TEFL Reviews

Unit 14 is about the coursebooks and lesson materials...

Whiteboard use: 1...

This unit focussed on different kinds of past tense that can be used in the english language...

Unit 6 was a grammatical overview of the past tense...

Unit 9 discusses the differences between authentic materials, and created materials...

This unit discusses future tenses, which is one of the most complex areas...

This unit was not only informative, it was fascinating...

It was good to see how a lesson might be delivered and also showed how much a teacher's energy can affect the class participants...

Despite being a language student for many years, I was totally unaware of all the different ways a language could be taught...

Unit 3 compare the different teaching methods and techniques, pointing out how each fit (or not) with natural ways of learning...

This unit covered the productive skills, speaking and writing...

Having previously learned the structure of a lesson plan, it was great to finally learn the structure of a syllabus...

The content of this unit was a lot of fun to watch...

After digesting the previous unit on present tenses, it felt easier to understand the past tenses...

The current unit provided a brief description of various EFL methodologies and focused primarily on the ESA method, detailing the common strategies employed within each component of this method...

Unit 2 discussed various topics such as teacher and student roles, advantages and disadvantages concerning the differences in teaching 'one on one' and teaching groups, and various teaching methods...

I was especially interested in progress test information, since there are no placement tests at my school...

Unit 16 reflects the forms and usage of conditional and reported speeches...

I feel I have learned more about future tenses now in this unit than what I ever did in school (I had English as a Home Language subjects)...

In this unit I remembered how unpleasant it was to communicate in English with my schoolmates and what a mess it usually used to be in the class when the teacher became boring...

This rather short unit about books and materials pointed out the better use of each type of material whether it is authentic materials, course books or created materials giving for each examples of materials or books, its advantages and its disadvantages to allow us to make the best use of it...

This unit covered the various types of tests that students could end up having to take during an English course...

This unit quickly overviews three distinct aspects of the English grammar...

A shorter unit...

After studying this unit, I realize that teaching speaking and writing skills to students is quite challenging, and they need lots of practice for students to be good at it...

Teaching receptive skills is about finding a balance between teaching reading and listening skills, one of the main goals as a teacher is to find motivation for the learner to improve upon both skills this can be done through careful planning and/or pre-teaching to get student through more difficult language as not to derail them, as well as finding subjects that the students may find interesting...

Unit 16 deals with conditional and reported speech, these are some underutilized parts of language in everyday speech...

So far, this was the most challenging of the units because I have not covered phonemes since I was in elementary school...

This unit is relatively straightforward, giving an overview of basic materials and resources used in the classroom...

In the framework of an ESA lesson plan, it is important to understand that the actual content of the three phases should vary depending on the material being taught...

I have always wondered at the advantages or disadvantages of using a textbook over real-life materials...

Unit ten did a great job describing the different ways to evaluate and test the students...

In this unit we focused on how to structure a lesson and what outcome we want for it...

Classroom management is an important skill for teachers...

It is important to remember when creating a lesson plan that the things that the teacher feels need to be focused on are may be different from what the students need more attention on...

Unit 16 covered the topics of conditionals and reported speech...

This lesson talked about reading, listening, writing, and speaking in a way that categorized them and discussed them from the point of view of a student learning a language...

This unit talks about the use of course books and other lesson materials...

Though unit seven was fairly short, it had a lot of great information packed into the lesson...

This lesson I learned about the future tenses...