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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Haicheng 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: S.R. - India said: The past tense presents similarities with the present tense. In fact, like the present, It's composed of continuous forms, perfect and perfect continuous ones. When the student has to talk about past actions or events, happened and finished in a specific moment of the past, he/her must use the past simple which main form is to add ED or D at the base form of the verb. Anyway, there are verbs that change completely their form, so the students have to learn them by heart. If the teacher wants to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Haicheng 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 teach future tense pretty often in my current ESL teaching job. Learning about the uses for future simple is something that I think will be applicable in my current position. I learned that uses for the future simple tense include: predictions, promises, threats, and future facts. I enjoyed learning the differences between future perfect and future perfect continuous. These are two tenses that are not very common. Future perfect tense is used when describing something that will be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Haicheng China 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 ideas offered in this unit about how to act in a new (to the teacher) culture seem to be mostly common sense. I've always acted in the manner suggested whenever I've encountered a new environment, even in my native US. The only issue I had was with question 3 -- I chose a) because I could find no prohibitions against mixed activities, and d), although seemingly innocuous, has the potential for the teacher to lose face.I feel like I have learned some strategies to create lesson plans...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Haicheng China 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 past tense of verbs follows the same format as the present and future tenses; the past simple tense simply adds 'd' or 'ed' to the base form of regular verbs. The past continuous tone adds was/were before the verb + 'ing'. The past perfect tone adds 'had' plus the past simple form of the verb. Lastly, the past perfect continuous verb tone follows the format of subject + 'had been\" + verb +'ing'. As with the present and future verb tenses, expressing the correct verb tone for the sentence at...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Haicheng 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 discusses introducing students to new vocabulary, grammar, and functions. Appropriate lesson activities for the engage, activate, and study phases are discussed for each lesson type. In addition, example lesson plans are given, including a straight arrow ESA vocabulary lesson for new students, a patchwork ESA grammar lesson for mid-level students, and a boomerang ESA function lesson for mid to high-level students. This unit was very helpful to me, since I did not realize that (especially...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Guangshui 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: Classroom management has so many aspects to consider if you want to create a good classroom atmosphere and maintain discipline. You also have to find a perfect balance between your lesson plan and the way you conduct the class, it is not only about executing the activities you have planned but also keep in mind all of the elements that the classroom management involves as you will face hundreds of different situations during your teacher career. The non-verbal language reveals much from a person...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Guangshui China 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 learned from this unit that it is important to provide students with a variety in teaching. I also learned that you should start with a killer engage activity in the beginning so that you are able to get and keep students attention. Starting with asking students to share all that they know about a particular person, subject animal, etc, reminds me of the KWL charts that we do with students to see where they are at with that particular lesson. Drawing out all that the students know will allow...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Fenghua 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 all of the necessary equipment and resources that a teacher can use to present a lesson to their class. The unit covered boards, projectors, cassette players, cd players, DVD's and videos, visual aids, worksheets, and interactive white boards. The unit described the benefits of each one and the disadvantages if there were any in each piece of equipment. The unit then gives detailed lists of dictionaries, teacher worksheet and teaching resources, learning resources for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Fenghua China 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 lesson is on how we read and listen. It is about using your mind in order to understand the words. There are predictive skills like predicting content, scanning such as not reading the entire article or only listening to part of a broadcast. Skimming would be to get the general idea, versus detailed trying to get the full benefit. The example used is a patchwork of Engage, study, engage, study, activate, study activate.This final unit offers solutions for common problems in the ESL...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Fenghua 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 Unit 10 Video Lessons I got to watch two alternate examples of how to conduct a lesson. In Video 1, the instructor made the students feel lost, confused and seemingly insulted by assuming that the lesson he was presenting was \"very easy\" and that \"anyone can do it\". He never actually introduced to the students what the particular lesson would be about by explaining it, nor giving them an example of what he was aiming for. This caused the students to not want to participate, and when they did,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Guangshui 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: 'How to choose assessment activities?' that's the main question of the unit. Assessment means collecting information about learners' performance, progress or attitudes in order to make judgements about their learning. We may choose to assess formally (through tests and examinations) or informally. We can carry out informal assessment during a lesson by monitoring (listening carefully) and observing learners while they are doing ordinary classroom activities. To get other...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Meihekou 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: D.W. - U.S.A. said: In this chapter we were learning about pronunciation and phonology. Phonology is the study,science, analysis and classification of physical properties of sound. 'Intonation' is the variation of volume and pitch of the sentence while 'stress' is concerned with individual words. In English we usually say a sentence with rise/fall, this is in questions, agreements/disagreements or confirming a statement while fall/ rise indicates surprise, disappointment and the speaker wanting a reply. Techniques...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shihezi 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: C.C. - U.S.A. said: During this Unit I have learned that Future simple and going to future can be easily confusing to students. Future simple is used for future facts, promises, threats, assumptions, predictions made without evidence and decisions that are made spontaneously at the time of speaking. Going to future is used for predictions that have evidence, decisions that had been made prior to the time of speaking and intention. Many native speakers also lack some clarity, we commonly use these tenses without...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Fenghua China 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 interesting and very practical. I know that while acquiring my college degree, several of the tools taught in this unit were used through out my education. I found question number 11 to be confusing. In a regular dictionary, you would find the origin of a word. But I did go to the website for the Cambridge dictionary and saw the word usage in context so I changed my answer. I felt this question could have been worded better to specify the type of dictionary as not all...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Guangshui China 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 main goal of taking this course, after all, is to understand how to present new language material to students in a way that will remain with them and ultimately make them a more fluent speaker. So, to learn that teaching vocabulary, grammatical structures, and language function in the ways established in the questions above is extremely important and in my opinion will really help execute teaching English successfully.The unit reminded me how important listening, writing, reading and...  [Read more]