Resources

Beginning ESL secondary

This resource provides support material for newly arrived secondary ESL learners. The material can be used with ESL students who:

• have minimal English or no English
• have arrived in Australia with literacy and schooling in their first language roughly equivalent to the stage of schooling they are entering in Australia.

Beginning ESL secondary – Support material for teachers of secondary new arrivals can be used by:

• teachers in mainstream classes who may be unfamiliar with the needs of ESL learners new to learning English
• ESL teachers
• literacy coordinators who may be given responsibility for assisting newly arrived students in schools.

This resource contains four units of work: Time, Personal identification, Body and health and The classroom. Each unit provides:

• learning outcomes likely from the topic
• a list of functions
• a list of language structures
• a vocabulary list
• references to other resources and materials that provide additional activities or information about the topic
• worksheets that can be photocopied or adapted for use, and information about how to use them. The worksheets are designed to be used with extensive oral work and discussion.

The four units of Beginning ESL secondary – Support material for teachers of secondary new arrivals are available as PDF files:

• Beginning ELS Secondary (Full document) (PDF - 3.1Mb)
• Introduction and Units 1 and 2 (PDF - 2.0Mb)
• Units 3 and 4 (PDF - 1.2Mb)

This publication is also available by mail order from Languages and Multicultural Resources Centre (LMERC). For mail orders see Order form for ESL, Multicultural Education and LOTE materials (Word - 69Kb).