Word Order And Sentence Structure

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Ahmednagar 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 2 - Parts of Speech In this unit I learned about the importance of the 8 major parts of speech in English grammar: nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, prepositions/conjunctions. Every single word in the English language belongs to one of the parts of speech; knowing the different parts of speech is important in understanding how words can and should be joined together to make sentences that are grammatically correct. As a teacher, you should have a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs India Thane 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 second unit, I have learnt about parts of speech. The content explains structure of sentences and how every word in a sentence holds a particular role. I became more familiar with the names such as adverb, adjective, conjunction, and so on. The unit doesn't only explain the definition of each technical words of English, but it also gives practical examples of using that words in sentences. For example, now I understood clearly the right way to mention adjectives: size - age - colour - and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL torino 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.P. - Korea said: Unit 7 we learned the aspects of teaching vocabulary to students in order for them to get by with the language. How easy the vocabulary word may be depending on multiple factors. The similarity of that language to the students. Similarity to English words already known, spelling/ pronunciation and appopriacy. Selecting the vocabulary requires the words frequently used, and how often it will be used or covered. The ability to teach the word, such as their and there. Or too and to. The students will...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word "thanatology". This word refers to the description or study of death and of the psychological mechanisms for coping with the phenomena of death. The word derived from Greek mythology where Thanatos was the personification of death. 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. In this unit, I've reviewed the modals verbs and the passive voice. so get more clearly about using them. but still the last...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Philippines Surigao City 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 have been introduced to an introduction in grammar. Grammar, in its wider sense, is the structure rules of a language. And in order to understand grammar we have to look at the basic parts which construct a sentence which are words. And we can categorise English words into nine basic types or classes. These classes are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, gerunds and articles. We call them “parts of speech”. Recognising...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Ukraine Chernihiv 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 covered lesson planning and how to teach new vocabulary or lesson structures, it didn't really go in to terrible detail, but instead revisited the esl teaching structures and what would be considered good ways to teach vocab and new structure in correspondence with the phase activate, engage, study. For example in the engage phase we could ask students to bring in a house to teach house vocab, we could have a discussion, we could do scenario building, we could use pictures, and more....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Brazil Garanhuns 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: Wow this was a tough unit! Though I was slightly familiar with the term modal auxiliary, I had forgotten that it referred to words that express so may things! Obligation, permission/prohibition, possibility/probability, ability and advice. And these are words that form the sentence structures we use everyday in order to convey the meaning or subtle degrees of differences in the way we want to communicate. I also learned about the three types of phrasal verbs, which are also all quite similar but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Tanjung Pinang 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: Many speakers of languages other than English will be used to more flexible word order due to more inflection and case structure elucidating the relationship between words. Phrasal verbs can have a striking difference in meaning from their constituent words if they are inseparable, such as 'getting off' someone versus 'getting someone off'. While relative clauses will be familiar to most anyone, the passive voice can be useful in attenuating English initially to the target students'...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification China Wuhu 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 highlighted to me that some of the present tenses can have future implications and can thus be used as kinds of future tenses. This may complicate keeping these tenses straight for new English language learners. This unit has also highlighted to me how many little words make up these tenses and how easily they can get confusing for English language learners. Many of the frequent mistakes involve omitting small words that convey meaning about the tense of the sentence. I found it...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs France Dijon 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 2 I have learned about the parts of speech that make up sentences in the English language. Each word in a sentence can be further classified, according to its purpose and the meaning it adds. There are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and so on. I have learned about sentence structure and the correct order of the parts of speech. It has also been highlighted that there are a lot of exceptions to most grammar rules. For example, there are many...  [Read more]

  "Who" and "whom" are another set of words that often causes confusion. Howeer, there is actuall a simple trick to deciding which one to use in a sentence. "Who" is used to refer to the subject of a sentence and 'whom' is used to refer to the object. Keeping this in mind will eliminate the chance of making mistakes. We recommend the following trick. The usage of these two words is the same as he and him. "He" is the subject and "him" is the object. If you are confused about which one you should use, look at the sentences and check whether "he" or "him" should be used. If it's "he", then you should use "who". If it's "him", then "whom" should be used. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Centre Authorized 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: F. B. – U.S.A. said: I’ve gained an understanding of how linguists have taken the english language, analyzed it, and broken it down into countless categories, grammatical constructions, and labels in order to attempt to outline the patterns of the english language. I don’t normally think about why I word a certain sentence a particular way (i.e. something I did in the past versus something I’ll do in the future) because I just learned these variations intrinsically. This course exposed me to how...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Zambia Chingola 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 order for one to teach the intricacies of English grammar, one must understand it. This unit covers the building blocks of sentences and the structure of words. I am not sure that I fully grasp the concept of \"zero articles\". I understand their usage in example sentences and I use them unconsciously in my writing; however, my current definition of a \"zero article\" is a bit vague. I found the sections on Prepositions and Adverbs particularly useful. Before these units I had always...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Anlu 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: Students often have a vocalubary other than that of the classroom. These students will often understand many more words than they can actively use. Vocabulary does not have a certain rule of which level it should be taught at. As a teacher I should pay attention to the strategies and techniques being used while teaching a new language. When teaching vocalubary I should consider: Appropriacy to the students Appropriacy to the task Frequency and coverage Teachability. Grammatical structure should be...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Hanam South Korea 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 believe this is a section that is important for me to work on and have down better to help me teach and help them understand how it works. I think that teaching grammar and vocabulary will help them understand better what the difference in structure is from their native language also and help them change their thinking so that they can better form sentences in EnglishThe overview of the unit is that there are many branches to the tree trunk of language learning and that one word can...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Holly Mountain Arkansas 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 helpful for teaching new vocabulary, grammar and language functions. It is important to select the right vocabulary for the age and language level of the students. Other considerations are the frequency and coverage of the word in common usage. Basic vocabulary relies on visual aids such as pictures or mime gestures. Students need to know the meaning, usage, forms and patterns of grammatical structures. Gap-fill and sentence word-order exercises are good examples of study phase...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Antofagasta Chile 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 Modals, Passive voice and phrasal verbs were covered. These are grammar rules which I automatically know, but was not aware of the rules. It was hence useful to learn the rules, and to receive ideas on how to teach them. I would have appreciated a more in-depth look as phrasal verbs and how to recognize them and teach them, as even I, an ESL teacher, had difficulty distinguishing the three types of phrasal verbs.The English language can seem simple to a native speaker, but...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Marrakech Morocco 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 is good to learn and analyze the present tense and the word order in which facilitates the structure of the sentence to avoid confusion and to communicate better since it is one of the reasons why there are many problems in the world from miscommunication and not fully understanding or perceiving what one is trying to say. With grammar, we can change the world, one person at a time.As grammar has always been one of my favorite subjects to teach, the grammatical information in this...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Kazan 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.D. – U.S.A. said: The unit reviews the techniques to successfully teach vocabulary, grammatical structures and language forms. The teacher may not choose the vocabulary taught if he or she is teaching from a fixed curriculum or text book. However, if that is not the case, the teacher must consider the appropriacy to the students and the task, the frequency of usage, and the teachability of the word. The teacher may use real items, pictures, or mime in the engage phase to elicit engagement with new vocabulary in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about College Weekend 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.H. - U.S.A. said: 1st Language Acquisition vs 2nd Language AcquisitionStudies have shown that the innate processes for 2nd language acquisition (L2) are basically the same as for 1st language acquisition (L1). Therefore there is much we can glean in studying these stages in order to facilitate the L2 english learner. As with L1 learners, the time spent in each stage will vary. It is important to note that the learning process, be it L1 or L2, is not linear - rather is zig-zag in nature. Mastery takes time....  [Read more]