Poland Zory

Since time immemorial Poland has stood as a gateway between East and West, and, hence, is a country of surprising contrasts. It has risen to meet the challenges presented by the fall of the communist party in 1990 with style and aplomb. The new Zloty has stabilized, and inflation is slowly spiralling down - less than ten percent at time of writing. The striking contrasts continue when one compares slick cities, with no shortage of ‘slickers’, to rural agricultural villages where horse-drawn vehicles are commonly in use. It remains a relatively cheap country to live in, but this won’t last forever. Polish people tend to be helpful, friendly and hospitable, and westerners are still something of a novelty. A population of thirty-eight millions fits comfortably into a landmass of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Deir El Zor 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: M.P. - Korea said: In this unit, I leaned more about Modal Auxiliary Verbs, including : can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, must, have to, need to and so on. They all can be used to express a lot of different ideas. \"Should, Must and Have to \"are usually used to express Obligation, \"Could, May and Would\" are usually used to express Request. \"Could and Would \"can be used to express formal polite request. \"Must \" can be used to express the greatest degree of certainty. Actually,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Chorzow Poland 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 describes the formation of indirect speech. It shows the many changes that occur in an English sentence when a sentence is transformed from direct into indirect speech. Changes include tenses as well as pronouns. I can imagine how students struggle with that considering that there are so many exceptions to rules and variations of how indirect speech can be constructed.This unit taught me how to plan the lesson by drawing up a lesson plan, the lesson plan needs to include the aims...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Bielsko-Biala 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 an overview to what we will find and learn in this course. It introduces its content in each unit, acronyms used, its goal and objectives, and explains what a young learner is in terms of English language teaching. Some of the topics this course will teach are Teaching and Learning, materials and management, and Professional Development. Here I learned that the age related to teaching young learners is between the ages of five, which is when children start school, and thirteen....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Katowice 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 final unit covered important areas to be considered when moving onto a career in Teaching English for Young Learners. These include cultural issues to consider and preparing yourself with research beforehand, different opportunities for finding employment (i.e-through advertising or in the Country) and working at schools or training centres to get a better idea of what the working conditions there are like. This unit has also provided me with useful and practical questions to consider and ask...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Koszalin Poland 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 very helpful and useful. Since I have no experience in the area of teaching, I found this unit very instructive and reassuring. It provides a very clear and easy guide on how to create a healthy class environment and how to maximise the rapport between teacher and their students. Also, it provides great information on how to approach students with different activities, attitudes and ideas in order to carry out a safe, maintained, calm and successful class.Teachers need to evaluate...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Gliwice Poland 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: Grammar is definitely one of the major topic while learning the English language, teaching english grammar should not be a hard task as long as we know how to explain our students the main rules to build a correct sentence. Each word has a specific meaning and purpose in the sentence, this topic known as parts of speech can be a good introduction to approach the English grammar.This unit provided in-depth information on how to manage an English Language class. Different techniques on how...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Jastrzebie Zdroj 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 various teaching methodologies, concentrating specifically on the Engage, Study and Activate method. I have been made aware of the importance of eliciting information from the students in as many ways as possible, always at the appropriate competency level of the students, in order to reduce teacher talk time and to give each student an opportunity to converse in English. It is important to ensure that each lesson is a positive learning experience and not...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Koszalin 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 16 is about Conditionals and Reported Speech. In this unit, the five main conditionals were introduced. They are the zero, first, second, third, and mixed conditionals. The zero conditional is used for scientific facts, general truths and issues that are certain to happen. The first conditional is used for possible future situations, promises, threats and warnings, and backup plans. The second conditional is used for dreams, hypothetical situations, and fantasies. The third conditional is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Legnica Poland 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 believe the use of Aids in Teaching can work as creatively and effectively as you are confident to use them. Teaching aids are important for both student and teacher, to help with understanding, diversity, comprehension and to assist in the practical uses of the language. They give the students confidence in allowing them to explore language in multiple areas of their lives.This unit focuses on the implementing the boomerang lessons and the use of books and materials in the classroom....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bytom Poland 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: For me personally, I relate this section of past tenses and participles to the French language. In doing so, I find that connections to information or tactics that we already know can help us recognize and learn something otherwise unfamiliar. This technique would undoubtedly be very useful in a classroom situation, when it appears as though the students do not understand something new, but most likely would understand if it were related back to something already known.This unit expresses more parts...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bielsko-Biala Poland 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 particular unit: classroom management, was largely review for me. As I already have experience working in a classroom, I am familiar with most of what was covered in this unit. It was interesting, as I read, to think of real world examples from my own experiences that reinforced the instructions covered in this unit. Classroom management is a part of teaching that is not considered very often, but is definitely a vital part of all teaching experiences.This unit covered the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Poland Legnica 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 dealt with the use of published course materials and the need to adapt and supplement those materials to make the course relevant to students. My experience with foreign-published course materials has proven that adaptation and supplementing will be required, especially since the explanations are frequently superficial and exercises are very limited. If an instructor does not supplement the materials, the students will not really develop good skills. Having said that,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Bytom 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 vocabulary. Learning difficulty depends om the following factors: 1.Similarity to students own language, 2.Similarity to English words already known by the students, 3.Spelling and pronunciation, 4.Appropriacy. Selecting the type of vocabulary depends on: 1.Appropriacy to the students, 2.Appropriacy to the task, 3.Frequency and coverage, 4.Teachability. What students need to know about the vocabulary item: 1.Meaning of the word, 2.Usage and appropriacy, 3.Word grammar, ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Chorzow 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 gave me a crash course in lesson planning which will be one of the most important tasks for myself as an inexperienced teacher. Prior to this course and my decision to teach abroad, I did not really know much about lesson planning much less how to lesson plan. However, through my experience applying to teach ESL abroad and this course (with this unit in particular), I now have more confidence in my ability to plan effective lessons for my students. As someone who likes organization and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Poland Katowice 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 teaching special groups unit was fairly straightforward in that all the information there has pretty much been presented to us before. This unit just shows how to use what previous units taught us in more specific circumstances than before. It's pretty good as a later unit because it does give you (me) a nice review while at the same time looking at something new. A good wrap up lesson. I especially enjoyed the sections on planning a course. Again, the advice given here is good...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Bydgoszcz 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 section describes the 4 aspects of the present tense: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. It gives certain tricks to help activate learning for each of these forms in a classroom setting. There are always exceptions, and as well students must be careful with conjunctions. For simple, the usage is as a routine, habit, facts, commentaries, and so forth. The usage for Continuous is actions in progress, temporary actions, frequent actions, background events, developing...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Poland Lublin 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 lesson both the modal auxiliary verbs and the passive voice enriches our ability to communicate. It takes confidence of previous grammatical structures to use the passive voice but it really only is a domino play where you once know the rules it becomes easy. The MOV's to my experience also one of the easiest and fun parts of the english language. It takes practice to the hang up of them but they are easily digestible to any level and it gives freedom to express different levels of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Poland Kielce 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 intonation of English shows the stress and meanings behind sentences. Depending on how a sentence is finished with a rising or falling tone indicates whether no not the speaker is done speaking, and if the speaker wants a response or not. Also, looking at the phonology of English, we can see that English has become a language that is not entirely phonetic anymore, and due to this, being able to use the international phonetic alphabet is helpful when teaching students what sounds the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poland Gdansk 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 is interesting to read about those teachers who don't particularly like tests and claim to know their students' language abilities because they observe them regularly and for extended periods of time. I have to confess, I am leaning towards this group. Recently I took some time off and the teacher filing in for me was asking about my students, just to get a picture of their skills. I knew all their strengths and weaknesses by heart. However, having said all of the above, I do appreciate tests,...  [Read more]