Why Learning English Is Difficult

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Probolinggo Indonesia 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 goes over the different variations of the future tense. It goes over the basic kinds (that match up with the same variety of past and present tenses) as well as the present simple, present continuous, and \"be going\" varieties. This unit helped me better understand the intentions behind different kinds of future tense structures. For example, it's particularly difficult to explain that the present tense can be applied to the future, but this unit helps give the precise reasons why...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Wheelwright Kentucky 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 students have got difficulty with conditionals and reported speeches because in order to understand these structures, they must understand the nature of why they exist in the first place (why we use them). However, oftentimes these understandings are reduced to bullets and remembering formulae (thus resulted in rote learning). This is also due to the teachers' making learning English parallel to learning, say, Mathematics or Physics where students remember formulae. The outcome is that...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Lexington Tennessee 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 I found fairly tricky. Reported speech isn't something we as native English speakers often think about. Just remembering how each tense should properly change can be difficult. The conditional clauses were fairly simple. Each condition implies either that something was impossible. Or could have been possible , had something else occured. As far as teaching methods are concerned, it's clear that these tenses are difficult for foreign learners. Hence why learning through hypothetical...  [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]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Homyel Belarus 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: As a language learner myself this was really good because I got exposed to some things that my be considered more useful and more interesting. This is a very interesting point covered in the section. The different purposes we have when we start doing something and as a teacher I learned it is very important for me to keep these interests or goals sometimes both in mind when setting up a lesson to teach receptive skills to the students.I have always had a hard time learning all the tenses,...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Carmel 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 tough but a great opportunity to reflect on the present tense while learning the past tense. I like that the tenses are separated because it gives your mind a chance to digest the materials. It's also great because you learn strategies for teaching this material to students. After reading the materials and watching the videos I feel prepared to teach a group of non-english speakers the past tense. I can understand why English can be difficult to learn because although I speak English,...  [Read more]

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