English Made Easy Volume One: A New ESL Approach: Learning English Through Pictures (Free Online Audio)

I think this book is very suitable for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners and beginners who want to improve their English. The content of the book is divided into different units, and each unit covers practical everyday scenarios, such as shopping, asking for the time, and asking for directions. This helps beginners understand how to handle these situations and learn the common English expressions related to them.At the beginning of each unit, there is an introduction that outlines the vocabulary, phrases, and sentences to be learned in that unit. This design allows readers to quickly grasp the key learning points. Additionally, the book includes exercises that help readers practice and familiarize themselves with the vocabulary, phrases, and sentences mentioned. What makes this book particularly special is its use of comics to explain the content, making it easier for readers to understand the details of each scenario and significantly enhancing the learning experience.However, I have a small suggestion: although the book provides some grammar tips, it doesn’t offer detailed explanations. I think it would be even better if each unit included some basic grammar or sentence structure explanations to clarify why certain sentences are expressed in specific ways. This would help readers gain a more comprehensive understanding of sentence structures.Overall, I am very satisfied with this book. It effectively helps English beginners improve their language skills, especially for conversation. While the book could improve in the grammar section, I still highly recommend it to those who need to build a solid foundation in English.

My teenage son has gaps in his language comprehension. This book, designed for ESL, is a good one for him because it has drawings and very repetitive characters, scenerios that are common in everyday life but he needs help understanding. The speech bubbles help represent family relationships and pronouns. "HE is MY brother" for example (when it comes from the daughter in the family) helps him better understand the familial labels.I also bought Volume 2 , thinking Vol 1 would be too boring and basic for him...but it wasn't. It fills in some gaps I wasn't even sure existed. He needs me to read it along with him, asking questions, pointing, correcting, but it is better than flashcards because he can detect PATTERNS in the panels. For example, relationships illustrated all on one or two pages of cartoons: He is my father. He is my son. She is my wife. She is my mother... etc. all on one page with correct corresponding speech bubbles.And the drawings are not comical or talking animals or but depict obvious male/female parents/adults and male/female children (who are shorter than the adults so we can tell which is which) ... women have longer hair. men have short hair. simple and necessary sterotype distinctions NEEDED for my son to absorb the generalizations and helpful for me to teach him.

Having sought ESL material in vain across Asia, I found this book to be a blessing. All of the materials that I've found in Asia, even in university book stores, had been thrown together by non-native speakers and were rife with horrible, glaring mistakes on every single page. This is a disservice to a bright, talented student who could only aspire to speaking & writing the botched-up "English" in those materials.This isn't rocket science; this is just a simple, well-done product that fills a void.It is ingenious in its simplicity. Each simple page has plenty to expand on, e.g., I pointed to the sentence "My name's Anne." --which the student incorrectly read (on the first try) as "My name is Anne." I explained the discrepancy, she then said it perfectly, and I explained the role of the apostrophe here. The book also says "I'm Anne." I explained that this was equivalent, and I explained which forms were more common in speech, etc. I also explained that the apostrophe doesn't always indicate a contraction (when it's possessive), etc. So there is *plenty* to expand on. (And it does not harm the student to transcribe some into a notebook. :-)I would not recommend *any* book for self-study. For a young student who is truly on his own I would probably recommend a book that comes with audio recordings (of *native* speakers!), and hope for the best.

This book is great. I am helping a Mexican-born friend with her English and we are finding the pictures very helpful. Be advised, however, that this book insists on presenting contractions (I'd, we'd, can't etc) in every unit, right from the start. This is NOT, in my opinion, one of the more important things to know when first learning English, and it has been SO confusing and distracting for my student. It is probably meant to introduce common ways of speaking but it could come so much later. Other than that, very helpful book.

I bought Volume One and Volume Two for teaching beginning level ESL. Pictures are valuable aids, but the scenarios included use vocabulary dialog that is above the level I expected. I feel that I will need to white out many of the dialogs to prevent confusion. Additionally, some of the terms sound stilted or downright foreign to my California ears. Headache tablet? We would say pain medicine or pills. A jumper. You mean a vest? Book a table. You mean make a reservation? Cinema?!? You mean movies? I will make adjustments so that I don't make them sound like a space alien. I will most likely alter and use about 30% of this material.