Spain And Racism

  Next, a couple of issues surrounding the use of worksheets and workcards. Firstly, these types of materials can either be bought or they could be made by yourself. Very often many of the book series that we use will have workcards in their teacher resource book. Worksheets and workcards are very useful because they can act as a prompt to introduce an activity or topic. They can also be used for role plays and one of the things you need to be aware of when making worksheets and workcards yourself is that you need to make them durable. So whenever you create a workcard, if you put it on some hard backing and then put it inside some cellophane or covered plastic just to make them durable then those types of workcards and worksheets can last for years. So examples of worksheets and...  [Read more]

  The next thing we should look at is how our consonants are arranged for the top two rows we have P and F at the left side of our chart and G and J at the right side of our chart. They're arranged this way because if we analyze the way we speak we're using the front of our mouth to use these sounds as in ?p? and ?f? and I'm using my lips and my teeth to produce those sounds and as we move to the right on the chart slowly but surely we're making those sounds it towards the back of our mouth. We can use the examples of ?g?. The sound ?g? is produced further back in our mouth than ?p?. The next thing we'll notice about our chart is that some of our symbols are shaded. Notice that none of the symbols in the vowel sections are shaded but only a few are in the consonant section. The...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at practice and external proficiency tests. Practice tests are usually used for revision purpose before internal and external exams to prepare the students. There are three types of external proficiency tests that English learners can take. Find out which ones in this video. 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 was very technical unit. So...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at the diagnostic and progress test. A diagnostic test gives the teacher information about the students' current strengths and weaknesses, while a progress test is usually held multiple times during a course covering all the material taught up until that point to check understanding. 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. In this unit, we covered...  [Read more]

  TEFL International’s TEFL certification courses in Spain give you the opportunity to learn how to teach English in some of the most lavish and exhilarating cities in Spain. With Spanish music and dancing, great food, remarkable history, and exciting festivals, you can see why the Kingdom of Spain has acquired such a great reputation and is a leading destination for TEFL courses. For those interested in attending a TEFL in Spain, you will discover that the demand is very high for English language teachers year round and you are likely to be offered a TEFL position soon after completing your TEFL course. Opportunities teaching TEFL in Spain span from large cities to smaller towns. With our TEFL courses running year round at two diverse locations, we are confident of having a...  [Read more]

There is such a tremendous amount of marked regional diversity in Spain that one is almost dealing with a mini continent. Life on the costas - Spain’s huge coastline - differs greatly from that in the big cities, which in turn differs from life in the thousands of picturesque rural villages, which is again different from the ski slopes of Andora or Granada. Dispirit locations and circumstances are united in a profound love of life, sometimes combined with a slight disdain for work. Spaniards work to live, they do not live to work. Hence it is very easy to get swept up in a seemingly constant round of fiestas and festivals, music and dancing - eating well and drinking well being all part of pursuing the good life in the best of all possible worlds. Despite the fact that practically...  [Read more]

  TEFL International’s TEFL certification courses in Spain give you the opportunity to learn how to teach English in some of the most lavish and exhilarating cities in Spain. With Spanish music and dancing, great food, remarkable history, and exciting festivals, you can see why the Kingdom of Spain has acquired such a great reputation and is a leading destination for TEFL courses. For those interested in attending a TEFL in Spain, you will discover that the demand is very high for English language teachers year round and you are likely to be offered a TEFL position soon after completing your TEFL course. Opportunities teaching TEFL in Spain span from large cities to smaller towns. With our TEFL courses running year round at two diverse locations, we are confident of having a...  [Read more]

These terms are commonly used in English language teaching to refer to periods during a lesson where the class is either teacher centred or student centred, as well as the relative importance of each situation. Times during the lesson where the teacher is the only person talking, such as when presenting vocabulary or grammar structures, are often referred to as ‘teacher talking time’. In contrast, sections of the lesson where the students are the ones doing the talking, such as when practising new language they have learnt in the lesson, are often referred to as ‘student talking time’. The relative importance of these two situations is a source of some debate in English language teaching, however, modern methodologies often lean towards more STT, providing this time is spent in a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Clintonville 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: I find question 16 a bit baffling. All 5 of the answers elicit the wanted responses. I can only imagine that the teacher in using the time to ask a question is perhaps taking the STT away from the student? On the topic of classroom arrangements, I am surprised that Nationality would figure in this equation at all since I concur that the students are there to learn a language other than their own. Mixing students up with disregard to Nationalities act more as a bonding adhesive and bridge to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain algeciras 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 focuses on the types of materials that are available for English language training, how they can be created or adapted, and how to put them to use. Authentic and non-authentic materials are defined in this unit, too, with authentic materials being those materials that have been created for a purpose other than the classroom and non-authentic materials being produced as a teaching aid. Lesson planning is an important aspect of this unit, with answering questions such as why we have a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain burgos 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 immediately evident which video was an example of a \"bad\" teacher, purely because of his demeanor while teaching. I believe everyone has had a teacher who seems like they don't want to be there, and it is true that your attitude as a teacher has a major effect on the students' attitudes and motivation. Not only does the second lesson engage the students more with fun activities and useful, interconnected debates, but the teacher actually interacts with his classroom and encourages them to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Lleida Spain 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 very useful to have an idea of what is important to teach when teaching new vocabulary or new grammatical structures, and how to do that. I also really liked to learn how to teach a language function in a fun and practical way. It was very interesting to see the difference between what the students need to know and what the teacher knows, because sometimes teachers want to teach everything they know at once, and the students end up learning nothing.In this unit, the focus is on how...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Barcelona 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 conditionals and reported speech. Conditionals are sentences containing \"if\" (or when, etc.) which refer to past, present, and future possibilities. The 2 clauses that make up this kind of sentence are the \"if\" clause and the main clause. Either one can come in the first part. The five main conditionals are the following: zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, and mixed conditional. The second part of the unit dealt with reported...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Bilbao 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 8 covered future tense, meaning that present, past and future tense have now all been covered. The unit offered new information about the future tense and it's forms, future simple, future continuous, etc., but also brought back a few present tense forms and showed how they could be used as future tense. The information was very straight forward and presented in the same way as the other units which dealt with the tense had been. The fact that it was presented in the exact same format was...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Cartagena Spain 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 appreciate the variety of suggestions given for the engage, study, and activate sections. It's also a good reminder to allow the student to self-correct, or for a classmate to be given time to be able to correct a fellow student rather than the teacher jumping in to correct a student and taking away from the student's learning to self-correct and also potentially causing the student to feel needlessly frustrated by being corrected too often by the teacher.I learned so many new things in this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Spain mlaga 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 content in Unit 6 went over past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses. I feel that I have learned that past simple is used for actions completed at definite times in the past. The past continuous tense could be used for interrupted past actions or a gradual development that took place in the past without a time expression. The past perfect tense represent actions that occurred before other actions in the past. The past perfect continuous tense is used...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Alcorcon Spain 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: Tenses can be tricky and require a lot of practice and preparation. Present tenses seem to be the easiest to learn but still many errors can be made. Need to pay attention more to the frequent changes in tense during fluent conversation not to confuse students. I definitely learned more than what i was taught as a student and will continue to study and review materials.This section is really helpful with regard to the study of nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds,pronouns...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Madrid 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 have learned how to teach speaking activities in the classroom: controlled activities (drilling and prompting), guided activities (model dialogues and guided role-play), creative communication (free role-play, discussions, debates, simulations, communication games, information gap). Encouraging students to speak, students seem reluctant to speak in the classroom, the reasons including lack of confidence, fear of making mistakes, peer intimidation, lack of interest in the topic, previous learning...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Bilbao Spain 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 teaching special groups such as children and students of business English. When teaching Business English, the lessons will be more concise, and catered specifically to individual needs within the class. On the other hand, when teaching children, they will be learning English as an entirely new language so you would need to cover everything. Also, business English would be a higher level of English and children would be learning the basics.Firstly, I used to be confused about some...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Barakaldo Spain 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: With the english language grammar tenses can be one of the most challenging things to teach given all the rules. I am glad I had a lesson and learned all about the future tense which gives me more confidence to teach it. Many times as a native speaker it is easy to just say \"that is just the way it is\" and not have an explanation as to why we speak in the future the way we speak and with this module I now am equipped to explain how to use the future tense.Probably what was most helpful in this...  [Read more]