Example Of A Teachable Moment

  So let's take an example of what those drills might involve. So here is an example of a repetition drill. I will model the language and then my class will repeat after me. So "This is a cup." "Spoon" ? "This is a spoon." "Knife" - "his is a knife." Thank you. The reason that it's called or also called the army method is that it was the method adopted by the United States military who had personnel stationed around the world at the end of Second World War and they realized that they needed those personnel to pick up the language very quickly and one of the positive things about this particular methodology is that you do very quickly learn vocabulary. Another positive thing about it is that you quickly learn the correct pronunciation of that vocabulary. However, there are some...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to focus on the section of classroom management. We could start with a definition of classroom management as being the skill of organizing the class individual students within that class and what takes place within the class. Perhaps one of the most important resources for achieving these things is you and in terms of you there are a number of things that you can use to help with the classroom management and they include though they're not limited to the use of your eyes the use of your voice and the use of gesture. So let's take each of these in turn and see how they can be used to help with their management of the classroom. So starting with our eyes. First of all the eyes can be used in a number of ways and they can certainly be used to hold...  [Read more]

  Okay, so we're going to use this pro-forma as our lesson plan and we're going to fill one out as though we were planning for an actual lesson. So, we start off with some basic information about the class. So, the name of the teacher, date and time and the class level. In this particular case, our class is going to be an elementary class and the room will be room 3. Having looked through the registers we see that the expected number of students for this particular class is going to be 10. This will help us in creating our worksheet copies. The context of the lesson for this class is going to be present continuous tense and it may well be the first time that this particular level of class has been introduced to this tense. So, our focus is going to be fairly general and it's going...  [Read more]

  The first part of my study phase is going to be the board work and I'm going to use the information that I generated in the elicitation part of my engage phase to move on to the actual board work. What I'm going to do is to show the structure of this particular tense. So, the phase study I'm expecting to take about ten minutes on this particular part and, again, the interaction will mainly be the students talking to me. So, how am I going to achieve that with this information? Well, we could ask the students to have a look at the sentences themselves and to tell us what they can see. If we look at each of the first words in here, then at this level, I should hopefully be able to elicit from my students what each of these words have in common and they may well give an answer that...  [Read more]

  So, having elicited this particular structure, what I'm now able to do is to move on to the actual study activities. Typically, they will be in the form of worksheets to check that the students actually understand this information. So, I might prepare three activities. They may not do them all but, for example, I could prepare these three study activities. So, the first one is going to be a fairly straightforward matching activity, where perhaps they match the subject to its correct verb "to be" in that part of the sentence. The second one is going to be a gap fill. For example, I might use this verb here and ask them to complete a sentence using that verb, so that I can check that any spelling changes that take place are correct and the final one is going to be an unscramble,...  [Read more]

  The next example of a game that we can adapt very easily for classroom use is the game of Jeopardy and in this particular game, what we can do is to have a set of levels for our questions, I'd say one through five, where one is going to be the easiest example and five is going to be the most difficult and then, in each of these sets of boxes, we can have various grammar points, such as tenses, perhaps modals, vocabulary and maybe even conditionals. So what the students can do is they can pick a particular topic first of all and within that topic, they can pick the level of the question that they want and then we can have a set of cards that have been created to fit into these slots and we can ask them that question at that level. So, a very simple adaptation of the game jeopardy...  [Read more]

  So, let's take a common game that's been played over the years, which is called Noughts and Crosses or Tic-Tac-Toe. What we're going to do is to adapt this game for classroom use. So, we've taken the normal Tic-Tac-Toe or Noughts and Crosses grid and we've just numbered out each of the particular squares. What we can then do is to form teams and those teams can then be asked a series of questions and they get to choose which question they want from 1 to 9. So, let's say, for example, they choose question 1. That could be on anything that they have studied ,the grammar or vocabulary. If they get that question correct and say they are the Noughts or the zeros then they get to put their mark here. What the next group will probably do is to try to block them in some way by choosing...  [Read more]

Spain is one of the most popular destinations in Europe for teaching English abroad for many different reasons, including the buoyant job market, laid-back culture, great climate, and fabulous cuisine. Jobs are available year-round in most major towns and cities, but are you eligible to join the many thousands of people teaching English across Spain right now? This is one of the most common questions asked by those who dream of living and working in Spain, and the answer is NO, you do not need a university degree to teach English in Spain. There is no legal requirement for English teachers to have a degree and demand is so high that most employers are also unconcerned about your degree status. Most employers in Spain prefer to hire native English speakers as this is what local students are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Illinois? Are you interested in teaching English in Mendota, Illinois? Check out our opportunities in Mendota, 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! After reading unit 7, I learned some important things on how to teach vocabulary, grammar structure, and function. One thing I learned was how to select the correct vocabulary to teach; for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Kentucky? Are you interested in teaching English in Junction City, Kentucky? Check out our opportunities in Junction 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! Wow! I can see how this would be a difficult concept for non-native English speakers...it was difficult for me! Again, the assessment asks some confusing questions...the format of this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Washington? Are you interested in teaching English in Honaker, Washington? Check out our opportunities in Honaker, 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! My biggest takeaway from this unit was that there is indeed a difference between receptive and productive skills. I realize more and more as I go through these units that there is a lot that I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Mexico? Are you interested in teaching English in West Orange, New Mexico? Check out our opportunities in West Orange, 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 lesson planning. Consideration is given to why it is important to plan lessons. This discussion references extremes including lesson planning that is too rigid and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Carolina? Are you interested in teaching English in Huntersville, North Carolina? Check out our opportunities in Huntersville, 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 discusses the main things students need to know when introducing vocabulary, grammar structures, and language functions. A major thing I have learned from this unit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Missouri? Are you interested in teaching English in Wasola, Missouri? Check out our opportunities in Wasola, 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! There are 4 Present tenses in English: Simple, Continuous, Perfect and Perfect Continuous. We use Present Simple when we talk about routines, habits and general facts. We do not need an auxiliary...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Robins, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Robins, 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 7 gives us an overview of the vocabulary, grammar, and functions of the language. I wholeheartedly agree on this chapter’s idea of balancing grammar and function. In order to create an effective mix...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Frontier, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Frontier, 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 5: Past Tenses acts as a good review of the four past tenses found in the English language. I appreciated the way in which the tenses were presented in the video. By detailing the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Dakota? Are you interested in teaching English in Harvey, North Dakota? Check out our opportunities in Harvey, 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 very straightforward, fairly intuitive, and not really teachable, though still usable for the teacher. There are different types of activities that can be used to monitor student...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Minnesota? Are you interested in teaching English in Wendell, Minnesota? Check out our opportunities in Wendell, 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 my perspective I can say the past tense means a great option at the moment of using in different moments and in different areas, because it has the link between the present and it becomes in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Hawaii? Are you interested in teaching English in Hauula, Hawaii? Check out our opportunities in Hauula, 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! In this unit, I have learnt four types of present tenses. Present simple: it is a verb tense which is used to show repetition, habit or generalization. for example: I walk to work every day. Present...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Louisiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Parks, Louisiana? Check out our opportunities in Parks, 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 unit is useful for those who non-native speaker and for those who has efforts with grammar. As well these materials could be used on lessons to explain some hard moments to the group of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Louisiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Ferriday, Louisiana? Check out our opportunities in Ferriday, 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 unit is useful for those who non-native speaker and for those who has efforts with grammar. As well these materials could be used on lessons to explain some hard moments to the group of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Layton Corners, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Layton Corners, 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 that teacher can have different roles, few more than I thought about earlier, and teacher has a responsibility to assess the situation and decide which role to take in which...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Keensburg, Indiana? Check out our opportunities in Keensburg, 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! In Unit 4, I learned about present tenses. There are four present tenses: the present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. The tenses are very important to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in South Bristol, New York? Check out our opportunities in South Bristol, 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 compare two important aspects of a language, grammar and vocabulary. As both of them are important for the language they need to be improved together during the course. It is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Hulbert, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Hulbert, 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! There are four types of conditionals, and each communicates very specific information depending on temporal relationships and possibility of occurrence. As a native speaker, I have seldom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Texas? Are you interested in teaching English in Arnet, Texas? Check out our opportunities in Arnet, 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 covered three main areas of teaching language: vocabulary, grammatical structures and language functions. When teaching vocabulary, the teacher must pay attention to which words are appropriate,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Colorado? Are you interested in teaching English in Moffat, Colorado? Check out our opportunities in Moffat, 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 techniques for teaching students new vocabulary and grammar structures, centered on the "Engage Study Activate" model. The unit also covers things to think about when introducing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Oakmont, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Oakmont, 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 past tense has it's simple, continous, perfect, and perfect continuous forms. Each one must be understood and is built with it's own specific structure. For example, while one would use the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Missouri? Are you interested in teaching English in Des Arc, Missouri? Check out our opportunities in Des Arc, 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 8 is devoted to Future tenses system. It covers four standard structures of future tenses (the future simple, the future continuous, the future perfect and the future perfect continuous), as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Colorado? Are you interested in teaching English in Branson, Colorado? Check out our opportunities in Branson, 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! When teaching a new language, there are three main parts that need to be covered, which are: vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions, usage of them. Depends on each stage ( engage, study,...  [Read more]