Helping Esl Students

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Portage 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: Understanding simple past tense and simple past continuous tense are relatively easy for ESL students. In fact, the other two tenses related to the past often causes a lot of confusion. This unit's explanation of the usages of past tense with examples had given me a vivd picture on ways to teach the tense. I found helping ESL students understand the difference between present perfect tense and past perfect tense has certain challenges. However, reading this unit, it can be simply differentiated by...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification California Stockton 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 20 discusses some common problems that may arise in an ESL classroom, such as teaching multiple levels in the same class, native language usage in the classroom, dealing with reluctant students, teaching large classes, and helping students with English listening difficulties, as well as different ways to approach these problems. The Unit also discusses how to approach the first lesson in the classroom, depending on whether the class is a new group of students or an existing group...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Weinan 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: This unit is an introduction of what will be covered in the teaching business course. It's goal is to give the student the opportunity to study ideas and methodologies to teaching business English. This unit reviews the skills participants should be able to do at the end of the course. Skills such as the terminology used in business English teaching, how to create or find teaching material, understanding the role of a business English teacher, awareness of opportunities for further professional...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Hechi 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: This unit has given me a thorough and precise knowledge about the present tense, and it's different forms. Specifically the knowledge about the situations where we use different forms of the present tense. The changing of the verb forms in different situations, the use of auxiliary/helping verbs and the role they play in making positive and negative and well as interrogative sentences. For me the special thing that I learned was the confusion between the usage of has and have. I'm a more competent...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses Virginia 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: V. M. – U.S.A. said: This unit focused on language production, i.e. speaking and writing. In order for students to develop these skills, they need to be very comfortable making mistakes. This is a sensitive part of language acquisition because this is the part where mistakes can suddenly be seen. The lesson mentions using games to help practice speaking and writing techniques, and I couldn't agree more. Games help break the tension of the classroom and mistakes are downplayed in the interest of continuing...  [Read more]

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