19th Century Halloween

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Novotroitsk, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Novotroitsk, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Using manipulatives and teaching aids are important in the teaching and learning of language. As a teacher, I have become mindful of the fact that students learn more effectively when their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Nigeria? Are you interested in teaching English in Ilesa, Nigeria? Check out our opportunities in Ilesa, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit covers teaching methodologies. There are many different approaches and methodologies that have been used throughout history to teach languages. The oldest is the Classical way or...  [Read more]

Salt Lake City is a big city with plenty of small mountain town charm. Located at the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, it is the capital of the state of Utah and famously hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The Olympics brought increased investment in the city’s infrastructure and it has continued to develop into a thriving multicultural urban center in the heart of some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. With countless attractions and activities and a warm friendly local population, Salt Lake City is the ideal place to take a TEFL/TESOL teacher training course. Salt Lake City was originally settled by Mormons in the middle of the 19th century. The city then grew with the influx of religious converts and those looking to get rich from gold mining. The arrival of the...  [Read more]

  Come and join our TEFL/TESOL course in New York and spend four action-packed weeks in one of America’s most exciting states. Home to abundant natural wonders and vibrant cities, “The Empire State” truly does not leave anything to be desired. Adding to that New York’s long history and influence on immigration in the early 19th century when millions of people from around the world came to America in search for freedom and a better life, it’s not hard to see why New York is an intriguing vacation destination. Upstate New York offers beautiful natural scenery year-round, especially the area around Lake George and Adirondacks National Park. Whether you visit in summer, fall, winter or spring, there is always something new and different to see in the park. The main landmark of...  [Read more]

Despite being surrounded on three sides by its neighbor Los Angeles, Santa Monica is a city in its own right. The city benefits from a year round Mediterranean style climate with more than 300 days of sunshine annually. This gives residents and visitors alike plenty of opportunity to make the most of the beautiful beaches along the coast. As might be expected in a coastal city with year-round sunshine, Santa Monica has a laidback atmosphere that is the perfect remedy to the hustle and bustle of life in the larger Los Angeles. Santa Monica has long been an escape for residents of Los Angeles looking for a quieter, more relaxed life away from the hectic pace of the big city. Improved transport networks towards the end of the 19th century made Santa Monica an accessible day trip destination...  [Read more]

Columbus is a city that regularly scores highly on polls for economic growth, quality of life and low crime levels and as such is an increasingly popular destination for new residents and visitors alike. It is also home to one of the largest universities in America and the large student population certainly adds to the vibrancy and energy of this Midwestern city. This great combination of factors makes our TEFL/tesol course in Columbus, Ohio an excellent choice for any prospective English teacher to earn their certificate. Founded as the new capital of the state of Ohio, the city was named after the famous explorer Christopher Columbus. The city grew out of dense forestland that covered the area prior to the city’s foundation and the completion of the National Road in the 1830’s led...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word mugwump. This word is a noun and refers to a person who remains independent, especially from politc parties. This word comes from the Algonquian native peoples in Canada. It has been used in English since the 19th century. 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. Teaching a foreign language goes in tandem with the utilization of a variety of useful teaching equipment and aid. There are a plenty...  [Read more]

  "In terms of the things that are negative about it, we've already said that it doesn't develop speaking but perhaps the biggest negative point about this particular methodology is that it's very unnatural. Ok, so despite the criticisms of this particular method, and particularly the fact that is unnatural, this particular methodology was in use all the way through the 17th, 18th and 19th century and indeed it's still in use today. However, Gouin in the 1880s and Berlitz in the early 1900s decided that this particular methodology was so unnatural that they wanted to come up with something new. The method that they came up with, they called the direct method. You will also sometimes see it as the natural method. What these two people were saying is that if we wish to learn a...  [Read more]

Long known as a world powerhouse influencing art, culture, politics and economics around the globe, new york City rightly deserves its reputation as a truly global city. The most populous city in the United States and one of the world’s most visited, its numerous influences and countless attractions continue to draw people from all over the world either for pleasure, business or to start a new life. It is easy to see why such a magnificent city is a very popular destination for taking a TEFL/tesol course. The first European settlement in the area dates back four hundred years but it was the social upheaval in Europe during the 19th century that really drove New York’s population boom. Large numbers of immigrants flooded into the city as they escaped famine in ireland and unrest on...  [Read more]

Latin America is a large and diverse region that covers over 20 million square kilometers and around 20 countries. It also provides a huge number of opportunities for ESL teachers in large bustling cities, popular tourist resorts, small country towns, and everywhere else in between. Due to its wide choice of destinations there are countless options for adventure, exploration, entertainment, and relaxation, and the development of lifelong memories is almost guaranteed. However, as this is such a big region, how do you know which countries are the best for teaching ESL? We highly recommend you complete your own research to ensure you cover all the things that are important to you, but we can also offer the following list of destinations that we think offer the best opportunities right...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word sprachgefühl. This word refers to a person's intuitive ability to produce language in a natural way. Sprachgefühl is one of many Gernan words that found their way into the English language at the end of the 19th century. The word is a combination of sprache (language, speech) and gefühl (feeling). 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. Through the course I have learned that teaching goes...  [Read more]

  Our TEFL course in South Korea gives you the chance to complete your teacher training in one of the most popular destinations for EFL teachers in the world placing you right at the heart of one of the world’s largest markets for English language learning. South Korea is a country of contrasts; it is highly urbanized with half the population living in high rise buildings yet you are never too far from the natural delights on offer. Beautiful mountains rising out of densely forested national parks give great opportunities for hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter. Remote islands are home to friendly fishing villages where you can sample the day’s catch at local cafés and restaurants. South Korea is also technologically advanced with a highly educated population. It has...  [Read more]

  TEFL International provides one of the most practical and professionally presented TEFL courses available in Australia. Our TEFL training center in Sydney is a wonderful option for anyone looking to gain TEFL certification. Course participants can gain experience teaching in Australia and then go on to teach in Asia, or nearly anywhere else in the world for that matter. Being Australia’s largest city, Sydney is a multi-cultural city with a very cosmopolitan feel. Australia is a popular destination for TEFL training. A variety of different landscapes can be seen throughout a continent and diverse natural wonders such as the famed Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) and the Great Barrier Reef are not too far away. Sunshine soaks beach goers almost year round and Sydney’s locals will charm you...  [Read more]

  It also helps us form our tenses. Many of the tenses will use these auxiliary verbs; particularly we have our continuous tense and our perfect tense. There are additional tenses that use auxiliary verbs. We'll get into that when we talk about our individual tenses. Another important aspect of our verbs is that they generally tell us what tense the sentence has been formed in. Take for instance the verb "to live." We could use it as live, lives, living or lived. "I live" or "she lives in Bangkok," meaning the present. "I am living in Bangkok," still the present or "I lived in Bangkok," meaning the past. Another difference with our verbs has to do with whether or not the verb is regular or irregular. With the regular verbs, in order to conjugate the verb into the past, we simply...  [Read more]

The world of English language teaching is very fond of acronyms and TESOL is one of the most common. TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and is used when referring to the act of teaching, as well as the qualification required by teachers wishing to do the teaching. Below are a range of other popular teaching acronyms and their definitions. ESL: English as a Second Language ESL may have had its beginning with the rise of the British Empire in the 15th Century. As more countries were being colonized by Britain the use of English was taught to the native speaking leaders of the country, so they could continue to carry out Britain’s rule after the British left the country. ESOL: English to Speakers of Other Languages. There are two sides to this: the...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word swashbuckler. This word is a noun and describes a swashbuckling person. The word has been used since the 16th century and is a combination of the words 'swash' and 'buckler'. 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. Teaching English as a second language (ESL) is a rewarding career, yet a challenging on. Imagine being in front of 30 students having very different personalities, attitudes,...  [Read more]

  Our next particular methodology is accredited to James Asher around 1965 and is called total physical response. Asher looked at the way in which we learn our native language and he saw that most children, before they even went to school, have picked up a very large percentage of both the grammar and the vocabulary that they would use in their native language before any type of formal schooling. So Asher started to have a look at ideas of how to use the whole of our brain in language learning in the way that we do when we're very young. It's accepted that within our brain there are two hemispheres, one is the left hemisphere the other is the right hemisphere, and one of the functions of the left hemisphere is language learning. One of the major functions of the right hemisphere is...  [Read more]

There are many reasons to choose Orange County as the place to take your TEFL/tesol course. The pleasant Mediterranean style climate, over forty miles of beautiful coastline and the convenient proximity to Los Angeles in the north and San Diego to the south are just a few. Any first-time visitor soon realizes why this collection of small well-designed cities is a great place to live, work and study. The county was initially a sparsely populated region where cattle ranches and other farming pursuits were the main industries. However, the beginning of the 20th century saw the arrival of road and rail networks, and this link to Los Angeles put Orange County on the map as an easy weekend get-away for the new stars of the early Hollywood. Continued improvements to the road infrastructure...  [Read more]

  In this episode, Linda takes on the pronunciation of the word "bicoastal". Enjoy the episode! 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. For the past several decades, English has grown into the primary language for international communicatio. Just like people, companies in today's economy find that their primary source of competitive advantage lies in the knowledge they posses, so they are investing more and more on training their staf. Nowadays,...  [Read more]

Situated in an area known as the ‘Valley of the Sun’, the city of Phoenix has a warm and dry climate year-round which is just one of the reasons why it is a popular destination for completing our TEFL/tesol course. Another reason for the city’s popularity amongst visitors from across the world is its enviable location close to many stunning national parks. Within reach of the city are some of the most famous parks in the country including the legendary Grand Canyon, and Monument Valley which has been the backdrop for countless Wild West movies and TV shows. Although it is now the most populous state capital in the usa, the history of the city only goes back to it’s founding in the 1860s. Phoenix remained mostly unknown outside the region until it was named as the state capital...  [Read more]