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Creating a lesson plan gives the teacher general guidelines for each individual class in regards to subject matter, engagement technique, as well as study and activation approaches...

Receptive skills are comprised of both reading and listening, both of which are equally important of the English student to continue to grasp the English language...

Unit 12 looks at the two productive skills writing and speaking and how these skills are incorporated in a typical ESA lesson...

In this unit we covered the specialist skills used when reading and listening and the problems that may arise from teaching receptive skills...

Whether or not to create a lesson plan is a personal choice for each teacher...

I would like to begin by saying that the Silent Method sounds very unusual and unnatural, and I would not be comfortable teaching in that manner...

Past tenses allow speakers to say and tell about an action that happened in the past...

This unit discusses classroom management including how to arrange the classroom, how to maintain control of the classroom, and how to deal with problem behavior...

The tense system causes a certain dilemma for the student because there are certain rules to be followed but as they say with practice comes perfection...

It was helpful to have a discussion in this chapter regarding teaching different levels, ages, and for different purposes...

Very interesting comparison between the two videos...

UNIT 7 TEACHING NEW LANGUAGE -VOCABULARY,GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS -TEACHING VOCABULARY:THIS FOUR FACTORS WILL DETERMINE HOW EASY OR DIFFICULT A VOCABULARY ITEM IS; 1 SPELLING AND PRONUNCIATION 2 SIMILARITY TO ENGLISH WORDS ALREADY KNOWN 3 SIMILARITY TO STUDENTS OWN LANGUAGE 4 APPROPRIACY AS A RESULT STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW THE BASIC ON VOCABULARY ITEMS SUCH AS;MEANING,USAGE,WORD GRAMMAR ETC -INTRODUCING GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE:STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW THE MEANING,USAGE,FORMS AND PATTERS-FORMATION AND PATTERNS OF THE LANGUAGE USE AND THE SPOKEN AND WRITTEN FORM OF THAT LANGUAGE...

This unit was very pleasant and still very informative...

This unit gives an overview of the proper usages of conditionals and reported speech...

It is important to try and cover the four basic skills in your lesson...

This unit included important information regarding the types and levels of the students that we may come to teach along our teaching careers...

This unit focuses on the importance of receptive skills, i...

There are more types of classes that will be needing to be taught English than grade school...

It's important to remember that we use much more than just physically reading or listening to a text...

I think that in the classroom phonetics are often overlooked because it not only presents a challenge to the student, but the teacher as well...

This unit gave a brief overview of two kinds of things involved in learning (and thus teaching) a new language, and how we might approach teaching these...

In this unit, I learned about different teaching aids and equipment that are used in the classroom...

I noticed that in the sentence construction of Present Simple Tense, you failed to mention that \"es\" and \"s\" are only necessary in the third person singular and the verb should be in the base form in other pronouns...

Teaching productive skills is quite a challenging concept, but is very important...

This unit presented all the future tenses along with important information on them such as how they are formed, how they are used, and activities that can be used when teaching them...

It was informative to see both good teaching and bad teaching...

This unit discusses the different methods for teaching a new language to students...

This unit explains the purposes of creating a lesson plan, how it helps you to give a good lesson, how you should set it up and what should be included in it...

Unit four explains about different categories of classes...

This unit was about conditionals and reported speech...

Authentic and created materials help supplement what is taught from a textbook...

In this unit, Equipment and teaching aids are introduced...

In this chapter we study the Modal / Phrasal verbs and passive and active voice...

Unit 5 is focused on the elements of classroom management including how the teacher interacts with the students and how he/she arranges the class in physical space...

Whilst receptive skills are important for student's comprehension and level of understanding, productive skills are important for students to be able to actively communicate...

This unit deals with troubleshooting...

like the present tense, and the past tense, this chapter teaches about the future tenses, and proper way of using them in a sentence...

Unit 13 covers general guidelines for English pronunciation, which is probably the most neglected aspect of English language teaching...

Receptive skills are reading and listening...

Receptive skills are so important...