Word Categories

Check out tefl tesol about Flexible TESOL Programs 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: Linguistic learning Have you ever wondered why the student sitting next to you can get all the word problems in math correct, or why some students are better at writing than others? Well, the most probable answer is that they are Linguistic learners. Linguists is the study of human language. Linguistic learning is a style of learning that refers to a person's ability to reason, solve problems, and learn using language. Linguistics has several fields or categories that fall under its...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Guatemala City Guatemala 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 we saw an overview of the grammatical types and functions of the words that we use to form sentences. We saw basic categories like nouns and verbs, but also more specific categories like proper nouns, transitive verbs, verb forms, different types of prepositions, and so on. It gives a clearer image of the structure and meaning of each sentence, and helps us see what each word in the sentence is referring to. It is important to always keep these structures in mind, so that we...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Israel Rehovot 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: A sentence can consist many words, and each word plays a different role. Separating each word into different categories can be difficult, because there are just so many rules and classifications. Nouns are properly one of the easiest to deal with, because it is something we can feel, see or touch. Pronouns are basically words replacing nouns with a small twist. Verbs are actions that humans are familiar with. Adjectives are words describing nouns. Adverbs adds more meaning to an action....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Greenfield Illinois 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 provides a detailed explanation on how to effectively teach productive skills. This unit describes the various activities and categorizes them to allow a more efficient use of the activities. Some of these categories include prompting, drilling, model dialogues and discussions. By providing a selection of activities in this unit it gives future teachers a greater selection of activities to work with and can help expand their way of teaching and make it more creative. This unit also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Cartagena 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: R.S. - U.S.A. said: There are four basic skills in learning a language, reading and listening (receptive skills as the learner receives and processes the information to understand), and speaking and writing (productive skills, as the learner will produce his or her own information using the language verbally or in written form). This unit focused entirely on the receptive skills. We use these receptive skills for one of two broad categories: a purpose (gaining specific information to answer a question or increase...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Sanming 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 lesson was an overview of the various parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, articles, transitive verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and gerunds. The basic sentence structure of both words and their categories were in this unit. A sentence contains at least a noun (person place or thing) + verb (generally an action word) + subject (who or what the sentence is about), however, there are exceptions to this simple formulation with implied parts of speech. The other main element...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Poza Rica De Hidalgo 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: This unit I have learned how to create a lesson plan, this is very helpful since this aids in planning what I expect my students to achieve by the end of the lesson, and how I intend to make that possible, helps me to think logically through the stages in relation to available time (creates a logical sequences for the lesson), to keep on target and gives me something to refer to during the lesson. However I should not stop from being flexible and responding to the needs of the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Handan 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: Pronunciation depends on three main categories, stress, intonation, and phonetics, each of which can vary the meaning of words and phrases. Stress is which syllables and words are emphasized in a sentence, and changing which word is stressed can change the implied meaning of the sentence. Intonation involves the fluctuation of pitch in a sentence, and is mainly used to differentiate between questions, and let the listener know whether to respond or keep listening. Phonetics is the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Weihai 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.K. - Switzerland said: A lesson that is taught to a class, regardless of the level, will usually focus on any of the following three categories: vocabulary, grammar and functions. The unit presents a very interesting and clear metaphor that explains how these three categories work together to build the knowledge that a student has of a specific language. \"Grammar is often said to be the tree trunk and branches of a language while vocabulary and fuctions are the leaves that add beauty and variety.\" One cannot...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Japan Toyama 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 taught me about Part of speech; the different main grammar groups of the English language. I learned that every sentence consists by a subject, a verb and usually an object. To make the sentences more interesting and varied, we fill them up with other words that each have their own role in the sentence depending on which grammar group they belong to. There are different rules on how to build up a sentence, on which order the words should be in, and which tense and form they should have....  [Read more]

Teaching Vocabulary The concept of teaching vocabulary to students of a foreign language is not impossible but must be approached carefully. There are several ways to deliver the information to students so that they learn the English language ’s vocabulary. For example, Joseph Pettigrew from Boston University posted an interesting article online that gives suggestions on how to go about presenting and teaching vocabulary to students. Pettigrew suggests teaching methods that include simple, old-fashioned English language tools such as synonyms and antonyms. Synonyms may be used in matching exercises and antonyms may be used in exercises matching opposites. He also suggests using fill in the blank sentences as a form of exercise. This is perhaps an effective exercise for learning this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs La Paz 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: This unit focused on the materials used by teachers in the classroom. Course books can often be a point of disagreement amongst educators. Course books offer a tested structure for the class, but may be out of date or not create an interest on the part of the students. Materials are divided into two categories, authentic materials and created materials. Authentic materials are things like newspapers and magazines. Created materials are created by the educator, like crossword puzzles.I have sometimes...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Morgantown 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: In unit 11 Teaching receptive skills were mentioned two equally important skills: reading and listening. While teaching a teacher has to be aware of the purpose of reading and listening. Accordingly we can divide reasons and motives into two categories: 1) for a purpose; 2) for entertainment. Also for readers and listeners the understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in these areas: 1) Predictive skills 2)Specific information - scanning 3)General idea - skimming 4)Detailed...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Clinton New Jersey 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 18 is about modal,s phrasal verbs and passive voice. We learned that modals express a number of different ideas, such as obligation, possibility, permission, ability and advice, with a few words having multiple meanings behind the word. Modal verbs can change the formality and meaning of the main verb within a sentence. Passive voice, there are two voices in English, passive and active. Active is more focus on the agent, while passive is more so the subject. The form for the auxiliary verb +...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Vancouver United States 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 thoroughly enjoyed this unit as I learnt about different ways to set up my classroom and why. Another interesting aspect was the gestures and how/when to use them. I hadn't considered that pointing at a student may be a negative gesture and that using an open hand is more polite. This will be a particularly important factor in Asian countries I think. As a past student of human behaviour, the unit was very interesting and easy to understand.Unit 2 introduces grammar as parts of a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Ramagundam 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, I learned about modals, phrasal verbs, and the passive voice. The modal auxiliary verbs are used before other verbs to add meaning to the main verb. They’re used to express obligation, possibility/probability, permission/prohibition, ability, and advice. The passive voice is used when the performer of an action is either not known, not important, or we don’t want to say who it is. In this voice, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb. It...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Laurel 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: In teaching either new vocabulary, grammar styles or language functions, there are a few basic things to consider when choosing and teaching for each of the categories. For example, when choosing vocabulary words, some things to consider are: how often will the student be using the words or is it appropriate for their language level? Or when it comes to teaching grammar styles, it's best to keep in mind that the students must not only learn the meanings, but in which forms the styles are written in and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Turkey Corlu 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 briefly discusses of the 8 main types of parts of speech: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjections. Each word of the English language can be classified to one of these categories depending on their usage in the sentence. This section has made me realize how I really forgot about the parts of speech and the rules of each of the categories. It showed me how much I really forgot of because I really don't put much thought into every specific word...  [Read more]

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Slang and Teaching Idioms In TESOL education, idioms appear particularly daunting for students and teachers alike and for this reason they are often neglected in English courses. A brief overview of everyday slang reveals an intimidating array of idioms that could easily go unnoticed by the native speaker but prove confusing for the student of English. On Kenneth Lawrence’s website devoted solely to idioms, he has attempted, like many other books on idioms and websites that focus on them, to organize idioms into coherent categories. The categories are diverse; there are bird idioms, money idioms, and even arm, head and finger idioms. It is clear from the amount of idioms in existence and the limited activities used for teaching them that idioms are a subject for more advanced English...  [Read more]