Online Teaching Materials

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Giresun Turkey 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 equipment and teaching aids used in the classroom. Common equipment used includes: White/black board, overhead projector, visual aids, worksheets, cassette recorder, CD player, DVDs and computers. Materials such as dictionaries, course books, resource books and online resources can also be used for teaching English. I found this unit helpful for the long lists of materials available online and the books for activities which were listed.This unit covers the what and how to use books...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL sonora Texas 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: They key to spending class time effectively and efficiently requires a good balance of classroom materials and teaching aids. Not enough visual and audio stimulation will result in a lack of student attention. Too much visual and audio stimulation will result in students being overwhelmed by the material. This unit highlights many credible sources for TEFL teachers, which is important. Online sources mentioned in this unit include: dictionaries, learning exercises and materials, literature and poetry,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Botou 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 topic of this unit is one of the more emotive and contradictive. There are polar points of view on the usage of coursebooks. It is also a big part of a teacher's job to select coursebooks, adapt them and decided when to use them. Teaching material can be divided in 2 groups: authentic and created. It's always exciting for students to work with authentic materials as they help motivation, confidence and interest. However, a teacher should be very careful in selecting authentic materials for...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Astana Kazakhstan 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 ESL teacher has tools to help him/her to boost students learning. Being aware of these equipment and teaching aid devices make the lessons more alluring for the students and gives the teacher greater autonomy from textbooks. Various assets can be used by the teacher, such as OHP (over head projector), videos and DVDs, online resources, black and IWB (interactive white borad) boards, CD players and many more. All depends of your classroom needs and the access you have to these tools.I always...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Morelia Mexico 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 14 is about course books and lesson materials. Course books are a very emotive issue for most teachers. Almost every published book has it's own lovers and haters. In an ideal school, you would have all the books and teaching material available, but that's not the reality. Very often, the teacher is the one who prepares all the teaching materials for his/her students, and for many students, this is better option. Students find that materials more interesting and more relevant.In this unit I...  [Read more]

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  Roby from the US share her experiences of completing ITTT's 120 online TEFL/TESOL certification course in this TESOL review. She talks about how best to complete the course and she outlines the support that was given to her by her online tutor. She also talks about the ongoing job support that ITTT offers to all its graduates. Roby plans to complete ITTT's two specialized courses, the Business English course and the Teaching English to Young Learners course. These two additional teaching qualifications will greatly improve her career options when she moves to 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...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Asyut Egypt 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 7 we explored different methods of teaching vocabulary, grammar and functions. Regardless the fluency of the class, teaching vocabulary,grammar and function are important. Grammar and vocabulary lessons usually use the staight arrow methond, whereas function based lessons are usually taught by the boomerang method. As an ESL teacher one has to ensure language is introduced ina fun and manageable way.This unit gave a great overview of Teaching Equipment, their advantages and...  [Read more]

  Peter took the 120-hour online TEFL course with ITTT. In this TEFL review, Peter mentions how he found the course to be well designed and well thought out. One thing Peter discusses is how earning a TEFL certificate and teaching English abroad is a great way to learn about new cultures and share about your own country with people all over the world. Peter would like to continue studying with ITTT and the many different courses that are available. 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 can quickly get to grips with each section...  [Read more]

  In this episode, Linda takes on the pronunciation of the word "estival". Enjoy the episode! 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 can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Unit 1 describes the role of each participant in a learning environment. My biggest takeaway is that a good teacher makes a good student. To be a good teacher requires flexibility in addressing each students needs. A teachers role is to focus on the students needs to learn proper English.in this unit 14 i have been...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Faisalabad Pakistan 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: Coursebooks are great tools that should be adapted to each class of students. This means that activities can be adapted, replaced,omitted and supplemented from the original course material to better suit the actual student's needs. Therefore, even if one teaches the same class for years the course will need to be adjusted each year per the students needs, interest and understanding.This course was a great introduction into the world of teaching Business English. I learned a lot, from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Colombia manizales 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 the unit, equipment and teaching aids we learn about the teaching equipment that we can use in the classroom. We learn about the basic uses for a board and principles for board work like: writing neatly, adjusting the size of writing etc. We also learn about interactive whiteboards and their pros and cons like using them as a screen or making your own lesson plans. We learned about: visual aids, worksheets, outdated cassette recorders/players that are placed in a 2017 course when...  [Read more]

  This video looks at the difficulties students have when learning modal auxiliary verbs. The number of usages and the modal auxiliary verbs that can be used for various usages often bring about problems for the students. Also, the structure of sentences with modal auxiliary verbs can be confusing. Watch this video to understand all the difficulties students face with modal auxiliary verbs. 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 can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This unit has been so...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word armada. This word refers to a large fleet of warships. The word has been in use ever since the Spanish naval forces lost against England in 1588. 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 can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This unit is basically about teachers and learners.Their characteristics and aims.A good teacher should make the lesson varied and interesting.This will in turn motivate the students to learn in a relaxed...  [Read more]

  The purpose of grammar translation then is to basically translate between L1 and L2 and vice versa. So, we could take a simple example. Let's imagine that our native language was English and our target language was French and let's assume that we want to translate a document from French into English. Let's take a simple sentence. Here's a sentence in French "Ouvre la fenêtre" and we'll add "s'il vous plaît" at the end. What we want to do is to take this L2 and translate it back into English. Now, if we have a reasonable knowledge of French then we may well know that this particular verb "ouvre" "to open" translates directly and this female form of the and finally the fenêtre "Open the window" and this polite form of "please". This is all very well if the two structures that...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Macau 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: In this unit we have a thorough explanation of the reported speech, but the explanation of conditionals and their usage can be better. Since students usually find this topic particularly difficult and there are many mistakes they made such as: placing if and would in the same part of the sentences, mixing zero and first conditionals and so on. It would be great to have additional material on how to work with those typical mistakes.From this unit, I get a chance to know on equipment and...  [Read more]

  Pat from Malaysia is living and working as an accountant in Singapore. In her TEFL review video Pat tells us how she has been considering teaching English as a new career, which is why she decided to take the 120-hour online course with tutor support and videos from ITTT. The course gave Pat an overview of the various skills and techniques used in teaching English and also covered important aspects of English grammar. Pat would like to pursue teaching English in a language centre and hopes to build upon the knowledge and skills she has acquired with ITTT in the future. 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...  [Read more]

  So how do we actually make best use of the course book? Well, just a couple of factors that you need to keep into consideration when using these types of material, use the course book to help you create a balanced lesson in terms of the range of skills that are being taught and the actual types of material within that the grammar or vocabulary. Secondly, don't use it all the time, particularly with things like activities, we can create our own materials and we can tailor those materials much more specifically to the actual class that we're teaching. As very often the actual creations in the book are very general, we can make our own materials much more specific. The third thing you need to be aware of is that you can't always rely 100% on the information that's presented in those...  [Read more]