Liam Riley

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lynnville Iowa 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: Teaching productive skills, writing and speaking, is very important. When focusing on these skills, the teacher must consider a combination of both accuracy and fluency activities. Being able to create effective activities for each will help students be more successful. To encourage students to interact during speaking activities, it is vital to create group/pair work, include a lot of guided practice before fluency activities, and allow students time to think before speaking. When teaching writing, the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Makhachkala Russia 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 4 covers the present tenses including present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. I have learnt about the forms, usages, typical errors made by ESL students. In addition, I have paid attention to the ideas that can be used at the Activate stage of an ESA lesson. I am interested in following ideas, such as \"Find Someone Who...\", \"20 Questions\" and \"Liar! Question Sheet\", etc. and would like to use my class in future.I learned more about the...  [Read more]

ESA: A Teaching Methodology For many years Teachers of English have used the PPP model of Presentation, Practice and Production for the preferred model of teaching. It has worked well. The PPP model falls short however, in that it does not work well when teaching more complex language problems beyond the sentence level or when teaching communicative skills. Jeremy Harmer in How to Teach English (Longman Publishing 1998) proposed an alternative to PPP called ESA: Engage, Study, and Activate. In an article written in The Guardian Weekend, March 15 1997, Bridget Riley complained about the treatment she and her fellow students received at the Royal College of Art. “We were abandoned when what we needed and what we hoped for was help toward independence in teaching rather than having...  [Read more]