TEFL Reviews

I thought unit six did an excellent job comparing a poor ineffective way of teaching followed up with a great example of how to teach a class...

In this unit we take a close look at teaching pronounciation and phonology and we understand how it is ovelooked by most teachers with the excuse that there are so many different meanings attached to different pronounciations that it can result in the students getting confused...

In this unit we see two classes with vastly different attitudes and approaches taken by the teacher, the first lesson is very badly executed whilst the second lesson works quite well, the approach had everything to do with the relationship between the students and the teacher as well as care taken to plan for the lesson...

Unit 17 was a good overview for classroom resources...

This lesson help teachers to choose the right course materials to teach...

This unit deals with classroom management...

I can relate to a lot of points in this unit such as understanding the students' personalities and building rapport in order to have a conducive classroom management environment...

In this unit we have learned about modals,pharsal verbs and passive voice...

This unit helps us to understand the present tenses- present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous- and how to form sentences for each tense, as well as how to identify each type of present tense from a sentence...

Managing a class involves many factors that a teacher has to be aware of...

Unit 12 examined the productive language skills and how to teach them...

This unit covers various aspects of productive skills - speaking and writing...

It is interesting that \"have got to\" is sorted as Modal Verb here...

This unit is a great primer on actual teaching techniques...

This unit tells about different types of tests a teacher may be expected to set students during their career as an English language teacher...

In this lesson, I have learned the importance of using specific techniques to teach new vocabulary, grammar structures, and language functions...

This unit focused on teaching special groups...

Productive skills are the output of receptive skills...

Unit 4 provided a highly detailed overview of the four different present tenses: The present simple, present continuous, the present perfect and the present perfect continuous...

Teaching English is not \"simply\" teaching vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar...

This unit was interesting for me because I learned about new methods I can be using now during my lessons...

I think what I learned most in this section is that there is a key difference between an error and a mistake and when an error occurs it takes considerable skill, and perhaps knowledge of the student to ascertain why they have made that particular error...

Lesson planning is the intial process and probably the guarantee for successully dilivering a lively and enjoyable lesson...

When teaching English, we will need to teach language functions, new vocabulary and grammatical structures...

This unit was very complex and included a lot of very important grammar that can often be very confusing, even for native speakers of English...

This unit reviews on future tense with all its' entities...

Overall this unit discussed the various conditionals as well as the reporting of direct speech...

Unit 20 is on troubleshooting...

A very helpful segment that provides useful information both related to more overarching concepts such as different teaching philosophies and to practical tools such as methods of structuring a lesson and specific student exercises...

Unit 6 though dealing with the past tense, is a reinforcer of Unit 4 that introduced the present tense...

There are four basic skills in any language and these skills are divided into two the receptive and productive skills...

This quick and to the point unit discussed the teaching of receptive skills; reading and listening...

In this unit I had to review the Unit 3 about the different kinds of methods to be clear my mind...

Working through the rules and understanding the conditionals and reported speech I realized in some cases it might be more helpful to implement drill exercises where students have concrete opportunities to practice the grammar...

Nowadays you can't be a teacher without using technology in your classroom...

There is good advice for selecting course book and supplementary materials for the lesson...

How the teacher arranges the lesson is a critical component in imparting knowledge students so the understands the new language ...

This unit tells us about the many roles of the teacher and the learner...

Testing and evaluation are obviously important...

Teaching Pronunciation and Phonology - Effective teachers teaches pronunciation as integral to the course...