English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures (Free Online Audio) Paperback – Illustrated, November 10, 2015

Super helpful for my for teen and adult ESL classes and one of my favorites… it prompts lots of ideas and conversations.

My teenage son has gaps in his language comprehension. This book, designed for ESL, is a good one for him because it has drawings and very repetitive characters, scenerios that are common in everyday life but he needs help understanding. The speech bubbles help represent family relationships and pronouns. "HE is MY brother" for example (when it comes from the daughter in the family) helps him better understand the familial labels.I also bought Volume 2 , thinking Vol 1 would be too boring and basic for him...but it wasn't. It fills in some gaps I wasn't even sure existed. He needs me to read it along with him, asking questions, pointing, correcting, but it is better than flashcards because he can detect PATTERNS in the panels. For example, relationships illustrated all on one or two pages of cartoons: He is my father. He is my son. She is my wife. She is my mother... etc. all on one page with correct corresponding speech bubbles.And the drawings are not comical or talking animals or but depict obvious male/female parents/adults and male/female children (who are shorter than the adults so we can tell which is which) ... women have longer hair. men have short hair. simple and necessary sterotype distinctions NEEDED for my son to absorb the generalizations and helpful for me to teach him.

Having sought ESL material in vain across Asia, I found this book to be a blessing. All of the materials that I've found in Asia, even in university book stores, had been thrown together by non-native speakers and were rife with horrible, glaring mistakes on every single page. This is a disservice to a bright, talented student who could only aspire to speaking & writing the botched-up "English" in those materials.This isn't rocket science; this is just a simple, well-done product that fills a void.It is ingenious in its simplicity. Each simple page has plenty to expand on, e.g., I pointed to the sentence "My name's Anne." --which the student incorrectly read (on the first try) as "My name is Anne." I explained the discrepancy, she then said it perfectly, and I explained the role of the apostrophe here. The book also says "I'm Anne." I explained that this was equivalent, and I explained which forms were more common in speech, etc. I also explained that the apostrophe doesn't always indicate a contraction (when it's possessive), etc. So there is *plenty* to expand on. (And it does not harm the student to transcribe some into a notebook. :-)I would not recommend *any* book for self-study. For a young student who is truly on his own I would probably recommend a book that comes with audio recordings (of *native* speakers!), and hope for the best.

I'm using this book for my ESL students. I'm tutoring two women who recently arrived as refugees and spoke no English. I am not trained as a teacher. Luckily they had apparently studied English letters in their native country, so could read a little. My only wish is that the book began with somewhat more formal English. Instead of 'My name is Candy' or 'I am Candy' they are to say 'I'm Candy'. Numerous contractions immediately rather than a more formal it is, it does not, etc. However, with lots of laughter and encouragement (and occasional resorting to an on-line translator when we get stuck), the picture book format is working well. Not only are they having to learn English, but some of the sounds in English are totally foreign to their way of speaking. Their primary language does not have several sounds that are common in English -- the letter P, for instance, is very difficult. (not the fault of the book).

for beginners and young children

Disappointed at how passive the learning is - I was hoping for many worksheets that students could put what they learned into practice. Instead, the book is dominated by information being provided rather than asking student to apply what they had learned, and to learn through repetition.

With the pictures makes it easy to learn English

Ever wanted to give someone who doesn't speak, read, or write in English but would like to learn how a really awesome practical gift? Then "English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures" is the gift to give! People often learn best via pictures before they can learn a new language at the more advanced levels. If you know someone who wants to learn English as a second language -- or learn English at all, or simply need a refresher course that will help them cease to be functionally illiterate, or even want this for your own needs -- then buy this book from Amazon!