TEFL Reviews

Unit fourteen deals with course books and lesson material...

There are three different times in English: present, past and future...

There are various rules and parts of grammar one must be able to teach properly...

This unit looking at grammar was a little difficult to get my head around because as a native english speaker i cannot remember learning the grammar at school, we just did it naturally! But for me starting to learn grammar is a good and necessary skill to have and would make the teacher and students classes much more enjoyable...

This unit discusses different types of problems that teachers commonly come across while teaching class...

This was the most varied unit by far, covering four different areas of grammar: Modals - Auxiliary verbs like can, could, might, should, would and must...

The seven most common are as follows (not in any order of frequency): 1...

This unit examines modals auxiliary verbs and passive voice, as well as a brief overview of phrasal verbs and relative clauses...

Lesson planning is the focus of this unit...

This unit focused on the topic of Modals, Phrasal Verbs and the Passive Voice...

This unit presented the four past tenses used in the English language: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous...

While I found all the information to be useful, specifically the information on placement tests and diagnostic tests, one aspect that was not discussed in the unit was how to effectively provide evaluations to students...

Based on the two videos the learning environment and willingness of the student to participate in the lessons and absorb the material depends a lot on the teacher type of attitude the teacher brings into the classroom...

This unit is full of insights...

In this last unit we learned about the teaching methodologies and how can a teacher deal with the problems arises...

In this unit I gained some insights as to the importance of different levels of testing and how schools gauge the level of the student...

This unit has shown me more about how to approach teaching a new language most especially using the ESA approach to teaching English...

I noticed that some of the exercises suggest using songs to teach tenses...

A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction for a lesson...

Teachers of EFL will need to explain twelve tenses...

In Unit 11: Teaching Receptive Skills, the concepts of reading and listening skills are introduced...

In this Unit, I have learned many different parts of grammar with different sets of rules, as well as different exceptions to rules...

This is the unit about course books and lesson materials...

The Final Unit - Troubleshooting seems to be eye-catching and mind-grasping due to its name itself...

I have learned that a great teacher is someone who cares most about the students' learning...

Unit 12 talks about the productive skills which makes the contrast with Unit 11...

This unit provides useful classroom management tools that every new teacher must be aware of...

Managing Classes...

Like the present and past tense, the future tense has simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous variations...

I have made lesson plans before, but had never been formally instructed on other possible uses and reasons for making plans beyond the typical lesson guidance...

The last unit of the course focuses on troubleshooting and gives very useful tips for inexperienced teachers like myself...

Based on my understanding of the unit,I thinck learning needs an effective circulation system...

I enjoyed this unit because it showed me how material I have studied so far, such as the ESA structure, managing classes, and lesson materials, can be used and applied to make lesson plans...

This unit focusing on how to manage the classroom...

Unit 15 covers different ways to evaluate students language level...

This unit deals with conditional sentences and reported speech...

Unit seven is all about teaching new language and creating a system, a structed lesson plan using ESA methodology...

I think the biggest lesson I learned from this section was the fact that these parts of speech can allow English speakers to be well spoken and clear in conveying what they want to say...

Unit 6 focused on pat tenses of verb forms...

The material of this unit was centered on the teaching of the productive skills...