English Category

  Our next category in our series of teaching special groups in ESL is English for specific purposes. This video focuses specifically on teaching business English. How is business Enligsh different to general English? Will you be able to teach business English? Find out in this video. 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. When teaching how to speak English the teacher must work on accuracy and fluency at different times in order to let the student produce...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiangnei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wenshan Zhuangzu Miaozu Zizhizh? 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 Unit 6, the lesson discussed the past tenses. Specifically, it discussed past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Subdivided in each past tense category were forms, usages, common mistakes/errors, and sample activate teaching ideas. The example sentences showed the relevant situations for past tense usage...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences It is important to note that regardless of which situation you may find yourself in be it in a school, language center, teaching young learners or adults you will always be involved in some or the other form of testing or evaluation. These test/evaluation may include things that are done internally for the school such as homework, course unit test or end of year test/exam and you may also be involved in external exams such as IELTS (International English Language Testing System) and other exams. The most common types of test/evaluation that takes place are: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Frankline E. Placement Test which is also known as level test involves in the placement of students in a particular level of class and it...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas I would like to introduce five flashcards activities which I found fun and practical to enhance a student's vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, listening, and speaking. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate MOHSEN H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. This activity is designed to teach vocabulary as well as practice listening. It can be used for teaching various categories (animals, food, fruits, …) or a mix of them. The teacher gives each of the students a set of flashcards and asks them to show him/her the correct card when they hear the item spoken. For example: “Show me a pig” “Hands up if you’ve got a banana” “Stand up if you have the bread” This...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Tenses- Usually it creates tense for many ESL students during communication. It defines and differentiates the situation by time. Is time important in communication? Yes, it is. The wrong usage of tenses changes the exact meaning of the situation, what the speaker is trying to convey. So focusing tenses in grammar is more essential than others. Still, the proper usage of tenses is a complicated and confusing task for many high-level students in competitive exams. Then, what about the ESL students? This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Vallikkannu M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. We can classify the ESL students into two categories based on their native language * The...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas First lessons are always a little bit overwhelming because the students and teacher don’t know each other yet. That's why it’s very important to break the ice and help your ESL learners to relax. Plus, for future planning, you need to learn more about your students and their likes and dislikes. Get-to-know games are great for these purposes and work best if you play them during the first 3-5 lessons. For this activity, give your students two opposite words to choose between and ask a question “Are you more like 1 or 2?”. This way, you find out a little bit more about your students and the students also can bond among themselves. This is another fun get-to-know game for your ESL lesson. Before a lesson, select...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hukou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linfen 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. Unit 3 of the TEFL course textbook emphasizes the importance of engaging students through language exposure, teacher input, communicative tasks, individual language discovery, and access to comfortable environments. Games, especially in younger classrooms, offer an ideal way for students to exercise newfound language skills while remaining engaged and attentive. In...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas As you have learned during your TEFL certification course, a good lesson starts with an engage, or warm-up phase. This usually consists of a fun and interesting activity to get your students going and speaking in English. For new teachers, it’s often these more casual moments of a class that are a challenge because of their lack of teaching experience. However, these top 5 icebreakers for new TEFL teachers will help you to get your class energized and ready for your lesson. This is a great activity for your very first lesson with a new class. Basically, the students each write down three statements. Two statements are true but one of them is a lie. Next, the students either present the statements to each other or to you, the teacher. The other students,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaohan 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. In this unit we discussed the various materials available for use in the classroom and how to best utilize them. There are two different forms or categories of classroom materials. The first category of classroom material is called Authentic. Authentic materials consist of things made for a specific purpose other than classroom use as a teaching aid or prop. The...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas The first thing to bear in mind when we're looking at the category of beginners is that beginners can be of any age and experience, so really what we should do is to break the beginner category down into a number of sub categories. Our first group we may call the absolute beginner, the second group we could have are called false beginners. The next category may be the adult beginners and therefore the category of young beginners and our final grouping called beginners without the Roman alphabet. The absolute beginner as the name implies are those people with no language knowledge of the particular language being learnt, so they've never been taught it and they probably have had no exposure to it either. Their knowledge of the language is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beizhang 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. One of the challenges for any English teacher is to keep the students engaged, and one of the best ways to do this is to include some classroom games to make learning more fun and exciting. By playing games, students can have fun and later on they will realize they also learn something from it. Games are also important to build rapport with the students. Games are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangshanpu 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. I'd like to begin with the saying that we all have been beginners - and we all remember how difficult it was - that is why the first thing that a good teacher should do — is to become understandable and sensitive. As we have got to know from unit 19 that beginners are divided by 5 categories : absolute beginner (it is a great present for teacher, because this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xue Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weinan 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. It is important to note that regardless of which situation you may find you self in be it in a school, language center, teaching young learners or adults you will always be involve in some or the other in some form of testing or evaluation. These test/evaluation may include things that are done internally for the school such as homework, course unit test, or end of year...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Youxian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Mianyang 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. Overall, I felt like this chapter was a great refresher on various parts of speech. I feel like I might have a hard time remembering each different category but with some practice it should be easy to remember. It was helpful that a sentence must consist of at least a subject and a verb. Overall, I felt like this chapter was a great refresher on various parts of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sudian 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. Having lessons all day must be very tiring for the students. They might not grasp all the ideas and the lessons that were given by their teachers. It must be very boring for them to just sit down and listen to what their teachers going to say. Studying almost 10 subjects everyday with different activities can exhaust the students mind because they might feel that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Feishui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Mianyang 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 learned from this reflection unit how I can be a good teacher and what is my roles of on this road.And also I submitted all lerning activities have a way such as from teachers to lerners.Therefore learners have some levels that is called as starter,elementary,pre intermediate,intermediate and upper intermediate.these are the names of level.also our category is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou — Garze? 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 completes the previous one. It's really important to know how and when to use the right material. The right use can help the students understand the lesson better. The material should be used to enhance the understanding of the given lesson and to complement the course. A teacher must know also what to use for each category of age. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ganlin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoxing 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 found Unit seven very useful with great guidance in teaching a new language. I learnt the basics on teaching a new vocabulary and how easy or difficult the category will be depending on a number of factors. Such as, similarity to the students own language, spelling and pronunciation and appropriacy. Also, I found the Straight Structure ESA Vocabulary lesson to be...  [Read more]

Charlotte Lam Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Due to the pandemic, distance learning has become the new form of teaching all over the words. In Hong Kong, teachers are trying to figure out ways to teach their students while having quarantine at home. In this post, I’m going to share some fun activities and games to play with kids by using Zoom so that you won’t run out of ideas when teaching through an online platform. If you’ve never used Zoom before, you must try it with your students, and it definitely surprises you. Teaching through an online platform makes it very difficult to manage the class because students are staying at home in a comfortable place rather than attending real classes in school. Therefore, setting up ground rules before the lessons helps to manage your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Weiyuan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pu'er 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 learned that teaching the past tense can be a complicated task. The four major forms of past tense are past simple, past perfect, past continuous, and past perfect continuous. It can we overwhelming trying to breakdown each sentence to try to see what category it falls into. Instead, its best to recognize indicators like "had been" or look for an "-ing" to quickly...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinminchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu 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 gives an overview of the CTEYL course as well as the ITT company and the various opportunities a TEFL teacher may come across throughout their career. This course aims to develop critical and analytical teachers who will carefully choose the best methods of teaching for a range of teaching opportunities. A skilled TEFL teacher should actively seek ways...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yakou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Panzhihua 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 gives an introduction to grammar through the description and explanation of the different parts of the speech. The parts of speech include: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and conjunction. In this unit sentence structure is explained and examples are given for each category. There is also an emphasis on the proper use of each type of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiangshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suining 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 spoke about grammar and the various parts of speech. Parts of speech refers the category in which a particular word may be assigned in a sentence. Some of the main parts of speech which were covered in the unit include noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, etc. Nouns refer to people, places, animals, things, qualities and states....  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas You will find the web full of ideas for teaching vocabulary and, although most of them are undoubtedly good activities, some are only suited to a particular level. Here are some tried and tested activities that can be adapted to suit any level of student and a variety of class sizes. This is a great activity that can be used as a warm-up at the beginning of a class, or as a game at the end of a lesson. It’s suitable for any class size over 4 students and requires minimal preparation. Divide the class into two teams and have two chairs at the front of the class, set up to face away from the board. Have one student from each team come and sit in the chairs and tell them not to turn and look at the board. The premise of the game is for you to write a word or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaojiazhuang 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. Learning modes: Young learners vs adults Learning process of humans goes through several stages from early childhood to adulthood and acquiring or learning a language is just one of the abilities we develop. Among other human skills the ability to learn and use language is somewhat special. There is a long-standing debate in psycholinguistics and cognitive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Danjingshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu 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. Why play? Like you, your students have come to class carrying baggage from their day. While their class time with you is just one component of their lives, it’s very likely an important one for them professionally and personally. Despite what great Aunt Sylvie may think, play time in class is not “wasted” time. Quite the contrary, games are perfect for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guang'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. This unit is all about enhancing a class to get a better result. I've learnt that a good teacher should be kind,patient,entertaining, interactive and must especially love your job.Correct students when they go wrong, concentrate on my teaching as well as on the young learners. As a teacher,i got ro assume the roles of a...  [Read more]

  In this TESOL review video Ray talks about how the 120-hour online TESOL course he took with ITTT helped him to learn the necessary skills to teach English as a foreign language. Ray recommends the course to anyone considering a career teaching English abroad or online. 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. Grammar, vocabulary and functions go hand in hand in this unit. Therefore as teachers we have to ensure that students are introduced to a new language...  [Read more]

  In her third video, Chantelle talks about unit 3 of the 120-hour online TEFL course from ITTT. This unit deals with teaching theories, methodologies and techniques. The unit introduces several different methodologies before focusing on the ESA method that is used throughout the course. The unit also covers a range of different activities that can be used in a lesson. It also looks at ways to deal with correcting student mistakes and errors in spoken and written English. 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...  [Read more]

  The idiom "green thumb" refers to the ability to grow plants well, for example: Whenever I buy a plant, it always dies shortly after. I really don't have a green thumb. Because my plants always die, I don't have the ability to grow plants well, hence, I don't have a green thumb. 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 covers the grammatical rules for using conditions and reported speech. There are different levels of conditionals (zero to third;...  [Read more]