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  Here's an idea for teaching the present perfect continuous tense. However in this activity what the students will be doing, is comparing and contrasting this tense with the present perfect tense. This is something that a teacher will want to do after they've explored both tenses and because both tenses are quite confusing, we'll ask the students to compare and contrast the two, making sure that they can tell the difference. In this activity, the teacher will have cut out each individual card. The teacher will distribute the cards to the students and after a minute has gone by, the teacher will then ask the students to fold their cards over and get into a pair. One student in the pair will then present a certain result and ask the student to form the question. Here, with the...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Application For 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: J. H. - New Zealand said: Creating MaterialsCreating materials adds interest to lessons and helps teachers to think more creatively. It gives an enjoyable approach to learning and helps students to relate to the english language. Materials need to be created properly to look professional and be robust enough to be used repeatedly. Authentic or real materials (realia) can be used in three main areas: for descriptions (e.g. plastic cars, trucks, etc. to describe methods of transport); as props in drama (e.g....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Webb 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: Unit six taught me about the different forms past sentences can take. It was a little difficult because it is similar to the present sentences. For students, I know it is very difficult to learn the irregular past forms of verbs, because there is no secret tip, trick or hint. It just has to be memorized. Therefore, I loved the idea of making a memory match card game for students to play with. I wonder if they could even use those cards to play Go Fish ti promote speaking during the activity as well! It...  [Read more]

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  The final stage of the lesson will be the activate and the activate phase is going to form the main speaking activity within the lesson. So, it's very very important that here, we do a good demonstration of what it is that we're expecting them to do, that we elicit the type of target language we're expecting them to produce from the activity. So, one way we could go around it is to, firstly, form pairs. Each pair is going to be given a card and onto that card they're going to write the country and a month. What the teacher can then do, just to add a little bit of spice to it, is to collect all of the cards and shuffle them around and then redistribute them to the pairs so that they get a card that doesn't have their country or their month on it. What they're then going to do is...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Izmir 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: One thing is to posses the ability and skills to teach English, the other thing is to have access to very useful materials and coursebooks. This units focuses on the basic things to put into consideration while selecting or suggesting the coursebook. It also mentions other materials that can be used apart from the coursebook. These materials such as crossword puzzle, flash cards, role play cards are said to be as important just as the coursebook itself.In this unit I learnt how to evaluate the...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Puerto Rico Caguas 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 i have learnt: 1) Often teacher has to create his/her own materials to replace or supplement the course book. 2) Materials can be divided into two groups: A- authentic materials. Anything about a native speaker can hear or read is an authentich material(magazines,menus,films,newspapers, etc.) They are interesting and motivating, they can be geared of a particular grouop of students and students gain confidence ehen they understand them. B- created materials. These kind of materials...  [Read more]