Authentic Text

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Machang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The teaching of receptive skills (reading and listening) presents quite a number of potential problems which need to be addressed. These are mainly in connection with the language contained in the text, the topic and the tasks the students will perform. Fortunately, there are many ways of approaching all those difficulties. First of all, we need to pre-teach...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zibo Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. First of all, let us think why should we teach reading? In my opinion, there are a lot of reasons. One of the main is that many of our students want to be able to read texts in English. Some of them need that for work, another – for study purposes or just for satisfaction. Therefore, we should find a way to make reading easier for them. Besides, any contact with...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas What opportunities do learners have to practice these core skills in the lesson? This question is often expressed by teachers when teaching a new language whereas learners do not need to produce language but receive it. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Domenica G. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. There are different types of text which may be used for this purpose such as authentic texts which are written for any purpose other than language learning and are intact instead of being processed, adapted or simplified. However, not only is the text itself authentic, but also its context and related tasks as well. It may be a recount, narrative, procedure, information...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The four basic language skills are divided into two categories; the receptive (“passive”) skills — reading and listening, and the productive (“active”) skills — speaking and writing. All are invaluable skills to learn when becoming proficient in a new foreign language and teachers should try to incorporate them into their lessons whenever possible. However, this summative task will be solely focused on receptive skills and how to teach them in the classroom. Students may need to read/listen for a purpose — for example, reading an extract of a book as part of their homework assignment, or they may want to read/listen for entertainment — for example, listening to their favorite audiobook. These skills are also important to learn for a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dianbu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qingdao Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. One of the units in this course talked about the importance of teaching receptive skills. There are four basic skills to any language that language learners need to know, receptive skills are two of those basic skills. When students learn receptive skills, they are learning reading and listening skills. There are two main reasons that people use their reading and...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Two classifications of ESL materials are Authentic and Non-Authentic (or created). What is the difference between what are called authentic and created materials? Authentic materials as the name implies are actual materials that are created for any reason outside of the classroom. Examples of authentic materials would be things like, newspapers; those are generated for the general public and they're certainly not generated for the use in the classroom. However they can be used within the classroom. Other examples would be things like songs and poems and even things such as brochures and magazines and indeed menus from restaurants. So these are materials that can be used within the classroom, but they have not been created...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luocun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zibo Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Normally there are four basic skills in any language:receptive skills, it includes reading and listening,productive skills,it includes speaking and writing.These are all equally important.For my summative talk I will mention receptive skills teaching. Firstly we have some reasons and motives for reading and listening:For a purpose and for a entertainment.For a purpose...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shijing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Reading is one of the key skill in language learning. It reinforces the skills students acquire in speaking, listening and writing. On the other hand, it really isn't enough just to put a book or short text in front of students and ask them to read, whether silently or out loud. You can help students develop a host of sub-skills through activities around reading. And,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengwuxiangoucunji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Heze Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are many challenges for second language learners to gain the fluency with the English language. That includes reading and listening. It is found that with second language learners there is a sense of being lost when they are attempting to speak to native speakers. Simple greetings are something that is learned to the point where a second language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xianggou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching receptive as well as productive skills is an essential part of an EFL course. Students should be able to comprehend speech as well as to produce speech in English language so that they would be able to fulfil their communication needs. Realising that there are realistic communication needs that we are fulfilling when we interact in another language is an...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Language acquisition is a process that engages different skills and is therefore influenced by them. Reading, which is among the four main language skills, is considered to be influential in this process in many ways. In my opinion, it is one of the best contributors to the journey of learning a new language and although its advantages seem to be exclusive to reading comprehension, it involves other skills to a high degree as well. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Faezeh C. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. To begin, it is crucial to note that the type of reading material plays an important role in the efficiency of the activity and whether authentic or non-authentic,...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences There are many challenges for second language learners to gain the fluency with the English language. That includes reading and listening. It is found that with second language learners there is a sense of being lost when they are attempting to speak to native speakers. Simple greetings are something that is learned to the point where a second language learner would have mastered that concept. But what would happen if the native speaker speaks too fast or they don’t enunciate like their teachers do? This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Callie L. There are also instances where the native speaker will use a more complex string of vocabulary that is uncommon for the learner since they are more likely to see a very simple or basic...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingtou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In education the word material refers to an idea or information that is made on a task which you need for an activity during teaching. They can be used in any level at any stage of the lesson plan as reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities. As an example worksheet is an material to practise the language. In addition other examples are visual aids such...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qitian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit has introduced me to authentic and non authentic materials, the pro's and cons that come with each and hoe they differ. It has also showed me how to create and use a lesson plan, as well as highlighting its importance. Furthermore it has informed me on the various sources available to teachers to use in teaching. Text books are useful but comes with their...  [Read more]

  This presentation is going to have a look at the idea of receptive skills and how we can go about teaching receptive skills lessons. There are two receptive skills and they are reading and listening. If we think about first of all, why do we read or listen, then there are probably two main answers to that. Firstly, it could either be for entertainment or it could be for a specific purpose. Within the reading and listening areas there are a number of sub-skills that we can teach our students. Firstly, what we can do is to show different examples of reading. So, let's say, for example, that we have just bought ourselves a new video camera and along with that video camera came a whole book of instructions. In order to find out how to get that camera working, then we would need to...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Reading competence involves making sense of the written text and requires the complex interaction of knowledge and skills. When children learn to read, they need to learn to integrate the use of visual, phonological and semantic cues and relate to their own experience to construct meaning. An effective reading instruction thus involves a combination of phonological instruction (decoding) and whole language (reading for meaning), with the use of authentic literary experience. This paper will provide a summary of essential areas of reading instruction, coupled with various strategies that I have used in my work as an educational psychologist and teacher, helping young children to read. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Pearly T....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yincheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changzhi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I have learned through this course and through observation that EFL teachers sometimes emphasize the productive skills (writing and speaking) at the expense of the receptive skills (reading and listening). The teaching of the receptive skills is critically important, however, so a good EFL teacher needs to be sure to balance the teaching of the productive skills...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas I’m a young ESL teacher in China, and I is Chinese. English is a compulsory subject for all Chinese students and reading skills have gained raising importance in the national tests for English subjects. Besides this, reading itself is fun and beneficial. I always try to let my students “learn through English” instead of “learning English”. From my experience, a successful reading class for young learners should consist of the following steps: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Fang W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. If the book is about animals. I may ask the students some questions like “what animals do you know?” ,“ what is your favorite animal?”....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiaoyu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. When we look at how teaching and learning has evolved over the years, we can probably see that there have been changes in how teachers teach and this is probably driven by how students react. By this I mean on what has become available and accessible by both students and teachers. Traditionally we would have text books and videos compared to now we have access through...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengwuxianzhanglou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Heze Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are four basic skills in any language; Receptive skills – Reading and Listening, and Productive Skills – Speaking and Writing. All are equally important and wherever possible we should try to incorporate all of them into our lessons if we want to have a balanced approach. This summative task will focus on the receptive skills which are reading and...  [Read more]

  This video provides a comprehensive overview of all the future tenses in the English language: future simple, future continuous, future perfect and the future perfect continuous. This is especially helpful for ESL teachers around the globe teaching speakers of other languages. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. in my opinion, authentic and created materials work better than course books. depend on the class type, it could be a newspaper or magazine...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word "jinni". This word describes an entity or a spirit in Muslim beliefs that can take human or animal form and influence human with supernatural powers. The word came into the English language from the Arabic word "jinn?" that can also mean demon. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This unit has shown me the difference between the condition of a sentence that contains 'if'. I've learnt how to interpret...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiangong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baoji Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. According to Motteram (2013), technology can be used to enhance students’ oral learning skills. The internet has a vast amount of information, the writer states that there are different forms of oral models. For example: recording songs, podcast and video clips. This he states can help teacher in teaching oral skills that involves pronunciation and vocabulary...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengzhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luliang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching beginner students can be extra challenging and can leave teachers feeling intimidated. Because beginner students do not yet have much grasp of the language, there are many special considerations that need to be given in order for the teacher to be effective. This is also a critical time for the student to develop motivation and appreciation for...  [Read more]

  The term materials can apply to virtually anything that a teachers uses to help the teaching process in the classroom. Common teaching materials include items such as worksheets, newspapers, pictures text books and video recordings. These materials are usually classed as either authentic or non-authentic depending on their origin and the ways they are used. Authentic materials refer to materials that have not been designed or adapted for use in an English language classroom such as magazines, newspapers, video clips and song lyrics. Non-authentic materials on the other hand are anything that has been specifically designed to aid the teaching process such as worksheets, text books and instructional CD’s or DVD’s. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate...  [Read more]

  So, some of the ways in which we can avoid these problems occurring in the first place is to reteach the vocabulary that's going to be required in the particular activity and the grammar. Now, having said this, it doesn't mean that if we think about a particular article that they're going to read or a listening activity that they're going to listen to. They don't have to know every single word in there but they do need to know a certain number of words in order to actually make sense out of it. Secondly, most of the materials that we'll be using for both reading and possibly for listening will be what's called an authentic material. In other words, it's a real piece of material from a newspaper or magazine that hasn't been created for a particular class and so we need a very...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tianyuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. when teaching a language teachers have two types of material at their disposal.the first are non authentic materials which are adapted to the course syllabus and level and usually contain worksheets, exercieses from the coursebooks, well-thought of listenings and readings with multiple choice or open clozes. non authentic materials are those from real life...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhangluji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaocheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Explaining course content so that students understand the materials being taught are the main components in lesson planning. The term for “course materials” is used to describe the resources used to deliver instructions. Course materials come in many shapes and sizes but they all support the student in achieving his/her learning goals. In Terms of support,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zezhang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Which activities can be used for teaching productive skills? Almost every language consists of productive and receptive skills. Speaking and writing are productive, active skills; information is produced in oral or written form. Listening and reading, on the other hand, are receptive abilities. These skills are used when we receive information. A good language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuwang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qingdao Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Ideally, the school that you work for will have all the materials you will need. Materials which cover and compliment the course books and lessons. Though it would be nice to have these materials, often this is not the case for a variety of reason. More often than not schools will not have such materials readily available. Even if it were the case that you have such...  [Read more]