Resources for English B’Yachad Tutors
Check out our recorded training sessions, sites featuring easy English articles and readings, tips for grammar and pronunciation, work-related hi-tech suggestions.
Do you have go-to suggestions for tutoring and mentoring your student? Drop us an email at mgamoran@skillvolunteerisrael.org to share and we’ll add to this page!
Training Sessions – Recorded
The Skilled Volunteers for Israel Youtube channel includes all the video recordings of trainings and group chats for English B’Yachad: training videos
- Links to training videos with associated handouts:
- Creative Strategies for Tutoring – Group Chat
- Train the Tutor: Mentoring the Adult Student – Group Chat
- Using Google Docs as a Tool for Collaboration
- Using Text as a Tool for Structuring a Lesson – Jean Farber
- Improving Student Writing – Bob Freud
- Improving Student Pronunciation – Bob Freud
- Vowel color chart handout
- Stress-Intonation Bob Freud handout
- Bob Freud Sample Pronunciation Session with Student
The English B’Yachad Training Resource Guide: Tutoring Resource Guide v10 25.8.2020
Finding Text Opportunities for Lessons
English at the Movies – a site run by the Voice of America with short video clips that are fun. Tutor Margie Gann uses these clips for the last five minutes of her sessions and the clips often focus on idioms – both informative and a very fun way to end a session
Short Stories for ESL Learners
English Online: Articles in Easy English for Learners
ESL Topics: Pronunciation and Language Usage and Intonation
Hadar Shemesh Podcast on pronunciation
ESL Topics: Sample English Lessons and Materials
Getting to know your student and other ESL activities and worksheets
ESL Topics: Grammar
Verb Tenses Powepoint for explaining and understanding Verb Tenses (also listed in the guide)
verb tenses with conjugating – Kathy Judd
Visual of Vowel Sounds for Pronunciation
Hi-Tech-Work Related Resources
Blog post featuring vocabulary words every programmer should know
Sample Interview Questions that Programmers Can Practice
Cover Letter Samples
Blog with 17 must ask questions for technology careers. https://www.roberthalf.com/blog/how-to-interview-candidates/7-must-ask-tech-interview-questions
