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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Minor 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 module showed that it is good to use a mixture of authentic material in the classroom (e.g. newspapers, magazines) and created materials (e.g. crosswords) where appropriate. Teachers may decide that created materials would suit a beginners class as you can control what is in the content or adapt what is in a coursework book. It is important to have a flexible approach when designing materials and if the course work material is unsuitable (e.g. too advanced, or not interesting for the students) or...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Minoh 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: The contents of this unit helped me be prepared as a new teacher. Especially the importance of warmers stood out to me since I myself felt motivated when my teachers used some warmers at the beginning of the class. However, I wish there were more tips on how to deal with reluctant students. I had problems with some reluctant students when I was volunteering as a teacher in my community and I did not know what to do. So I think some examples in real education field would have been more useful.Unit 13...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Minoh 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 delves into phonology and its application to the teaching of pronunciation. The unit covers intonation, explaining how entire words in a sentence can be stressed as well as the syllables within words, but that word stress can change to produce different meanings, suggest different moods, or even encourage or discourage a response to a statement or question. This unit pairs phonemes with their associated sounds and explains at the linguistic level how different sounds are categorized...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Minoh 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: The Teaching New Language unit taught me all of the structures that are needed when teaching students things for the first time. What is and is not necessary while bringing new subjects to them. The different ways to engage and help the students study the different parts of a language. How the meaning and use of words and grammar structure is very important to helping them understand better.As important as the receptive skill might be,my students hate reading a passage.Although i have tried...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Meadowood Delaware 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 explains the main teaching aids that can be used during a lesson. Regarding my personal experience, in my student years the teachers made a large use of tools such as boards, cassette recorders, course books, photocopies (especially during the school years) and of overhead projectors, dictionaries and computers in the university years. Other methods such as visual aids, worksheets, videos and video cameras were definitely less used, as far as I remember, and now, thanks to this course, I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Maebashi 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 topic shares information about the various ways to assess students and the time at which assessments most effectively need to take place. It also covers the external exams available along with Cambridge assessments and their purpose for various students. I will find the different ways to assess students very useful as this has been an area that I am not as confident or familiar with.This unit consisted of two videos, each showing and actual classroom scenario. In both videos, a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Komatsu 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: Apparently, this was the last grammar based unit. It includes: Modal Auxiliary Verbs; Active and Passive Voice; Relative Clauses; and Phrasal Verbs. Auxiliary verbs are used to express Obligation, Possibility / Probability, Permission / Prohibition, Ability and Advice. Active and Passive voices are used to give different meaning nuances to sentences and to shift the focus away from the 'Performer' of a an action to favour what has been performed instead. The relative clause is one more...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Komatsu 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 helped me see what I can use to make my future lessons interesting. I think I will use Youtube, video recording, dictionaries and work sheets the most. I found them the most fun to work with when I was a student. I think it's important to not be a dinosaure when it comes to teaching. Beeing up to date with the teaching aids is as important as the way I present my self as a teacher.I have learnt how to use different website dictionaries and also I usually thought that capital...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Devils Lake North 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 unit provides understanding of the four different forms that occur within the present tense, the present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous tense. This has proven to be the hardest unit yet because it covers an understanding of an aspect of the English language that, as a native speaker, I take for granted and give little consideration to. It has been useful in the sense that it has given me explanation, tools and understanding of how to explain the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Maebashi 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: Vocabulary, grammar and functions I like the idea that grammar is the tree trunk/branches and vocabulary is the leaves Lessons will vary with depth of what is focused on Common to use straight arrow ESA when teaching grammar and vocabulary Common to use more complex ESA structures, boomerang or patchwork, when teaching functions-based lessons Teaching vocabulary, factors that affect difficulty to students Criteria to select vocabulary What students need to know about a vocabulary item Techniques...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Maebashi 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: Learning about all the different types of examinations in Unit 15 was interesting. However, I tend to agree that while assessment is vital to determine progress and revise strategies, tests should not be the foundation of a class. I will be sure to assess my students on a daily basis using a variety of methods. I do not see myself as a heavy test user. I will however, encourage my students to use the practice tests, to test themselves and will offer opportunities to review one-on-one with me.This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Komatsu 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 steady fluency progression of the student should be the central focus in designing any curriculum or lesson plan. Therefore, the approach and the choice of resources such as texts must support this central goal. A course textbook can be a foundational resource that students may use as a reference to keep the subject organized however the text must match the goal and be pedagogically relevant. Additionally, any resource can be enlisted to aid in the understanding and progression of the student....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Boston 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: C.G. – U.S.A. said: The Materials unit covered a wide range of topics starting with the difference between Authentic and Non-authentic materials, the difference is in the intended audience of the material, authentic material is not, generally speaking, directly intended for the purpose of using in a classroom (i.e. reading material such as newspapers or magazines, radio programs or news related media) and non-authentic materials are resources intended for use in the classroom, such as worksheets, text books and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wilmer 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: This unit touches on the appropriate uses of modal verbs. These verbs are very important when specifying whether something needs to be done or not. Modal verbs also specify the certainty of something. Might and may express uncertainty, while must and have to express certainty. These minor variations are actually really important when using the English language. Knowledge of these variations will help students accurately make requests, state opinions and ultimately express themselves. This chapter also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Morris 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: This section focused on future tenses. It covered a broad range of technical difference between the seven different variations of future tense, including examples and usage of each. This unit has taught me that it is important to be clear, thorough and specific when it comes to marking and assessing future tenses as there can be minor difference that can make a sentence in correct. Of a particularly challenging nature was the inclusion of the two previously seen present simple and present...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Agency 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: M. H. - Turkey said: I have learned another format to write lesson plans and added many activities geared towards specific language aspects to my resource notebook, which can be used in a future classroom. Because of this course, I have refined my grammar knowledge and refreshed the many techniques and methods available to ESL teachers. I had already taken several TEFL university classes, since I have a minor in TEFL, and while there was a lot of review, I still discovered many new ideas and insights from...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification India Titagarh 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: Explanation of modal verbs in this unit was quite elaborate and understandable. I experienced some difficulties and misunderstanding with clauses and phrasal verbs though. With clauses it was partly because of my bad reading, half because of formatting. Namely, 'relative' and 'dependent' clause shouldn't be given the same value. In the document they are in one category and there is no sign, except of their definition, that one is subjected to the other. This is a minor mistake that, I...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Sri Lanka Moratuwa 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 future tense has the 4 aspects as the present and the past tense. Besides that it is also possible to express future actions by making use of be going + infinitive, the present simple and the present continuous. Technically these are present tense, the semantically added meaning of future reference comes through the adverbs used. I learned the difference between the different future tensen, how these most likely are confused witch each other and with the present tense. Sometimes...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Russia Veliky Novgorod 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: So in Unit 18 we covered transitive and intransitive phrasal verbs. Number 20 was definitely not an easy answer for me. However, I do understand the passive and active voice along with the modal verbs and those will be relatively easy for me to create a lesson plan for. When it comes to the Transitive and Intransitive I would even have to do some basic practice to make sure that I have it down well before presenting it to students. That is also how we learn and reinforce our own...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Uzbekistan Bukhara 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: After learning everything you need to know as an english language instructor,it becomes very necessary for you to practice what you have learnt.This is exactly what this unit has taught me.The various methods learnt and how to effectively use it to ensure a successful lesson dfelivery.The first video sought to portray some minor overlloks on the part of the teacher which to me didnt make the lesson successful.However,the second lesson a total improvement of the first one.Excellent...  [Read more]