French, which I don't understand, including the grammar sections. The books are written by French people and no native English speakers contributed from what I can tell. I don't really know what to do, partly because of my own inexperience, and because there isn't really a method to the book. I was wondering if you could suggest a way to cope with this horrible book (they are published by Nathan if that means anything to you) or if you could recommend a good textbook for French teenagers (2, 1er and Terminale). I am finding that many people here complain that they can't learn a foreign language, but with the textbooks that they are using I can understand why.
Thanks,
Kate
I am a new ESL teacher for French high school-age students (3-6 years of English). I am finding that the textbooks that the school currently uses are really really bad. Most of it is in French, which I don't understand, including the grammar sections. The books are written by French people and no native English speakers contributed from what I can tell. I don't really know what to do, partly because of my own inexperience, and because there isn't really a method to the book. I was wondering if you could suggest a way to cope with this horrible book (they are published by Nathan if that means anything to you) or if you could recommend a good textbook for French teenagers (2, 1er and Terminale). I am finding that many people here complain that they can't learn a foreign language, but with the textbooks that they are using I can understand why.
Thanks,
Kate