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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Noda 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: From this unit,I've learnt four present tenses:present simple,present continuous,present perfect and present perfect continuous.And the structure of each tense,the usage of each tense and some good activities for teaching those tenses.And also some typical students errors in each tenses and how to correct them during teaching. Present simple: Subject + base form and use for talking about daily routine ,facts,directions and instructions and so on.For example:I get up at 7 o'clock everyday. Present...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Sasebo 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 got to admit, it was a nice wake up call in a way that one would never have thought the basic grammar could be confusing. So thank you for pointing out this part of grammar. There are five conditionals: Zero conditional used for irrefutable facts-if/when+ present tense, present tense First conditional used for possible future-if+ present simple, will Second conditional used for impossible situation-if+ past simple, would/could/might+ base form Third conditional used for hypothetical past-if+ past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation Onsite TESOL 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.J. – Japan said: I have worked as an english teacher for 5 years now in Japan. When I began my position I had no qualification for teaching english as a second language other than the fact that I spoke english. My position was to teach oral communication but I soon found it necessary to be looking up the names of certain tenses and the usages of certain structures. This course has deepened my understanding of the tenses and grammar structures of the english language. It has especially helped me to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kamagaya 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: We live in a world where technological advances are being made all the time, and where those advances are making way to a classroom setting. Whether it be videos, visual aids, projectors or interactive whiteboards, technology has allowed teachers to make learning more engaging, colorful and practical for their students. Not only have the equipment and teaching aids mentioned in this lesson allowed teachers to be more creative, but given students the ability to be part of a more hands-on lesson.I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Handa 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, it gives a brief overview on how the four different present tenses (present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous) shall be used. It has given a clear explanation on how to use all the present tenses in either forming sentences or questionnaires. For example, present simple is used to talk about habits and facts. While, present continuous is used to mention about things that are happening at the moment of speaking. Present perfect is used to talk...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Ikeda 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: I found this unit to be quite difficult and came to the conclusion that I don't actually know as much as I thought. Although English is my Native language, it's actually hard. This unit covered past tenses; usages, typical mistakes made by students, and teaching ideas. I learned how to distinguish between each of the four past tenses; past simple, past perfect, past continuous, and past perfect continuous and how to teach students with the help of affirmative, negative and question style forms.Unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Rio Claro Brazil 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: The 2 Receptive skills. The focus of both accuracy and fluency. Different types of activities for different phases of the ESA lessons. Especially useful part was the bit where the unit talked about SPEAKING skills and presented a sample ESA lesson plan. Here in Japan, where I teach English training to this day, has been heavily focused on developing writing skills. So many of my students are good writers, but they don't do so well in speaking. Not only for cultural reasons,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Higashimurayama 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: The two productive skills are speaking and writing. Our li is all about communication, so, teaching how to speak is very important. A teacher should use different methods to get students to talk and use the new grammar and language, for instance, pair-work and group work, lots of communicative exercises, dialogues, story-building, controlled and guided activities to encourage students to talk.I learnt the different methods, techniques and theories to planning and conducting a class....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Niihama 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 talks of pronunciation and phonology.Under phonology it looks at intonation and makes it clear that the normal pattern for intonation in a statement is the rise/fall pattern. it goes further to look at the techniques for indicating and teaching intonation and mention points like:nonsense words, gesture, humming and singing and the board.It also looks at stress and the rules for stressing words.Not leaving out the techniques for indicating and teaching stress. Much more, it treats the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Gaomi 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: N.V. - Japan said: This unit focused on the five conditionals (zero, first, second, third, and mixed) and reported speech. Conditional sentences need to have an \"if\" clause that needs to be satisfied before the main clause, the \"then\" can be realized. The zero conditional's form is if/when + present tense, present tense and its uses are scientific facts, general truths, and things that are certain to happen. For the First Conditional the form is \"if\" + present simple, will + base form and the uses are the likely...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Funabashi 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 the biggest lesson I learned from this section was the fact that these parts of speech can allow English speakers to be well spoken and clear in conveying what they want to say. I was able to understand clearly what each parts of speech purpose in a sentence. I also have a better understanding in adjectives and how there is a rule to describe things. It goes from size,age,color,material,then noun. Even after speaking English for over a decade, I was still able to grasp something...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Tottori 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: Evaluation and testing is a sensitive topic amongst teachers, which is alluded to as well in this unit. But the fact is, that you normally have to present a certain number of testresults at the end of a course. What I missed to some point in this unit is that it helps yourself as a teacher and your students as well if you think carefully beforehand about the goals of a topic you want to evaluate. For and after a diagnostic test, it helps to get already an overview of what the goal will be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Toda 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 13, Teaching pronunciation and phonology, provides general guidelines to the teaching of applied phonetics of the English language. The unit summarizes a variety of approaches for the teaching of intonation and stress, and the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. The section on speech articulation illustrates the complexity of speech production and how speech organs and places of articulation can best be exploited to result in an exact pronunciation of the English language. I learned from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Kushiro 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: A good resource unit with plenty of information on the topic. I don?t know whether it?s a fact but I?ve always believed that it takes a special kind of person to teach children (younger than, say, 12). In addition to delivering fun-filled and entertaining classes, such teachers surely need abundant patience, a quality I don?t have. I believe I would be best suited to teaching adults.I have learnt speaking and writing is equally important though one deals with accuracy and the other deals...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Ranchi 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: P.M. - Canada said: I have not gotten the results yet as I write this of course, but I expect to do very well. I have taught in Japan for many years and tense explanations was one of the most frequent requests or my adult students. Using 'English Grammar in Use,' I've gone over these structures and usages many, many times. I think it is tempting to make patent observations like 'English has a total of twelve tenses, while many Asian languages only have one.' These sorts of generalizations are highly misleading on the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Course TESOL Universities 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: J.W. - Canada said: english as a global languageThis paper shall ask the question "Is english a global language?" The question will be answered by comparing and contrasting two seperate articles on the subject, which take opposing viewpoints on the subject. The first article is 'Why a global language?'. This article is actually the first chapter of a book entitled 'english as a Global Language.' by David Crystal. The second article is entitled 'What Global Language?', and was written by Barbara Wallraff....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kamakura 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: The previous units dealt with ESL education issues and techniques for the entire student body. This unit fines tunes the approach based on various classes the entire student population is divided into. The classes are the Beginners, the Individual learners, Young Learners, learners of Business English, and Monolingual/Multilingual. The topics discussed were initial reasons for enrolling, continuing motivation level, interests, discipline issues, psychological factors of the classes of students.This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Hachinohe 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 13 deals with teaching pronunciation which is a vital aspect of language learning. For me, this has been the second most useful unit of the course so far (the first one being unit 3 about teaching techniques). The point is that most of my pronunciation learning took place through practice rather than learning theory. In fact, when I got my degree as a Spanish-English translator, Phonetics was a hard nut to crack because it was so full of rules and exceptions that you ended up doubting about...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Sakata 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: This unit has opened my eyes on minor mistakes I've been doing on my past teaching experiences, also added knowledge on how to improve my teaching techniques, especially on teaching the special groups. One thing to be highlighted related to my personal experience is when I taught Business English in the past, I have been always so worried about not having a broad knowledge of each department in the company. Now, having to know that that can be my advantage point, is such a big relief to me.In this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Urasoe 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 is a hard topic to approach and digest for me. I find that many students have different needs and desires when it comes to what vocabulary they need or want to learn. I am not yet adept at figuring out when it is appropriate to introduce new vocabulary or grammatical structures, and in fact have not had the chance to introduce things like gerund phrases to my students. I usually react based on my thought process in the moment, and speak out a word that comes to mind, which is oftentimes not...  [Read more]