TEFL Reviews

This unit covered common problems teachers may face in an English language class...

This unit covers the topic of professional development...

Looking over Unit 19, I can already see subjects that are not easy...

In the unit managing classes we learned that eye contact, gestures and voice tone play a key role in establishing student confidence and classroom management...

I was familiar with modal auxiliary verbs, however, I found the chart on pages 2 and 3 really helpful...

This unit covered a broad range of teaching equipment and aids that can be used in teaching English...

Unit 3 was amazing...

We could summarize and say that ANY materials can be used successfully in class as long as they are carefully chosen and used with a clear purpose...

In Unit four, I was able to identify and understand how the four present tenses are used in the English language...

Unit 15 looks at different ways to evaluate and test students’ levels and progress...

Unit 18 covered modals, phrasal verbs, and passive voice...

This unit went over different methodolgies and approaches to teaching, using the ESA framework, and the different ways of teaching a class, ie...

This unit focused on the characteristics of a good teacher and learner...

Unit 9 covers lesson planning...

​Modal auxiliary verbs are special kind of helpful verb which are used with main verb: Can - Ability/Possibility/Informal/Polite request permission Could - Polite request/Certainly 50%/Suggestion Might - Certainly less than 50% May - Polite request/Formal Permission/Certainly less than 50% Should/Ought to - Advice/Deduction Must - Obligation/Prohibition (negative)/Strong certainly Would - Polite request/Inquiry/Preference Have to - Obligation Have got to - Strong necessary Need to Lack or Need of Necessary Be able to - Ability The active Voice of a verb tells us that someone or something does the action in the sentence...

This unit gives a better understanding of the ways in which to teach new vocabulary words and grammatical structures to students...

In this unit, we learned about the different characteristics that make good teachers and good learners, and also a bit about the different levels of learners...

There are seven future tenses, although two to three of them are actually present tenses used in a special way...

lesson planning is the main core basis of the teacher in teaching a lesson in a classroom...

In this unit I learned some of the most common problems that teachers encounter in the classroom...

Unit 15 introduces the basic information a teacher should know about evaluating and testing students...

Unit 11 of this course introduces the topic of teaching receptive skills...

I really liked the idea of having a goal for your students (about what they should learn by the end of the lesson) and having a goal as a teacher...

Unit 9 is about lesson planning...

Unit 10, video lessons, provided a good and a bad example of teaching a lesson...

This unit covered how to teach the productive skills of speaking and writing...

This unit focused on what are labelled the two receptive skills of language-reading and listening-and how to go about teaching them in the classroom...

—A good teacher should always be caring, encouraging, sensitive, passionate in teaching and be the good model of the language she\\he is teaching and good at switching from different roles such as tutor, assessor,prompter, participant and model etc...

This lesson showcased two recordings of a lesson on the modal auxiliary verb can/can't and provided a real-life example of how a teacher's attitude and method of teaching can greatly affect the understanding and success of students...

I often make use of games in my lessons, especially during the warm-up, aka 'engage', stage...

The term ´beginner´ has such a range of connotations, therefore it is often helpful to think in terms of categories of beginner...

For first lessons the teacher should start with an activity that help him/her establish rapport with the students, get to know about them, their language level and their needs...

In this unit, we were presented with the most common situations and problems we might encounter as teachers and how to solve them...

In this section I learned about Classroom Mgmt and its aspects: the use of voice, gestures, setting up the physical space, grouping students, pair work, building rapport with students, and discipline...

I have learnt that speaking and writing are productive skills...

Unit 9 explained the principles of good lesson planning...

This unit taught the steps in teaching a new language including new vocabulary, grammatical structures and language function...

Pronunciation and Phonology are a very important expect when it comes to language teaching...

Unit 13 covered pronunciation and phonology...

Unit 12 covers the important aspect of productive skills when learning a language, namely speaking and writing...