What Countries Don't Celebrate Valentine's Day

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Yaroslave 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: D.C. - U.S.A. said: In Unit 12, I learned about the difference between Accuracy Activities and Fluency Activities. This was useful. I recently had my high advance students write a piece for Valentines. Before we started the Activity phase, we discussed what the holiday meant to them, if it is celebrated in their country and it what way. Then we listened to a song by Jeff Buckley called Hallelujah. Each student read one stanza of the song. We discussed the meaning, what it meant to them. Here is where I got stuck....  [Read more]

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  In this TESOL review video, Emilia tells that having already taught English in several countries around the world, she was looking to refresh her teaching knowledge after taking a break from teaching. After extensively researching available courses she chose ITTT. In this video discusses why her choice was a good one. 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. Unit 20 is essentially a walk-through of the most common problems a new teacher can...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Cost Diploma 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.S. - Australia said: english as a Global LanguageWith wide implementation of the Internet and world-wide audiences the use of english has created mutual understanding and opportunities for international co-operation. Even though many say english is the global language it hasn’t been made official. The use is wide spread signs and advertisements in english in foreign countries as in hotels, restaurants, airports etc. is evidence of its growing popularity. As native speakers of the english language we worry...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about Dates Inexpensive 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: K. C. - South Korea said: english as a global LanguageI come from South Africa where there are 11 Official Languages, but I come from an Afrikaans background and I was raised by an Afrikaans Mother. Being raised Afrikaans is slightly different to being raised english. My mother new how important it was going to be for my future to rather raise me predominantly english and put me in an english School. I thank her for doing this because I am Bilingual and because I can speak english fluently and well, I am...  [Read more]

The granada TESOL course is in the perfect place to enjoy the present and discover the past. History is all around you here. granada's rich cultural history and architecture is fervently kept alive. The sumptuous cuisine, the sound of Flamenco music played late into the night, and the coming together of Christianity and Islam is truly amazing—Grenada is a one-of-a-kind place. granada has one of the last fortresses of the Moorish empire to be built in Western Europe. The world renowned Alhambra and the Generalifé are examples of the magnificence of this intriguing civilization. Here in 1492, Christopher Columbus gained the support he required and a charter from Queen Isabella to explore a new trade route to India, which eventually resulted in discovering the Americas. granada Cathedral...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Agency Residential 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. D. - U.S.A. said: Pecularities of the english LanguageAn expert of english fluency must be able to command all the language’s dimensions, including even the most defeating of oddities. Many people find that english might possibly be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Not for the words per se, but for the fact that it has so many unusual and contradictory rules. First off, english has many irregularities when it comes to pluralizing; why is it that the hunter who shoots three deer, buys him...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Shangyu 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: K.R. - Germany said: Question 18 is unfair. We don''t know when the speech is being reported. Moreover, in American speech anyway, it is always OK to use 'tomorrow' even if it happened long in the past. I don't think I would ever say, 'She asked him if he was working the following day,' as there would always be a context in which she was asking him the day before, and that is frozen in time. Do you follow me? In American English I'm also happy with, 'if he were' instead of 'was,' and I don't mind 'be going to'...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Tula Russia 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 wish this course modeled teaching of English grammar for us. Like, why can?t we learn English grammar the way we?re supposed to teach it? It would certainly make it more interesting, and it could also improve our understanding of the subject matter. If the goal is teaching students to communicate effectively in English, I don?t know why these terms are so important.I learned about this uniit that realized the use of over head projectors and interactive white board .But with what concerns...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about One Week 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.F. – U.S.A. said: As I went through the process of completing this certificate, people kept inquiring as to why it was taking so long to learn how to teach english. They kept saying that since I knew how to speak it already there can’t be that much to learn about passing it on to others; well, I don’t think they’ll understand how ridiculous those statements are until they take a course like this one. While the material itself wasn’t impossible, there is so much to learn. Growing up in an english...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Flexible TESOL Courses 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: K.F. - U.S.A. said: Culturally Sensitive ClassroomIn Japan, it is the ultimate faux-pas to blow your nose in public. In India, stepping on someone's foot is a major, unclean insult. In Argentina and other South American countries, closer communication space means taking a step back is an insult. When teaching english to other cultures on their native turf, teachers are faced with similar challenges to those of the teacher in their own native country yet in a classroom of diversified cultures unified in the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Farmington Maine 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 so easy to complete the test in one day. As I am not a native English speaker, I agree and notice a lot when I teach non English speaker learners that they use Present, Past and Future simple tense daily in their conversation. Even I demonstrate every day the difference of tenses and each of these tense has four aspects they prefer to use only the simple form as affirmative, negative and question of Present, Past and Future tenses. And I understand my non English speaker learners...  [Read more]

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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 Certification Amsterdam 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: Although I use the grammatical system in my day to day life I have learnt that the are many rules within the system that needs to be taught to students that don't use English as the first language, I have realised to teach of a good standard and gain student trust I will need to learn these ruses so I can assist my students if they have a grammar question for me during there teaching.This unit teaches the productive skills in teaching English. This is looked as a very important part...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Addison 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: I became aware of the anatomy of my mouth and how it is used to form speech. Linguistics is definitely a topic I need to study. I learnt about the phonemic alphabet which allows you to write out sounds, symbols representing them. This is different than just writing out the way a word sounds such as 'k-at'. This is great for learning pronunciation, especially since different English speaking countries speak with different accents and sometimes don't pronounce some letters of words correctly. In...  [Read more]

Cebu is a city in the midst of overwhelming growth that blends its ancestral heritage with a modern business edge. Standing as the country's top business and tourist destination, Cebu was crowned as the Queen City of the South. Finding its own place under Cebu's friendly skies, business and leisure coincide together with office buildings and beach resorts. Cebu is an elongated island some 250 kilometers from North to South and 45 kilometers across at its widest point. It is central to the Philippine archipelago and some 600 kilometers south of Manila. This location combined with a sheltered deep water harbor has made Cebu the base for most of the country's domestic shipping and the gateway to the central and southern Philippines. The island's area of 5,000 square kilometers supports over...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Brisbane 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: W. S. - Korea said: From this unit I feel I have learnt the importance of what to teach specifically to students with regards to the wide array of future tenses. Unit 8 on Future Tenses covers the wide variety of tenses that follow a pattern to the previous tenses taught in earlier units / chapters. The begin with Future Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous, and then break into three unique sections of \"Going To\", Present Simple, and Present Continuous. I learned that one of the best methods of activity...  [Read more]