What Is Romania Like

The downfall of Ceausescu in 1989 provided the catalyst for great change in this former communist state. However, the pace of change has not been nearly as fast as some of its neighbours and the western visitor cannot help but be stricken by how ‘different’ things are in this country. Nevertheless, the cost of living is very cheap, there are many medieval castles and villages to visit, excellent quality skiing and hiking are available, and the contrast between horse-drawn vehicles vying for space on the roads with yuppies talking on mobile phones whilst they drive flash cars is quite amusing. In addition to this some of the mountainous landscapes are haunting, breathtakingly beautiful, and right out of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A population of twenty-two millions fits into ninety one...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United States Lowell 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 evaluating the students' level of English. The main focus is on the various types of tests acording to their purpose: placement tests, practice tests, diagnostic tests, progress tests and external tests. Some are used to evaluate the current level and the progress of the students during a course (placement and progress tests) and some are to prepare for a specific external test that helps them obtain an official certificate (diagnostic and practice tests). Though there are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Brazil teixeira de freitas 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 discribes the basis of English grammar. The comprehension of each part of the sentence is extremely important for both teacher and listeners. By my own experience, I know that if you do not understand the proper order and logic of each part in a sentence, the communication in that specific language will be quite difficult. It is hard to teach English grammar to some lerners from a specific culture where the grammar is different, like Romanian for instance. Using...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Bucharest Romania 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: During this unit we learned about the different skills , reading , writing, speaking and listening and the importance of the steps when doing a listening or a reading activity. ( like reading/Listening for gist then Reading/Listening for detailed information). We also went through the different activities that the students do while reading/listening like scanning and scamming.I learned from this chapter a lot of the names for the different sections f the Present text. I didn't know what...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Romania Piatra Neamt 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 is labeled as methodologies and techniques which, as the name suggests, covers different types of methods and techniques a teacher can use to teach their students. It expands on more than just having a topic and simply talking about it. Different methods and approaches lead to different teaching styles (depending on the teacher and the class) while still being able to follow a structured plan for effectively teaching students the English Language. I would like to point out...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Arad 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: During the teaching activity, teacher need to know the feedback from the class, so they need to evaluate the students level and progress. There are a number of ways to assess a student’s language: tutorial/ evaluation by the students/ tests. Placement test enable teacher to place new students into the correct class according to their language ability. Progress tests used to gauge what language has been remember or acquired and what language has been forgotten. Diagnostic test to help the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Romania Timisoara 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 course books and lesson materials. Course books are a very emotive issue for many teachers. Some teachers relay on them, while other teachers don not like to use them. The choice of whether or not to use a course book is quiet a complex issue. The materials can be divided into two groups. The first one is authentic materials which include programs, magazines, newspapers, songs, poems, brochures, menus, films on video. The other one is created materials which are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Constanta Romania 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 like this program, learning activities designed to reach the specified goals and achieve the learning outcomes of teaching processes. Generally, I love having and I had different teachers ; they brought different perspectives and they all taught differently. I have come to realize that people have so many different creative ideas you can draw from and use for your own class.This unit covers the different types of examination, detailing when they are appropriate to use and the kinds of...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Oradea Romania 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: Working i pairs can be a suitable learning experience. The teacher should show empathy with the students in his class. He should find out which students work well together, and find pairs with good chemistry. The teacher should be a good psycologist. He should like human beings when becoming a teacher. I like the idea of placing the students in a horse shoe. I think this will reduce the space of the teacher. The students become more important, they are in the center.This unit is all about the 4...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Drobeta-Turnu Severin 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 was very helpful to see actual executions of a good and bad class, because it gives a clearer idea of what a good presentation should be. For me, the video shows how emotion and presenting the material is just as important as doing everything on the lesson plan. When a teacher appears comfortable and glad to be there, it makes the students feel similar; so being able to complete a lesson smoothly becomes easier, because fear and nervousness are lowered. Once the teacher did well...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Focsani 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 follows up on the previous one. While the previous unit focused on the receptive skills (listening and reading), this one then focuses on the remaining two productive skills (speaking and writing). Just like the previous unit, the pattern for a ESA lesson is provided, along with a number of tips that help the teacher to plan and prepare the lesson and its activities. A particular emphasis is placed on the concept of accuracy vs fluency, which basically means that the accuracy is about...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Oradea 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 an overview of the grammar of English and shows me the importance of having clear understanding, before teaching it. Without good grammar, clear communication is nearly impossible. It gives confidence to many of my students, that they are not misunderstood while expressing their thoughts and ideas. Unfortunately, there is no shortcut to learning English grammar. The unit helps and shows me the simplest forms of the sentence structure, how to form it correctly. I could learn...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Ramnicu Valcea Romania 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 speaks about how to use a course book properly. I have learnt that a course book is not the Gospel, It should be approached critically, thinking where it needs to be supplemented with created materials or better adapted to students needs. The unit gives also ideas about created materials. Authentic materials like magazines, newspaper or something else can be also used but with attention, considering carefully if they are suitable for the level of the students.To understand teaching...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Constanta 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: Course books are guideline to teach students but teachers should be creative based on the course book rather than just follow the exactly same contents in that. To be creative, we can use authentic materials for example, magazines, newspapers, songs menus like that. Also, considering the levels of students is important when I choose them. For example, when we talk about famous figure, students are already know but not very well so by guessing their life or achievement, they could expect their...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Romania Iasi 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 went over four different grammar points. They are modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice, relative clauses and phrasal verbs. Modals precede a verb to give them more meaning in terms of formality, probability, ability, permission or advice. Passive voice is about softening a sentence by omitting the action taker or by making them not the topic of the sentence. A relative clause is a part of a sentence that gives additional information on a specific noun in it. A phrasal verb is a verb with...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Braila Romania 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: hello, the unit is very awesome I really enjoyed it, it was well explained and accurate. I gain too much knowledge on the present tenses which are confused sometimes . the present perfect and the present perfect continuous are difficult to distinguish, students always confuse them. the video is very interesting too and the teacher uses great material and a very good English, I really like the pictures and the prompt.Everything was clear and appropriate with the lesson.In this lesson, I started...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brasov Romania 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: Managing Classes was insightful. When I taught English in Spain years ago, I had issues with classroom management. With this unit, I now know what I did wrong, and I know how to correct it for the next time I am in a classroom. It was interesting to read how even the classroom set-up can influence the mood of the classroom. I liked the pros and cons format of each section, especially in the section on the ways in which the teacher can group his or her students.This unit gave a lot of useful...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Warangal 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: C.G. - Romania said: Wow! This is my feedback on this unit. It?s full of useful information the teacher can put into practice at the lessons. Perfect! I absorbed the unit within a day, I studied it in detailed, wrote out some interesting activities I can realize in my classes. It was very interesting to get familiar with deferent methods and techniques in teaching language. To tell the truth, not all of them I apply at my lessons, but now I?ve understood how extremely important it is. During our lessons at public...  [Read more]

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The Orange Revolution which saw free and fair elections finally bought to the Ukraine in 2004/5 has led to a great enthusiasm for change, and brought about a great sense of freedom. This is reflected in bold fashions and enthusiasm for partying and living the good life, where possible. The population of forty-eight millions fits snugly into a landmass of two hundred and thirty square miles. Ukrainian is the official language, but also Russian, Romanian, Polish and Hungarian are spoken. Religions observed include Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox, Ukrainian Catholic, Islam, Judaism and Protestantism. In other words, quite a mix. Since 1989 the transition to a market economy in what was the old Soviet Bloc has led to huge demand for English language skills. Everything...  [Read more]