Appendix Overview
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Appendices A through F are taken from the free, downloadable Spoken English Learned Quickly language course (www.FreeEnglishNow.com). The purpose of each appendix is to demonstrate how certain kinds of audio exercise may be written. These examples are from an English language course because we must use English illustrations in this book. However, you may then use these examples to develop your own exercises in your target language. The exercises you write will always come from the sentences, expressions, and vocabulary found in the newspaper articles you are using in your target language.
Note that letter and number exercises are introduced in the first lesson. Each exercise is repeated in at least four lessons, though not always in the same lesson.
Appendix A: Introductory Lesson
A spoken language course using a proprio-kinesthetic method begins considerably differently than does a grammar-based language course. The purpose of Appendix A is to demonstrate to you that the very first lesson which is used for students with no prior English study begins with complete sentences. By the end of this first lesson, these beginning students will be able to use these sentences with reasonable fluently. Note, however, that all verbs are in the present tense. Both the alphabet and numbers are also introduced in this lesson. In exercise 1.9, the students are actually changing words when they respond.
Appendix B demonstrates text exercises. A newspaper article may be recorded on an audio recorder for spoken language instruction. Long sentences are broken into shorter phrases when necessary. The native speaker reads the phrase on the recording, and the student repeats the phrase during the pause as indicated by the ( ).
Appendix C illustrates a number of exercises which teach students how to ask a question, how to use objective pronouns, how to use "may" as a statement of condition, how to use "might" as a statement of condition, how to distinguish between "this" and "that," how to use "do" for emphasis, to use comparative and superlative forms of the adjective, how to distinguish between "every" (which includes all in the group), and "every...who" or "every...which" in which only some in a group are excluded, and how to change words like "high" to "height," "wide" to "width," "deep" to "depth," "long" to "length," "thick" to "thickness," "strong" to "strength," "weak" to "weakness," and "dark" to "darkness."
Appendix D: More Verb Exercises
Appendix D demonstrates three additional verb exercise formats.
Appendix E: Expression Exercises
Appendix E demonstrates two exercises which teach expressions.
Appendix F: Miscellaneous Exercises
Appendix F illustrates exercises which teach students how to use comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives which are modified by "more" and "most," how to use prepositions, how to express the range of possibility between "always" and "never," how to use two-word verbs, and how to use more polite phraseology to express thoughts.