TEFL Reviews

Some of the points I observed were: a teacher talking too much stifles student interaction...

Apparently, this was the last grammar based unit...

When teaching the use tense's to students, teacher's should take the environment the student's have been brought up in before engaging in the actual teaching of the system...

I find creating a lesson plan to be useful...

This unit provides a balance for the teacher, in having flexibility in the choice of material, bearing in mind the knowledge and understanding of the students...

Coursework and assigned books are a controversial subject among teachers...

In this unit, it is important to highlight that a teacher should care about learning, but more importantly, care about their learners...

This unit talks about Business English World...

I learned that past tense forms of things can get tricky when you are trying to talk about actions and their length in the past, and how to indicate whether they are still going on, whether they are completed, whether one action interrupts another, and how to best convey this in the English language...

In this unit, I got to learn how to teach new language to students, which is important to know what can and can't be done when teaching vocabulary, grammar structure and language function to the students...

Unit 10: CD/Video Lessons In this lesson, I was able to compare and contrast two lessons...

The tense system of English usually causes for students great difficulties...

This unit went through Modal Auxiliary verbs, Phrasal verbs and using the Passive voice...

This unit was all about troubleshooting, and addressed a few problems that I might face in the classroom...

The content of Unit 11 is of the two receptive skills, reading and listening, with description of the different skills required: predictive, scanning, skimming, detailed reading/listening and deduction from context...

I had just finished studying the unit on modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

This unit introduces the use of materials and activities in the classroom as well as lesson planning and classroom management techniques...

This unit covered classroom management...

From this unit i have learnt as i did from a previous unit, the importance of establishing rapport betweent the students and teacher as well as between the students themselves...

When first stepping in front of a class to teach, it is important to build rapport...

This unit holds that in order to acquire new language, one has to be exposed to it, understand its meaning, its construction and be able to speak it...

I found within this unit that the subdivisions within the 'beginner' label (i...

In this unit I learned different techniques about how to teach vocabulary, grammatical structures and language functions...

This unit gave an overview of the present tenses...

The Course Books and Lesson Materials chapter was very short but is incredibly important to consider when thinking about teaching...

This unit gave a summary of what should or shouldn't be included in a lesson plan, and why...

This unit provides a strong definition to the methods that are used in language teaching, which most teachers possible subconsciously do use...

I have learnt that modal and phrasal verbs are frequently used in every day English, whether is it written or spoken...

Throughout this unit, I was taught how important the four basic skills of any language are (reading, listening, speaking and writing)...

I have always found lesson plans to be a helpful tool for teachers...

This unit focused on the teaching vocabulary, grammar and language functions...

Pronunciation depends on three main categories, stress, intonation, and phonetics, each of which can vary the meaning of words and phrases...

This Unite aims at guiding the teachers on things they are to do at the begining and at the end of a lesson and also how to plan a lesson wwhich also goes further to advice teachers on things they are to avoid when planing or having lesson which is all in the aim of ensuring a smooth class in a nutshell this unites guides the teacher to always avoiding informing the kids about the lesson he has to teach ahead of time or allowing the students make sitting arrangements on their own it also guides the teachr to task the students at the end of a lesson to which is aimed at evaluating to know if the kids have learnt somthing during the cours of the lesson and to achieve this the teacher has to provide work materials for the kids to carry out surveys and give feed back about their findings...

It's important to adhere to classroom management techniques so that adverse behavior doesn't hinder learning or student-teacher relationships...

From this unit, I have learned some important parts about being prepared for a lesson...

The past tenses and present tenses, I've picked up on use the same auxiliary verbs, but in the different tense form...

This unit covers various theories, methods and teaching techniques...

This unit I have learned the purpose of using games , the internet , and combining it with the class study's, what are the benefits and drawbacks of each ...

This unit was a broad explanation of common grammar principals, primarily the standard parts of speech...

Unit 1 explains the roles, qualities, and responsibilities of teachers and learners...