TEFL Reviews

This unit's focus was on Modal Auxiliary Verbs, the Passive Voice and it's uses, Phrasal Verbs and Relative Clauses...

Almost as a mirror to the Past structures, English offers a variety of Future forms to cover simple future fact, supposition and prediction, intention etc...

The four conditionals using the word 'if' can oftentimes be confusing, so when teaching, take it one at a time...

This unit is about present tenses...

This unit dealt with conditionals and reported speech...

Unit 8 covered future tense, meaning that present, past and future tense have now all been covered...

It was immediately evident which video was an example of a \"bad\" teacher, purely because of his demeanor while teaching...

On my opinion, speaking and writing are directly connected...

The first video was quite good at showing what a teacher shouldn't do during a class...

As a current Assistant Language Teacher in Japan, I found the culture-specific components to be very useful...

This unit covered teaching special groups...

Each word in a sentence can be classified...

Speaking and writing are productive skills that are used to communicate...

This Unit is very helpful and technical in it‘s content...

The videos showed the difference a teacher makes in teaching...

In this unit I have learned about future tenses such as…… •The future simple •The future continuous •The future perfect •Future perfect continuous •Be going +( infinitive) •The present simple •Present continuous •Some examples of the tenses listed• • The Future Simple...

Unit 7 conveys various ways of teaching new language...

I have learnt from this unit that the future is one of the most complex areas of the English language...

Unit 12 focuses on teaching productive skills...

Unit 4 covered materials a teacher may use in the BE setting...

The topic of coursebooks and lesson materials were insightful about the type of materials used in class...

Having had to plan a lesson before for myself I found most of this information to be prior knowledge...

This unit covered the use of teaching aids in the classroom...

I learnt about the DEGO because it clear and simple way the teacher will only demonstrate,elecit the correct answer and give out the materials, the teacher can also monitor the progress of student while they are working...

Managing class is always a headache for teachers, especially when teaching very young learners...

This unit is devoted to arguably the most important topic, especially for less experienced teachers...

Studying this unit was really helpful, I did not realise how many different parts of speech there actually were and where they go...

Unit 4 covers wide range of information regarding materials to be used during the lesson, which may be: worksheets, communicative activity sheets, drawings, pictures, charts, tapes and other audio aids, wide range of press units (newspapers, magazines etc)...

While speaking and writing are substantially different in many ways,they both are used for the same purpose-to communicate...

Unit 12 looks at the productive skills of speaking and writing...

I think the best part of this unit was the mass amount of resource material included towards the end! Having access to such a rich wealth of information would be useful when it's time to start planning lessons on a daily basis! I was quite familiar with a lot of the teaching aids covered in this unit but was happy to learn about them from some angles that I haven't considered before, such as how they change the classroom environment and some of the problems with teaching aid positions in the classroom etc...

I liked the unit...

In this unit teaching listening and reading skills...

In this unit I learned some of the major qualities a good teacher should possess, including patience, knowledge, love of teaching and a ability to motivate learners...

The English language is so complex and there are way more rules associated with it than there seems to be...

What makes a good teacher: This section discussed what a good teacher does, but more important is that a good teacher cares more about what the students get from the lessons that than the teaching...

The two videos demonstrated that the teacher must have a good attitude and be friendly for students to learn and participate...

Unit 10 effectively demonstrates how important it is to maintain a positive, receptive and patient attitude when teaching...

Phonology is the study, science, analysis, and classification of physical properties of sounds...

I am glad that the task sheet directed me right away to the ALTE website...