I Need some pointers , Subject Secondary English?

Question

My son who is fourteen is brilliant at Maths , although his English is not great but he shows promise . He is in an excelrated learning program at high school , where he has a terrible relationship with his english teacher .
To encourage him and to hopefully improve his english at school I have decided to set him lessons as homework , he is fully cooperative with this idea .
I ,would appeciate any poitive suggestions , and a basic outlie for a lessn plan

Answer 1

Good question, friend, my only offer is immersion. You seem to speak English well enough, try on weekends only speaking English with him. Rent English speaking movies, old ones are better, newer movies use too much slang. Good Luck.

Answer 2

We are obviously talking here of a foreign language situation, with, probably a good deal of "English-as-a-medum-of-study" exposure.

Don't let him forget his own language - very necessary for his identity.

Supplement his classwork with as wide a variety of other work as possible. Films and T.V. are of some use, but they will make him a passive receptor of vicarious thrills. Radio was good - it forces you to listen to words. But it may not present thrills enough.

This brings me to the point that if your son is persuaded to do enjoyable things which become hobbies and lifelong habits, you will put him on the learning track.

I discovered these Yahoo! questions but recently. I find myself wasting a good deal of time on them. Fortunately, I'm convalescing. However, for a boy who's learning, they can be most valuable. Where are there people to point them out (apart from the very useful Spell Check)? Where can you find a person who'll underline all the mistakes? Incidentally, the first answerer says you should teach him; the next correctly points out that you are far from perfect in your English. Yet, he himself, writes "there" for "their" (the Spell Checks of today can't correct that) - and I'm pointing it out. Actually I got myself a "Best Answer" by pointing out to a generous American Asker that "An University" is wrong. Do you get the point?

You may baulk at the amount of sexy stuff on Answers. True 14 is a bad age for these things but I too was fourteen once. We've all got to go through these stages - and do! As parents we could pretend not to know!! But we all sense when things are going badly wrong.

(Oh, dear. The Spell Check doesn't seem to work for an answer this long. Never mind. Submit!)

Answer 3

We can't all be good at everything. My brother, too, is brilliant at maths - but can't spell for toffee!
I think that a lot of the problems arise at how we use the English Language in the home. Think of the sort of written abbreviations that we use now, especially in text-messaging. I'm a bit old fashioned and insist on using full grammatically correct texting.
Also, remember that written English can be quite different to spoken English, so it would depend on whether you mean that his written English is poor but he communicates well in spoken English.
When my children were young they were frequently complimented on there politeness - always using 'please and thank you' How did I get them to do that ALL OF THE TIME? I insisted on it at home! My grandchildren are now complimented in the same way because my daughter recognised the benefit.
Don't make it a chore - just make it come naturally.
I think that your own English could do with a bit of help, too, by the way. If you make it a lifestyle, it will help you both.

Answer 4

just keep going over it throughout the day and stuff. dont ever disscourage him. he loves and respects you so you have an advantage of helping him out.