TEFL Reviews

A quick overview on Unit 20 involving Trouble Shooting covers a few potential setbacks that you may encounter in teaching English, especially in the first lessons...

This unit was about the past tenses...

In this unit I have gained a foundational insight into understanding speaking and writing and the factors and considerations necessary in teaching this to in a foreign language class...

I have learnt from this unit that there are 5 main conditionals: zero conditionals referring to actions and facts that are irrefutable; first conditionals talking about a 'real' situation in the future that is possible, probable or certain; second conditionals communicating a present or future 'unreal' hypothetical situations which presently are not true and unlikely to come ever true; third conditionals referring to a hypothetical past action and hypothetical past result, leading to no possible consequence; mixed conditionals referring to a hupothetical past action and the hypothetical present consequence...

Teaching productive skills can be straight forward...

In this unit, I learned about how to teach different special groups, including beginner students, young students, and learners of business English, as well as teaching individual students one on one...

The first thing I learned or found interesting was the definition of classroom management: The skill of organising ans managing the class,having a friendly, relaxed manner and still maintain discipline...

This unit is about managing students in the classroom in terms of space and instruction...

In this unit, I learned about the advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks in a class...

This unit covered the basics of teaching a new language, and the important things to emphasize...

Unit 14 explains the coursebooks and lesson materials that are used in teaching the English language...

The importance we put on getting to know our students is essential in every stage of the lesson plan...

Class management is a delicate skill required for having a successful, well paced classroom...

I believe that it is very important for teachers to be detailed in their materials for class, they should put careful consideration on what and how something is being taught to the students...

In this course unit, I learnt that there are disadvantages and advantages to both created textbooks and authentic materials...

This unit provides excellent information about classroom management...

Unit four went over managing classes...

I think classroom management is one of the most essential lessons a new teacher can learn...

The two videos demonstrate two different learning environments and the type of learning environment produced is dependent on a teacher's attitude and mannerism in his/her teachings...

This unit discusses lesson planning and overall classroom control during lessons...

This unit teaches a very important part of language acquisition methods for students...

The unit gives a good background on the resources used in classrooms and the websites provided is very helpful...

This unit discussed the topic of Evaluation and Testing...

This unit gives an overview of various methods of evaluation and testing available to students of English as a foreign language...

I learned that ESA-Engage, Study, and Activate is the true core to teaching English...

This unit gives a detailed description of conditional sentences, form and usage, as well as sentences with indirect speech...

This being the next to the last unit, covers various classroom scenarios that teachers may encounter in their career...

This is a highly interesting topic focusing on how a teacher can organize and manage his class...

This unit talked about the receptive skills of reading and listening and the two reasons for the skills...

For me, it is always hard for me to keep all of the different types of grammar straight! As stated in the introduction for the reading of this section, grammar is something that most English speakers do on a daily basis, without ever really thinking about what they are doing, or how and why they are doing it...

Unit 7 was a very straight forward unit...

Unit 6 covered the past tense and it's uses...

This unit has two videos that show two different lesson situations...

This units gives us an insight in the evaluation methods of the language capabilities of students and the various tests that the students may need to be prepared for...

This Unit offers in its contents a detailed panorama about the way to evaluate and test the students´ progress and specifies several forms as Tutorials, Evaluation for students and Tests which can be considered as important tools to establish with certainty the students´ language level...

In my opinion, many questions on the test were not explained in the lesson...

This unit focused on the formation and use of present tense verbs...

Unit 13 is quite interesting part especially for the last five questions in unit test...

This unit starts with an overview of the basic twelve English verb tenses and then goes into more detail around the four present verb tenses-simple, continuous, perfect, perfect continuous...

The unit discuses modal verbs,relative clause and passive voice...