In conjunction with Unit 3, this provides a lot of useful ideas for how to structure lesson plans when covering vocabulary, grammar or functional English...
In this unit I was given ideas as to what to do on my first lesson with a group, which is very helpful as I have been thinking what I could do in the first lesson and how I would want it to be...
I learned that there are twelve different tenses in the English language, and that there are four different types for the three different times; past, present, and future...
In this unit, I learnt future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, going to future, present simple and present continuous tenses...
Unit 17 covers all of the different types of equipment that is typically used in the classroom, such as DVD/CD players, video cameras, and overhead projectors...
Unit three provides us with numerous of methodologies, and examples of these methodologies, which can be used in different phases and at different levels of teaching...
Vocabulary, grammatical structures, language functions are essential parts of the language and this Unit gave a brief information about how these language parts should be taught...
This unit had me covering class management and how to best utilize a variety of basic tools to help with class management, such as gestures,eye-contact and voice, the pros and cons of different sized groups, and how best to arrange the class into different types for example if its a smaller class size you may want to use the horse shoe arrangement where as if its a large class orderly rows would be the appropriate arrangement...
I've really enjoyed this course and have learned a lot to help me with my TESOL teaching, especially relating to grammar (which I haven't studied in such depth before; even when I was in high school!) I'm so excited to now be able to put all I've learned into practice and start looking for work...