I had not considered using a course book in my lessons but this module makes me think about how that may benefit in some areas of teaching, especially if I struggle to come up with an engaging and effective plan for one lesson...
Unit twenty,focused on trouble shooting,presents common problems and situations that could be faced by teachers in a new class and how to handle them...
This unit involved watching two videos of two different demo lessons, the first of which was an example of what not to do in the classroom and the second one of what a better lesson for the same topic would look like...
Teaching past tenses can be tricky and very confusing for students because it requires a lot of attention when building sentences and also memorizing the irregular verbs is necessary...
In this unit, I learnt that teachers have to have a mix of relevant course work as well as his or her own creativity to really create a lesson that is of interest to the class...
When teaching different types of groups the teacher should always have a basic understanding of the group in terms of language level to use,how to motivate the students by keeping the lesson fun, interesting and how to generally manage the class...
I've found this unit particularly helpful because it explores a field that in most cases remains unexplored and therefore presents a lot of difficulties for most non-native speakers of English: the phonology...