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  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word echo. This word is used as a noun and as a verb. As a noun it refers to the sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the speaker. As a verb, it describes the action of a sound being repeated after the original sound has already stopped. The word comes from the Greek word ?kh? meaning ?a sound?. 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 learnt a lot in this unit. I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Illinois? Are you interested in teaching English in Kinmundy, Illinois? Check out our opportunities in Kinmundy, 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 basic skills in any language. They are classified as receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (writing and speaking). Not always all the skills can be worked in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Washington? Are you interested in teaching English in Orting, Washington? Check out our opportunities in Orting, 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 find Future tense the hardest to teach simply because it has not happened yet. Getting student to understand it can be a bit challenging. My favorite way to start with is the word...  [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]

  The next item we're going to consider is the use of dictionaries and here perhaps the first thing we should do is to make a distinction between the two main types of dictionary and that distinction is between the monolingual and the bilingual dictionary. In a monolingual dictionary you have a word and its associated meaning and those two are both described for example in English so the word and the description of that word are both given in English. Whereas in a bilingual dictionary that word meaning could often be for example the word given in English and the explanation given in Thai and vice versa. So what can we use a dictionary for? Well, within the dictionary itself obviously we can get things like how words are spelled or the spelling of the word. We can also get the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Acquire A 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: P.H. - Thailand said: Business EnglishBusiness english is especially related to the international trade. It can be considered a specialism within english language learning and teaching. Many non-native english speakers study the subject with the goal of doing business with english-speaking countries, or companies. Much of the english communication that takes place within business circles all over the world occurs between non-native speakers. Here, the objective is an efficient and effective system of communication....  [Read more]

  In this video we explain the difference between 'compliment' and 'complement'. Both used as a verb and a noun, 'compliment' expresses something nice about someone, for example: I complimented my brother on his delicious cooking. In this example, the word 'compliment' is used as a verb. Let's take a look at a sentence where it is used as a noun: I gave my brother a compliment on his delicious cooking. The word "complement" on the other hand is used when two things go well together, or complete each other. The word is especially often used to indicate that two foods go well together. It is also often used in fashion, such as here: 'Her black dress complements her red hair,' or 'That wine complements the fish very well'. This should clear up any confusion. Below you can read...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TEFL Courses Providers 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.T. - U.S.A. said: How Teachers Can Increase Their Confidence in the ClassroomEnglish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and is the most widely used second language, unifying the world within such areas as science, commerce, aviation, and the internet (1). It is therefore a very important language to teach, and TEFL (Teaching english as a Foreign Language) teachers are in demand all around the world. But teaching EFL can be challenging, and to teach it effectively you must have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Dakota? Are you interested in teaching English in Marion, North Dakota? Check out our opportunities in Marion, 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 16 is about conditionals and reported speech, and some tips to teach them. There are 4 types of Conditional Sentence. They are: Zero Conditional Time: General Function: Habits,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in North Apollo, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in North Apollo, 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 learn the 3 important parts in teaching new language. First about teaching vocabulary, the crateria on how to choose the words that are going to teach. And...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Delaware? Are you interested in teaching English in Kenilworth, Delaware? Check out our opportunities in Kenilworth, 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 section does a fairly good job at describing phonetics and the phonology of the English language. It should be noted that a part of intonation, that is at sentence level, is not only...  [Read more]

The bottom line is that teaching English abroad is just a job like any other. If you are unhappy with your employer or things simply aren't going as you had hoped, you are free to quit and return home or look for another job at any time. Of the tens of thousands of ESL teachers working in countries all over the world, the vast majority do see out the length of their contract. However, there are always going to be some teachers who decide that the best course of action is to terminate their contract early. Whether it's due to an emergency at home, problems with work colleagues or poor working conditions, if you feel you have to leave you are perfectly at liberty to do so. For teachers who are employed on an hourly contract there should be few consequences to worry about. This would...  [Read more]

  Just to finish off this particular section on lesson planning, we're going to go through a couple of procedures that should take place during the study phase periods, particularly when we're doing the activities. It is quite important that before we actually go into a study activity that we go through a process of showing how that activity is going to work and one acronym that is often used for this is D-E-GO. The D part of this stands for a demonstration of the activity. Now, it's very important that you don't try to explain how the activity is going to work but rather you actually demonstrate the process. An example of the demonstration of the process of the activity could be something as simple as taking the first question and using it and writing it on the board. This will...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to focus on the ESA methodology of teaching. In our teaching methodologies section, we briefly had a look at what ESA was about, but in this presentation, we're going to look in greater detail about that particular methodology. This particular methodology is accredited to Jeremy Harmer from his "Practice of English language Teaching" book. It's a three-stage methodology and what we're going to do is to look at the purpose of each one of these stages and some typical activities that take place during those stages. So, the first stage is known as the engage and its sole purpose, as the name implies, is to get the students talking and thinking in English. There is no reason whatsoever, when these students come to your class, that they should have said a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Nebraska? Are you interested in teaching English in Gilead, Nebraska? Check out our opportunities in Gilead, 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 many moving parts within a sentence structure. Nouns use people, places, things, and states of being as tangible or intangible subjects. They can be countable (child), which use articles...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Pennsylvania? Are you interested in teaching English in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania? Check out our opportunities in Marcus Hook, 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 learned various approaches, methods, and techniques for teaching English. There are a few methods that are quite common to this day, such as grammar-translation,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TEFL Prices 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.V. - U.S.A. said: TEFL Paper DialectHow is a culture defined? What defines cultural differences and country borders? One of the most important aspects of culture is language. One must learn the language of another people to truly be immersed and understand their culture. Within one language however, different cultures can exist and are manifested through regional slang or regional dialects. As an American, I feel most comfortable discussing regional dialects from my country, but by not mentioning British,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Springbrook, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Springbrook, 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. Teaching aids are a necessity in any English learning institution . The question as usual is the resources that are available to the Institution. We...  [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]

  Here are helpful tips how to identify the various past tenses in the English language and complete worksheets successfully. The video also helps you to structure an effective lesson around the past tenses in an EFL classroom around the world. 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. As a final lesson here in teaching Business English, Unit 6 provides additional information on how to create your own resume/c.v., what should and what shouldn't be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Hampshire? Are you interested in teaching English in Lincoln, New Hampshire? Check out our opportunities in Lincoln, 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! Write 5 examples to each group Countable noun I want a bottle of water, thank you Sit on the chair . I write a note I love animals Have you packed your suitcase? Uncountable noun How...  [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]

Check out tefl tesol about TEFL Combined Course 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.R. - U.S.A. said: Teaching large classes Typically teaching smaller classes is easier and less time consuming than teaching a large group. However, due to some schools lack of funds space, or teachers, many EFL schools only make use of large classes. In some schools, large classes may consist of up to 50 or more students, which can be a bit over whelming at times. In situations like this use the same principles used for teaching small classes, which means coming up with engaging activities that keep the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Dates TEFL Course 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.G. - U.S.A. said: english as a Global LanguageAccording to The New York Times, a full quarter of the world’s population can communicate with some english . Although english wasn’t even dominant on the British Isles a millennium ago, its reach has now spread to the far corners of the Earth. Much of the language’s position can be attributed to the historic role of the British Empire and its expansion during and after the Age of Exploration. Colonizers and seafarers took the language to north america,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Hampshire? Are you interested in teaching English in Dublin, New Hampshire? Check out our opportunities in Dublin, 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! 1)Based on your understanding of the unit, which four teaching methods do you think have most influenced current TEFL course? Give a brief summary of each and give reason(s) for your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Michigan? Are you interested in teaching English in Michigan? 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| This unit had a lot of really good advice on specific circumstances, many of which I have found myself in. It was short though, so I am going to write on more about this course in general. In this cou This unit included information on modal auxiliary verbs, the passive...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Universites Short 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: S.S. & S.S. - U.S.A. said: Peculiarities of the english language I have always been aware of many peculiar aspects of the english language, and have often wondered what someone who is trying to learn english must think. There are words that are spelled alike but pronounced differently (read & read). There are words that sound the same but are spelled differently (no & know). When I saw number 22 in the Research Article options, I knew this was what I wanted to write about. In doing...  [Read more]

Do you want to teach English abroad, but are not sure if a TEFL certificate is going to get you there? The good news is that, as most countries and individual employers do not require an advanced teaching license, a TEFL certificate is usually enough to land a job in many areas. In some countries a bachelor's degree is also required, but there are still plenty of others where having a TEFL certificate is all you need. It is estimated that over a billion individuals are learning English around the world. This, paired with an English teacher shortage in many countries, is fantastic news for TEFL teachers because it demonstrates that TEFL jobs are widely available all around the world. Teachers who take a TEFL course will have a wide range of choices in the international job market. They can...  [Read more]

  "In this video, our OTP trainee Richard warms up with his students by speaking about going to the gym and keeping fit. It's important to get your students thinking and talking in English before starting with the actual lesson of the class. ITTT's Observed Teaching Practice courses (OTP) are ideal for teachers wanting to improve their teaching skills remotely from anywhere in the world." 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. The final unit...  [Read more]

While teaching English abroad you are unlikely to face any type of discrimination from fellow teachers as most are like-minded people who are easy-going and accepting of the world in all its diversity. However, it can be a different story when it comes to employers. In some parts of the world, including some of the most popular teaching destinations, traditional, conservative views and opinions are still commonplace and this can lead to some uncomfortable situations. Many people still have the mistaken belief that all you need to teach English is to be a native English speaker and those that aren’t will never be as good at it. However, this view on teaching couldn’t be more wrong. To be an effective TEFL teacher you need to have a solid understanding of the workings of the language...  [Read more]