Tried and True ESL Lessons is a four level adult ESL curriculum for beginner through advanced students.  Tried and True ESL Lessons is designed for the faith-based ESL program. Tried and True ESL Lessons introduces relevant material practical for everyday life in an English speaking country. Tried and True ESL Lessons utilizes a functional approach.  The integrated skills curriculum features vocabulary with photographic illustrations, speaking, listening, grammar, pronunciation, and communication practice activities around a specific topic. Each lesson also contains a brief biblical principle related to the content

Components

Each level of Tried and True ESL Lessons features a student book, an instructor guide, and an instructor’s resource manual.  Since many faith-based ESL programs meet only once a week for an academic year, each level offers a Book A with 13 lessons for the Fall, and Book B with 16 lessons for the Spring.

    Student Text

Tried and True ESL Lessons Student features a strong emphasis on building speaking, listening, grammar, and pronunciation skills about real life topics.  Assignments in each lesson continue student learning outside the classroom.  For more than 25 years, thousands of ESL students have entered Professor Black’s classes as strangers and have finished class as family.  Now Professor Black welcomes you to Tried and True ESL Lessons. Join the family and learn to speak English.

Instructor’s Guide

Tried and True ESL Lessons Time Saving Lesson Plans for Instructors features fully developed adult ESL lesson plans that emphasize vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and speaking activities.  A related biblical principle helps instructors share concepts of faith.

These ESL lesson plans, developed from 25 years of Barbara Black’s classroom teaching experience, are a real time saver for both the professional and volunteer instructor.  The format is easy to use in the classroom as the instructor text is interleaved with the student book.      

instructor's resource manual

Tried and True ESL Lessons Time Saving Lesson Plans for Instructors – Resource Manual is an optional resource for instructors and features full color photographs of the illustrations which appear in the Tried and True student book and instructor’s guide in black and white.  The Resource Manual is a handy resource for instructors to aid with student comprehension during classroom presentation.   

Level 1

Level 1 is designed for beginner level students who are literate in their first language and would be equivalent to a Level 1 in most popular ESL curriculum series on the market.  To request a sample lesson plan, click here

Level 2 is designed for high beginner or low intermediate level students and would be equivalent to a Level 2 in most popular ESL curriculum series on the market.  To request a sample lesson plan, click here

level 3

Level 3 is designed for intermediate level students and would be equivalent to a Level 3 and 4 in most popular ESL curriculum series on the market.  To request a sample lesson plan, click here

Advanced Vocabulary is designed for high intermediate and advanced students and would be equivalent to Level 4 and 5 in most popular ESL curriculum series on the market. To request a sample lesson click here

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Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A High Beginner and Intermediate ESL is a multi-level ESL text for high beginner and intermediate students.  Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis is designed for the faith-based ESL program.  It can be used with a multi-level class, with a Level 2 High Beginner class, or a Level 3 Intermediate class.  It can be used in a weekly ESL program or during a traditional Bible Study time.  Each lesson is carefully crafted to be a stand alone lesson on a specific topic whether it is used in a weekly 90-minute class session or in two 45-minute class sessions.  The exciting stories from the book of Genesis serve as the basis for Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A.  A survey of Genesis reveals a number of relevant topics of interest to the modern-day immigrant experience.  Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A utilizes a functional approach and features integrated skills of speaking, listening, grammar, pronunciation, and communication practice. Click here to request sample lesson plans.

components

Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A features a student book, instructor guide, and instructor’s resource manual. 

student text

Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A, Student features a strong emphasis on building speaking, listening, grammar, and pronunciation skills in the context of modern real life topics relevant to internationals who find themselves adapting to living in English speaking countries.

instructor's guide

Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis, Book A, Instructor features fully developed ESL lesson plans that emphasize vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and speaking activities.  Each lesson plan is carefully designed to allow instructors to teach in either a 90-minute class session, or two 45-minute class sessions.  Easy to follow teaching directions ensure instructors present a complete ‘stand alone’ lesson on the topic during each of the 45 minute class sessions so students who attend just one of the two sessions still receive a complete lesson.  Instructors appreciate that the student text is interleaved in the instructor edition.

resources

The optional Tried and True Everyday English from Genesis Resources is a manual for instructors which serves as a useful aid for comprehension during classroom presentation as it contains full color photos of the pictures and illustrations that appear in the student book in black and white.