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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Danner 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 contains different methods of teachings and explains how they are different. This unit also highlights different aspects of each method and how they will manifest in the classroom. Engage, study, and activate phases are explained to help a teacher better understand what should be occurring during a class period. The multiple examples listed under the elicitation heading should prove helpful for new teachers or be a good reminder for veterans that may have become set on just a few of those...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Beverly Kansas 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: Modal auxiliary verbs are: can, could, may, might, shall, will, wood, must, should, would, have to, have got to, need to, ought to and needn't. They are used before verbs to add meaning to the main verb. We use Active (the focus is on the agent or subject) and Passive (where the agent is less important) voices. Only transitive verbs are used in the Passive voice. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. There are three kinds of clauses: Independent, Dependent and Relative. There...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wheeler 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: The unit 12 is showing ways of teaching productive skills: speaking and writting. Both of these abilities provide the result of learning. Accuracy is important for writting skill, that is why teacher controlls writting activities. As soon as fluency should be in speaking. Speaking activity it is where student has a controll. The unit provides approaches for encouraging students to speak. There always should be a purpose for speaking and also an interest of the student. Advices for ESA lesson are clearly...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Green Ridge Missouri 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: Evaluations in several forms are key in helping students progress. The diagnostic or placement test will provide a starting point for teacher generated lessons and textbook materials. Just as important are consistent evaluations or progress tests. There may be times when the lessons are not producing the desired learning progress, so adjustments may need to be made in lesson planning. The progress test can give teachers the direction to go to improve instruction. Since some organizations require...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Silver Bay 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: There are five types of special groups related to teaching:?beginners, individuals, young learners, Business English and monolingual vs. multilingual. For beginners, it can further be broken down into these categories: absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners, and beginners without the Roman alphabet. Top 10 tips for teaching beginners: keep it simple, be visual rather than verbal, get them talking, use questions and verbal repetition drills, use pair work, praise as...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Conesus New York 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 Conditional and Reported speech.This is the most important part of grammar.conditional sentences contining 'if' or similar expression as 'when'which refer to past present and future possibilities.There exist first,second , third and mixed conditionals.They express actions that will happen or not happen if a certain condition is met.However, in this unit, reported and direact speech are been examine on how to express time such as backshifting time.For example, yesterday becomes that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Alma Kansas 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 you can see how important is the methodology in the process of both teaching and learning. For example, when I was a student in Spain all my English teachers used the same methodology, Grammar- translation. In my humble opinion that only way of teaching a L2 is not the proper one. One of the reasons is because the students tend to think in their own language before, and then they translate into the new language. As a result of that, many errors arise. For instance. there are different...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Leon Nicaragua 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 7 is about teaching a new language. It shows the importance of teaching vocab and grammar and what to focus on. This lesson, for me, was pretty easy because I always think and choose which vocab is always used when teaching. For example, when I teach at the first grade level at elementary school I always start with the basic colors, animals, numbers 1-10, and food. I do this because in everyday English we use colors to describe things such as \"brown dog\" or \"red apples\".I enjoyed this unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Hamm Germany 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 very basics of lesson planning. One of the key things to learn is that there is no set method of lesson planning, but even so there are objectives that should be covered in a lesson plan. It is important that the teacher have a general idea of what they are trying to teach, and anticipate how this subject should be addressed and any problems that should arise. It is also important for the teacher to analyze their own teaching style as they go through the lesson plan, to call...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Fulltime 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: K.G. - South Africa said: Teaching ESL versus EFLTeaching english as a Second language (ESL) and teaching english as a foreign language (EFL) are two distinctly different undertakings and should therefore involve slightly different teaching principles and practices. In understanding the difference between ESL and EFL teaching, it is helpful to note that ESL teaching usually involves a group of multilingual students living in the country of the ‘target’ language (which, in this case, would be english). EFL...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Company TESOL Language 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.P. - Canada said: BritishEnglish Vs AmericanEnglishWhen I was sixteen, I left my home in Yorkshire, england and moved to a community in Northern British Columbia, Canada, which was settled primarily by Texans. One of the issues of culture shock was the language barrier. "What language barrier?” you might ask. "Don't we all speak english?" Yes, we do. However, when I was asked if I liked "garage saling" and was requested to "Comet the sink", I began to doubt this. (I discovered later that the garage...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Acquire A 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: I.G. - Australia said: Cultural sensitivity in the classroomNowadays it is very common to find multicultural groups and one of the biggest challenges for teachers is to modify or adapt the curriculum to satisfy the students’ needs in relation to culture. Teachers need to properly address cultural sensitivity issues to ensure students’ learning flows without prejudice or discrimination. Instructors can increase their students’ motivation and language skills by understanding the potential problems with...  [Read more]

ESA: A Teaching Methodology For many years Teachers of English have used the PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production for the preferred model of teaching. It has worked well. The PPP model falls short however, in that it does not work well when teaching more complex language problems beyond the sentence level or when teaching communicative skills. Jeremy Harmer in How to Teach English (Longman Publishing 1998) proposed an alternative to PPP called ESA: Engage, Study, and Activate. In an article written in The Guardian Weekend, March 15 1997, Bridget Riley complained about the treatment she and her fellow students received at the Royal College of Art. “We were abandoned when what we needed and what we hoped for was help toward independence in teaching rather than having...  [Read more]

If you crave adventure and a lifestyle that’s out of the ordinary, Phnom Penh, Cambodia is the perfect location to launch your ‘teach English abroad’ journey. The transformation of Cambodia over the past three decades from a country characterised by occupation and trouble, to a Southeast Asian powerhouse, is phenomenal. There’s an insatiable demand for English language skills in Cambodia - and a chronic shortage of TEFL qualified people to teach English. What does this mean for people just like you? Simple! It means opportunities galore. Phnom Penh is the capital city of Cambodia and the nation’s international gateway. With a population of around 2.5 million people and a relatively confined central business district, it has a noticeably slower pace of life than you’ll find in...  [Read more]

There’s only a handful of cities in the world that truly deserve ‘must visit’ status and Hanoi is certainly one of them. While most people can only dream about a fleeting trip to Hanoi – if they’re lucky – ‘living like a local’ and working as EFL teacher in this magnificent city is a realistic proposition for anyone with a sense of adventure. Hanoi is Vietnam’s capital city and the seat of government. It’s noticeably smaller than Ho Chi Minh City in the south, but the pace of life is similarly frenetic. While Ho Chi Minh City is often referred to as Vietnam’s ‘engine room’, Hanoi is more of a ‘grand old lady’. It’s tough to pin down what makes Hanoi such a special place. Is it because there’s history, culture and art on display in seemingly every street...  [Read more]

Songs in the Classroom The use of songs in the ESL classroom can be a fun and innovative way of covering a range of English language topics. Songs can be used for vocabulary, grammar, dictation, pronunciation (stress and intonation), phonetics, speaking, writing, listening, integrative skills, and many other ESL points. Furthermore, songs can invite the non-native speaker into the English speaking culture. For instance, pop music gives the learner a taste of what is trendy at the moment. Meanwhile, the lyrics to classic rock songs can give a sense of history and the attitude of the country at the time of recording (for example, “Give Peace a Chance,” John Lennon, 1969). Additionally, children’s songs are crucially important for the young learner as they are an easy way to encourage...  [Read more]

British english vs american English With English being recognised as the global language of choice, which one is considered the official language? So just how did American English diverge from British English in the first place? American English roots back to the early colonial days of the late 16th century, were a whole gamut of cultures converged into a single society. In some colonies English wasn’t even a spoken language and in those colonies that did speak English it was quite different from the English we know today. The Elizabethan English of the day consisted of many varieties of regional English dialects. All these different dialects, intermingled with a multitude of cultures formed one big boiling pot, of which over time, a new variant was produced – American English. And...  [Read more]