Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) involves teaching English overseas to students whose main language is not English. The aim of each lesson is to encourage the students to communicate with each other using the structures and vocabulary they have learnt, and to improve the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Use Red the Robot® to convey information to students in an interesting way and communicate a love and passion for the English language. Red the Robot® is a great tool for TEFL learners as it encompasses a large variety of resources, from audio-visual aids, more formal exercises, language games and literature. Red the Robot® can also be used successfully in role play activities.
Phase One complete set - Use Red the Robot® and activity cards as an audio-visual aid to recognise common words and phrases through simple sound and phonic activities.
Phase Two complete set - Use Red the Robot® and activity cards as an audio-visual aid to recognise phonemes and create connections between the sound and shape of letters. Includes High Frequency Words and simple grammatical sentence based listening activities.
Phase Three complete set - Use Red the Robot® and activity cards as an audio-visual aid to recognise graphemes and trickier phonemes. Includes simple reading and listening games and High Frequency word activities.
Phase One activity cards - For use alongside Red the Robot®. In addition to the Phase One complete set, allow more than one copy of an activity card to be used at the same time.
Phase Two activity cards - For use alongside Red the Robot®. In addition to the Phase Two complete set, allow more than one copy of an activity card to be used at the same time.
Phase Three activity cards - For use alongside Red the Robot®. In addition to the Phase Three complete set, allow more than one copy of an activity card to be used at the same time.
Storytime Red the Robot® - Let children listen to exciting stories about Red the Robot®. Children can follow stories and programme the pages they wish to hear. Each page finishes with a special sound to remind the child to turn the page. The storybooks create an excellent opportunity to introduce shadow reading. There are high frequency words and phonemes on the bottom of the page to encourage reading and listening skills.
Storybooks - Listen to Red the Robot® reading a story, follow using the books and look at the pictures to develop basic storylines. Red the Robot® delivers stories in a fun and friendly way. The storybooks create an excellent opportunity to introduce shadow reading. There are high frequency words and phonemes at the bottom of the page to initiate reading and listening skills.
Magic star Readers - Use to hear the magic of listening to Red the Robot® read a story or use as part of a fun bingo game with the interactive activity cards. These Magic Star Readers allows many children to use Reds® interactive activity cards and storybooks.
Red the Robot® CD Rom Let children independently match lower case to upper case letters, recognise rhyming patterns whilst introducing spoken simple phrases and key words. A simple programme that would be great as a plenary or independent learning session.
Talk Box complete set - Use puppets and the voice recorders to encourage speaking and listening skills in role play or as a one to one structured session. The four simple books are excellent for shadow reading and introducing simple phrases and words. Use the flashcards and talk box words to introduce new vocabulary with visual reminders.
Talk Box Red and Ray puppets and two voice recorders - Use to develop speaking and listening of key words and phrases and to initiate responses from less confident learners. Use the voice recorders to allow children to listen, copy and repeat words and simple phrases.
Talk box books - Engage children in simple familiar experiences with repetition and humour. Children can look and discuss the pictures whilst an adult or classmate introduces new vocabulary.