Tefl 1

  The next item that we're going to consider is the use of resource books. There are many different types of resource books available and within those books there tends to be a general pattern and typically the resource book pack will come in a three book series and typically that three book series will be in the form of the student book, a workbook and a teacher's resource book. So for example here are those three books for this particular series called ?Total English? and in the student book the type of information that we can gain from here is the actual background to the teaching points themselves plus some additional information in terms of short worksheets and so on and so forth and tape transcripts at the end for listening activities, which these days often come on a CD...  [Read more]

  When it comes to manner of articulation, we have six different ways in which our breath is produced in order to make our sounds. We have our plosives, our affricates, fricatives, the nasal sounds, our lateral sound and the approximants. Let's take a look at each individually and see how they differ from one another. First we have our plosive sounds. As the word might indicate we have basically a little explosion of sound with our breath. The plosive sounds are made through a three-step process. First there's a closure somewhere in the vocal tract. Second there's a buildup of air and finally there's a sudden release of that air like a little explosion. If we look at some of the sounds that are made this way we might better understand why they are called plosives. Examples are the...  [Read more]

  Place of articulation deals with the placement of the vocal organs when producing a sound. Before we can cover the particulars of places of articulation, we'll need to take a look at the various vocal organs and their locations. Moving from the front to the back we'd begin with our lips. We can use both lips in order to create a sound or we can use one of our lips with one of our rows of teeth, usually the top, in order to produce another sound. We also have other sounds, which use both of the rows of teeth. Further back we have what's called the alveolar ridge. That's the bit of the mouth that may get burnt when we're eating a pizza that's a bit too hot and the cheese burns just behind there our top two teeth. That again is the hard bit just behind our top teeth, called the...  [Read more]

  Now let's take a look at how we go from traditional spellings into the phonemic spellings. The first step in this process is identifying each unit of sound or each phoneme within a word. Let's look at bet, bit, but, and bought. The only difference in each one of these words is in the vowel sound. We have bet, bit, but and bought. Each word simply uses three sounds. Now we have photo. That's four phonemes. Wow we have taxi. That's five phonemes. We have unite with a hidden phoneme in there being the ?y? sound before anything else. Those are five phonemes as well and now we have a longer word: chemistry. Let's give that a shot. That's eight phonemes used in the word chemistry. Now once we've isolated each sound we want to assign a phoneme for each one of those sounds let's do that...  [Read more]

  Hello. This presentation is going to cover this section on lesson planning and what we're going to do is to have a look as to why we go about planning a lesson, what do we actually put in it? We'll create an empty lesson plan pro-forma and then having done that what we'll do is to fill in that lesson plan for a particular teaching point. So, our starting position is going to be: "Why do we plan lessons at all?" There are a number of reasons why we need to plan a lesson. The first and foremost perhaps is that it's going to create a logical sequence for our lessons. If we didn't have a lesson plan, it is quite possible that we could go all over the place and it would become confusing for the students. By having this plan, what we've created is a structure that we can work from. So,...  [Read more]

The course exceeded my expectations... This tefl course has been very useful to me, as it's given me a deeper knowledge of the english language and its structure... This course was very helpful to me... The ESA method... I found out that in school we learned english in a much different way than what I had thought... Through this course, there have been many things I have gained... I have been teaching english for more than 10 years... I have learned more about the students and how to approach them, especially what areas to focus on... This course has been an invaluable step in my process to becoming a TEFL teacher... I learned quite a bit about grammatical rules... This course has made me realize just how complex the english language is... Honestly as a native english speaker there was a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Philippines? Are you interested in teaching English in Silang Cavite, Philippines? Check out our opportunities in Silang Cavite, 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! I learned about teaching speacial groups. Special groups can be beginner learners, young learners, business English and 1 to 1 class. All of these group levels and interests use...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Greece? Are you interested in teaching English in Peristeri, Greece? Check out our opportunities in Peristeri, 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 is a visual demonstration of how NOT to conduct an English lesson (Video 1). The unit emphasizes the incorrectness of the lesson in Video 1 by contrasting it with a good example of how to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Vietnam? Are you interested in teaching English in Mytho, Vietnam? Check out our opportunities in Mytho, 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 is about teaching different kind of English-language learners. The unit discusses how teaching beginners should be handled as well as the differences between teaching young beginners and adult...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iran? Are you interested in teaching English in Shahrak-e Gharb, Iran? Check out our opportunities in Shahrak-e Gharb, 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! Unit 1 delivers a good overview of Teachers and Learners, the roles of Teachers and the characteristics of a good Learner and that of a good Teacher. Personally, this has been my first step...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net The teaching ideas in these ITTT videos are intended to be used in the Activate stage of a lesson. During this stage students are encouraged to use the language as freely and communicatively as possible. The focus is more on the fluency than on the accuracy of the language. When selecting any activity it is important to ensure that the timing is appropriate and that the activity is appropriate for the students' age, language levels, class size, interests and culture. The video looks at one of three teaching ideas for Present Simple. The activity is called "Find someone who...." Each student will be given a sheet with a number of facts/habits/routines. For example ...plays a musical instrument,.....does a lot of sport, ....has a brother and a sister. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in China? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang, China? Check out our opportunities in Luoyang, 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! Video 1 and Video 2 presented significant details, which should and should not be avoided when teaching. I feel this section has allowed me to gain a greater understanding of what to avoid when teaching,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Kazakhstan? Are you interested in teaching English in Petropavl, Kazakhstan? Check out our opportunities in Petropavl, 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! Unit 1 provides a great overview of what the roles and responsibilities of the teacher and students are. I think that the content of this unit also serves very well as a little...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Italy? Are you interested in teaching English in Monza, Italy? Check out our opportunities in Monza, 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! I have experience in teaching ESOL for level 1 and 2 adults. The school I work for spends a good amount of time evaluating students knowledge levels. This unit was helpful by defining the different levels so...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Rajkot, India? Check out our opportunities in Rajkot, 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! Unit 1 is very interesting. I have learnt that a good teacher cares about her teaching and learning of students. As teachers, we need to always be kind and understanding. As leaders in the classroom,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Haiti? Are you interested in teaching English in Cap-Haitien, Haiti? Check out our opportunities in Cap-Haitien, 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! According to the Unit 1 of the course, being a teacher has a lot to do with being a mentor and role model for the students. In order to establish effective and sane relationships within a class,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Philippines? Are you interested in teaching English in Calamba City, Philippines? Check out our opportunities in Calamba City, 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! Great to have a sample format to use as a guide when forming my lesson plans. There is a lot more steps and details involved than I have been loosely doing for myself at the moment....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in United States? Are you interested in teaching English in Bridgeport, United States? Check out our opportunities in Bridgeport, 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! The way of teaching may be different from a level to another. we have 4 categories of beginners. The absolute beginner, the false beginner, the adult beginner, the young beginner...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in India? Are you interested in teaching English in Muzaffarpur, India? Check out our opportunities in Muzaffarpur, 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! From this unit I learnt that there are many resources one can use when teaching. Although I implement these resources in my own Grade 1 classroom, I do not always think to vary the resources to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, 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! Unit 18 focuses on modal auxillary verbs, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. The section I found most challenging focused on phrasal verbs, and being able to identify and formulate the...  [Read more]