Katie Gaffney

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Gaffney South Carolina 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 has been very easy and straight-forward to me. I have learned that students need four things with language: exposure, understanding of the meaning, understanding of the construction, and being able to practice and produce it. Also, I thought it was interesting to read that the grammar of a language is the trunk while the vocabulary and functions are the leaves of the tree. This idea helped put things into perspective for me. I also agree that students can understand more than they can use...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Padre Ranchitos Arizona 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 one of the CTBE course is basically an overview of the material contained within it. The unit detailed the maximum amount of time allotted for the course, as well as a recommended speed for completion to maximize results. It also contained and detailed various acronyms or \"terminology\" for various English teaching fields, such as the ESP(English for specific purposes) and the TEYL(Teaching of English to young Learners) and that TESL, TESOL, and TEFL are basically the same thing. after...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Edna 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: I see that so much of the Reported Speech structure depends on context. For example, question #18 above could be answered with response #1 if the report was immediately after Kate asked the question. However, response #3 would be appropriate if the report was long after the conversation between Kate and John had taken place. But given the very brief context provided, it's difficult even for a native speaker of English to know for sure. Regarding the conditionals also presented in the unit, it's very...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Jalna India 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 was probably the most difficult of the units so far! Honestly, as a teacher and native speaker, some of this material can befuddle me a bit. Accordingly, no wonder asian language speakers have such difficulty with English, particularly aspects like these. Take question 18, for example. In what world does \"Kate asked John if he was working tomorrow\" make sense? Was working tomorrow? Its not logical. Hopefully future units will cover some methodology about teaching these aspects of the language...  [Read more]

  So, now we're going to fill the actual procedure of the lesson plan out itself. We mentioned at the start, the first thing we do, is to get some general information about the class that we'll be teaching and then, in order for someone to be able to cover our lesson, we need to present enough information in our lesson plan that they can actually carry it out. What I'm going to do is for each stage of the lesson, I'll indicate what I'm going to do in the lesson and then, we'll cut away from that to have a look to see how that will actually be achieved. So, our lesson is going to be based on a 45-minute lesson and the first phase is going to be the engage phase and it's going to be a straight arrow ESA lesson. I'm going to take approximately five minutes on my engage phase and in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation Courses 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: H.P. - Canada said: Volunteer TeachingThere are many reasons to begin a career teaching english as a second or foreign language. As with any job, many individuals go into the field for the purpose of sustaining a lifestyle or securing a paycheck. However, over the past years a new trend has been emerging and growing worldwide: the practice of volunteer teaching. While it may seem absurd to spend time and effort teaching for free, there are a variety of reasons people choose try the non-profitable...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Courses TESOL Colleges 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. - South Korea said: Pronunciation problems in It is common knowledge that Asian learners of english will run into many pronunciation pitfalls during their english learning experience. This is definitely the case when teaching english in the country of South Korea. Korean and english are about as different as two languages can be, and even when Korean tries to emulate an english word, it sounds very bizarre to the native english speaker. The main pronunciation problem that Korean learners face is that...  [Read more]

  So, having elicited this particular structure, what I'm now able to do is to move on to the actual study activities. Typically, they will be in the form of worksheets to check that the students actually understand this information. So, I might prepare three activities. They may not do them all but, for example, I could prepare these three study activities. So, the first one is going to be a fairly straightforward matching activity, where perhaps they match the subject to its correct verb "to be" in that part of the sentence. The second one is going to be a gap fill. For example, I might use this verb here and ask them to complete a sentence using that verb, so that I can check that any spelling changes that take place are correct and the final one is going to be an unscramble,...  [Read more]