Bolivia Jobs

Don’t be put off by the fact that bolivia is one of the poorest Latin American nations. The Andean and Amazonian landscapes offer a breath-taking experience in themselves. In addition to which, there is an interesting class system at play composed of the upper classes - those of Spanish decent; the middle classes - those of mixed race; and the native Bolivians. The interplay between culture and topography make for a fascinating travel and work experience. Spanish is the lingua franca; however, Aymara - a composite of Spanish and native dialects is also, intriguingly, an official language. The population is a shade under nine millions, and ninety-five percent of those profession religious faith are Roman Catholic, with a smattering of Evangelical Methodism. In a continent where baseball...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia cochabamba and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit nine covered the topic of lesson planning and how to incorporate the Engage, Study, Activate phases into one's lessons. It also provided some examples of lessons to demonstrate what a lesson plan would look like for the topics shown and to relate some possible class/learning activities. The functions of a lesson plan and the section outlining how one should be written were helpful to me, as someone who has never before had to write a lesson plan and has only ever been in the student role...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cochabamba Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: What I learned from this unit is that if someone thought explaining/teaching present tenses was going to be hard, past tenses will be harder. I have grown up speaking and being educated using these tenses and yet I am having a hard time understanding them still! I have a new found respect for those willing and trying to learn another language, especially English. I also have a new found respect for those TEFL teachers out there successfully getting these complex ideas across. Although I do...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Oruro Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: I believe that going into a career as a teacher of a foreign language will come with its fair share of problematic situations. I am nervous and excited to get into my first classroom, and when that time comes I will have a list of leaps I need to overcome. Depending on if the classroom is a new group, or an existing one my initial encounters will change. What I believe will pose the greatest challenge is teaching to a classroom where students operate at different levels. It is my job to make sure...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs sucre Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit helped me to better understand the concept of having 3 parts to the study phase and 2 parts to the activate phase. I am beginning to really be able to visualize the whole ESA format, especially with the straight arrow style. I understand now that the engage phase should introduce the topic and stimulate interest/discussion. The study phase should introduce new/difficult vocabulary, present detailed material and get some kind of feedback to check for understanding. The activate phase should...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia Oruro and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit covers the different parts of speech, such as nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions. Nouns could be classified into countable and uncountable ones. Adjectives are used to describe nouns. Articles are used before nouns, \"a\" and \"an\" before a noun can refer to any member of a group (indefinite), \"the\" before a noun will refer to a specific member of a group (definite). Verbs are used to describe actions and can be categorised into...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia Tarija and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In the Unit we learnt about the most common methods and techniques used for teaching a foreign language. After reading about different techniques I came to the conclusion that I''d been mostly using \"Presentation, practice and production\" and \"Engage, Study and Activate\" methods during my classes. This Unit taught us how the oder of ESA stages can vary. In my opinion, the most important thing to remember is that while using ESA method, we should always start with an Engage stage and finish...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia Potosi and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this until, the particulars of the four present tenses-- present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous-- were discussed in detail. As an English teacher it is a little embarrassing for me to admit this, but I honestly did not know anything about the four different kinds of present tense. It was therefore very beneficial, if not difficult, for me to understand and absorb this information. I even realized that I have been using English wrong my whole life in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia sucre and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit was all about the pronunciation and phonology (pronouncing and phonics) of English. This unit, in my opinion, was the hardest. I really struggled with the rise/fall, fall/rise, and flat intonation of speech. These three ways of speaking changes in both volume and pitch and gives the listener different information. I have rarely thought about what my voice does except when I wish to ask a question. Another very tricky part of the unit was stress of words and syllables. In my opinion this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tarija Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit covered phonology and pronunciation. This is a difficult topic in English because even native speakers do not pronounce words the same depending on where they are from. This goes for phonetics as well as which parts of words are stressed. Intonation also changes based on location. Accents make this more complicated and can be difficult to teach. The phonemic symbols appear to be a useful tool to help overcome issues with pronunciation, although I am not extremely familiar with them. I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Potosi Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: During that unit, I learned how to interact with the students, motivate them, and make them comfortable without letting them using their native language. There are different possible situations regarding if we teach a large class, a class with different levels, first lesson or class with reluctant students. There isn't a method more efficient than another, but I'll have to adapt to the class and the students too. A good warm up is never a wast of time. On the opposite way, a good warm up prepares...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs El Alto Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit explained in depth the basic grammar rules for learning English. In a sentence, there are parts of speech that contain words, each of which plays a role in the sentence such as, nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, and definite articles. Reading this unit, I personally learned grammatical rules and the names for each rule. Because I'm a native English speaker, I wasn't taught all these names for the different parts of speech and the function each plays in developing a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs La Paz Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit took much of my time to be completed. It mainly because of the diversity of the given topics as provided basics on the course development area. The multiple topics covered were discussing the aspects of layouts and running the business English course. Assessing the students/clients on their language abilities and their future needs has been followed by developing a course syllabus in this unit. The critic on this section beside the informative shares was that some parts were not covered...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia La Paz and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This course perfectly discribe the past tenses. The system and structure past tenses is not too different from present tenses, except that past tenses obviously relate to past time periods. I see certain similarities in usage and form emerging. Some of the rules to notice at this stage are: All continuous forms feature some form of the verb 'to be' plus the 'ing' form of the verb. If the verb 'to be' is in the present, it will be the present continuos. If the verb 'to be' is in the past, it will be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia El Alto and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit is about the rhythm, stresses and sounds of individual words and within a sentence. This is an area that native English speakers often don't think about when speaking therefore it is also often forgotten to be taught to non native English speakers. When speaking, a sentence can have a very different meaning depending which word you stress within the sentence. For example, lets take the sentence 'he didn't mean to text you.' If the stress was on the first word 'he' the speaker is saying...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bolivia Santa Cruz De La Sierra and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 15, Evaluation and Testing, looks at different ways of evaluating student's levels and progress, as well as common external exams that a teacher may need to prepare his/her students for. The unit présents ways to assess a student's language level such as tutorials, evaluation by the students and different types of tests. In addition, a listing of some general external examinations such as TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), TOEIC (Test of English for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Santa Cruz De La Sierra Bolivia and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: After working on Unit 2, I am thoroughly surprised with everything I have learned about my own language that I was never taught. I feel that I have learned something from each section in the parts of speech. Whether it was that nouns can be countable or uncountable, verbs can be transitive or intransitive, or articles can be definite or indefinite. I have learned a lot about the English language and I feel as though this unit has helped with learning the base of my own language. I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Mogilev (Mahilyow) Belarus and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit I learned about the many areas that could need troubleshooting, such as: students speaking their native language, first lessons with a class, and reluctant students. This unit is especially helpful on how to deal with these problems. I now know that on a first lesson it is more important to connect with the students and establish rapport than to teach. I learned it is better to pair strong students with weak students than let the classroom divide. And I learned that a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Belarus Mogilev (Mahilyow) and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit discusses the following topics: modals, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. Examples of modals include: can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, must, have to, have got to, need to, need not, and ought to. These verbs are used before other verbs to add meaning to the main verb. Modals can be used to express obligation, possibility, permission, prohibition, ability, or advice. Furthermore, phrasal verbs have three types: type 1 - intransitive, is not followed by a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Belarus Lida and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit, the focus lies on the materials that can be used in the classroom. There is a difference between authentic and non-authentic materials. Non-authentic materials are designed specifically for the classroom, while authentic materials are not created for the clasrroom. It is important to use both authentic and non-authentic materials in the classroom, and to think about how to use them. Lesson plans should be detailed. They should include infomation about the class (like the level of the...  [Read more]