Leslie Mendez

  Leslie is a Canadian English teacher at a junior high school in the Japanese countryside. In this TESOL review, Leslie tells us she is looking to open her own English language day care centre at her home and with this in mind she took the 120-hour certificate course with ITTT as well as the 50-hour young learners course to bring her qualifications up to date. Hopefully for Leslie this will be the first step on a rewarding career as the owner of a successful English language school in Japan. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Leslie Georgia 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: It was nice to see two very different teaching styles in action. Obviously the second teaching style was much more effective, primarily because the lesson was taught in a way that made the students comfortable. After the students were more comfortable, they were more open and participated more as well. It seems that the approach has a lot to do with the effectiveness of the lesson, but the attitude of the teacher is almost as important. Students are clearly going to be more comfortable around a warm and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Leslie Arkansas 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 topics related to teaching different special groups of English learners. These groups are beginners, young learnes, one-on-one lessons, and business English courses. Each of these special groups can be rewarding but require some extra work on the part of the teacher to make the lessons most effective. For example, young learners do best with short, varied activities, and business English students have very specific aspects of English they want to learn for their jobs. When doing...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Leslie 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 18 regarded modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice with examples of how they are used in sentences. I learned that modal auxiliary verbs are used to express obligation, probability, permission or ability with examples such as : could, will or must. I also picked up the definition of phrasal verbs to be a verb with one or two particles added in. Particles in this case refer to a preposition, adverb or and adverb with a preposition. I figured out that the three types of phrasal verbs are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil sertaozinho 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 6 I have learned that the system for past tenses are not very different from the present tense and use the same structure for identifying past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous sentences. The past simple tense can have regular or irregular verbs. An example of an irregular verb sentence might be \"Kelly bought her favorite brand shoes.\" The past continuous expresses an action which began before that time and most likely continued after it. \"Bob was...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Agency Discount 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: J. B. - U.S.A. said: Volunteer TeachingGetting education is a huge part of a person’s life. It is about learning and growing. Countless organizations have been providing education in various countries. As education is continually provided, the demand for volunteer teachers has been growing rapidly for several years. For teachers, it is a way of gaining suitable experience for themselves and passing it on to others. The experience, of course, can vary for different persons. Volunteer Teaching has become a...  [Read more]

Pronunciation Problems for Chinese Students of English As a global language, English has been popularly taught as the second language in China for quite a few years. Now there are more Chinese people learning English on various purposes, such as applying for a higher paid job, studying and living abroad, or establishing business with western countries. According to my experience of learning and teaching English, it is harder to master English pronunciation than English grammar for Chinese students. Chinese grammar may appear quite simple compared to that of many highly-inflected Western languages (e.g. Russian, Latin, etc.), or even the low-scale verb conjugations, for instance, of English (e.g. "swim, swam, swum") because of the lack of inflections. Even though there are similarities...  [Read more]