This manual is intended to be a survival guide for newly assigned teachers who have had little or no preservice training in teaching English as a second language (ESL) and who do not have access to such training prior to being assigned. The manual contains a set of beginning and intermediate lessons that can be used for the first 20 to 30 hours of instruction in an ESL class. These lessons form the basis for the teacher training part of the manual. The manual is organized in five sections. Section I presents a general orientation for the teaching of ESL and offers ideas for setting up a program. Section II contains 11 beginning ESL lessons accompanied by teacher training materials for each lesson. Section III contains 11 intermediate lessons introducing additional techniques for developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Each lesson attempts to present a different strategy for developing one or more of these skills. Section IV deals with non-literate adults. It provides some guidelines for working with them and contains 11 lessons for developing basic reading and writing skills. Section V is an annotated bibliography of selected ESL materials for adults. Appendixes contain ESL placement instructions and instruments, cloze procedure and application samples, and visual aids for lessons. (KC)