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-- 1. Decisions: Decision 1: Syllabus options. - Decision 2: Content or method. - Decision 3: Product or process. - Decision 4: Teaching strategies for beginners. - Decision 5: Classroom activities. - Decision 6: Introducing supplementary materials. - Decision 7: Giving instructions.

-- 2. First Lessons (10 activities)

-- 3. Basics (15 activities) Activities to help teach numbers, time, and colour in the first stages of learning English.

-- 4. Language Basics (11 activities) Activities which introduce several of the basic syntactic structures and phonological features of English.

-- 5. Roman script (11 activities)

-- 6. More words (13 activities) Activities to help students acquire vocabulary as fast as possible in the early stages of learning.

-- 7. Firsts (16 activities) A series of 'firsts' (e.g. First mime, First autobiography, First traveler's tale), so that students feel they are passing a number of landmarks in their language learning, which in turn leads to a greater sense of progress.

-- 8. Games (10 activities) Language games, each mirroring the routine of a well-known game.

-- 9. Interactions (7 activities) Activities to give students practice in interacting with the world outside the classroom. There are rehearsals for real encounters, as well as activities which involve actual interaction with native speakers.

-- 10. Self-improvement (13 activities) Activities which focus on developing learner strategies, promoting self-reliance, classroom support activities, peripheral learning,and self-study.

This book contains over 100 activities for both absolute and 'false' beginners, and for adults and children.