SE Consultant Notes Guide

The SE teaching method is based on the student as much as possible. Content for class should come from the student – from conversation, from written homework, from spoken stories in class – as often as possible. Class notes are generated in class and all exercises and homework given should be focused on the students’ specific needs and goals, and whenever possible homework should be focused on the content from today’s class or recent classes.

GRAMMAR

Grammar corrections & teaching should come from conversation, and taken from speaking & writing exercise corrections

Corrections

From conversation or writing or speaking exercises

Grammar

I go went to the office yesterday.

He was cooking dinner.

Is Are they coming from your home country?

I see the news before. – I have seen that news before.

Note: when correcting writing & speaking, always make small corrections rather than rewriting whole sentences (where possible). The idea is to improve the student’s English to the next level, not to a native level.

Writing Homework Corrections

There are many different kinds of species live in forest. Some are very cute animals like rabbits and deers, others are predators like snakes and lions. One day, there is a tiger walking in the forest and other animals are afraid of it. A little fox follows that tiger, it is the associate of the tiger, so it seems like animals are afraid of that little fox. The fox feels so elation. But a tiger is always a tiger, at the end of that journey, the tiger eats that little fox because it feels hungry. They will never been peers because they are quite different species and they can’t translate others “language”.

There are many different kinds of species that live in forests. Some are very cute animals like rabbits and deer, others are predators like snakes and tigers. One day, there was a tiger walking in the forest and the other animals were afraid of it. A little fox followed that tiger, it is the associate of the tiger, so it seems like animals are afraid of that little fox. The fox feels so elated(adj). But a tiger is always a tiger, at the end of that journey, the tiger eats that little fox because it feels hungry. They will never be peers because they are quite different species and they can’t translate each others “language”.

In Class Speaking Exercise Corrections

You know that I have a kid, mty son 1.5 years old. I bought him a tool, a big one that you can climb to top and foo, up and down. yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play it, actually he a little bit scared, but I think he pretend to be funny because everyone in the family are encouraging him from up to the bottom, and after that he just smile, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video, for the whole from the start to the end. So everytime I watched the video its really funny.

You know that I have a kid, my son who’s one and a half years old. I ordered him a toy, a big one that you can climb to the top and slide up and down down. Yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play with it, actually he was a little bit scared, but I think he pretended to be happy because everyone in the family was encouraging him to slide down, he did and after that he just smiled, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video from the start to end. So everytime I watch the video its really funny.

VOCABULARY

Focus on WORD CHOICE and teaching vocab PHRASES

Direct Corrections

Vocabulary

it’s ok it’s delicious – it was ok / it was pretty good / it was decent 

we are university classmates / we went to university together 

super – incredibly – amazingly 

we should get lunch together with you

we created made plans
eg: We made plans to go to Beijing.

it will get red
eg: My eyes will get red if I sit too close.

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New Vocabulary

1. You MUST write EXAMPLE SENTENCES for each new vocabulary word.

2. Use    Learnersdictionary.com  (APP available for 30 Yuan) for simple English definitions. Or create your own simple definition with easy words that the student can understand

regulate (v) – to control something, usually by making rules or laws.
eg: It is important to regulate medicine so people know it is safe.
eg: They need to regulate some websites.

cream (n) – a very thick liquid or soft substance, can be from a liquid
eg: I put a little cream in my coffee.
eg: I like milk coffee, it is very creamy.

comfortable (adj) – shu fu
eg: this chair is very comfortable
eg: the weather today is so comfortable!

“What goes around comes around” – if you do something bad, bad things will come to you in the future

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Upgrading Words – Speaking Exercise / Writing Homework

Use speaking text or written text and upgrade vocabulary from corrected version.

Original

You know that I have a kid, mty son 1.5 years old. I bought him a tool, a big one that you can climb to top and foo, up and down. yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play it, actually he a little bit scared, but I think he pretend to be funny because everyone in the family are encouraging him from up to the bottom, and after that he just smile, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video, for the whole from the start to the end. So everytime I watched the video its really funny.

Corrected

You know that I have a kid, my son who’s one and a half years old. I ordered him a toy, a big one that you can climb to the top and slide up and down down. Yesterday it arrived and I asked him to play with it, actually he was a little bit scared, but I think he pretended to be happy because everyone in the family wasencouraging him to slide down, he did and after that he just smiled, but its kind of an embarrassing smile so I took a video from the start to end. So everytime I watch the video its really funny.

Upgraded

You know that I have a kid [ child / son ], my son who’s one and a half years old [ one and a half / 1.5 years old / 18 months old ]. I ordered [ bought ] him a toy, a big [ large / huge ] one that [ which ] you can climb to the top and slide down. Yesterday [ the other day / a day or so ago ] it arrived [ was delivered ] and I asked him to [ got him to / requested that he ] play with it…

Choose words & phrases that the student isn’t very familiar with or that are particularly important, and teach them below.

18 months old / 18 month old
eg. I have an 18 month old baby
eg2. My son is 18 months old

which / that
eg. I have a computer which I use every day.
eg2. I have a computer which is black.

The other day – a day recently
eg. I went to the grocery store the other day and bought some vegetables

PRONUNCIATION

When focusing on pronunciation ensure that ONLY pronunciation is the focus. This means simple reading texts and simple conversation is a must. Pronunciation for individual words taught in class can be added to the vocabulary entry.

Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced level articles can be found on the right hand side of the new post page of the SE website.

Corrections & Teachings

describe – des kr eye b

pronounce – pro now nsss

Long A sound = aaaeeeee
remember the “eeee” sound at the end of the “A” like “play / game / train”

HOMEWORK

Ensure homework is based on today’s class AND/OR the student’s specific English needs

A: Grammar (Automatically generated instructions)

Do some writing and focus on the grammar you learned in class today.

B: Vocabulary (Automatically generated instructions)

Use some of the vocabulary from today in some writing. Choose a topic that lets you use the words we learned.

C: Custom Homework

1 – Custom instructions – eg. Read the plot from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bicycle_Thief_(Modern_Family) and write down any words you don’t know. Talk about them next class.
2 – Vocabulary based custom HW – eg. Write about your trip next week and try to use higher level words for some of the simple words you use.
3 – Grammar based custom HW – eg. Write about the topic we discussed today and focus on using “have done” and “had done”

NEXT CLASS FOCUS

This is an instruction to both the student and next class teacher to focus on a particular exercise or area of English in their next class

Focus on L and R pronunciation by reading from SE @ HOME and making sure she is moving her mouth correctly.

Of course any instruction like this is fine, as long as the teacher has a clear idea of what to do next class.

Example notes layout

Strikethrough:

Word = Big Mistake

Italics:

Word = Student’s words / Mistakes

Bold:

Word = Correction / Missing Word or Phrase

Underline:

Word? = A Teacher’s Question for Student

Conversation:

USE INDENT BUTTON

Teacher: Are you busy today?

Student: I no busy. – I’m not busy.

Teacher: Do you have any free time later?

Student: Yes, have time. – Yes, I have time later. What do you need?

Teacher: Can we review the plan? I still have some questions.

Student: Yes, is nothing. Can review with you together. – Yeah, no problem. We can review

it with you together.