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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Utah 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: S.C. - Canada said: This unit centers around teaching receptive skills, which include reading and listening, to English learners. People read and listen to language for purpose and for entertainment. How one uses receptive skills depend on the reasons/motives for reading and listening. Furthermore, depending on the reasons/motives for reading and listening and/or the task given, one must use specific skills to obtain information. These specific skills include predicting, skimming, scanning, reading for details, and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Uintah Utah 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 2 is an overview of the types of lessons that are possible. It is very insightful to learn about how lessons should be framed to ensure that students learn while keeping engaged, such as the ESA structure. It is useful to learn about each stage of a lesson, such as the Engage phase, and what it is most effective for. Without these structures, a teacher would not be able to optimise lesson time as it would have been difficult to keep the students interests. The examples of each phase is also very...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Altamont Utah 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 lesson was very interesting, because it demonstrated 2 teaching styles, one of which was ineffective and the other of course very effective. In the first video, the teacher was clearly going out of his way to alienate the students and make the class uninteresting and unproductive. In the second video, the teacher was engaging, entertaining, interesting and respectful. The second one also helped to reinforce the engage, study and activate portions of the lesson, and gave me some ideas for how to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Riverton Utah 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 about past tenses. It includes past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. A lot of verbs have an irregular simple past form. They have to be learnt as there are no rules to them.Past simple is used for actions in the past which happened at a certain time. There are different games how teachers can teach kids irregular forms, such as card games, interview-role play and so on. Past continuous almost alway requires some form of time description. Often used together...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Meadow Utah 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: There are various methods, approaches and techniques when it comes to teaching a language. From the most traditional methods, to the most interactive approaches, we can see that mostly everything has been tried and many things now considered outrageous are still in use to this day. However, what makes a good teacher is not the method, but their ability to use most of these methods and techniques at the appropriate time, so that the student actually has the best possible experience. We need to remember...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sigurd Utah 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 3 shares about managing the classroom. From proper eye contact to TTT (teacher talk time) etiquette it contains the tools for effective teaching. Eye contact, gestures, and the tone of your voice will all three help in building rapport. Seating arrangements can be done according to the size of the class, chairs and tables available, age of the students, nationality, and student personalities. When writing on the board make sure to keep ones back turned away from the class as minimal as possible. There...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Cornish Utah 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 last unit provides some helpful tips to troubleshoot some common problems when teaching English. Some first lesson teacher problems can include working with a completely new group where rapport first needs to be established vs. existing groups. There are activities that can take place before beginning a lesson or using the course book to establish rapport amongst teacher and students, such as tongue twisters, hang man, dictionary and memory games. In English classes, teachers may encounter varied...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Gunnison Utah 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 unit discusses different problems that teacher can face during the studying process. The issues can appeare any phase of the course and in any group. The teacher should always be prepared. If it ia a new group or first class try to warm-up. If it is a mixed-level group - pay the same attention to weaker and stronger. The lesson should be planed carefully concerning the level's of the students. Additional material is useful for students who finishes earlier. Constant control is needed for improving...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Coalville Utah 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 5 covered classroom management. It outlined the importance of grouping, discipline and the various types of seating plans. It also covered aspects such as giving instructions and writing on the board. From this unit I have learned that the it is important to balance both teacher talk and student talk time. Both have a necessary place in the classroom and it is important to get the balance right. Furthermore, I have also learned that for English language learners there are a varied of the methods...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Parowan Utah 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 one that I feel will be very important for me as I begin my journey of teaching abroad. I feel as though I learned the most about what types of classroom groupings are the best for what situations. When I was in school, originally most of the teaching would be done at the front of the classroom, however, when teaching a foreign language I feel it's important to have many times in which the teacher can interact with students, and students with each other. I feel that as a teacher I would...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Holladay Utah 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 am really content with the fact that teaching grammar is included in this lesson. When I was conduction a workshop training high school English teachers to improve English methodologies in their classroom, a major concern was how the teachers could also include grammar in their teachings. I used to think that it wouldn't be practical to include grammar structures into oral English, but now I can see I can use both grammar sentence structures as well as speaking topics in the class. Lastly, I really...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kamas Utah 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 was a very simple unit about teaching new vocabulary, grammatical structures, and language functions. The new vocabulary section included how the teacher selects new vocabulary, what the students need to know about each new vocabulary word - meaning, use, grammar, interaction, spelling and pronunciation - and sample lessons. The grammatical structures section included what the students need to know about the form - meaning, use forms and patterns, and spoken and written forms - and sample lesson...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kanosh Utah 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 unit is about how to intruduce new words to the class. Its importand to make shure the new words are close to the known language of the class. It dose not make sense to stardt a total unknowen groupe of words. TI was showen how a class can be structured to intruduce the new words. For example give a subjekt like food. Gather fist known vocabulary arround the subjekt on the bord. Introduce the new vocabulary targeting the subjekt. Give in the study phase a krossword or workseed to the students targeting...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Koosharem Utah 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 13 examined Pronunciation and Phonology. It acknowledged the difficulties in distinguishing subtle intonation in speech, and how that can complicate the teaching of it, but provided tools for mapping intonation in sentences and stress on syllables in words for a visual guide to the sounds. The unit included charts showing the phonemic alphabet and the manner and place of articulation, as well as diagrams to show where and how articulation occurs in human anatomy. There is a scene in the old film,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Tremonton Utah 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 5 covered managing classes; eye contact, gesture and voice, grouping students, classroom arrangement, the balance between TTT and STT, giving instructions, establish rapport and maintaining discipline. I learned that the teacher?s physical presence and voice can save the teacher?s talking time,different choices of the student?s grouping and classroom arrangements depend on various factors eg. class size and type of activity. This Unit was very interesting for; especially learning about how to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Torrey Utah 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 feel that I've learned a lot from this lesson. In most cases I knew what was being discussed to some degree, but there is a difference from knowing to actually knowing the terms that go with it. One thing that I truly learned was Gerunds. I don't remember ever hearing this term before and I believe in most cases I would just call gerunds a verb. So this was one thing I was really happy about. As since this unit is on grammar I thought I would be really bored with it and not learn anything new. For some...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sunnyside Utah 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 chapter I learned about the special groups that I may encounter as an EFL teacher. I learned about teaching one on one, which is becoming more popular. It is helpful to only deal with one ability at a time, but it's also more difficult to keep things interesting and fresh, so I should try to vary my activities and approach as often as possible. I learned about teaching Business English. I thought before that because I don't have a background in business, I wouldn't be able to teach business...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Duchesne Utah 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: Speaking and writing are considered productive skills. Accuracy deals with correct language, where fluency is more of experimenting with the language. There are different speaking activities, some are accuracy based such as drilling, prompting. guided role-play. Then you have fluency based activities such as free role playing, discussions, communicatinon games. The Lesson goes on about encouraging interaction but that is done in any lesson. Writing is the most neglected skill, because this usually...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL mantua Utah 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 9 is about books and materials. Course books consist of student's books, work book, cassettes, and the teacher's book. There are advantages and disadvantages to using a course book. It is vital to not lean on it as a crutch as the teacher. Making sure it is interesting to the students. The teacher can omit, replace, supplement or adapt the material for such purposes. There are authentic and created materials. Authentic material consists of native items of interest such as newspaper articles,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Courses Utah 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. R. - Canada said: This unit covers a wide array of methods teachers can use when teaching a language class and gives many pros and cons for each one. There is the grammar- translation method, audio-lingualism, task-based learning, community language learning, and many more. The one focused on most and chosen as the best method of teaching by ITTT is referred to as \"Engage, Study, Activate\" (ESA). This method takes students through different stages of teaching. The engage phase usually includes a game or...  [Read more]