English Story Books

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Silverhill Alabama 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: These receptive teaching skills play an important role in my educational field and I use reading and listening everyday. When I read a book, I read without stopping or translating unfamiliar words to me. I try to understand the meaning of the story at the end. But I notice that children learn more quickly than adults. My students are young English language learners. They listen attentively when I read a book and ask endless questions which may not always be grammatically correct. Also, they show...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fort Bragg California 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: Every teacher examines the students at the beginning of the school year. It helps the teacher to know the students level. Personally, I would give to my students some leveled book to read to me, so I would know the accuracy and fluency level of the student. Then I would ask the student to talk about that book to check his/her comprehension skills. If she/he is not confident to speak then I would give a paper to write or draw pictures of a story. My opinion as ESL teacher is to start testing by...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Constanta 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 guideline to teach students but teachers should be creative based on the course book rather than just follow the exactly same contents in that. To be creative, we can use authentic materials for example, magazines, newspapers, songs menus like that. Also, considering the levels of students is important when I choose them. For example, when we talk about famous figure, students are already know but not very well so by guessing their life or achievement, they could expect their...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs McAllen Texas 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 goes over evaluation of students with regards to their progress and levels. The ways we can determine is by tutorials, evaluation of tests and tests. We can start by having the students take a placement test to determine exactly what level the student is so we can progress the language further and then throughout the year we can do diagnostic measurements. Also in order to make sure the student is grasping the language we can make practice test.Unit 14 about books and materials helped map...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Kaliningrad 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 discussed the choice of course books and materials not published scholastically, known as authentic materials. Early language acquisition for a first language is almost entirely authentic. As a child we learn bigger words from listening to the radio, or from our parents reading books to us. My 5-year-old niece does this all the time. We asked her if she was excited that Grandpa was coming to visit, and she said, \"Indeed, Indeed I am!\" I recognized it as a line from the bedtime story...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kazan 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.D. – U.S.A. said: The unit reviews the techniques to successfully teach vocabulary, grammatical structures and language forms. The teacher may not choose the vocabulary taught if he or she is teaching from a fixed curriculum or text book. However, if that is not the case, the teacher must consider the appropriacy to the students and the task, the frequency of usage, and the teachability of the word. The teacher may use real items, pictures, or mime in the engage phase to elicit engagement with new vocabulary in...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Aurangabad 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 covers the teaching of receptive skills. Those are reading and listening abilities. The reasons why we read and listen are two: The first one is because we have a purpose, we need to achieve a goal, for example, reading before taking a test, the object is passing the test. The second reason is for entertainment, we listen or read different materials because we enjoy doing it. The goal of story books or TV series is to please people. When the students are reading or listening they will...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City 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 receptive skills. Before starting the unit, I didn't know what the receptive skills were. After reading the unit I can clearly understand what the skills are. I also realized that my own language teachers have used many of the techniques discussed in the text. Before we would cover a story in the target language, my teachers would make sure that we had a list of all of the vocabulary that we needed to know for the reading. The text books where I am teaching now also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Fujimi Japan 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 14 goes thru the range and types of teaching materials suggesting there are positives and negatives to be aware of. I am a believer in created materials for the young kids I am teaching working parallel with the course books for structure. Authentic materials are wonderful for class interest levels and keeping subjects current, fresh and relevant is always a bonus. My older kids will bring up a daily news story on their phone to open class and get other classmates comments as an ice...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fairview 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 lesson taught us about reading and listening and how this two receptive skills play a crucial role while learning a language. They help us develop language intuition, by giving us access to new words and structures that we can later replicate to express our own ideas. It's important that the content we read interests us. It doesn't have to be a convoluted novel. It can be a comic book, a detective story or a fable. As for the listening, it is as important as reading. Perhaps a bit more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shickshinny 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: This unit discussed the various future tenses. It discussed how this is most difficult of the three time frames. Not only are there more conjugations for the future tenses, there are also more subtleties in the different purposes for which they are used. For example, knowing that I am going to go to the store represents a plan that you'd already thought about before speaking is different than I will go to the store, which indicates a decision you made at the time of your conversation or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bazhou 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.S. - South Korea said: This unit covered an array of equipment and aids to use in the classroom: boards (traditional and smart), projectors, visual aids, worksheets and cards, cassette and CD players, video players and recorders, dictionaries, books, computers, and online resources. The information given was ok, but I would have liked to see more detailed information on, for example, how to make the best use of a simple board (because it's a medium that all classrooms have). Perhaps some visuals would be a good...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brazil santa rita 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: Reading and listening are the way we collect in formation and can be called receptive skills. Just like collecting water from the rain demands that we give ourselves some training, so is this important part of English language. The proper use of our ears,eyes and mind will give us a good base for receptive skills building. reading and listening can be done for varied reasons like fun or acedemic motives and can face problems like language and choice of topic ; so the teacher must always...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Russia Grozny 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: Summary The key objective of this unit was learning how to teach receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (speaking and writing). I did this first by learning we divide our reason and motives for using these skills into two categories. The first is based on a purpose for example like an instruction manual. The second is focused on entertainment like reading a book or watching a movie. I learnt how to integrate these skills effectively into any lesson by understanding how we...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Tsuruoka 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: Here we look at how effective teaching themes are within the learning process. Songs and chants, games, stories, arts and crafts and seasonal highlights can all be used to reach the teaching point. They can all be used for all age groups. However, they will differ slightly in order to fit the class in question. Eg. Younger learners will take part happily in singing with actions and dramatics but they may not be able to sit quietly and listen to a lengthly story or audio book. Older learners may...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sirsa India 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 section seems to be the first practical classroom techniques lesson. I learned a lot about the theory of learning. The background theory will be useful when doing lesson plans as it can direct activities. Some of the earlier methods seemed contrived but even they have some useful applications. An example is lingualism. I can see how pointing to a pen, when trying to teach the class what a pen is, would be beneficial. The trick is try to gather as many correct techniques in order to not be...  [Read more]