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  Choosing a TEFL certification course can be a difficult decision as there is no standardized duration of training or a fixed syllabus for providers to adhere to. This seemingly free-for-all situation means there are a multitude of companies offering a wide range of courses of varying quality. The good news is there are several long established TEFL course providers out there who do offer high quality courses that provide all the skills and knowledge you need to start a new career as an EFL teacher. So what should you look for when choosing the right course for you? The overall length of the course is a good place to start. There are many providers who offer short format online courses of 40 hours or even less, as well as in-class courses that can be completed in one weekend...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Baker Nevada 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 modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice, relative clauses, and phrasal verbs were discussed. Teaching ideas, in particular for the modals such as role play and guessing the meaning of signs, were especially helpful. In terms of the passive voice, I wondered if students in particular cultural settings would have difficulty speaking or writing in an active versus passive voice. That is, I wondered if there are cases in which a native language favors a predominantly passive or predominantly...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Erwinville Louisiana 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 future tenses. This unit I find particularly difficult to teach, because it is relatively difficult to learn, even for a native speaker. There are so many nuances and overlapping usages that this is just a bit difficult. The difficulty, for me, is the codifying of rules of speech that I use without noticing. Also, using present continuous or simple present to convey future meanings seems counter intuitive, although it makes sense when explained. I have yet to teach a class that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Jimo 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 gives a detailed description of conditional sentences, form and usage, as well as sentences with indirect speech. A detailed description is given when we include direct questions in messages (also called indirect ones), what are the following changes. Typical errors of students are described in detail. The following points will be difficult for students: These are also modified if backshifting. For example, 'today' becomes 'that day', 'yesterday' becomes 'the day before' the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stonington 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: This chapter introduced the concept of tenses and briefly discussed their importance before launching into an explanation of the four present tenses: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. The chapter's explanations of the four tenses and when to use them were very specific and thorough, though they would likely be difficult for even advanced ESL students to fully understand. I already had a reasonable understanding of these concepts, but reviewing them and and thinking about the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Taian 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 been difficult. The introduction to this unit made mention that it is both challenging for students as well as teachers, this is true! The module guide to this unit offers a broad explanation of the various present tenses and its form/uses, which is ultimately very helpful. However, the overload of information in this unit makes it difficult to focus and understand each present tense, as they are so similar. Reading the unit several times and making notes on this unit helped...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Neijiang 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 concept of phrasal verbs is very confusing to me and I am having a difficult time distinguishing the difference between them. I feel like I will have to study these further. The difficult is conceptualizing the difference between Intransitive, transitive separable, and transitive inseparable. I can comprehend the gist of each one but had difficulty delineating the differences in the multiple choice questions 18-20.Studying how to manage class actually very important for all teacher....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Itami 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: in this unit I have learned about the problems that teacher can face and the ways to aavoid them.I have learned how to establish the rapport between students and teachers and activities we can use,what to do when the level of students are different,how to teach large classes,and the use of native language how the techer should response,what to do when the students have difficulty in listeningThis lesson help me to understand the part of speech and function within sentence. Always have...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Skanee 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: Unit 13 covered many aspects pronunciation and phonology. As stated it is one of the most under taught areas of the English language because because most native English speaking teachers are not taught these skills. They are learned through use of the language. This unit covered quite a lot of new territory for me personally. I found the subjects of placing stress in a sentence very difficult and also the international phonetic alphabet very difficult to grasp and still have some difficulty with both. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Antananarivo Madagascar 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 was quite challenging, I feel strongly that this unit may be the most difficult unit learnt so far. As I answered the questions I was not confident with quite a few of them. This unit allowed me to realise that the process and ways in which you set activities for students can be a difficult task and a lot of thought must be put into it in order to carry out a successful lesson.Not knowing very much about phonetics and how to teach pronunciation, this unit has been very...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Langford South Dakota 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 believe that I understand how to identify modal verbs and use them. In addition, I understand the usage of the passive voice and how to construct passive voice sentences accurately. I can correctly construct sentences using phrasal verbs. However, I am having difficulty distinguishing between the three basic types of phrasal verbs. I found questions 18, 19, and 20 very difficult, and I am uncertain as to the accuracy of my responses. It was a relief to read the course suggestion that...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Muzaffarnagar 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 present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous forms were covered in this unit. I appreciated the sample activities for each of the tenses and the simple yet straight forward presentation of these tenses. I continue to be astounded at the ability of these grammar units to describe in a simple sentence or two what I would find difficult to even talk about. It reminds me of thinking about your thinking, described to me once as the practice of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Zaria 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.P. - Belgium said: Unit eleven discusses receptive skills (reading and listening). We use these skills for a purpose, for entertainment, or both. The unit notes receptive skills require more than just our eyes and ears, but also pre-existing knowledge. We use receptive skills in many different ways: to predict content, scan text or dialogue to find specific information, skim to understand the gist, concentrate to acquire detailed information, and deduce beyond literal meanings. Potential problems are in the language...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Laddonia 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: This section would most likely be the most difficult for the learner. The modal verbs, for example, can be quite the challenge. They can add so much meaning to a sentence, but their use is oftentimes very subtle. Even native speakers have difficulty with this concept on occasion. Of course, this is not helped by the fact that such a lesson would be made even more difficult by \"can\" and \"could\". For most usages, the two words words are used for pretty much the same, with \"could\" being the...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Anda 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: By watching the two unit 10 videos, (of the same teacher teaching the same lesson/material) firstly; doing the opposite of all guidelines and advice from units 3,5,7 & 9. Secondly doing everything according to the textbook, the reactions from the students totally validate all the guidelines and advice contained in previous chapters for how to execute an effective lesson. Its quiet clear that students in the first lesson are not engaged, slightly intimidated, and of unsure of what they are being...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Miyazaki 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 16 was about conditionals and reported speech. I learned that conditionals are sentences containing \"if\". I also learned that there are five main types of conditionals. I think that these may be difficult to teach because of the different tenses that need to be used for each conditional. The teaching ideas the unit gave will help with the difficulty. I also learned about reported speech and direct speech, which I think will also be difficult to teach because of the word tense changes.this...  [Read more]