TEFL Reviews

There are several reasons why Ä° think a planned lesson is far better than an upland one...

This unit talked about modals, passive and active voice, and transitive and intransitive first, second and third phrasals...

The tense system usually causes more difficulty for students and teachers...

This unit introduced the two receptive skills, listening and reading, and how to use them in a lesson...

It is indeed very useful to know the methods on managing a class for every potential teacher...

This unit has covered some of the common problems faced by teachers in different situations and techniques that would help overcome these problems...

I found this third unit of the course to be the freshest and most useful so far...

This unit was a rather eye opening experience into the complexities of the english language...

This subject was about maintaining order and control over the classroom...

Productive Skills: Reading and writing If a teacher wishes to introduce a communicative activity to the students, he or she should bring in a number of factors: - They have some communicative purpose - They want to say something - They want to listen to something - They are interested in what is being said The teacher must create the need and desire, in the students, to communicate...

I learnt that there are numerous teaching aides one can employ when teaching students, each with their own set of advantages and disadvantages...

This chapter focuses on the productive skills; speaking and writing, which are to communicate...

In unit five, I learned about managing classes...

In this unit, I learned that the attitude of the teacher and the teacher's behaviour can have a profound effect on the success of the lesson...

I'm really excited by the amount of progress I've made in teaching as I've been tutoring while taking this course online...

This unit covers how to introduce new language in terms of vocabulary, grammar and language functions using the ESA model...

A key feature of effective teaching is the selection of equipment and teaching aids which can be used to make the lesson more interesting, and attractive...

As a teacher, knowing how to adapt to any level of student is a necessity...

This unit deals with the modal verbs, the passive voice, the relative clauses and the phrasal verbs...

After learning this unit,I've got better understanding of the methodolies and theories...

This was an informative unit on potential problems a teacher might run into...

This lesson was incredibly informative because I have had to wing-it when it comes to learning how to best lesson plan...

A teacher’s state which refers to the manners and attitude he comes in class with,always has a profound meaning to the effectiveness of a class...

Evaluating students’ level, pace, and progress is one of the responsibilities that teachers have...

This unit focused on some of the challenges a teacher may face...

Introducing vocabulary, grammar, grammatical structures, and language function takes careful thought and planning...

The unit content touches on theories and teaches methods and techniques for presenting, engaging and reaching students in different ways -- or as in the session: Engage, Study and Activate...

I will have to agree that the future tense is the most complex of the tenses covered in this material...

This unit covered different teaching methods and lesson structures, how to make corrections, and included a significant amount of possible classroom activities...

Teaching special groups is the subject matter of this unit...

When teaching communication activities, it's important to acknowledge the purpose that writing and speaking has and how it can be incorporated into classroom activities...

This unit described, in detail, four different present tenses...

Teaching Vocabulary: Receptive - words the student knows but doesn't use Productive - words the student knows and uses What the Student needs to know about vocabulary is : Meaning/Use/Word grammar/ Interaction/Spelling/ Pronunciation Engage- Mime & action/Pictures/Discussion/Discover; Study- Gap fill/Word searches; Activate- Open class discussion/ Role-Play Intro Grammatical Structures: Students must know: Meaning/Use/Forms & Patterns/ Spoken & written form Engage- Discussion/ Scenario Building; Study- Intonation & pronunciation patterns/ Gap fills/ Sentence building; Activate- Communication games/ Role-play/ discussion & debate Language Functions: Refusing/Agreeing/ Inviting/ Suggesting Can also include appropriacy (or appropriateness) of the language in terms of the kind of language they use - formal, informal, tentative, technical etc...

In this unit, we focused on how to best teach the receptive skills - listening and reading...

This unit is based on course books and lesson materials to be used by teachers...

This unit covers ways in which to evaluate students' knowledge level of the English language as well as their progress throughout the learning process...

Planning lessons was the major topic of this unit where different aspects of planning ‎lessons were accounted for...

This unit discussed the use or disuse of course books in different classroom settings...

Unit 15 covered different ways to evaluate students' level and progress of learning...

Conditionals are sentences containing 'if' and sometimes 'when', referring to past, present and future possibilities...