Thread: need printable handouts of simple english /thai with drawings

quick search turned up this.

YouTube - "Body parts" English-Thai Pictionary

Um can I be a massive know-it-all-pain-in-the-arse? What is your objective here? I mean if you have a picture why do you need it written in Thai? Are you teaching them Thai vocab? If they know what the thing in the picture is then why does it need to be written in Thai? Personally I'm not a fan of Thai phonetics, it is just a pointless step.

Dear " massive know-it-all-pain-in-the-arse"

Good question , but here is my logic ,
Say you have drawings of fruits, an apple, if you have it in Thai they know its an apple and not a pear, sure they might remember the day of the lesson, but what about months later ?

That also goes with Thai phonetics, maybe they forget how to say it in English, if they have it written in Thai phonetics then they can work it out,

The problem for me learning Thai and them learning simple English words is that we are working with 2 alphabets , if you do not have the words in phonetics pronunciation of your alphabet you will be lost,

That is why I do not like Rosetta Stone, my brain needs 3 things, a picture, a phonetics pronunciation in English and hearing the word spoken, then it sticks in my brain, but I need to have the phonetics pronunciation if I am going to write out a "cheat sheet" to review it later.

I have no idea if this is normal practice teaching English, it just works for me

Dave

I am in LA now for a couple months.....WHY

Dave

Hi.....not sure where you got the rural farmers, but these are Thais working in my friends shop, and his sister has a shop selling to tourists

its not that I lack resources., I can get all the books in English I would ever need, But thats not going to help them if it also does not have the words also written in Thai script , and I believe also phonetics pronunciation in Thai script.

Dave

Originally Posted by Dave in LA

Say you have drawings of fruits, an apple, if you have it in Thai they know its an apple and not a pear, sure they might remember the day of the lesson, but what about months later ?

I really don't follow you're thinking here..

That also goes with Thai phonetics, maybe they forget how to say it in English, if they have it written in Thai phonetics then they can work it out,

I know this is the common rationale but I really think it is an added distraction with disadvantages in the long term that far outweight the short term gains. Foremost of these disadvantages is the inability of Thai script to describe some English sounds namely, 'v', 'th' 'z' and 'sh'. On top of this you have certain rules of reading Thai that don't apply to English, The final 'l' read as 'n', final 's' read as 't', etc. In effect what you are asking your students to do is read Thai in an English way. Wouldn't it be easier just to have the sts learn how to read English effectively in the first place?

thanks for your thoughts, this is going to be 10 minutes here , 10 minutes another day, not really a class ,
but maybe the phonetics pronunciation is a bad idea, thats what I am trying to figure out,

I am first going to do numbers and colors , then common thai foods that they will know what they are......no reason to learn "tacos"

I am not trying to be a full time teacher , just trying to give them an opening to english with a native speaker, 90% plus will probably not care , but maybe a few will be interested,

I have done this a little already with another friends workers and they had fun with it , just learning a few words......

anyway thats the plan, but we all know how plans go in LOS

Dave

fair enough Dave, given the circumstances, I can't find fault with your approach, and I agree that it's probably the best way. Good Luck.