Welcome!: English for Christian English Language Learners

By Christopher Jones

Welcome! presents English language learning and practice in a Christian context. It provides rich opportunities for the development of all language skills including speaking, pronunciation, reading, listening, spelling, and writing through a wide variety of exercises. Explanations are clear, simple, and easy to remember. There are grammar exercises, comprehension questions, pronunciation drills, listening exercises, writing exercises, making a sentence exercises, and word search puzzles for vocabulary reinforcement. Suitable for high beginner to intermediate level learners.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483542652

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To the learner

Welcome! is a collection of stories about the Christian life, including new believers. They deal with many of the challenges Christians face in every day life situations. Each story has an inspirational Biblical point, which offers hope and encouragement to all.

Stories have accompanying practice exercises. First, there are comprehensive questions, which test your ability to recall and understand what you read in the story. Then a grammar point is explained, followed by a grammar exercise. And finally, for vocabulary reinforcement, there is a word search puzzle of key words from the story.

You can use Welcome! for self-study or in a classroom or small group setting. For self-study, your Bible and a dictionary will be helpful aides. For the classroom, you’ll have benefit of the teacher. It is recommended for learners at the high beginner to intermediate levels.

To the teacher

Suggested lesson presentation.

1. Brainstorm/discuss the story and the Biblical point. Elicit and explain unfamiliar vocabulary, starting with the list words. They can write in their own unfamiliar word in the empty number 9 slot. Practice pronunciation of the list words as well others from the story.

2. Reading practice. Utilize your preferred reading practice. Such as:

~the students read silently

~they take turn reading out loud to the class

~the teacher reads a sentence at a time while the students read aloud after each sentence, etc.

3. The students do the comprehension questions. The teacher is available to give individual help. When finished, the teacher takes up the answers; perhaps by asking a student to ask another student the question. Make any necessary correction to the students’ answers and write the correct answers on the board for the other students to check against their answers.

4. The teacher teaches and explains the grammar point. The students do the grammar questions. The teacher takes up the answers.

5. The teacher teaches or reviews the (common) word order of English sentences; subject-verb-object. Let them know the scrambled sentences are all taken from the story. They unscramble the sentences. The teacher checks their work. With advanced students, they can check their own work using the story.

6. The word search puzzle exercise. This is light stuff (and hopefully) fun, but it helps to develop spelling skills and reinforces vocabulary. Tell the students all the listed words to find are from the story. The words are in straight lines and go up, down, and diagonally. They do not go backwards.

1. We Can Believe in God

1. bought

2. digs

3. holes

4. horseshoe

5. designed

6. designer

7. exist

8. creator

9.

The Faria family bought a new home. One day Mr. Faria digs some holes in his backyard. He wants to plant some fruit trees. He finds an old horseshoe in the ground. It has mud and rust all over it. He doesn’t know how long it was in the ground. But he knows someone designed and made this simple horseshoe.

Let’s look at ourselves. Our human body is so well designed. It sees, grows, runs, walks, jumps, hears, and breathes, etc. And it does many other things some of us don’t even understand. Everything designed has a designer.

Now let’s look at the sky at night when there are no clouds. All the stars and planets you see exist in order and harmony together. Everything created has a creator.

We can believe in God because of the wonderful ways he has created all things around us.

Comprehension questions

1. What did the Faria family buy?

2. What does Mr. Faria dig in his backyard?

3. What does he want to do?

4. What does he find in the ground?

5. What is so well designed?

6. What are 7 things the human body does?

7. What exists in order and harmony together?

8. Why can we believe in God?

Grammar questions

The simple present tense is used to say things that are true in general, or to say things that usually happen. Use the basic form of the verb when the subject is we/I/you/they. or persons. When the subject is he/she/it or a person the basic verb has a final –s on the end. Choose either the base form or the –s form of the verb suggested at the left of each sentence to fill in the blanks.

hear 1. I ____________ a knock on the door.

walk 2. You ____________ to school.

know 3. They ____________ my name.

look 4. Fabiane ____________ for her keys.

help 5. Roberto, Nathalia, Daniella, and Stephanie ____________ her look.

see 6. Carlos ____________ many stars in the Pleiades constellation.

want 7. He ____________ to study English.

grow 8. We ____________ orchids and begonias in our garden.

dig 9. Squirrels ____________ holes and bury their nuts in them.

Unscramble

1. home / new / a / bought / family / Faria / the

2. some / digs / Faria / Mr. / backyard / his / in / holes

3. he / trees / wants / fruit / to / some /