TEFL Reviews

Unit 18 takes a look at a very important part of the English grammar...

In unit fourteen I learnt more about teaching materials:course books...

Speaking and writing are also incredibly important skills for an English language student to learn...

classroom management is a very important topic that help us to have a good classroom organization, techniques such as eye contact, gestures, voice nevel allow us to give the students confidence to keep learning the language, grouping student and classroom arrangments are very important according to the activities requirements is very important to allow the students working better, writting on the board, giving individual attention, teacher talking time and student talking time, giving instructions and establishing a rapport are also important steps to make a comfortable learning enviroment to discover the student hidden pottential to learn english, and maintaining discipline is one of the most important aspects to mantain the order, is not easy to do it but with the time and experience can help to develop this skill...

There are some modal verbs in English used to denote obligation, necessary, possibility, ability, request, permission, prohibition, advice...

This unit is all about pronunciation, which I have found to be the most useful unit so far, mostly because it is the topic with which I am least familiar...

In this unit we compare two ESL lessons, one effective and one ineffective...

Unit 5 showed materials related to animals...

Receptive skills are important as it helps in you in not only understanding the language but also the nuances of context that the language is being used...

This unit concerned teaching the productive skills of speaking and writing...

In this chapter we covered the different methods of teaching from the more traditional methods of grammar/translation, audio/lingualism, PPP, and tasked based learning to more contemporary methods such as community language learning, the silent method, suggestopedia and the Lexical approach...

Unit III focuses on many different types of language methodologies...

This unit presents the seven types of Future Tenses: Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous, Be going + infinitive, Present Simple, and Present Continuous...

One of the most common mistakes among teachers is not knowing how to start teaching beginners,or how to build a rapport among students or between the teacher and the class...

In order for students to become more engrossed in the language they need to be exposed to it and be allowed to practice and understand the uses of it...

Unit 4 definitely starts explaining more specific and essential grammar points needed for explaining day to day actions, past accounts, and ongoing events/actions...

The videos were especially effective in showing the effect a teacher can have on his/her students...

This section reviewed content related to characteristics of good learners as well as good teachers...

This unit has been very informative for me in regards to managing a class which is done through several techniques; The arrangement of the class, how the tables are designed as well as how the students will be working- individually, in pairs, in groups or as a whole class with each type of arrangement having its pros and cons...

This unit demonstrates four major theories to consider when studying the L1 and L2 learning process...

This unit was a wonderful overview of lesson planning and the components involved in each plan, along with reasoning...

The absolute beginner – students who have no English at all...

This unit was rather tricky because I know what they are talking about, but have never really studied it except in junior high and high school...

This chapter shows helpful ways in introducing new vocabulary/concepts to the class...

First of all, I'd like to mention that some of the options (like teacher's tattoo and entertainment venues)in the test itself are incredibly fun...

I have taken several grammar courses that deal with teaching ESL/ESL students...

Before this unit, I did not pay much attention to the difference between placement tests, diagnostic, and progress tests...

As I progress further into this program, I am learning more about the importance of lesson planning...

Unit 4 helps us understand four major issues of the present tense (and its 4 aspects): its form, usage, typical student errors, and some teaching ideas for the active stage...

Unit 9 is all about course books and lesson materials...

As a TEFL instructor, we are likely to venture from teaching general english into teaching special groups...

This unit explains important aspects of Lesson planning...

This unit focused on modal auxiliary verbs, passive forms, relatives clauses and phrasal verbs...

Acquiring a variety of teaching methods and techniques is vital for someone seeking to teach English...

This unit covered the past tense forms: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous...

An enjoyable unit, this to me is the \"getting ready\" to teach...

This unit covers the main approaches and methods of teaching EFL, then applies them within the framework of Engage, Study, Activate (ESA)...

In this unit the different types of future tenses are explained such as future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, \"going to\" future tense, and two present tense forms that can indicate future meaning and actions without a time frame...

BE_Unit 5 provided macroscopic insights into several different teaching themes...

Traditionally there are 2 principal dimensions to language acquisition: lexis (vocabulary) and grammar (structures); but this simplistic model ignores other important functional factors such as spelling and phonetics...