TEFL Reviews

Adults are said to learn different than post puberty, pre-puberty and very young learners...

The two videos in this unit were very useful for me to help me understand what a teacher with a good attitude looks like in the classroom...

This unit covered various evaluation and testing methods...

Overall, I love this topic as it shows how the previous units are useful in the actual situation...

Modal Auxullary verbs are used before the other verbs to add meaning to the main verb...

Future tenses just like present tense have some similarities it is just that the the subject is still on going till the future...

Unit 13 dealt with the nitty gritty of Pronunciation and Phonology and covered every aspect of verbal sounds that I ever imagined, as well as many I knew nothing about: Intonation, Stress, Sound Joining, Phonetics, and Articulation...

Receptive and productive skills are tightly intertwined and sometimes it is obvious that lack of reception affects production...

I the unit teaching special groups we learn about teaching: beginners, individual students, children and business English or English for specific purposes we learn the different steps we need to take when teaching, planning all of the above mentioned groups...

In Unit 15, we discussed way to assess a students language level and the various ways to do so...

In Unit 4, I learned about the four present tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous...

In this final unit, there was discussion of cultural issues that should be considered when teaching abroad, ways of searching for and applying for employment, and various methods of professional development...

This unit gave a framework for lesson planning, and key points to consider when planning a lesson...

In this unit, we learned that there are 3 main different times or tenses in the English language: past, present and future...

This unit explains how to teach vocabulary, grammar and function to students...

The content from this unit demonstrates the characteristics of what helps create an excellent teacher and an excellent learner, the roles a teacher brings to the classroom, and the factors of the learner that must be considered in order to effectively teach...

teaching special groups such as beginners requires special skills and psychology...

Unit 1 highlights the qualities of a good teacher and a good learner...

This unit talks about teaching equipment and aids...

Basically, what the unit teaches is how to teach using course books, incorporated with the use of authentic and created materials...

Unit I discusses the qualities of a good teacher and a good learner...

I enjoyed this unit and found it very informative in that it was my first time seeing a sample lesson plan...

There are significant functions in writing out lesson plans...

Placement tests include reading, writing, speaking and listening...

In this unit, I learned about the importance of familiarizing myself with the different parts of speech in English before beginning to attempt to teach the language to others...

I have learned the advantages and disadvantages of course books...

The focus of this unit is on testing and evaluating students...

We discuss course books and other language materials in unit 9...

In Unit 11, I learnt about reading and listening...

Unit 14 covers course books and lesson materials...

This unit is all about the tenses...

There are many different kinds of future tenses, and that is where lots of students get confused from time to time...

The section was straight forward, easy to understand and any doubts were clarified in the video...

This unit was about evaluation and testing...

This unit was particularly difficult and confusing...

After watching the two videos on video lessons,its very important to observe the ESA lesson format for making a lesson plan on any topic...

I learned in this unit how to go about teaching reading and listening...

This unit was very well done...

In this unit, I have learned about the productive skills: speaking and writing...

Progress tests are useful to gauge how a student is progressing on the same materials throughout the course...