Practical English: How you spell it?

This is the fist in a series of six Practical English lessons that teach Sts basic functional language to help them survive in an English-speaking environment. Here Sts learn the alphabet and how to spell their names. The context showing the importance of learning the alphabet is a woman checking into a hotel and having to spell her name. Sts are given a pronunciation chart to help them learn and remember how the alphabet is pronounced. Sts then come to a section called People on the Street, which appears in all the Practical English lessons. In this section, Sts watch or listen to people on the street – not actors – who are stopped and asked simple questions. In this lesson, they are asked what their names are, how to spell them, and where they are from. These sections can be used with Class DVD, iTools, or Class Audio (audio only). Although Sts will fid these exercises more challenging, they should fid them motivating, too. In Vocabulary, they learn the words for things in the classroom, and in Classroom Language, useful expressions that will help them communicate with the teacher and their classmates in English right from the start.