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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL King City Missouri 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 talks about course books and how they should be used/supplemented. This was another area that seemed outdated to me (casettes?), but I know that textbooks are still a vital part of day to day classroom operations. It also seemed to be repeating a lot of information, such as authentic and created materials. I don't think I'll have much of a choice about what textbook I use, but it is useful to think about what kinds of activities I might use from it as well as additional activities I create...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Marshall Missouri 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: Modal verbs add meaning to the main verbs. Examples of modal verbs are can, could, have to, need to, should, etc. They can express different ideas, such as obligation, possibility, permission, ability, advice, different degrees of formality. There are two kinds of voices, passive and active. We use a passive voice when it's not important or not known who made an action. There are three kinds of clauses, such as independent clause(complete sentence), dependent clause(not a complete sentence) and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Petersburg 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 unit mostly focused on different kinds of tests and their purposes. Then it went over the many different kinds of external tests, which is a useful reference. Honestly, some of the information here seemed pretty obvious. Hardly anything new. I think the most useful things from this section were the example test and the list of external tests. I am surprised the unit didn't spend more time on flaws with testing. When I taught in Japan, all the tests were dictated by the prefecture, not the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Companies Legit 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.M. - Canada said: Games in the classroomPlaying games in your classroom are an important part of being an english teacher. Games can be used to get students engaged into a lesson from the beginning, can be used during the study portion of your lesson, or used as an activity for the students to apply what they have learned that day. This article will break down the kinds of games you can play during the engage, study, and activate stages of a normal ESA lesson. During the engage portion of an ESA lesson,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Essex New York 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's really nice to experience two different kinds of classroom teaching styles. By comparing these two videos (really low quality I have to say), we can obviously choose what kind of teacher we want to be, and the answer of course is the second one. If we want to be the ideal one then we have to be always ready for our class and be confident to deliver a high quality interactive class. Meanwhile a teacher's attitude can influence the class atmosphere directly, which was proven in these two videos...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Beverly Kansas 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: Modal auxiliary verbs are: can, could, may, might, shall, will, wood, must, should, would, have to, have got to, need to, ought to and needn't. They are used before verbs to add meaning to the main verb. We use Active (the focus is on the agent or subject) and Passive (where the agent is less important) voices. Only transitive verbs are used in the Passive voice. A clause is a group of words containing a subject and a verb. There are three kinds of clauses: Independent, Dependent and Relative. There...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Peru Chincha Alta 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 about Modals, the three types of Phrasal Verbs and the differences between passive and active voice. I feel I have learned a lot about all three parts of this unit as they were subjects I didn't come into the unit with much knowledge on. I've learned that the same modal's can be used in multiple ways and many different modals can mean the same thing with only a very slight difference in certainty. I also learned some great ideas for teaching modal auxiliary verbs from both...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Philippines Sagay City 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: Many different methods of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) have influenced modern-day EFL teaching. The ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) method of EFL teaching is a very effective method used today, especially for new teachers and trainees. The three essential components of the ESA method include the Engage phase, the Study phase and the Activate phase.The initial Engage phase is used to involve and interest the students in using the language while the Study phase is the teaching...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Medina Saudi Arabia 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 introduces the different ways in which teachers can evaluate and test students? language level and progress at three different stages-before, during and at the end of an English course. The three main ways to do so are by giving tutorials, evaluation by the student and the typical in-class test. General tests include examinations given by TOEFL, TOEIC and IELTS.This unit is all about the four present tenses in English. It introduces to the various kinds, lists example...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Fast TESOL Course 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: B.G. - Italy said: I actually gained the knowledge of how to be a teacher from taking this course. Honestly, one day I was volunteering to help an english school with its Halloween party and the next I was given three different labs to teach with no experience and no idea where to start. I found that it was nice and fun, but I also was honest with myself that I did no real teaching. I was just a babysitter for the hour I was in their house. Taking this course gave me the information I needed to stop being the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Saint Johnstown 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 reviewed modal verbs, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. Modal auxiliary verbs are words such as: can, may, could, might, should, shall, will, would, must, have to, have got to, need to, and ought to. They can represent obligation, possibility/probability, permission/prohibition, ability, and advice. There are two kinds of voices used in the English language; active and passive. In the passive, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb. It can be used when...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Madison Arkansas 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 learned about the modal auxiliary verbs, relative clauses, and phrasal verbs. For each grammatical concept, there are different kids and exceptions to them. For example, there are three kinds of relative clauses and three types of phrasal verbs. It's important to understand the rules to each grammatical concept. This is definitely one of the more challenging lessons in the English language. As a teacher, I believe that this these concepts should be kept for higher and more advanced...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL St. Petersburg Florida 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 14 on course books and lesson materials emphasized the importance in the process of choosing what materials get covered in a lesson. This is because students react differently to different kinds of material. One good example is how understanding authentic materials such as newspapers is considered a bigger accomplishment for a student as opposed completing to a sample role play exercise. The unit was also extremely beneficial in providing examples of created materials that could use to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Powell Michigan 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: In Unit Three I learned about different theories of teaching. The approach of each theory varied from a traditional classroom setting such as, writing lessons on a chalkboard, to very non-traditional teaching methods using colored rods and phonemic charts. I learned that each method has it's place within the classroom and all methods can be utilized to get the desired results. I also learned about the different types of ESA lessons. The structure of an ESA lesson can depend and be varied, given...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Taylorsville Georgia 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 was very helpful for learning different methods of appealing to learners of English and helping them efficiently process new concepts. For all three of the different categories of language learning (vocabulary, grammar, and structure), necessity is key. That is, the concepts from the lessons need to be applicable to language in the every day. This means being useful as well as prevalent in normal language speaking. It is also important to ensure that the speaker is taught when it is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kanhangad India 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 discovered that there are twelve tenses if you go into full dept instead of just the basic three. Most of these tenses we use in our daily lives naturally without even noticing it. This unit will help me a great deal with teaching day to day as they gave me a few scenarios and prepares one to look out for certain errors/mistakes of students and teachers. The Form, Usage,Typical student errors and Activate stage teaching ideas are just a few of the great helpful materials given...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Agency Legitimate 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. C. - U.S.A. said: British vs American EnglishEnglish is typically considered one of the hardest languages to learn for foreigners. Of course, native speakers don’t have to deal with the learning process like foreigners do because they are raised on the language. However, there are several aspects that can cause major problems for even native speakers of english. One of these is the difference between British english and American english. While they have a vast majority of similarities, they can be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Douglas Georgia 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 a nice overview of why lesson planning is important, both for the students and for the teacher. It is important to know what the focus of the day will be and what kinds of study and activate activities can be used to reinforce a new grammar point or set of vocabulary. However, there needs to be a certain level of flexibility in each lesson plan in order to accommodate students if they are not succeeding at the \"activate\" activity. My mother is an ESL teacher and told me that I should...  [Read more]