How to Teach English to Absolute Beginners
1. Step 1
Get an ESL course book that clearly outlines a plan and goals for absolute beginners. A solid foundation in the basics is vital for your language students' further learning. Unfortunately though, when teaching beginners, it's all too easy skip over grammar and vocabulary you think they know. A good course book will keep you on track.
2. Step 2
Start with what they know. Especially in urban areas, very few people know no English. From TV, pop music or even advertising, many people have picked up phrases like "Thank you" and "I love you." Find out what your students know and build on those words and phrases.
3. Step 3
Get them talking with the Direct Approach. The Direct Approach is a dialogue-based language teaching method for absolute beginners. The teacher might walk up to a student and say "Hi. I'm Jamie. You are...?" using gestures for "I" and "you" until the student can reply correctly. You can teach a whole English course for absolute beginners this way, but there's room to mix in other ESL teaching methods too.
4. Step 4
Try Total Physical Response. This teaching methods involves students physically acting on the teacher's instructions. With this method you can move from the "He is Juan. This is a book." phrases of the Direct Approach to more involved English sentences like "Juan, please put this book on the smaller table."
5. Step 5
Use pictures. Pictures teach vocabulary fast. To avoid confusion, use pictures that show only on thing. Otherwise, make sure you clearly point out the object in the picture that you're naming. It's easy to teach English nouns and adjectives this way, but with verbs and adverbs, you'll still need to do a little acting to make sure you've clearly conveyed the word's meaning.
6. Step 6
Make good use of gestures and facial expressions in your ESL class. With facial expressions and body language, you can also teach words for feelings and opinions, such as "tired" and "love." You can also develop a set of gestures for certain common requests, such as pointing to your ear for "repeat." It may take a one or two lessons for all your ESL students to understand these signals, but overall it will speed up communication.

What are teaching, learning and strategy??

1. Teaching

Teaching is the act, practice, or profession of a teacher of gaining knowledge or skill and also something taught, the activities of educating or instructing or teaching activities that impart knowledge or skill


2. Learning
Learning is activity that increases the capacity and willingness of individuals, groups, organizations and communities to acquire and productively apply new knowledge and skills, to grow and mature and to adapt successfully to changes and challenges. Such learning empowers individuals and organizations to make wise choices, solve problems and break new ground. In particular, it is sustainable, it is a lifelong, renewable process for people and for the institutions that serves people. Learning certainly includes academic studies and occupational training through high school and beyond. But it also encompasses the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children in the earliest years of their lives.
3. Strategy
Strategy is the science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible. In addition it ‘s A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal.
4. The meaning of Teaching, Learning and Strategy
I think teaching, learning and strategy should have a good relation. "Teaching" is defined as the "the interaction of a student and a teacher over a subject. There may be one student or several in a class. The students can be young or old, bright or below average intelligence, "normal" or physically challenged, highly motivated or "turned off," rich or poor, male or female. Teaching involves a teacher and a student interacting over a subject in a setting and a teacher trying to teach someone something somewhere, but if there are no students, there is no teaching. Can there be teaching when there are students, but no teacher? There certainly can be learning without a teacher so the activity is called learning, not teaching. At the other side Students have a need to develop and exhibit competence. Teachers must assist them to develop competence as they engage in challenging tasks in which they can be successful. So that we need strategies. In conclusion we must build the Teaching and Learning Strategies area as an effective resource for teachers and students focusing on improved academic achievement and striving to meet new academic standards. . There must also be efficient methods of feeding that information back into the system so that there will be continuing progress in teaching and learning. It is also certain that these strategies are most effective when they are applied in positive, supportive environments where there is recognition of the emotional, social and physical needs of students .

aku berpaling tiba - tiba dan sahabatku ada di situ

Langit biru, mentari cerah bersinar
tak kubutuhkan siapapun, karena bisa kutaklukan dunia
siap menghadapi segala kemungkinan
kecualli
apa yang lalu terjadi
ada sesuatu di belakangku
aku berpaling tiba - tiba
Kau
kau ingin ku yakinkan diri aku tak kurang sesuatu apapun
kau coba hentikanku menmpuh resiko gila
aku tak butuh bntuan
aku tak butuh teman
tapi kau tetap saja disitu
Lalu hujanpun merinai
aku butuh seseorang dan aku sendirian tak mampu hadapi apapun jua \
sebelum
apa yang lalu terjadi
ada sesuatu di belakangku 'aku berpaling tiba - tiba
Kau
siap dengan pelukan yang kudamba'
lupa aku pernah tinggalkanmu
aku butuh bantuan
aku butuh teman
kau selalu disitu saat ku perlu

Sahabat dan kekasih

Jangan berjalan di depanku aku tak akan mengikutimu
jangan berjalan di belakangku aku tak akan menunjukan jalanmu
berjalanlah disisiku dan jadilah sahabatku..

Pernahkan kau jatuh cinta pada seorang sahabat atau ada sahabat yang pernah mengatakn bahwa ia " ada rasa" terhadapmu? pernahkan kau terpaksa secara halus mengecewakan seseorang karena kau hanya ingin berteman denganya? lalu bagaimana kalau seandainya kau sendiri yang harus menerima deklarasi" aku menyukaimu sebagai seorang sahabat?" ayo kita akui saja bahwa jika persahabatan sudah bercampur dengan romansa segala sesuatunya bisa membingungkan dan bahkan lebih sering menyakitkan.
Namun demikian berusahalah untuk selalu jujur dengan persaanmu,hati - hatilah menjaga perasaan kalian masing - masing karena kita berurusan dengan sahabat dan seandainya kita ingin persahabatan tetap terjalin perlihatkan respekmu dihadapannya maupun dibelakngnya, terakhir kita harus selalu ingat pada hal yang tepenting adalah pershabatan dan yang akan berlangsung lama adalah persahabatan...
jangan pernah menganggap bahwa tak jadi kekasih itu berarti tak bisa untuk menjadi shabat, itu tidak benar, berbagai banyak jenis hubungan yang bisa terjalin kenapa harus memilih untuk menjadi berantakan dibandingkan berumpun ditempat yang indah atas nama persahabatan.

Haruskah Menyesal atau malah berbangga

Kita menyadari bahwa, kita bukanlah orang yang paling beruntung, tapi disatu sisi kita pun pernah bertanya kenapa kita ga seberuntung orang lain,,,sayangnya kita tidak pernah bersyukur karena kita pun lebih beruntung daripada orang lain.
Berharap untuk mendapatkan sesuatu dengan cara yang mudah, tentunya tidak cukup dengan berpikir dan berpikir tanpa melakukan apapun setelah itu menyesal..
Tapi tau apa aku tentang hidup, biarlah orang - orang yang mengerti dan menyadari makna hidup itu sebenarnya, karena setiap orang memiliki batasan yang berbeda dalam memaknainya.