EFL English as a Foreign Language
ESL English as a Second Language
fort - fortified or strongly built defence building, often with walls and lookout towers, linked words fortress, fortified (adjective), fortify (verb)
fought - past tense of fight (not to be confused with thought, which is a noun and also the past tense of think, and fraught - mixed in with or stressed, for example, this scheme is fraught with problems
muscat - grape variety
musket - gun (old fashioned rifle you had to charge with a compressing plunger which used a ball to push the gunpowder down the barrel, dangerous - even to to people using them)
road - paved or tarmac wide path for vehicles, cars, lorries (US trucks)
rode - past tense of ride (eg Yesterday I rode in his car. In the old days people rode to the fair on horseback. On the remote islands they rode donkeys.)
Angela Lansbury teaches English, and English as a Second Language (ESL) and EFL (English for Foreigners) as a home tutor and school workshop leader / assistant.
What is the difference between EFL and ESL? EFL you start from scratch, teaching tenses and simple vocabulary at elementary level. Often to people passing exams. ESL your pupils already speak elementary English but often have mistakes brought in from speaking another first language. You have to correct mispronunciations, deal with pigeon English and Singlish where the same words are used by the pupil and their family and friends and everybody around them in a different way. ESL users often need conversation rather than written work. They need help correcting job applications.
You usually teach EFL entirely in the language you are teaching, such as English. In the Berlitz method, and from the Earworms discs, the pupil learns to speak by hearing the words repeated.
ESL, however, is often required by people who speak fluently but have poor pronunciation. Adults in offices need technical vocabulary for their work. Those in service industries need polite forms for dealing with customers (for example as a hotel receptionist). I would be teaching them to say, 'May I help you?, rather than phrases which sound rude, aggressive, demanding, threatening, such as a correct direct translation from (Mandarin) Chinese, 'You want to buy or not?'
ESL English as a Second Language
fort - fortified or strongly built defence building, often with walls and lookout towers, linked words fortress, fortified (adjective), fortify (verb)
fought - past tense of fight (not to be confused with thought, which is a noun and also the past tense of think, and fraught - mixed in with or stressed, for example, this scheme is fraught with problems
muscat - grape variety
musket - gun (old fashioned rifle you had to charge with a compressing plunger which used a ball to push the gunpowder down the barrel, dangerous - even to to people using them)
road - paved or tarmac wide path for vehicles, cars, lorries (US trucks)
rode - past tense of ride (eg Yesterday I rode in his car. In the old days people rode to the fair on horseback. On the remote islands they rode donkeys.)
Angela Lansbury teaches English, and English as a Second Language (ESL) and EFL (English for Foreigners) as a home tutor and school workshop leader / assistant.
What is the difference between EFL and ESL? EFL you start from scratch, teaching tenses and simple vocabulary at elementary level. Often to people passing exams. ESL your pupils already speak elementary English but often have mistakes brought in from speaking another first language. You have to correct mispronunciations, deal with pigeon English and Singlish where the same words are used by the pupil and their family and friends and everybody around them in a different way. ESL users often need conversation rather than written work. They need help correcting job applications.
You usually teach EFL entirely in the language you are teaching, such as English. In the Berlitz method, and from the Earworms discs, the pupil learns to speak by hearing the words repeated.
ESL, however, is often required by people who speak fluently but have poor pronunciation. Adults in offices need technical vocabulary for their work. Those in service industries need polite forms for dealing with customers (for example as a hotel receptionist). I would be teaching them to say, 'May I help you?, rather than phrases which sound rude, aggressive, demanding, threatening, such as a correct direct translation from (Mandarin) Chinese, 'You want to buy or not?'
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