TEFL Reviews

There are different categories of beginners and these include the absolute beginner, the false beginner, the adult beginner, the young beginner and the beginner without the Roman alphabet...

There are three ways to assess a students language level: 1...

Unit 7 has been very easy and straight-forward to me...

This unit offered an introduction the course methodology, the variety of topics that will be covered through the next five units, as well as a brief overview of the terminology for TEFL/TESOL teachers...

This unit explains the ways in which we as teachers can behave, organise and communicate in order to have more successful and beneficial classes for the learners...

Though I can certainly see the benefit of being comfortable and familiar with the international phonetic alphabet, I can more clearly see the difficulty in introducing it as a useful tool for language learners...

In this unit we talk about modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice...

Unit 2: Teaching and learning Overview...

There are four things a students need to do with new language; being exposed to it, understanding its meaning, understanding how it's constructed and how to be able to practice and produce it...

The unit lists the pro's and con's of authentic and created materials, and the usage of course books, and how they may be utilised in the classroom...

Classroom Management Unit tells about important tips for effective lesson conducting...

The productive skills of speaking and writing in the English language should be approached in the classroom in a different way than receptive skills...

I haven't really broken down sentences so extensively since I was taking Linguistics at UBC...

In this unit I have learned that the importance of writing a lesson plan is to have a future record of the lessons and worksheets, a plan that you can refer to while giving a class, as well as to plan a more organized lesson...

This unit covers the productive language skills of speaking and writing...

This Unit covers the specific ways in which to teach most successfully...

This unit gives examples of two classes by the same teacher teaching the usage of 'can/can't'...

Unit 5 was on classroom management...

The Future Tense is a complex area of English language...

Unit 2 of the ITTT Teaching Business English course is titled ?Teaching and Learning? as it addressed an overview of the teaching style (familiar to those who have completed a TESOL course) with some challenges, advice and references to the more specific field of teaching business English to adults...

After finishing this unit I completely understand why so many students have difficulty with the present tense...

This unit on teaching special groups was very interesting for me...

Unit 20 talked about troubleshooting and some of the most common problems situations that teachers can encounter in the classroom and suggest ways of dealing with them...

This unit gave us two very different examples of lessons, one of which was extremely ineffective and one of which was effective and actually helped the students to both learn new vocabulary and verb use, but also intrigued the students and inspired participation and likely retention of the new material...

Model auxiliary verbs can be used to express obligation, possibility, permission, prohibition, ability, advice and so on...

In Unit 17 the topics of Equipment and Teaching aids were introduced...

This unit presented 'teaching productive skills' which are speaking and writing as well as using games in teaching...

This unit reviews modal auxiliary verbs, passive voice, relative clauses, and phrasal verbs...

In this unit, I watched two ESA teaching demonstrations of how to effectively teach English in a classroom...

This unit explains the use of Lesson Materials, which are broadly categorised as Authentic Material, Created Material and Course Books...

This unit dealt with teaching pronunciation and phonology to ESL students...

Conditionals are sentences formed by two clauses (a clause containing if, whether or when and a main clause)...

When deciding what sort of content to teach students next, there are several factors that must first be evaluated...

This unit discusses the reasons and methods for, and targets of the different types and styles of testing and evaluating the students...

Speaking and writing are two very important aspects of a student's learning journey, these two indicate how well they have understood the lesson, they've understood enough to be able to produce their own output in the form of spoken and written words...

This unit describes the past tense of verbs in their four conjugations of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous...

Although the second video was clearly the good example of how the lesson is to be taught, the first one was more interesting to see what you can do wrong as a teacher, what you should avoid...

I feel this is a good place to start fleshing out lesson plans, depending on the level of student...

Unit Fifteen explains different types of tests and reasons why a student of English might need to be evaluated...

This unit gave me an insight about the importance of class management, and more specifically, the choice of seating and type of groups...