TEFL Reviews

This unit focuses mainly on phrasal verbs, modals and passive voice and represent the conclusion to the grammar excursus carried out throuought this online course...

An affective class does not only depend on the teacher but also on the books and the materials the teacher is using for his or her lesson ...

Unit 19, Teaching special groups, highlighted several different groups of students that a teacher may encounter...

This unit focuses on the various teaching methodologies, with focus on the ESA (Engage, Study, and Activate)...

In this unit, we could watch 2 versions of a TEFL lesson - one in which the TEFL teacher demonstrated a lack of interest in the lesson and the learners - and a second in which the teacher showed greater interest in the learners and took greater care to teach the materials...

There are 4 basic Language Skills...

Though the two videos cover the same topic, they are vastly different...

Motivating studentsMotivating students can be one of the most challenging and difficult tasks a teacher might encounter...

I personally have learned a new lesson plan structure...

Past tenses includes four aspects: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous...

In this unit, we get to see the different types of testing we have available...

These two video lessons reflect two different ways of a teacher's attitude and approach to a lesson...

This unit covered teaching techniques for teaching vocabulary, grammar and functions of the English language...

The course influenced me a lot as it showed me how many responsibilities an english teacher has...

As someone who has gained a degree in education I chose the course because it was a formal requirement for the program I am applying to...

In the English language, pronunciation varies between accents and countries...

This unit was very straightforward since I learned a lot about ESA lesson plans from Unit 3...

Sometimes teachers need to incorporate different skills into lessons if they need a balanced approach...

I personally found this unit very challenging, especially the translation of phonetic script...

In this unit I learned the difference between receptive and productive skills...

Unit 20 appears to be the final unit of the course program and its main focus are on the various difficulties a teacher might face in the classroom ...

In this Unit (Unit 20: Troubleshooting), I've learned the common problem situations that teacher can encounter in the classroom and also the ways of resolving or dealing with them...

The first unit of this CTEYL course is an introduction to the material that will be introduced throughout the course...

This unit provides a brief outline of the different teaching methods that teachers can employ in their classes...

The contents and information presented in unit 13, “Teaching Pronunciation & Phonology”, provided me with an extensive review of the role that both intonation and stress points in a sentence plays in the communication of English language...

In the first lesson, teachers should start by establishing a good rapport with their students...

Teaching receptive skills is very important in teaching any language, or in any classroom learning...

The information contained in unit 15,”Evaluation and Testing” covers the means by which a student’s level of English as a foreign language may be assessed during various stages of the learning process...

This unit covered the how and what is the appropriate use of course books and various materials to aid teaching...

This unit gave me an understanding of how reading and listening works when we come across new things for the first time...

In this unit, it gives a brief overview on how the four different present tenses (present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous) shall be used...

I think the most confusion bits from this unit came from phrasal verbs...

Unit 2 clearly defines various teaching methods with a more in depth study of Jeremy Harmer’s Engage Study Activate methodology (ESA)...

This unit was very challenging for me as I am a native English speaker and have never officially learned the basic rules of the English grammar...

This unit covered modals, phrasal verbs, and passive voice...

When teaching specialised groups of students, it's important to understand the following...

Phonetics is the study of human sounds in general without saying what function which sounds may have in a particular language...

Unit 1 has been a reflection of the relationship between a teacher and students...

This unit covers the four present tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous...

Wow this was a tough unit! Though I was slightly familiar with the term modal auxiliary, I had forgotten that it referred to words that express so may things! Obligation, permission/prohibition, possibility/probability, ability and advice...