Word Types

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  Within the teaching of ESL throughout the world, there is a whole spectrum of the types of groups that you may be involved in. It's worth breaking those types of groups down to have a look at some of the more specific things we need to do when we're teaching those groups - and this is what this video focuses on. 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. This unit focused on receptive skills. Receptive skills includes both reading and listening which...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Zhalantun China 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 has made me think about how I too have previously relegated writing as an outside of class activity. I think in future I will need to dedicate a lesson to it to ensure that the students have a better understanding of what is expected of them and to have had a model of practice before attempting to produce writing on their own. This is regards to just my normal English speakers as well as my ESOL/TEFL students.In this unit, I consolidated my knowledge of word classes. I now have a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Kokubunji Japan 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 and phonology are the areas of teaching that are addressed in Unit 13. Three patterns of intonation are described: the rise/fall, the fall/rise and flat. The basic rules of stress in sentence and word stress are also explain in this unit. The international phonemic alphabet is a useful tool for teaching and studying English. Articulation part of Unit 13 is about the speech organs, places of articulation, manners of articulation. Indicating and teaching techniques are recommended.The...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Annaba Algeria 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 descrribes modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice. They can be used to express obligation, possibility, probability, permission, ability, advice and so on. All of them have specific grammar rules, can be used in past, present or future tenses and are being changed in accordance with the tense. Also, phrasal verbs have 3 types and have specific grammatic rules in accordance with the type. So, for a teacher, it is very important to provide this material to students, in order to let them...  [Read more]

Multiple Intelligences The theory of Multiple Intelligences stems from the underlying notion of different areas of aptitudes and strengths within people’s personalities. This theory pertains to an educational model that measure seven different areas of “intelligence.” Popularized by psychologies Howard Gardner, this methodology allows what he refers to as “individual centered” curriculum within schools. In other words, schools could focus on what needs the students had rather than a broad general curriculum across the board. Many have criticised this methodology for abandoning previously held empirical methodologies. This methodology, claimed by critics, was based on intuition rather than empirical data; thus, making it an inconsistent and unreliable method. Apart from the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Lahore Pakistan 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 discusses the many different types of present tenses, their usages, and examples of how to teach them. With each tense it goes into detail about how to use it in an affirmative sentence, a negative sentence, and a question. It also discusses the different situations in which you would use each tense. The examples of how to teach each tense described different activities that you could use in the activate stage of teaching, such as games, role-playing or work sheets.It was refreshing to...  [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 Bhutan Thimphu 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: English has a few different types of verbs that use multiple words to change the meaning of the verb. Modal Auxiliary verbs can be used to ask permission, give advice, show concern, or express if something is likely or possible. Phrasal verbs are multi-word verbs. They be intransitive (with no object) or transitive (with an object). Passive voice can also change how a verb is formed. Passive voice is used when the object of the action is more important than the \"doer\" of the action or when the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Fenghua China 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 found this unit to be interesting and very practical. I know that while acquiring my college degree, several of the tools taught in this unit were used through out my education. I found question number 11 to be confusing. In a regular dictionary, you would find the origin of a word. But I did go to the website for the Cambridge dictionary and saw the word usage in context so I changed my answer. I felt this question could have been worded better to specify the type of dictionary as not all...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Hat Yai Thailand 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 the biggest focus was on changing present voice sentences to the passive voice. There are simple formulas in which to change the sentences and are as easy as changing a word to the past tense. We also learned about modal auxiliary verbs which are used to express things like probability, ability, advice, possibility, and permission. A good comparison is these types of words help to add more formality and politeness to the english language.This unit covered the various resources and...  [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 Aneta North Dakota 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: Despite million types of different languages in the world they all have four basic skills namely reading,writing,listening and speaking. All these four skills carry the same importance irrespective of the type of language, as they work hand in hand.The unit focuses on reading and listening skills of which also have the same importance as far as the English language is concerned.Reading is a much more better skill as it provides an opportunity to see and revise the content with a slight advantage...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Bunting Delaware 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 introduced us to methods for teaching vocabulary, grammar and language functions. It explained the criteria necessary in selecting which vocabulary words to expose students to and what students need to know to learn grammar structures. It also explained which lesson types work best for teaching each different section, and reinforced our knowledge of the straight arrow, patchwork and boomerang type lesson learned about in unit 3. In the task sheets we were asked to create two different lesson...  [Read more]

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 India Gorakhpur 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: From this unit I have learnt that there different reasons and ways in which we read and listen depending on the information we wish to know. It is good to understand these types of reading and listening in order to help students appreciate that they must not always have to understand every word of a text or listening exercise, that sometimes it can be enough to get the gist. It has also highlighted to me the importance of pre existing knowledge of the world to get a full understanding of what we...  [Read more]

  Let's begin our examination of parts of speech with nouns. Nouns are our naming words. They name a person or people, such as Jack, Jill, brother, Prime Minister. We have a place or places such as kitchen, Tokyo. Things or the things around us: pen, light, camera. We have our concepts and ideas: beauty, democracy. These people, things, places and concepts fall into two basic subcategories. Those subcategories are countable and uncountable. As their name suggests, the differentiation here is whether or not we can count our nouns or if we cannot count them. We have our countable nouns: dogs, pens, are two examples. The very nature of the words means that we can count these nouns one dog or 5, 10. Then, we have our uncountable nouns. The nouns that cannot be separated: music, bread....  [Read more]

  This video covers the difference between 'assent' and 'ascent'. As these two words have a similar pronunciation and spelling, their usage is often confused. Let's take a look at the two words individually. 'Assent' is a noun and describes an agreement or an approval of something. He nodded his assent and she continued. As you can see in the example, 'assent' indicates that he is agreeing. We could also say 'He nodded in agreement and she continued.' While the word 'ascent' is also used as a noun, it has a very different meaning. It refers to the action of rising or climbing up, for example: My legs were tired after I took the ascent to the cabin on the ridge. We could also say 'My legs were tired from the climb to the cabin on the ridge'. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT...  [Read more]