TEFL Reviews

I would say that unit 3 was very interesting and full with new information...

Unit 4 covered Present Tenses...

This unit was focused on understanding the aspects of language which are to be taught; vocabulary, grammatical structure and language function...

I have learnt from this unit that both, use of language and body language are very important aspect of a teacher and can definitely have an impact on the student...

Unit 6 introduced and reviewed the four forms of the past tense: past simple, past progressive, past perfect, and past perfect continuous...

This unit was went over classroom management techniques...

wʌt ɪz ðɪs? ɪt tʊk mi fəˈrɛvər tu ˌʌndərˈstænd wʌt ðə ˈkwɛsʧənz mɛnt...

What i have learnt from these videos is how the behaviour of a teacher can have a huge influence on the students throughout the lesson...

This unit looks at the productive skills, namely speaking and writing...

Teaching aids can be utilised to make lessons more interesting and encourage student participation...

I believe I learnt a lot in this unit, especially about techniques on how to teach pronunciation and especially the International Phonetic Alphabet...

The chapter outlines the consideration of the material for use in the classroom, and how the materials could be put into the lesson plan...

Unit 17 covers teaching equipment...

I prefer to work in a government school when I teach abroad, so I found the tips in this unit for dealing with large classes and reluctant students to be the most relevant and useful...

Most of course books includes a set of materials: student's book, workbook, cassettes and teacher's book...

Lesson plans are vital to success in the classroom, for both students and teachers...

This section was beneficial for analyzing the grammar points used intuitively by native or near-native speakers...

This unit concentrated on teaching productive skills, speaking and writing...

This unit discussed creating lesson plans...

This unit covered the productive language skills of writing and speaking...

This Unit was about all the several methodologies used until now to teach a student to learn a language, and it seems that to reach success, students will need to be exposed to the language as much as possible...

This unit was a logical extension of the unit on present tenses...

This unit covers lesson preparation and the purpose and logic of preparing written lesson plans...

These two activities: Accuracy activities that would be found in a study phase to produce the correct language and fluency activities that would be found in the activate phase to allow more creative use of the language with a less concern of accuracy again reinforced my aim with my student using the ESA lessons...

This unit was about the parts of speech in the English language, and it described how each part functions in a sentence and in relation to the other parts of speech...

Unit 19 is about teaching special groups...

This unit dealt with various types of learners and classes based on level and age groups...

When teaching a group class, there are some problems that a teacher should know how to deal with flexibly...

In this unit i learned about the tense system and its four aspects; simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous...

The first lessons section of this unit has great information on one's approach to teaching a new class for the first time...

Lesson plans can come in variety of forms and vary based on the skill of the teacher, the level of the class, what the goals are, and other variables...

In this lesson, I learned how to be an effective and motivational teacher...

This unit is about teaching special groups...

In Unit 10, we watched two videos of the same lesson taught in two different ways and compared them...

Unit 15 covers evalutation and testing...

This unit made me realize that evaluation and assessment are extensively important...

This unit was very interesting and offered great insight into teaching materials and resources...

This unit focused on receptive skills...

This is a very informative unit...

Course books and materials often serve as a vital tool in the classroom, but may at times either be a crutch for new teachers, or too general or uninteresting for more experienced teachers...