TEFL Reviews

Like the previous unit, this unit covered two of the four language skills, Speaking and Writing (Productive Skills, which are used for the purpose of communication...

This unit covered classroom management and different techniques that can be used for effective teaching and maintaining a well-behaved classroom...

While reading this unit, I often turned back to what I learned about the teaching style of Paulo Freire who taught Problem Education...

This unit focused on some of the different types of special groups that an English language teacher may find themselves teaching...

Teaching receptive skill includes reading and listening, which are important skills in the path of language learning...

This unit really touched a multitude of sore subjects for me...

I've learnt the difference between the receptive and productive skills, as well as the importance of them...

this unit is set to educate the teachers on how to engage a lesson , it provides the steps for the teacher to use in introducing a new lesson , how the teacher can engage the students to participate fully in a lesson and also how they can perfect their skills by discussing and correcting wrongly presented English materials by doing these the students are cautious about making common mistakes which helps better their english language skills in what ever topic or study course they are faced with as in tasks or having discusion using a foreign language...

Adjective, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and other different parts of speech were brought up and discussed in the material of this unit...

Unit 10: Evaluation and Testing conclude the lessons that I learned from each section...

This unit was very informative...

The first lesson is perhaps the most important, it is time to attract the attention of the students and generate interest for the rest of the duration of the course...

This unit presented two dramatically different English language classes, based mostly on the attitude and skills of the teacher, and consequently on the participation of the students...

I found it really helpful that the unit pointed out that we, as teachers, should encourage students to understand texts without knowing every word...

This unit was quite lengthy and in depth discussing the teaching of pronunciation and phonology...

In unit 20, we were taught about common problem situations...

The creation of past simple is formed adding –ed or –d to the base form of the verb...

This unit covers the four major aspects of the present tense in the English language...

Peter went to the cinema yesterday evening...

This unit gave an overview of the general contents of this course and what to expect from the different units...

This unit covered the various classroom equipment and teaching aids available for use in most classrooms...

This unit is all about present tenses (present simple, present perfect, present continuous, etc)...

One of the important part of teaching is creating proper lesson plan...

This unit provides a good introduction to the different areas of grammar we use in our day to day life, how they relate to each other and how they should be used within a sentence...

The four main present tenses in English are present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous...

This unit explains that there are 4 basic skills needed to study any language: receptive skills (reading and listening) and productive skills (speaking and writing)...

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

What I have learned from this Unit is the different types of learners, motivation of learners, and different stages of learners...

Unit 15 describes various ways of measuring English language ability...

In unit 12, I learn about the two productive skills—speaking and writing...

This unit covered the past tense and its different forms...

The two video lessons have been very helpful in identifying the do's and don'ts of in an ESL class...

The two mainstream of materials used by the teacher apart from the course books are authentic materials and created materials...

Teachers vary from person to person...

This was a great unit...

In unit sixteen I reviewed information about conditionals and reported speech...

The unit on past tense provided a succint overview of four main forms of the past tense: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous...

Teaching productive skills, speaking and writing (including games) Why people communicate with each other Differences between accuracy and fluency activities, and why they are equally important Types of speaking activities in the classroom and if they are accuracy or fluency based: controlled activities, guided activities, & creative communication Encouraging students to speak in the classroom, why they may be reluctant and how to overcome Various techniques to encourage student interaction An example of a typical free/creative speaking activity ESA lesson Guidelines for free/creative speaking activity: before the lesson, during the activity and after the activity Writing skills, factors to incorporate into lessons: handwriting, spelling, layout and punctuation, and creative writing An example of a typical creative writing activity ESA lesson Using games in the classroom...

This unit introduces a number of different ways of referring to the future in English...

In this unit I found that the difference between present/future modals and past modals may be a difficult thing for students to understand...