Vocab Boxes

  Place of articulation deals with the placement of the vocal organs when producing a sound. Before we can cover the particulars of places of articulation, we'll need to take a look at the various vocal organs and their locations. Moving from the front to the back we'd begin with our lips. We can use both lips in order to create a sound or we can use one of our lips with one of our rows of teeth, usually the top, in order to produce another sound. We also have other sounds, which use both of the rows of teeth. Further back we have what's called the alveolar ridge. That's the bit of the mouth that may get burnt when we're eating a pizza that's a bit too hot and the cheese burns just behind there our top two teeth. That again is the hard bit just behind our top teeth, called the...  [Read more]

  The next example of a game that we can adapt very easily for classroom use is the game of Jeopardy and in this particular game, what we can do is to have a set of levels for our questions, I'd say one through five, where one is going to be the easiest example and five is going to be the most difficult and then, in each of these sets of boxes, we can have various grammar points, such as tenses, perhaps modals, vocabulary and maybe even conditionals. So what the students can do is they can pick a particular topic first of all and within that topic, they can pick the level of the question that they want and then we can have a set of cards that have been created to fit into these slots and we can ask them that question at that level. So, a very simple adaptation of the game jeopardy...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Peru tacna 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 presents the topic on how to teach pronunciation and phonology. The two most common intonation patterns are discussed--rising-falling and rising. Various rules on word stress are explained. Techniques for teaching stress are conveyed, such as, contrastive stress, using gestures, choral work, using the board by underlining or drawing boxes on top of a word, and stress marks. Furthermore, phonemic symbols used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are presented. The IPA serves...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Mapleton Oregon 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 liked the examples given for the lessons, it showed the differences I would need to acknowledge when teaching vocab versus grammar. I think the use of smaller games, such as matching or cross-word would be better for vocab and the grammar is better with role-play because grammar is really only relevant when used in context. I think that the irregular verbs and corresponding tenses may cause some problems simply because there are very few if any rules for them. A patchwork exercise perhaps. The first...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification United States Warren 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 provided a description with examples of what the engage, study, and activate stage may look like when teaching vocabulary and introducing grammar structures. Page 2 was helpful to me as it talked about how we can choose the vocabulary words that will be taught to students. It is good to know that when students are learning new vocab words, the origin of the word is not usually a significant factor of what the student needs to know about a word. I was surprised by this...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Tonk 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: Grammar, vocabulary, and function are the basis of teaching English. Grammar is described to be the trunk of English learning tree. It is important that students know the meaning, use, patterns, and differences between language that is spoken and language that is written. The most commonly used lesson plan organization is the boomerang and patchwork arrangement. The leaves to the tree is considered to be the vocabulary. How well students learn vocab is based off similarity to their own language,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Maastricht Netherlands 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 what students needed to know (of grammar and vocab) and how to teach this using ESA lessons. It emphasized that the level of the students and their environment is important. Somebody working in a hotel might prefer hotel-related vocab such as towel, booking, reservation, a young learner might be less interested in these words. Hence it is important to match the content of the class with the students involved. The unit also covered various examples of ESA lessons.There are...  [Read more]