TEFL Reviews

Managing classes and structuring each class so as to make lesson time as effective and interesting as possible is very important...

This unit gave a unique insight into sources of teaching English, or rather their advantages or disadvantages of usage...

This unit focused on classroom management...

Unit 9 covers Lesson Planning...

I have learnt that controlling a classroom isn?t an easy task, there is no single best practices or method for managing a classroom...

Unit 9 built upon the ESA methodology that was introduced in Unit 3 by providing guidance for planning lessons...

In this unit I learned about different theories of teaching along with constructive forms of teaching...

Well, in this unit I got to see an example teaching lesson...

l have learnt in this UNIT-13 is that ; Pronounciation & Phonology -There are 4 major sound sound joining which is;Linking-Sound Dropping-sound changing-extra lettering Some of the topics covered is below: Speach Sound The vowels Phonemes Phonemic transcription The syllable Word stress Intonation Teaching pronunciation Manner Articulation: Plosives,affricates,Fricatives,nasal,lateral,approximants Place of Articulation: Bilabial, Labio-dental,dental,alvelor,palatal-alvelor,palatal,velor and glattal Intonation: Starts: rice-fall/ ends: fall-riceI never learned the phonemic alphabet as it is not used in the English schools in my country, so i found this lesson quite confusing...

In this unit, I learned the importance of teachers evaluating te students English...

This unit goes over teaching special groups...

An EFL teacher should have a good knowledge of the tense system in English...

This unit covered the different methods of evaluation and testing that a teacher can use to monitor and asses their students...

This unit showed how to make lesson plans...

This unit described the rules and different types of modal verbs, as well as the types of clauses, and passive and active voice...

The past tense of verbs follows the same format as the present and future tenses; the past simple tense simply adds 'd' or 'ed' to the base form of regular verbs...

My first initial thoughts about this section were quite optimistic, I enjoy conjugating verbs, especially in the past tense form...

There are five teaching special groups such as beginners, individuals, young learners, business English, and monolingual versus multilingual...

This unit covered modals, passives, defining and non-defining relative clauses, and phrasal verbs...

This unit taught helpful methods that can be used to educate students on different forms of pronunciation, including how to deal with intonation and stress in the English language...

The topic of Course materials is discussed throughout the Unit: the type of material, its advantages, disadvantages and how to use the materials as well as how to analyse a course book...

Course books are a very emotive issue for many teachers...

This was a helpful unit for thinking about which teaching aids and equipment will be useful in my future lessons...

The last unit covered troubleshooting...

This unit has given me a thorough and precise knowledge about the present tense, and it's different forms...

This unit showed two examples of a teacher teaching the same lesson using different styles...

This unit covers teaching more specialized groups of students...

As a native speaker, I feel that these units pertaining to 'Parts of Speech' can be particularly trying on the teacher, more so maybe than the student...

Pronunciation includes: stress rhythm and phonology...

This side by side video comparison was invaluable...

That was a very interesting unit! The trick was not in using the forms correctly but in learning and remembering which form held which defined function...

The unit gives us the information about using course books and other teaching materials at the lesson...

This unit provided insight into resources that can be used in an ESL classroom...

For the first time in almost 40 years I have to think about what I say and why I say it...

Future tenses in the English language are layered...

This unit was very informative for me because I have not studied the parts of speech since high school...

Teaching a new language can be just as fun as learning it! In this unit, it goes over covering vocabulary, grammar and language functions and with each of those we are given teaching plan ideas...

this unit is about how to find the best books and how to use them...

This unit helps us to understand the common problem we face during teaching...

It is fun to get creative with learning...