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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Canada St Catharines 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 about classroom management and mostly gave suggestions on different aspects of class management, the pros and cons of different arrangements and groupings of students, and strategies for avoiding and dealing with problem behavior. I found this unit very useful as it gave an abundance of suggestions for multiple situations and a comprehensive look on how to maintain control with the reminder to still be relaxed and friendly for student comfort. I thought the units suggestions...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs St Catharines Canada 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: My reflection on this unit will be harsh so fair warning. This is ridicules!!! I have taught in language schools and now in an international school. I have NEVER needed this much information to teach pronunciation! This is for a speech therapist! I know because my best friend is a speech pathologist. I repeat, this was ridicules and I don't care what my score is on this test. I didn't even put an effort in for the last 3 questions. WAIST of my time!! Concentrate on teaching people how...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification St Petersburg Florida 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 the important components and functions of creating lesson plans. It appears to be crucial that lesson plans are detailed enough for present and future reference but also flexible enough to be able to adapt to changes that may need to be addressed during lessons. Furthermore, this unit emphasizes the need for teacher self-evaluation in order to constantly improve and strengthen future lessons.In this unit I learned about the most common problems that the students...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Louis 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: A.P. – U.S.A. said: This unit taught the different types of groups one may encounter during their teaching career. The first group was beginners, their subgroups being the absolute beginner, the false beginner, the adult beginner, the young beginner and the beginner without Roman alphabets. The motivation, problem one might encounter were listed. The next group discussed was the individual students or one on one. In this setting the lesses is less formal and the teacher will have to be the student partner. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses St. Louis 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.L. – U.S.A. said: There are four things a students need to do with new language; being exposed to it, understanding its meaning, understanding how it's constructed and how to be able to practice and produce it. It is therefore necessary that we ensure students are introduced to a new language in a balanced and manageable way. ESA methodologies can easily be used introduce a new language. Grammar and vocabulary targeted lessons can use the 'straight arrow' ESA approach whilst the 'boomerang' and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shoreham 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: This unit covered the present tenses, which included: the present simple, the present continuous/progressive, the present perfect, and the present perfect continuous. The unit specified the affirmative forms, the negative forms, and the question forms for each aspect, as well as details on different usages and included activities that would be useful during the activate stage of ESA. The lesson also listed typical mistakes and errors for each type of present tense, but did not list the corrected...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Nash North Dakota 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: There are pros/cons of using authentic and created materials for ESL students. As a new teacher, having a coursebook and ready-to-go worksheets, is very helpful to help me understand the basics of a curriculum. However, I am expanding more this year and integrating more topics and realia. Authentic materials are real and therefore more interesting and motivating. Students gain confidence when they understand them. They can be geared to the interest of a particular group of students. It's important to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Leo 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: Course books are the main focus of this unit. An effective teacher should always integrate the coursebook with material specifically designed in order to appeal the students and facilitate the learining process. These materials can be divided into two categories: authentic materials (not designed for the EFL student, include: articles, brochures, menus....) and designed materials (designed by the teacher: crosswords, role-play cards.....), as always these different resources need to be used with...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Martinville Louisiana 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: Lesson planning has several uses, such as monitoring student progress, recording class activity for the future, and anticipating problems that might occur during class time. While different people have different ways of planning, there is some general information that should be included in a lesson plan. These include the date and time, for record-keeping purposes, and student and teacher objectives. Student objectives deal with what the teacher expects the students to have learned by the end...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fairmount 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 teaches us about the three different types of materials used for teaching. we learn that there are authentic materials-materials that we fins in real life that we can use for a real life learning experience. however, we learn that these authentic materials can be difficult for the non native language learner. we also learn about created materials and course book materials. these have their place as well because they are more detailed and targeted for specific learners. we can target them to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Walterboro South Carolina 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 17 discussed the assorted forms of equipment and teaching aids potentially available to ESL teachers in the classroom and in lesson planning. These include: white/black boards, IWBs, OHPs, visual aids, worksheets and work cards, cassettes and CDs, videos and DVDs, video cameras, dictionaries (which are the most useful and necessary for students), textbooks, resource books, photocopiers, computers, and other online resources. This unit discussed each in detail, including the benefits...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Johns Arizona 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 I liked a good explanation of the groups of the Past Tense. The British use their simple past time like a single action and for multiple, repetitive. Therefore, the translation of the verb, pay attention to its \"environment\" - all other words in the sentence. Compare the following statements. Compare the following statements. He told his friends many times to visit Moscow. He told me that he was going to go back to Moscow. For international students often, such proposals raise questions....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Taylor Pennsylvania 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: It is very interesting to see the different teaching styles by the same teacher and the same group of students. In video one, the students are very confused and are not engaged in the class at all. In video two, however, the students understand the class materials very much and are engaged throughout the entire class. It?s worth noticing that the teacher in the second video has a much more positive attitude and the students respond with a high level of participation. The Engage phase in the second...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jefferson County Colorado 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: Pronunciation is one of the neglected aspects of teaching. Nevertheless it's very important. Phonology deals with physical properties of sounds and indicates the whole sound system of a language. Stress, rythm and intonation are parts of it. Intonation is a variation in volume and pitch in a whole sentence. It can be fall/raise, raise/fall and flat. Unit 13 offers different techniques for teaching intonation. Stress helps to find where the strong part of a word is. One word can have one...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Alta Utah 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 of past tenses was a bit challenging for me. After continious review I've learned the four past tenses; past simple, past continious, past perfect, and past perfect continious. With Past simple it's a must that you understand that many verbs are irregular and there are no tricks to knowing these other than to memorize them. With past perfect the key is knowing that was/were will be used just as had will be used for past perfect tense and had been for past perfect continious. I also realized that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stratton Colorado 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 was shocked during the first video. I thought this was an actual teacher who teaches like this for real. I was thinking that I am one awesome teacher! This lesson taught me that teacher attitude and being positive helps more than almost anything else when it comes to teaching students. I live in a small village in Alaska. We can only get here by plane or boat. We can also get here by snow machine but only when the river is frozen. Our students have a deep respect for their culture and Yupik...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Winter Harbor Maine 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 productive skills are very important because in language this is how we present ourselves to others through spoken and written word. The writing component is no less important than the speaking component but is often neglected due to time and student interest. As a teacher I would pay particular attention to this fact and make sure not to neglect teaching the writing component which can be particularly important to some people as it is used in writing emails, text messages and many advanced...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mapleview 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: The unit gives information about the different parts of normal speech, the correct term to use when describing them and their function within the sentence. There is also interesting information on problems that students can encounter when learning these words, common mistakes they can make and tips on how to teach them. Although I am a native speaker of English this can also be challenging to me. I learnt to speak English as a child and it feels natural to put certain words in certain orders but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Oulu Finland 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: Excellent ideas and resources are presented for finding authentic materials, i.e. those materials created for actual use in real world situations, as opposed to the non-authentic materials created for use in the classroom. Additional discussion on Lesson Planning is addressed in this Unit with the emphasis placed on using the authentic, and/or non-authentic, materials in the planned activities. Resources for these materials are outlined. The Webliography included will prove to be an important...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shiprock New Mexico 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 4 covered the affirmative, negative, and question forms of the four present verb tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous. Suggestions for activate stage activities were provided for all four tenses, as well as the formation and usages. Some of the primary usages for each are as follows: present simple - habitual actions present continuous - an action that began in the past, and may continue into the future present perfect - a past action...  [Read more]