TEFL Reviews

Teaching special groups consist of the following types of classes : Teaching beginners which is further divided into( The absolute beginner: students who have never learnt English before , the false begginners , the adult beginner, the young beginner and the begginner without Roman alphabet )...

I enjoyed the effort that Mark displayed throughout his two teaching demonstrations, the first video, I felt he was somewhat annoyed with the students or at least made it felt that he had better things to do than to teach them, he came across as unfriendly, and certainly made the students feel uninterested...

This 6 pages unit is welcome because it gives an idea of what could be the teacher's first lesson ah how his class could probably configurated...

In this unit, I reviewed some information regarding conditional tenses and reported speech...

Theorists suggest that lesson planning is not a good idea because it creates a more fixed teacher centered lesson...

This unit taught me about how to teach productive skills of speaking and writing...

Unit 5 covers the topic of classroom management...

Unit 5 Managing Classes taught me about classroom management practices/techniques and their advantages and disadvantages...

Modal verbs add emphasis to a verb to express ideas...

Unit 13 i learned about teaching pronunciation in the form of intonation by the variation of volume and speech...

Unit 19 is a look at the teaching English to special groups that have some commonality beyond just a group of people who want to learn English...

This unit focused on the role of the course book in a classroom...

This unit covers the topic of lesson planning...

One thing I struggled with when I started teaching in Japan was the use of native language in the classroom, especially by English teachers...

This unit focused on materials for use within the classroom setting...

Unit seven is based on the method of teaching the grammar, vocabularies, and the importance of language function...

This unit explained the different ways a teacher can manage a classroom effectively...

Unit 18 is the last unit to deal with grammar points, and it deals with phrasal verbs, relative clauses, passive voice and modal auxiliary verbs...

This unit discussed the future tenses, which include: future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, 'going to' future, present simple, and present continuous...

I was not expecting there to be so much detailed information in the Pronunciation and Phonetic unit...

Through this unit I have been made aware of the high degree of nuance that goes along with correct usage of the different present tenses...

While I dont have much experience of teaching a class of english students as of now, I plan to in the near future and I must expect to run into problems when I start...

Using course books has its share of benefits and advantages such as having a well organized content with a consistency in the topics and genres for the four skill area (listening, speaking, reading, and writing)...

These two videos showcase a good and bad lesson, entirely depending on what the teacher does or doesn't do...

This unit covered possible coursebooks and lesson materials a teacher might use in an English teaching class...

Any technical equipment used in the classroom can (and will!) fail...

In unit 13 we learned about English pronunciation, phonetics, and how to teach these principles to students...

Unit 3 outlines the basic requirements of the ESA (Engage-Study-Activate) method for EFL teaching...

Planning lessons is important for the students and the teacher...

As the unit said it is important to change up a lesson and not solely rely on the course book...

Unit 19 discusses about teaching special groups of students...

In this unit, i have learned the parts of speech...

Conditional sentences contain ?if? or ?when,? which refer to past, present and future possibilities...

This unit is about how to approach different lesson situations...

In Unit 4 I learned that the students when learning a new language, need to be exposed to the language, understand its meaning, understand how its constructed and be able to practice and produce it...

This unit draws attention to the fact that there are many different styles of language teaching and learning, each with their own negatives and positives...

Unit 5, teaching themes, covered various means to teach lessons in a variety of styles and how to incorporate those strategies into the ESA style...

Unit 3's focus on methods of teaching and its descriptions of said methods communicates very student centered styles of teaching...

Teaching new language is simply exposing students to it, get them to understand it?s meaning, understand how it is constructed and being able to practice and produce it...

This unit circulated around how to properly manage the classroom...