TEFL Reviews

In this unit I found out so many good web sites, where i can find a very good and useful information for myself and my lessons...

When it comes to teaching a class, the coursebook can be fairly important...

We are so used to the way we speak...

In the Unit we learn about which are the different methods and techniques that can be used with in our lessons, additionally how and when to make corrections to students as well as for the most part students should be able to learn the language and figure it out for themselves with little interruption from the teacher, unless needed...

In this unit we learnt about what a lesson plan is, when we should use it and how it should be structured...

This unit was helpful to understand how practical things like classroom size and grouping as well as the position of the teacher and students can provide the best opportunity for students to learn...

This UNIT presents some of the well known Approaches and Methods for TEFL...

This unit was about using the things learned so far to understand the grammar structure of conditional situations...

Unit 5 covered managing classes; eye contact, gesture and voice, grouping students, classroom arrangement, the balance between TTT and STT, giving instructions, establish rapport and maintaining discipline...

This unit was a nice overview of why lesson planning is important, both for the students and for the teacher...

1 methodologies : This unit helps me apply some methodoloies to my students...

In this unit we went back to the subject of grammar and look at the different forms of sentences and how to teach them effectively in the classroom...

students need as much exposure to language as possible...

In my opinion, this unit provided me with various ways of planning my speaking and writing lessons...

This unit was very difficult because I was very unfamiliar with the phonetic alphabet...

This lesson covered the 3 main pillars of language - grammar being the structure, vocabulary the leaves and flowers and function when certain combinations of grammar and vocabulary are used...

This unit was useful in providing, not only beneficial use of space in the classroom to facilitate learning, but also ways in which the teacher can appropriately maintain classroom discipline...

This unit covers in depth the grammatical errors and rules to follow when it comes to present tenses...

Unit 2 covered the general roles of a business English teacher and the student and the variations of business classes that the teacher can have...

I have come to see the uses of authentic materials 1 They are real and therefore more interesting and motivating 2 Students gain confidence when they understand them 3 They can be geared to the interests of a particular group of students Also creating materials like:- Crosswords Word search puzzles Role-play cards Flashcards Gap fill activities Pictures stories plays vital role in terms of teaching materials I also learn to not rely on cause book to be the only solution to everything but to try new ideas and vary ones activities Teachers can: Omit Replace Supplement Adapt following the learning situation of his or her class...

As a native English speaker, I found this unit a little difficult due to having to break down the natural way of speaking and sentence formation...

Unit 8 presents sensible ways of teaching productive language skills, namely speaking and writing...

Unit 9 is about books and materials...

In Unit 9, I learned that books and materials are extremely important when carrying out a lesson plan...

From this unit I have learned about receptive learning skills, which are reading and listening and productive skills which are writing and speaking...

This unit was on modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice and a short overview of phrasal verbs and relative clauses...

Teaching themes can be done through a range of methodologies, namely; case studies, frameworking, problem based learning, use of games, computer aided language learning and though using Speech Act Theory...

This unit introduced the various theories, methods and techniques that can be used to teach students English...

Conditionals and reported speech are regarded as the one of the most difficult parts for the English learners, since it is related to the tense changing...

This unit talks about real and unreal actions and states in conditional forms referring to their completeness and incompleteness...

This unit and its advice about advantages and disadvantages of the course book use have confirmed what I've been doing with my students - on one hand there's a ready and mostly easy to use material, grammar and listening, everything adapted to the students' level, yet often they find some exercises or listening/discussion topics boring, which I have to substitute with other authentic materials that are more appreciated...

This unit focused on the receptive skills of language learning which are listening and reading...

This was another interesting unit about a very devise subject...

This unit covered productive skills - speaking and writing...

In teaching pronunciation and phonology it is always important for the teacher to be a model and should always provide a concise example as well as helping the students learn how every word in pronounced by using helpful methodologies such as visual aids, or by performing how a word is pronounced in a form of showing the student how the mouth should be...

This unit entails future tenses...

This unit was about types of assessment and how to administer tests...

In this unit I learned of the different methods of teaching, but the most effective way of teaching is the engage, study, activate method...

this unit involves grammar: conditionals and reported speech...

This is a great review unit to reinforce the teaching methods I have learnt in Unit 3...