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  Our next category in our series of teaching special groups in ESL is English for specific purposes. This video focuses specifically on teaching business English. How is business Enligsh different to general English? Will you be able to teach business English? Find out in this video. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. As a native speaker, it is indeed an eye opener to know that there are so many classifications for present tense. Some of it is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Spain Vitoria-Gasteiz 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: The unit 19 is about teaching special groups. There is a whole spectrum of the types of groups that you maybe involve them. Through this course I learned five classifications. First classification may be the beginners, second classification is individuals (one to one teaching), around the world like a very large group. Third category is teaching young learners (YL’s). Another category is that of English for specific or special purposes and perhaps the biggest group called...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tanzania Shinyanga 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 explains the different parts of speach in the English language. It clearly explains the purpose of each category. It is broken down into nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns and prepositions/conjunctions. Each category has many subdivisions and there are ussually quite a few words that are exceptions from the rule. While working through this chapter, I gained a new appreciation of how difficult the English language can be for a foreign language...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Richmond Minnesota 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 future tense. Unlike the previous tenses (present and Past), this one has 3 more categories, for a total of seven: Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous, Going to Future, Present Simple and Present continuous. Although Present Simple and Present Continuous seem as if they would belong in the Present Tense category, when used with future events it belongs here. For example if I say, \"I am going to play in the soccer tournament...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Buncom Oregon 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 states different forms of present tense. The following present tenses are present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. These form and usage of sentence describes under what category the present form is. The form of sentence can be positive, negative and question form. Whereas usage can be described as how and under what circumstances the tense or grammar point is used. There are some typical student errors in each category of present tense which the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Portland Indiana 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 gives an overview of the main parts of speech. It labels each part, and describes how different elements are used and in what order. The unit starts with some examples and explains which word in a given sentence performs which role. We then enter into more detail within each category. We learn about the different types of nouns, about their usage and the words which can/can't be used with them. The same is accomplished for adjectives, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions and more. I found...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bengbu 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: M.S. - U.S.A. said: This unit covered the topics of reading and listening skills and described the meaning and importance of each of those. I learned that there are two \"fairly wide-ranging categories\" regarding reasons and motives for both listening and reading. The first category is when you have a pre-determined purpose in mind. This would include reading to gain understanding or learn facts. The other category is for entertainment and that includes reading a fiction book by your favorite author or listening...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Klemme Iowa 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 four explains about different categories of classes.Beginners are a category of the class and different categories of beginners actually exist.Tips were given on how approach a beginner lass,possible problems with teaching beginners and how to motivate them to learn English. Teaching individual students could be difficult as well so,there is a need to apply suitable activities and incorporate home work and how to check the progress of the students.Handling a monolingual and multilingual class was...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Port Townsend Washington 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 19 deals with the different groups of learners, their peculiarities, methods that should be adopted in teaching them effectively and likely problems to be encountered in teaching them. The different groups of learners are: The beginners, Individual students and children. we also looked at English for a specific purpose which is also called business English: This has to do with a group of individuals who are employees of an organization and have the need to learn English. The major factor...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Glenview Hills Kentucky 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, specialized groups of language learners are examined which include, multilingual/monolingual learners,individual learners, young learners in the beginner category, and business people of varying ages who need to learn English, beyond what is company related. Teaching ideas, techniques and methodologies are also detailed in this unit, as are lesson plan activities that are deemed suitable for each learner level. I have learned that the technique of using a Need Analysis used to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Greenwood Arkansas 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: The content in this unit is very specific and also quite detailed. The content teaches us which words within a sentence are classified as nouns, adjectives and so on. The content in this unit breaks down any standard sentence and teaches us which words are classified as what and why they are classified as what they are. There are multiple types of nouns, verbs, adjectives and within these parts of speech there are specific cases that do not always follow the rules. It can be very tricky and often...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Winside Nebraska 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 studied about teaching receptive skills: reading and listening. There are four basic skills in any language; receptive skills-reading and listening and productive skills- speaking and writing. This unit was therefore concentrated on the first category. I was explained that reasons for reading and listening are divided into two wide categories: for a purpose and for entertainment. How we read and listen, problems with reading and listening, language and ways of approaching language...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Three Rivers Michigan 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: The students in the English language classroom can vary tremendously. Beginning learners can be put into different categories which include, absolute, false, adult, young and beginner without Roman alphabet. Students can also be individually taught through one-on-one sessions with the teacher. Another group of students are children and younger learners. Business English or ESP (English for Specific Purposes) is another category of English language class. The last type of class can be the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Snover Michigan 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: Unit19 was about Teaching Special Groups. It covered different categories of English language learners a teacher might come across during his or her teaching career, It discussed how a teacher can manage his or her class regardless of the groups. The special groups pointed out in this unit are, ``The beginners, Business English students, Individual students, young learners, monolingual and multilingual students``. There was lots of information I derived from this unit, such as the methodology and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Castleton Michigan 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: The unit two was about \"teaching and learning\". A teacher's roles are different and all of them are important. Learners have categories too, and every teacher should to understand how, where and using what methods to work with every category. It doesn't matter is that 'one to one' learning process, or group of clients with diffrent English language level, the teacher should to handle it and solve potential problems. The main thing is to be prepared for the fact that the students may well know more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Broeck Pointe Kentucky 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 think this unit is just what every teacher out there needs to understand. The high demand on learning English worldwide is fast growing and various category is being produced each day. Understanding each student needs will help teachers to deliver the material accordingly. The dos and don'ts, the steps, the materials, and how teacher presents it all are really important. An adult learner compared to business English learner has different priorities and needs. Therefore teacher supposedly be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Taft Oklahoma 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 quite a difficult and challenging unit to grasp. I am quite interested to see how it is to teach this unit. I have never thought of the present tense to be divided into four categories. As an English Native speaker I have learned any of this in school. In school I just learned about present tense as one thing. Therefore it was a bit confusing and challenging to grasp and understand this unit. I have now learned that there are four different present tenses: present simple, present continuous,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Balakovo Russia 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: Books and teaching materials aid in the learning process. These course books and materials are grouped into two category. Authentic and created materials.It behoves on users to consider a number of factorsb such as price, availability,design,methodology, skills when choosing materials to use. Teachers can omit,replace, supplement adapt to certain lessons to suit their classes.This unit helped in how to teach a new language, particularly on techniques for teaching through the ESA model. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Komatsu 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: Apparently, this was the last grammar based unit. It includes: Modal Auxiliary Verbs; Active and Passive Voice; Relative Clauses; and Phrasal Verbs. Auxiliary verbs are used to express Obligation, Possibility / Probability, Permission / Prohibition, Ability and Advice. Active and Passive voices are used to give different meaning nuances to sentences and to shift the focus away from the 'Performer' of a an action to favour what has been performed instead. The relative clause is one more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hilltop Minnesota 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 11 took a detailed look at the process of teaching English. Learning a new language is broken down into two main skill sets with two sub-category's each. The main skill sets are entitle Receptive Skills and Productive Skills. Receptive Skills are those we absorb in a passive manner such as Reading and Listening. Productive Skills are those with a more obvious display of knowledge and are Writing and Speaking. Students usually have more vocabulary knowledge and understanding of a language in the...  [Read more]