Information Gap Activity

  This video is a review of the reported speech in the English language. We take a look at the necessary changes in terms of place, time and tense necessary. This video is specifically aimed at teaching reported speech in an ESL setting. 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. Overall this section is good. I feel like the questions about best order for lesson segments is rather subjective without more information as you could make them work in many...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Oregon? Are you interested in teaching English in Timber, Oregon? Check out our opportunities in Timber, 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 illustrates the importance of communication, clarifying its purpose, its importance to build up fluency in the students. These activities must stir up their interest and comfort in speaking. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Montana? Are you interested in teaching English in Poplar, Montana? Check out our opportunities in Poplar, 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 two productive skills are speaking and writing.Accuracy activities are concerned on producing correct language and fluency activities are concerned on allow students to experiment and be creative...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in Grove, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in Grove, 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! It was nice to see the relationship between the present and past forms and the fact that despite there being several tenses and subcategories of tenses, there's a clear pattern which makes them...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in New Columbus, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in New Columbus, 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! Productive skills are speaking and writing. The teacher must create the need and desire to communicate. Accuracy activities are part of the study phase. Controlled drilling by the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Wisconsin? Are you interested in teaching English in Aniwa, Wisconsin? Check out our opportunities in Aniwa, 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! Teaching productive skills Writing skills are often not fully developed by students because teachers do not like to have quiet time in the classroom. Therefore, they often make writing activities...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Tennessee? Are you interested in teaching English in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee? Check out our opportunities in Cumberland Gap, 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! Use of visual aids: It can reduce teacher talk time. Adds variety and interest. Aids memory and stimulate discussion. Elicit language Worksheets and workcards: It can be bought or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indiana? Are you interested in teaching English in Irvington, Indiana? Check out our opportunities in Irvington, 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 productive skills, writing and speaking, are taught using three different types of activities during the study and activate phases. Fluency activities are more focused on the students being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Nebraska? Are you interested in teaching English in Milford, Nebraska? Check out our opportunities in Milford, 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 12 total tenses of the English language, including 3 main tenses (past, present, future) and 4 aspects of each (simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous). The present simple tense...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Lake City, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Lake 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! In this unit we learn more about Present tenses. Present Tenses are grouped into four. And all tenses will cover the Form, usages, typical error and active stage teaching ideas of each stage. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Wisconsin? Are you interested in teaching English in Lynn, Wisconsin? Check out our opportunities in Lynn, 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 12 focuses on teaching the productive skills of speaking and writing. Writing skills are often neglected in the classroom and assigned as homework, but should not be ignored because in many ways...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Knowles Crossroads, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Knowles Crossroads, 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 learned about the receptive skills of reading and listening. According to this lesson, our main reasons for reading and listening are for a purpose because it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Pilot Mound, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Pilot Mound, 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! What I have learned in this unit 12, teaching productive skills, speaking and writing is that both are used for the purpose of communicating. Writing is the most ignored skill for TEFL teachers and...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our ESA Methodology series. The ESA methodology consists of three stages. In this series, we look at the individual purposes of each stage and typical activities for each stage. This second video introduces the study phase of ESA. The purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check the understanding of that material.The second stage or phase of the lesson is known as the study phase and really the purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check understanding of that material. Typically in an ESA lesson, the study phase will have two parts. The first phase of the study is to cover the actual teaching component in what's known as the board work and what we try to do in the board work phase is to...  [Read more]

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  Liven up your business English classes and encourage high student talking time with these fun and creative activities. NEGOTIATIONS In pairs students role-play a negotiation. Each side will be given a sheet listing demands and concessions. Each side of the negotiation is awarded points for the type of concessions they get from the other side. For example, if one side manages to get a 25% discount, they get 10 points and the other side gets 0. TELEPHONE CALL ROLE-PLAYS Telephone role-plays can be used with a variety of different topics such as leaving and taking a message, placing an order, arranging a meeting, making a complaint etc. The main point is to give students the chance to practice communicating in English without the visual clues that are present in face-to-face...  [Read more]

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  Once we're satisfied that all the students have been engaged and that they've been given the opportunity to say something, we can move on to our study phase. Here, it may be necessary or useful to actually pre-teach some gaps in knowledge that have been shown from the engage phase and those gaps in knowledge may include actual grammar structures or indeed useful vocabulary and it's very important that, before we move on to doing any forms of activity, we check their understanding of this material. So, we need to do some study exercises. It's also very useful if you leave this information up on the board through all that study period. Those study activities can just be the normal types of gap fills or matching activities and, as always, we need to demonstrate those activities,...  [Read more]

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  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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Colorado? Are you interested in teaching English in Holyoke, Colorado? Check out our opportunities in Holyoke, 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! Speaking and writing are used for the same purpose, to communicate. Unfortunately, writing is the most neglected skill, often relegated to homework and frequently not done and so the skill is never...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Indiana? Are you interested in teaching English in La Rose, Indiana? Check out our opportunities in La Rose, 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 the other two of the four basic skills of any language: speaking and writing. These two skills are classified as productive skills. Both skills are used to communicate. When...  [Read more]

  The next example is going to be that of a boomerang lesson and remember the structure is like this. So, again, we're going to start with an engage phase and for our engage, the students are just going to have a discussion about jobs. What happens at interviews and so on and so forth. So, during that engage phase, what we'd hope to do is to elicit some useful language about jobs and interviews and the types of questions that are being asked. Then, we're going to move immediately into an activate activity and this is going to involve a role-play. So, we'll break the students into pairs. One will be an interviewer, the other will be an interviewee and they'll generate the language that that role-play will produce. What the teacher can do whilst that is taking place is to go around...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in South Carolina? Are you interested in teaching English in Pamplico, South Carolina? Check out our opportunities in Pamplico, 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! Overview Here we have various ideas but this has two main ways, the old school and the new school. Experienced teachers have a great advantage compared...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in New Albany, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in New Albany, 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 This unit is about productive skills, i.e. speaking and writing skills, their importance in effective communication, their features and how to effectively teach students how...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Haverhill, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Haverhill, 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! Overview Here we look Productive skills: speaking and writing. Both speaking and writing are needed in communication Speaking requires : requires a greater degree of...  [Read more]

  Now an example of a straight arrow ESA lesson for our engage phase. What we're going to do is to show the students a video of animals and they are going to say what they like about those animals and try to create a list of some more. So, remember what we're trying to do here is to get the students talking and thinking in English. We're using a typical engage activity, which is to create a list and we try to make sure that all the students have been involved in some way in creating those lists. Moving on to the study phase, the first part is going to be the board work and the teacher is going to try to elicit from the students what each of those animals can and can't do. Typically, what the students will say is just single words, so "run," "jump," "fly," etc. What we would then...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Eckford, Michigan? Check out our opportunities in Eckford, 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! For teaching English one has to understand the methods in which different levels of students can be thought. Depending upon the situation the teacher needs to decide to use a single method or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Alabama? Are you interested in teaching English in Alabama? Check out our opportunities in this beautiful US state, 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Methodology Overview was really understandable when I first started reading UNIT 3. Various methods and approaches let me understand in which case I would want to use in my lesson. However, it depends Present Tenses give different ideas in teaching students also correcting...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Nebraska? Are you interested in teaching English in Elm Creek, Nebraska? Check out our opportunities in Elm Creek, 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! Tenses Presents simple Form Affirmative: Subject+base form ( s-es) I go/it goes Negative: subject+do/does +not+base form I do not go/He does not go Question: Do/Does+subject+base form+? Do...  [Read more]