TEFL Reviews

This unit discusses the importance of lesson planning and how to approach the task effectively...

I learned about which types of activities are appropriate at specific stages of a lesson (engage, study and activate)...

The first video's lesson was very poor in concern, care and motivation for the students...

This unit discusses the many different types of present tenses, their usages, and examples of how to teach them...

This unit focuses on course books and lesson materials...

I have had the chance to handle teaching one-on-one Business English and I have to agree that the attendance or the student is often sporadic and that their motivation in class is also affected by factors that the tutor cannot control...

Future tenses are complex...

This section was very informational...

Verb tenses are one of the most difficult parts of learning english as a second language...

This unit highlighted for me something that I had never really occurred to me before which is the need to actively make sure writing skills are being balanced with speaking skills...

Like the previous unit did for the passive skills, this unit delved into the productive skills aspect of language learning...

I learned the essential components that are included in a lesson plan and the importance of each component...

I found this unit to be particularly challenging...

Evaluation and test are necessary and essential for every kind of study, for language too...

In this unit, I learned that a teacher does not need to know everything in order to help his students succeed...

This Unit taught us about how to be an effective teacher...

This section was very difficult but after putting in a lot more time and thought into it, more so than I needed with the other units, I feel more confident when reflecting on past tenses...

Unit 14 focused on coursebooks and lesson materials which covered authentic and created materials, advantages and disadvantages of a coursework book, the uses of a course workbook, and how to analyse a coursework book...

This unit briefly covered the different types of students that a teacher may encounter...

In this unit we went through such aspects of the English language grammar as conditional sentences and reported speech...

Unit 14 is about the coursebooks and lesson materials when planning and teaching a lesson...

This lesson was primarily based on the theory behind teaching...

This chapter talks about lesson planning where we have seen it's importance to a teacher inorder to prepare their lessons...

I have what I consider to be an advanced grasp on the English language...

This was a great unit...

There are four forms of past tense; past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous...

This unit is about potential problems that may arise in different teaching situations and gives tips on how to manage them, how to establish rapport with students, motivate them and get them to participate willingly...

In this unit I learned a lot about future tenses and their many uses...

In this unit I have learnt between authentic and created classroom materials, the importance of each, and which audience they would be best targeted at...

This unit was challenging as it needed me to refer to previous units...

This section talks a lot about different way to express yourself in future tenses...

In this unit I learned a lot about how to manage a class and how important could be the positioning of your class...

This unit will be a great example to use in the previous unit...

Equipment and teaching aids are a critical part of the teaching process...

unit five briefly illustrates about assessments ie the reason teachers need to evaluate their students, ways of evaluating language learners and the different language tastes that are given for either business or study purpose...

The teacher has a vast array of tools to help him/her to teach more effectively...

As with unit four, unit 6 breaks down (past) tenses into 4 categories; past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous...

Speaking and writing would be the best way to learn for most students...

The attitude a teacher brings to the classroom directly affects students...

I think, sooner or latter teachers will be exposed to teaching different groups of students; beginners, adults, children, and business groups...