Tefl Lesson

  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]

  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]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Flexible TEFL 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: J. M. - U.S.A. said: I have been fortunate in that I received a very good grounding in the grammar and usage of the english language as a primary and high school student. I also had the opportunity to study Latin for a couple of those years, which I think is very helpful for gaining more insight into english. I've enjoyed the grammar review of this course, as I haven't overtly thought about some of these issues in quite a while. I have worked as a teacher, but I wasn't familiar with the ESA methodology per...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson TEFL Accredited 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: A.G. - Singapore said: The course is very informative and had refreshed me on the english subjects I learned from the school, years back. It reminded me of the proper grammar formation and usage of tenses that was unfortunate forgotten. And not to mention the teaching methodologies and techniques that will really help the learners’ learning formation. It also enlightened me on the essence of lesson planning and being prepared at all times when conducting classes. I had learned that to be an effective...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Plan TEFL 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: A.N. - Russia said: Thanks to this course I have learned how important it is to pay close attention to every detail in the classroom. Things that we teachers do out of habit or without a thought could mean so much to our students and affect the whole learning process a great deal. From this course I have acquired a lot of theoretical knowledge as well as plenty of practical advice on how to make the lesson the most effective. I have learned about the different roles of a teacher and that the experienced teacher...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Locations TEFL 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: L.B. - Portugal said: Problems for learners in japanIn the following article I describe some problems for native japanese learners of english. The natures of the presented problems are linguistic and cultural. Through interview of native japanese students, I discovered that the japanese find it hard to speak only english in classes due to their poor english levels, and even more advanced students with good grammar knowledge have the same problem as well. According to the most recent TOEFL (Test of english...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson TEFL Teachers 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: L.C. - Philippines said: Teaching Productive Skills The key difference between receptive skills and productive skills is their desired learning outcomes. According to lecturer David Boesch from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, the learning outcome of the receptive skills, reading and listening, is understanding while the learning outcome of the productive skills, speaking and writing, is “to do something, such as talk about something or learn about others.” In other words, productive skills enable...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Authorized TEFL 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: L. R. - Japan said: english as a Global LanguageIf we want to discuss about english as a global language, a good starting point is to consider how to recognize a global language and how this question is related to the english language? Or, to put it in a different way: what is a global language and why is a global language needed? There are various definitions or descriptions of what conditions should a language satisfy to be recognized as ‘global’, they are sometimes contradicting and not always...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Plans TEFL 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: L.B. - U.S.A. said: ClassroomManagementSince the induction of structured education, various systems of classroom management have become integral to an instructor’s method in relating to the students and conveying the lessons and materials covered in the course. In no other education system is classroom management as integral as with an instructor teaching TEFL courses abroad. The instructor, under the pressure of being overseas and facing a certain language barrier, must put in the effort to form a positive...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Distance TEFL 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: L. S. - U.S.A. said: Problems for learners in a ChinaChinese students face many difficulties when learning and practicing the english language. Many of the problems stem from the fact that english and Mandarin vary so greatly in pronunciation, participation, and grammar than most alphabetic and romantic languages. Mandarin is considered logographic (not alphabetic), which means an image or picture may represent an entire word. This can cause problems for chinese learners in reading and writing. Learning...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Courses TEFL 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: L. S. - U.K. said: Problems for learners in JordanDuring the past four years of my life, I have tutored english language and literature to students from different ages, but with the same background, and that is them being native speakers of Arabic, in Jordan. The methods when teaching english is may differ depending on the group, their age, aims, etc. However, the problems encountered for them as Arab students learning english are the same. One of the main problems native speakers of Arabic encounter when...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Recognition TEFL 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: L.C. - Australia said: Teaching One to OneWhile the majority of english teaching courses are focussed toward the classroom environment, there are several specific areas starting to emerge in popularity. One of these is private english lessons, or teaching english one to one, particularly in the business sector. There are several differences between teachings in the classroom environment and one to one. I will focus on managing the teacher – student relationship in this short research article. ...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lesson Location TEFL 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: A.O. - Canada said: I have learned a lot of material throughout this course in regards to what needs to be taught in an english lesson. This includes vocabulary and a lot of different grammar techniques. However, What I really appreciated was learning about class management, such as how to handle difficult students. I was interested in how to motivate the class. I realized how important an engage phase is. I feel like after taking this course it brought me back to memories when I was in the classroom and had...  [Read more]

  So, now we're going to fill the actual procedure of the lesson plan out itself. We mentioned at the start, the first thing we do, is to get some general information about the class that we'll be teaching and then, in order for someone to be able to cover our lesson, we need to present enough information in our lesson plan that they can actually carry it out. What I'm going to do is for each stage of the lesson, I'll indicate what I'm going to do in the lesson and then, we'll cut away from that to have a look to see how that will actually be achieved. So, our lesson is going to be based on a 45-minute lesson and the first phase is going to be the engage phase and it's going to be a straight arrow ESA lesson. I'm going to take approximately five minutes on my engage phase and in...  [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]

  Then, we have a set of objectives and aims. Here, the learner objectives relate to what we're hoping the students are going to be able to do by the end of your lesson and quite often, that can be a useful way of writing out what the objectives are. So, we would start the sentence "By the end of the lesson, students should be able to?" and then a list of two, three or four items that we're expecting the students to be able to do by completing this lesson. The learner objectives are different to the teacher aims the teacher aims are what you are expecting from that lesson itself. Now, when you first start teaching, quite a normal aim might be to complete the lesson successfully, to get through the whole thing without having any problems. As time goes on and you become more...  [Read more]

  So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go about teaching it. Another example to illustrate this: Let's...  [Read more]

  In this lesson Iban covers the uses of ‘wish’. Iban starts the lesson with an activity to warm the students up before covering the lesson point. He ends the lesson with activities to give the students practice using the language point he has taught. 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. I learned about modals and its usage. It was good to know that modal has its usage in particular situation such as obligation, possibility,...  [Read more]

  In this video Iban teaches a lesson on "€˜like" and "€˜as". He warms the students up before moving onto the lesson point where he outlines the different uses of "€˜like"€™ and "as". He ends the lesson with activities to get the students the language they have learned. 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 was a little more complicated for me. While it taught me a lot, it was took me a bit more to understand all the forms and...  [Read more]

  In this demonstration lesson Iban covers the present perfect tense. He starts the lesson with a warm activity. He then goes on to focus on the tense in more detail covering the structure and usage. He ends the lesson with activities to encourage the students to use the language point they have learned in the lesson. 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 discusses the various forms of past tense such as, past simple, past continuous, past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lessons TEFL certificate 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.B. - U.S.A. said: I have gained a great deal from taking this course. Although I am a native english speaker, this course has showed me what I have forgotten about the english grammar. It was a very good refresher (although difficult at times) to practice english grammar again. I cant say I really enjoyed learning it again, but it was definitely useful. Mostly, I have learned various types of teaching skills and different ways to approach new situations in the classroom. I did not study to be a teacher...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Easy TEFL Lessons 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: M.G. - U.S.A. said: What I have personally gained from the course can be summed up in one word “self-confidence”. Before I began this endeavor, I never thought it possible for me to be standing in front of a classroom filled with students who were learning english as a second language. I thought the challenge would be too overwhelming. Now, as I am close to completing the course, the course has prepared me properly for what lies ahead. I look forward to my new career as a teacher. I embrace all wonders...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Online TEFL Lessons 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: M. C. - South Africa said: Why complete a TEFL course I am 27 years old and ever since I left high school I have been involved in education in some form. During my varsity years I worked with a NPO that specialized in the supplementary education of underprivileged kids around the western cape of South Africa. After varsity I spent my first year teaching english as a second language in Korea at a private school. I then spent some time traveling and now I am almost finished my second year teaching english as a...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Courses TEFL Lessons 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: S.C. - Korea said: Teaching beginner studentsTeaching english as a second/foreign language in a country outside of your own is a fulfilling occupation. However, learning a new language starts from the beginning. Teaching english to beginner level students is an important role because it is from the beginning where the students develop proper language skills such as: pronunciation, speaking confidence, listening, reading, and writing skills. From there, they are able to build upon that foundation as they...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Qualified TEFL Lessons 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: N.K. & D.N - Canada said: How teachers can increase their confidence in the classroomIn the classroom environment it is crucial that as the teacher you exhibit a high confidence level. It is necessary that you display this as in order for your students to build confidence in their own learning they first need to be sure that you are confident in your teaching. Having confidence in the classroom also builds a professional teacher student relationship that in turn encourages a positive, respectful and...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Quick TEFL Lessons 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: N.K. - U.S.A. said: Why Complete a TEFL CourseWhy complete a TEFL course? Because teaching is difficult. Teaching is not something you learn overnight and to teach well is a whole other story. Despite the fact that I have been in school for at least 17 years of life never once did I give a thought to the way I was taught. Never once did I witness all the work that went on behind-the-scenes to make sure every minute of class time is was relevant and counted for something. No, taking this course will not make you...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Lessons Quick TEFL 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: L.G. - South Korea said: Comparative Teaching Methodologies I am not an expert at teaching methodologies, and will not draw any technical conclusions in this article, merely provide personal observations on a topic of interest. Identify and compare foreign language learning methodologies experienced by the writer, as a means of considering how EFL/ESL methodologies affect learners of english (as supposed by the writer). Discuss the article Why ESL Doesnt Work3 by Lynn Lundquist, and the ASE methodology in...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Cheap TEFL Lessons 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: I.S. - Egland said: I believe that I have learned a lot of skills during this course. There are many benefits that one can achieve from this course. Here are some of the many positive outcomes I have personally achieved. I have attained the ability to plan, conduct and assist students while teaching. I now have knowledge and understand different ethnographies. I have the ability to create and use previous activities that are used in TEFL. I have also learned many skills that are vital when teaching beginners,...  [Read more]

  In this lesson Iban teaches adverbs of frequency. Iban starts the lesson with an activity to warm the students up before covering the lesson point. He ends the lesson with activities to give the students practice using the language point he has taught. 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. Equipment and teaching aids can make a lesson more interesting and efficient. They allow students of non-native teachers to listen and watch authentic...  [Read more]