Teaching Globish with GNG and Skype by David Hon This book is owned by the writer. Any unauthorized copying in any media, including publishing on the Internet or giving out by other means, is forbidden and protected under international copyright provisions. US Copyright Registry Case # 1-603560081 © 2011 David Hon Table of Contents Preface (in Globish) .......................................................................2 Beginning (also in Globish) ..........................................................3 Chapter 1 - Teaching the English That Adult Students Want .....5 Chapter 2 - The Value of Globish - English ................................10 Chapter 3 - What is GNG ( Globish IN Globish TM )? ...............15 Chapter 4 - Why Use Skype to Teach GNG? .............................20 Chapter 5 - Skype+GNG = The Hybrid Classroom ...................25 Chapter 6 - Immersion with "Most Useful" Words ...................28 Chapter 6 - Why 1500 Globish Words? ......................................33 Chapter 8 - Parent - Child and Other Variations .......................46 Chapter 9 - Ending This Beginning ...........................................51 Chapter 10 - Other Globish Materials ........................................56 Preface (in Globish) I am writing most of this book in English for English teachers and for administrators who want to understand the ideas of Globish and of hybrid courses. It is also for students of English who would like to show their English teachers how to structure a hybrid course in Globish. It is only the first part of a longer book to come, but I hope it explains some useful directions. Combined with online distance learning and student study with self-paced lessons, this method can give language skills faster and better. It can be done less expensively, in small or individual classes at any time, with no need for traveling to a school classroom. The end product will be students who have more sureness because they are using -- and speaking -- more correct English. What does Globish look like? The Preface you are now reading and the next -- Beginning -- part are written in Globish-level English so that the first thing you see is that Good Globish is Correct English. If you wish to see more Globish, Globish The World Over is the first book ever written completely in Globish, and GNG (Globish IN Globish) is the first language course ever written completely in Globish. - David Hon 2 Beginning (also in Globish) If you are a student, have you ever wished you could avoid a lot of cost and travel to attend very small language classes? Would you like to attend class whenever the time is good for you: after your work or perhaps when your children have gone to bed? Have you ever wished you could take a language course for only about 6 months and have just enough to travel or do business? And if you are a teacher, have you ever wished you could teach small classes after your regular work, and never travel from home? And have you wished you could help students work on well-defined areas of English that let them get what they need most quickly? And have you ever wanted to offer a short fixed group of lessons, rather than an endless process, to the new students? As a teacher, you may want to offer Globish (or Globish-English, which is the same). If students complete this Globish-level English with you, it will also form a solid basis if they want to take more English at a later time. Globish offers a closed system of English. It makes basic English students quickly able to communicate with other English speakers like themselves around the world. It will be correct English, but not extensive English. In other words, their Globish-English will be enough English to get things done. That is why the teacher of Globish does not need to be a native speaker, and often it is better if the English teacher is NOT a native English speaker because: 1. Explaining things in the student's native tongue is important at early stages, 2. Sympathizing with students lets a teacher design better learning experiences, 3. Available sound materials let any teacher demonstrate many ways of talking, 4. Some teachers who have learned English as a second language may be bb much better-educated in English grammar, linguistics, and teaching methods. 5. A teacher living in the student's country will have reasonable hourly rates. Globish IN Globish offers a complete learner-centered environment based on 26 lessons of Globish. The user is "immersed" in Globish from the very start. No student can start Globish IN Globish unless they can already read at least 350 of the most common words in English. That is where they begin with Globish. Skype offers the last piece, a way for the online student to get the direct value of having a live teacher. We are finding that teacher is needed at several points in the learning process -- but perhaps not as often as most schools require. This book will try to give you tools to achieve those goals. 3 If you are a student, GNG presents a total course for you to give to any English teacher, when you ask them to teach you Globish-English. With Globish IN Globish, they will know all they need to know about teaching you Globish in 6 months. However, you may need only a few hours of class with a teacher for each lesson. It is up to you to request this Globish choice, and this Skype method. Then you can have the values of a Hybrid course -- little or no travel, and classes when your time is best. With it, you can learn "enough" Globish - English to talk with the world. If you are a teacher, you can offer students the course they have wanted -- enough English but not Endless English -- using the Globish limitations. You can present the few helping classes with each student whenever you both choose. You won't have to always worry what you are going to do in the next lesson: you and the students will already know. And finally, you will be able to begin each student at exactly the level of his or her ability. As a teacher of English as well as Globish, you can make sure that their good Globish will make them understandable to English speakers, and will give them simple but correct English to build on. If they do decide to proceed to more complete English, Globish as they learn it in GNG will give them a level of BI in the Council of Europe's Framework of Reference for English. So Globish is a worthwhile use of English for most travel and business purposes. Globish is also a valuable base if they choose to study more English. This book tells you what you need to know, about Globish, and GNG, and Skype. It could change the way you teach, and perhaps even change your working life. Technical Words (to make Globish fit into your life.. ☺) Idiom - a special colorful way of using words -- but very difficult for the beginning speaker to understand. Lesson - a part of a course. There are 26 lessons in Globish IN Globish. Hybrid - with two different parts. When a course -- like GNG -- with computers and with teachers, it is a Hybrid. Immerse - having something all around you. When we swim, we are immersed in water. Linguistics - the study of language Grammar - rules for the structure of thoughts and relations between words in a language. Preface - a short note about the subject in general before beginning to discuss the subject in detail. Administrator - someone who manages a school or company Author's note : Now that you have read these first two examples of Globish in the Preface and Beginning , I now continue the rest of this book in English, with the idea that mostly English teachers will be reading it. 4 Chapter 1 - Teaching the English That Adult Students Want Adults who study English are investing in their future. They see that some use of English will be important to their global business, but to now it has been very unclear how much English they would need. Of course the English-teaching establishments will answer that everyone should aspire to being absolutely fluent in all aspects of English. However, the adults -- with families and business pressures taking so much of their time and energy, are perfectly correct in asking "How much English is enough?" Globish tries to provide an answer. Because this is such an ever-present question, it creates a dilemma in the mind of the adult student. For that reason, a study was conducted in a graduate school in Hungary that tried discovering the motivations of adult students of English and stating them in measurable way. Because they are only aware of English and not Globish, these findings were based on what they know at the time. We are allowed to share that study here, and thank its author, Krisztina Dlugosz for letting us show a short synopsis: ------------------------------------ Learning English Forever? What are Private Students’ Purposes in Studying English? By Krisztina Dlugosz, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary The sample group is 100 Hungarian students at a private language school in Pécs who study English. The aim of Dlugosz study was to elicit data on what motivation those students have, how much time they would like to spend on learning English, and what they think about the role of English in their lives. Her methodology was to ask these questions and put their combined answers into observable data. These were the questions, with specific answers reflected in graphs: 1. What is your purpose in learning English? 2. How do you feel about English? 3. How much time would you like to spend on learning English? Next: Summary of Findings: 5 Summary of Findings: #1 (What is your purpose in learning English? ) 50 % say they are learning English in order to be able to work abroad.