Weird Facts About Japan

  In this TEFL review, Laura from Romania talks about how she took the course because she wants to teach English in Japan and was recommended ITTT by a friend. Laura found the course to be great value for money and was happy that she was able to study the course at home in her own time. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. Every course that I take seems to get harder for me. But it's always good to review the lesson plan before taking the test. This...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bristow 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 was really fun for me. I'd honestly never thought much about how to teach pronunciation, or even how weird pronunciation can be in English if you are not used to it, except for explaining the pronunciation of a few words to a friend. There are so many rules with so many exceptions that it seemed almost impossible to teach, maybe, except to just hope that students develop a sort of intuition for it over time. However I found the suggestions in this unit, about the phonetic alphabet and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Crawley United Kingdom 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 8 I found to be a bit confusing. Adding in the information about the present simple and the present continues with a future reference I felt should have been done in the present unit. But maybe that is just how I learn better. The \"going to\" option was weird too because it doesn't fit into any easily named category. I will definitely need to review this one.In this unit, I finished the grammar part of the EFL course, from which I learnt the modal auxiliary verbs, passive...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Mecca 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: This unit covers teaching productive skills, speaking and writing which are substantially different in many ways but both used to communicate. It discusses accuracy and fluency activities and where both are used. It covers writing skills and the number of differences that separates it from speaking skills and ends the unit with discussing the use of games in the classroom.This unit was tough, in that I really feel I'm starting to think like a teacher. Weird. I am looking forward to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Oakville Canada 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 the different type of testing you can use to know the level of the students and where to place them accordingly. This is something I feel is usefull to know but it felt a bit weird for me to learn all about the different type's of language certificate's you can get and what each different certificate stands for. I don't think it will help me with teaching in any way and so it feels unnecessary to study them.The unit focuses on the receptive skills ? reading and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Yingtan 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 productive skills. Productive skills include speaking and writing. Writing is often not seen as an important activity, but it is useful and necessary in a EFL classroom. Speaking focuses in both accuracy and fluency skills, and often it is important to focus on fluency, and getting the students to speak to each other, and work on accuracy after. It also provided different speaking activities: controlled, guided, and creative communication. There are several ways to encourage...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Boardman North Carolina 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 have learnt the many methodologies used to teaching a foreign language. I think a mixture of them would be a better asset. I find the Communicative language teaching and the p.p.p. better than all the others. The Suggestopaedia and silent way are weird and I have never heard of it. The ESA methodology is very interesting and I am especially impressed by the correction prompts. I have suffered in my childhood from teachers correcting every single mistake as it came and I was never able to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tampico Mexico 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 found the part about the types of clauses to useful, and a good review of terms and rules I had forgotten about. The part in the lesson where it talks about grouped sentences has a weird kind of formatting that puts the answers before the question. I found this a little distracting. Finally, I know it was meant to be an overview only, but the last section on phrasal verbs could have been explained better? Not quite sure how...maybe more examples? I will have to revisit that topic.Creating a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Yetter Iowa 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 10 gives a clear cut example of what NOT to do in a classroom setting as a teacher. In the first video the teacher never smiles, insists that everything is EASY and assumes that the students must know it all. The first class is not organized in an ESA format, it is a hodge-podge of facts being thrown at confused and intimidated students. The second video shows a teacher smiling and encouraging the students by using their names and being very active in the class. You can see from the faces of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Guangxi Yulin 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 Course Books and Lesson Materials chapter was very short but is incredibly important to consider when thinking about teaching. In my particular position I do not choose the lesson materials so this is not incredibly helpful for me but it must be considered by teachers who select textbooks. Some of the facts about textbook pros and cons, however, I found were a little obvious. For example, the fact that when you make your own materials you have more freedom to make it appropriate to the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Sandown New Hampshire 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: Despite the fact that there are a number of tenses for the future, this unit has helped to solidify some of the patterns that have been emerging with previous tenses (past and present). I am finding it now quite a bit easier to identify the basic tenses (simple, perfect, continuous, perfect continuous) in all forms. However, again, as in previous lessons, distinguishing the nuances in usage continues to sometimes be tricky. I find it difficult to memorize which forms are used for predictions...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Japan Chiba 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: Like the present and past tense, the future tense has simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous variations. However, infinitive statements, present simple, and present continuous can also be used in the future tense. Future simple has many usages such as describing future facts, predictions, and spontaneous decisions. Future continuous can indicate an activity will be in progress at a future time. Future perfect indicates an action completed before a time in the future. Future...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Germany Solingen 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 will have to agree that the future tense is the most complex of the tenses covered in this material. The future simple and future perfect continuous are for me the easier of the future forms to understand. The simple tense, using shall/will plus the verb is used to describe things such as future facts, predictions, promises and assumptions. For example: Christmas will be here in 2 months (future fact). The future perfect continuous takes will + have been + a verb ending in \"-ing\" to describe...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Noda 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: From this unit,I've learnt four present tenses:present simple,present continuous,present perfect and present perfect continuous.And the structure of each tense,the usage of each tense and some good activities for teaching those tenses.And also some typical students errors in each tenses and how to correct them during teaching. Present simple: Subject + base form and use for talking about daily routine ,facts,directions and instructions and so on.For example:I get up at 7 o'clock everyday. Present...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Sasebo 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 got to admit, it was a nice wake up call in a way that one would never have thought the basic grammar could be confusing. So thank you for pointing out this part of grammar. There are five conditionals: Zero conditional used for irrefutable facts-if/when+ present tense, present tense First conditional used for possible future-if+ present simple, will Second conditional used for impossible situation-if+ past simple, would/could/might+ base form Third conditional used for hypothetical past-if+ past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL East Greenwich Rhode Island 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 focused on equipment and teaching aids. I didn't learn very much from this unit - many of the tips were things I had to learn the hard way. In fact, there are many things this unit did NOT cover. I found a laptop extremely useful because I never had time to prepare everything on the classroom computer. I had to walk into the computer and start immediately, and my personal laptop allowed me to do that. I also found powerpoint to be a critical tool in my lessons, but this unit...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Accreditation Onsite 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: A.J. – Japan said: I have worked as an english teacher for 5 years now in Japan. When I began my position I had no qualification for teaching english as a second language other than the fact that I spoke english. My position was to teach oral communication but I soon found it necessary to be looking up the names of certain tenses and the usages of certain structures. This course has deepened my understanding of the tenses and grammar structures of the english language. It has especially helped me to...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Handa 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, it gives a brief overview on how the four different present tenses (present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous) shall be used. It has given a clear explanation on how to use all the present tenses in either forming sentences or questionnaires. For example, present simple is used to talk about habits and facts. While, present continuous is used to mention about things that are happening at the moment of speaking. Present perfect is used to talk...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Toyama 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 present tense is an extremely important lesson since it challenges students greatly. In summary, the present simple discusses habits, routines, and facts. The present continuous discusses actions in progress at the time of speaking, temporary actions around the time of speaking and a changing/developing situations. The present perfect discusses completed at an indefinite time/general experience, past actions that continue at the time of speaking, and past actions with present results.In this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kamagaya 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: We live in a world where technological advances are being made all the time, and where those advances are making way to a classroom setting. Whether it be videos, visual aids, projectors or interactive whiteboards, technology has allowed teachers to make learning more engaging, colorful and practical for their students. Not only have the equipment and teaching aids mentioned in this lesson allowed teachers to be more creative, but given students the ability to be part of a more hands-on lesson.I...  [Read more]