Moving Abroad

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Porto Alegre Brazil 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 had a very interesting read through this unit. I teach two different subjects currently at the high school level and neither of my classes have a course book or any material. Everything I teach is created by myself or from an online source. Both of my classes are 100% digital; however, I have taught from a Teacher Course Book before with my students having matching Student Course Books. Part of me misses having the course book ? easy to rely on, keeps things structured for students who...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Class Cheaper 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: L.W. –U.S.A. said: This course has made me think more logically about how to plan for accomplishing specific goals in each class. The result is that I feel much more confident that I can successfully teach a group of adults and have fun doing it. My short term plan is to volunteer to teach a small class of adult immigrants who need help with basic language. Then after retiring I will be moving to Korea and hope to be allowed to teach business english in a college or independently. This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Institute TESOL 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: S.S & J.M – U.S.A. said: a.) This course has taught us more than we expected. In it, we've learned how to be effective, productive, teachers. We've learned how understand/plan for student issues. We have been given valuable links resources. And, perhaps most importantly, we've learned that we have the power to empower people, and change lives. b.) We every intention of using everything we've learned and putting it into practice. We plan on moving to Germany, and using the lessons/feedback/examples...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL West Stayton Oregon 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 covers the conditional test and reported speech. I learned that there are 5 conditionals: zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional and mixed conditionals. Conditionals occur most during reported speech, when a person reports a speech from one person to another. As noted in this unit, the potential for mistakes and difficulty is high because of the complexity and changing nature of time expressions, verb tenses' etc. For this reason, it is important for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Santa Maria California 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: From this unit I have learned about teaching special groups: children, business people, beginners. We need to use a different approach when dealing with children, for example , keep the pace moving swiftly, being silly , speaking slowly and clearly, trying not to use their native language for explaining things, starting off as a stricter teacher to maintain discipline in the class. When teaching business English, we should not be discouraged by lack of own business skills but rather focus on...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jefferson County Alabama 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 can definitely prove to be a challenging section for English learners as the passive voice can be confusing. During the exercises and videos, I paid special attention to the rules and reasons from moving from active to passive voice. The modal verbs, such as may, might, could, might, should, must, etc... are also very important as they can imply different types of situations. These situations can include obligations, requests, permission, ability or advice. An area that I need to further...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Stayton Oregon 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 the different types of special groups I might need to teach in my ESL career: young learners, English beginners (there are several sub-categories of this), business English students, students in a tutoring context (one-to-one teaching), monolingual classes, and multilingual classes. The groups that are of most interest to me are monolingual (since I plan on moving to an Asian country to teach EFL there), business English, and individual tutoring (which is what I would like to do here...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Jordan Amman 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 12 deals with the teaching of the two productive skills; speaking and writing. Both are equally important. For speaking, the differences between the activities for accuracy and fluency is explained to show that an alternative approach is required, moving from controlled activities for language accuracy to creative communication for language fluency. The text covers how to encourage students to speak, thus getting them engaged and interacting with each other. The unit moves onto writing;...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hoven 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: This was the most challenging unit thus far. I did not realize how many people from the poll, on page 1, wanted their pronunciation to be better. This had the most information which I think was excellent on such a confusing topic. My only question for this chapter would be is 'What level should students learn the phonetic script?' I do not doubt it's merits, but what would be a good age? Would it be best for somewhat more advanced students because they are moving on to more difficult words? Or would...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Russia Volzhsky 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 15 provides the TEFL student with powerful and concise information on the types of tests and evaluations not only to be given in the EFL/ESL classroom, but also about those tests students usually prepare for to be taken externally. After reading and watching the video about this topic, we get a clear picture of the instruments we can use to gauge students at different stages in their learning process. Not only that, but we can also understand that some of students' motivations go...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Collins 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: This unit discussed the different types of tests and evaluations useful to English students and teachers. Some of the tests and evaluations discussed are internal and are distributed according to the teacher's preference and/or the school's requirements, while others are external tests that can be taken for applications to universities or jobs. The unit explained the different kinds of English tests and certificates available and discussed the differences so that students will be able to take the test...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Fujieda 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: This unit clearly outlined the importance and structure of lesson planning. The plan structure serves as a road map for learning goals that will take place over a period of time. It creates an historical record of activities, objectives, progress and areas of improvement for both student and teacher upon which the teacher can build to help avoid redundancy and keep the students moving forward.The content introduces the students to the requirements needed to be a competent Business English...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hermitage 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 unit is definitely one of the harder and more confusing ones, at least for me. As mentioned in the unit, tenses cause the most amount of difficulty. For me, it is the usage of all the terms and how confusing it can get when hearing them all. The simple is straight forward but once we start getting into different timelines like the perfect, continuous, and perfect continuous, this is where I usually learn better by seeing it laid out in a visual chart or diagram. To see it visually helps me...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification India Ratlam 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 similar to the previous grammar topics covering the present and past tenses. However, the future tense seems more complicated with the added inclusion of the present simple, present continuous and 'going-to' future, which can also be used to express ideas about the future. Because this tense is so complicated, I feel that it should be tackled in parts so that students can get a thorough understanding of each individual structure. For example, they should be comfortable...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification South Korea Jeonju 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 modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice. For modals, it covered the auxiliary verbs, its uses examples for present, future and past. The next part was focused on active and passive voice and how to change an active sentence into a passive one, with the same meaning. Then lastly the phrasal verbs, which uses a verb followed by one or two particles, moving on to explain the three types of phrasal verbs, intransitive, transitive separable and transitive inseparable. For...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Fairfield Pennsylvania 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 5: Managing Classes, I became aware of many different variables when it comes to managing my classroom. For instance, I must be concerned with how i initially start off with the students as this will affect behaviors, discipline, and rapport, as well as participation from each student moving forward. Between my eye contact, my relationships with each individual student, my preparedness and my professionalism, these all have outward results on how I am perceived and respected by the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL South Boston Washington 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 deals with classroom management. In a nutshell , classroom management is the skill of organizing and managing the class, having a friendly and relaxed manner and maintaining discipline. Eye contact, gestures and the clarity and range of the teachers voice are the foremost techniques to make sure that the students are involved in the lesson and comprehending it. Furthermore, this unit also deals with the pros and cons of working in groups, in pairs and individually. Then the way in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Eagle Harbor 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: Teacher attitude is very important in the success and engagement of students. The teacher should help make student feel comfortable, getting to know their names, use games, mimi's, humor and keep the lesson moving with a variety of activities. Teachers need to have plan and have a variety of ways to help use the concept they are teaching and be flexible to adapt to what students need. Teacher also need a sense of humor to help student feel comfortable and able to take risks to learn, the teacher...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Matsusaka 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: Teachers of EFL will need to explain twelve tenses. Each of the three times in English (past, present and future) have four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. The present simple form is easy to understand and none action verbs (Verbs of the senses, expressing feelings, of mental activity and of possession) take this form. As for the other three aspects of the present tense, the present continuous is made with the simple tense plus the auxiliary verb \"to be\" (I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Zimbabwe Mutare 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 order to encourage everyone to participate, it is important to make your lessons relaxed and fun. Young learners will be learning basic material but you can design creative lessons that get students moving around and speaking with one another. Encourage students to try their best and create a constructive learning environment where students do not need to worry about making mistakes. Create activities and exercises that are entertaining. Help students learn how to interact with one...  [Read more]