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  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word amphibology. This word refers to the ambiguous meaning of sentence due due to confusing grammar patterns. A good example for this would be He sees more of his children than his wife. This sentence is an amphibology as it has two meanings. It could either mean that the husband sees his children more often than his wife sees their children, or it could mean that the husband sees his children more often than he sees his wife. 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...  [Read more]

Anna Domiczek Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In the education world, the potential and value of using stories and storytelling techniques have always been known and recognized, especially in the context of teaching younger students. Recently, more and more EFL teachers of young learners are integrating carefully selected children’s literature stories to teach English. Children’s literature is such a significant part of English language literature - using it for teaching English can be a very motivating tool for young learners. Stories chosen from children’s literature provide an excellent resource to develop a variety of language and learning activities, and the carefully selected materials can be appealing not only linguistically but also cognitively, socially, and culturally....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingqiaoyi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hanzhong 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. Teacher:John Smith Time: 45 minutes Date and Time: 21/1/19, 4:30 pm Class Level:Elementary Room: 14 C Expected number of students: 16 Language point: Use of adjectives and nouns to describe animals and colors. Teaching aids: The book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? By Bill Martin, Jr. Illustrator: Eric Carle Small Pointer for pointing at words and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XinhuZhen? 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. Can Kindergarten Students Learn When They Are Having Fun? Teaching TEFL in a kindergarten classroom can bring both the teacher and students many joyful moments with an abundance of learning. In the kindergarten classroom, there will be a mix of English and the students’ native language. Kindergarten is a powerful year for students to continue building their language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lepingpu 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. English as a global language English is called a global language because it is the only international language in the world and everyone who speaks a language other than English needs to learn English if they want to be able to communicate globally. We are increasingly witnessing that the use of English is becoming more and more prevalent among all the nations in...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Parents have a definite role in the education of their children, especially if the language of the family is different from the target language of the children. Because of the closeness that should exist between parent and child, the first teachers in all areas of life should be the parent. However, due to the situations created in our society, this is not often the case. When one thinks of modern society, the difficulties that parents encounter in the role of the teacher can be seen. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Norris J. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Imagine the situation in which both parents have to work each day putting in long hours and then returning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haojia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dongying 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 abroad. This is unlike so many other avenues for being able to make a living while in a foreign land, and one I feel to be the most unique. Long ago I asked myself what living abroad would look like, feel, and what exactly could I do to facilitate this dream. I didn't arrive at any easy answers. I have had friends and family that have worked abroad...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dabaotou 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. Most children love playing outside. I remember when I was little my mother use to beg us to come inside in the evenings. There are just so many things a child can learn outside, as we are surrounded by a very wide variety of things. Also taking children outside for activities to learn English keeps them entertained and it doesn't feel like they are caged between...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changlianggou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou 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 benefits of a child learning a foreign language at a young age. Outmost is that the first 3-5 years of life are considered the best time for children to learn a second language, and it can be as easy as acquiring knowledge of their first language (Vos, 2008) Also, second language acquisition is tightly link to increase performance in areas of...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The biggest influence online education has on ESL is that it changes the dynamics of the classroom to be nontraditional. It does not necessarily reflect the situations teachers envision themselves in when they set out to teach ESL. This nontraditional dynamic stretches from the delivery methods like online teaching platforms to the class itself and even the work and homework for students. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Jacob F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Traditionally in classroom teachers and students see each other and have a standardized lesson plan for a relatively large group of students. Online education is changing this in some drastic ways, especially...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangguan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou 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. Within first and second language acquisition studies in the academic field of linguistics, there is much debate about what methods are the best to employ in the learning and teaching of vocabulary. It is, after all, one of the most fundamental parts of the ability to communicate in any language. In this essay, two different methods of acquiring vocabulary will be...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Any teacher, new or experienced, might find there are times when he or she lacks confidence in the classroom. Maybe there is a brand-new class of students, human error has caused a fall in confidence, or the teacher is faced with a new topic. Whatever the reason, all teachers have an important job to do, and nervousness must be overcome. While teaching can be a daunting task at times, there are two key ways that a teacher’s confidence can be bolstered and held high: preparation, and experience. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Haley B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Confidence in the classroom is not only important for a teacher’s mental health and teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baichi 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. More and more parents have planed their kids’ education even before their kids’ births. In China, most parents require their children to learn English when they are little. Most kindergartners start to teach English as second language. Parents who are 25 years old around or above learned English when they were grade 7. Parents were the young beginners to learn...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas When teaching reported speech the potential for mistakes, errors, and the general difficulty is enormous due to the number of changes that are made with verb tenses, patterns, pronouns, questions, time expressions etc.. It’s important to cover the subject slowly with lots of verbal practice at every opportunity. There are plenty of standard ‘change the direct speech to reported speech’ activities, but your students will soon tire of these if you overuse them. Here are some ideas which have worked well in the EFL classroom and will give your students a good amount of talk time in a variety of ways. This is a fun dispute roleplay that is ideal when students are split up into groups of 3, although 4 can work too. Give students prompt cards with their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taiyuan-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Taiyuan-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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| PECULIARITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Howard Gardner, an American developmental psychologist and professor of education at Harvard University, discusses the idea of multiple intelligences and uses this idea to challenge our conception of what it means to be intelligent There is no doubt...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanzhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rizhao 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 spontaneous acquisition of language is thought to start with the child listening to their mother’s voice in the womb. While the child may-not distinctly hear the words, it will become accustomed to the rhythm of the mother’s voice. In a study where mothers read either The Cat in the Hat or The King the Mice and the Cheese to the unborn child in the last 6...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beishidian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jincheng 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. Encouraging students to continually develop their English fluency through use of the English language outside of the classroom is an important way to accelerate proficient use of English. The use of this approach would obviously depend on the level of English proficiency amongst the class of students. However, even basic suggestions during class for the outside...  [Read more]

  So now we'll consider the actual classroom arrangements themselves in terms of the physical desk layout. There are possibly three main types of arrangements that are used within classrooms and we're going to indicate the desks here as being boxes and the arrangements of the students within those desks will be blue crosses. So here we have the desks ranged in rows and the students sitting within those rows. The second arrangement could be the use of horseshoes or semi circles and finally the use of individual desks. So for each of these arrangements what are the potential advantages and disadvantages of arranging our seating in this way? Let's take the rows first of all. One of the potential advantages is that it does give the teacher the opportunity, if it's arranged correctly,...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word uxorial. This word is used as an adjective and describes things or habits relating to a wife. The word comes from the Latin 'uxor' meaning wife. 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. From reading through the entire content of this unit (Teaching Productive Skills) and now that I am finished with taken the test for this unit (Teaching Productive Skills). What I personally learned from this unit is the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Japan is an island nation and is a recognized homogenous society with a very small percentage of foreign permanent residence and more than half of the adult population lacks the necessary skills to speak English proficiently. Because of this, English as a Second Language is in high demand with young learners being a focus group in Japan. English is taught in the school environment during nearly all of a child’s primary education years, but this, unfortunately, doesn’t translate to a proficient English-speaking Japanese population. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Payton P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Children as young as nine months are presented with...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on classroom management. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on the students' motivation. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on how to apply the MI theory in lesson planning. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on classroom management. Dorothy Brown Smith Destinations Alumni Experiences Are you interested in teaching English in China? Here are ten things I have learned during my first year teaching in China. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanshahe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zaozhuang 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. Definition of teaching style The teaching techniques and approaches, as well as activities that teachers employ in teaching in the classroom, is known as teaching style (Cooper, 2001). Grasha (2002) defines teaching style as the continuous and steady actions of teachers in their relationship with students in the course of teaching-and-learning. Jarvis (2004)...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qiaodi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang 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 past some scientists thought young learners do not learn as fast as adults. However today even parents are aware of the importance of starting learning a second language early. When people start learning at early ages of their life, they increase the probability of gaining beter language skills and favorable attitudes to other languages and cultures. Morover it...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on classroom management. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on the students' motivation. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on how to apply the MI theory in lesson planning. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on classroom management. Dorothy Brown Smith Destinations Alumni Experiences Are you interested in teaching English in China? Here are ten things I have learned during my first year teaching in China. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our recent TEFL...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on teaching slang and idioms. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on English as a global language. Lydia Pincott Destinations Alumni Experiences The beaten path in Japan is pretty great and worth exploring thoroughly, but if you’ve done it, or feel like you’ve done it from seeing other people’s pictures, these 3 destinations are for you. Lydia Pincott Destinations Alumni Experiences How do you get out and see Japan, while still having a few yennies left over for fried chicken at Family Mart? This post covers exactly how to travel Japan on a teacher’s budget. Dorothy Brown Smith Destinations...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on teaching slang and idioms. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences In this blog post, our recent TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on English as a global language. Lydia Pincott Destinations Alumni Experiences The beaten path in Japan is pretty great and worth exploring thoroughly, but if you’ve done it, or feel like you’ve done it from seeing other people’s pictures, these 3 destinations are for you. Lydia Pincott Destinations Alumni Experiences How do you get out and see Japan, while still having a few yennies left over for fried chicken at Family Mart? This post covers exactly how to travel Japan on a teacher’s budget. Dorothy Brown Smith Destinations...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhongxin Zhen Jianshe Guanli Bangongshi? Are you interested in teaching English in Taiyuan 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 morning when you wake up your wife greets you with “To sleep am good, morning good”. You feel confused and your children ask, “Prepared breakfast can him?”. Something is clearly odd, and you can´t understand what anyone is saying. The world you have woken up to is one without any grammatic rules. In this world everyone can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinan-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinan-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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| One way that teachers can help our students achieve their maximum potential in the classroom is to provide motivation Nowadays,one of the biggest challenges in the classroom is improving student motivation To begin with, I would like to state why I chose this topic Merriam-Webster dictionary...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This article is devoted to EFL kindergarten education. Our TEFL alumna shares their ideas on setting up the timetable for young students coming to bilingual kindergartens. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences This article contains information on the differences between young learners and adults. Our TEFL graduate explains how approach to teaching this groups varies. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Parents play an important part in students' learning. They are basically become children's first educators and influence their development. In this blog post, our TEFL graduate considers some beneficial effects students may get from parents' help. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences How families can take part in their children's education?...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This article is devoted to EFL kindergarten education. Our TEFL alumna shares their ideas on setting up the timetable for young students coming to bilingual kindergartens. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences This article contains information on the differences between young learners and adults. Our TEFL graduate explains how approach to teaching this groups varies. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Parents play an important part in students' learning. They are basically become children's first educators and influence their development. In this blog post, our TEFL graduate considers some beneficial effects students may get from parents' help. Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences How families can take part in their children's education?...  [Read more]