Grammatical Inversion

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duizhen 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. Many apps, nowadays, allow us to do online transactions that would normally be done in-person. Thanks to them time is saved, people from different countries are reached or interacted with, and multitasking skills grow, etc. Likewise, businesses have seen their own window into the Internet. Teaching English to Chinese children is one of many platforms that have been...  [Read more]

  And now we'll have a look at the present perfect continuous tense. As its name suggests, what we're going to do is combine the present continuous usages and the present perfect usages into a tense that basically expresses the fact that we've got an action continuing up until the present point in time. For the form of this tense, again, we're going to combine into various aspects of both the perfect and the continuous tenses. If we have a look we always begin with our subjects, then we have our, two now, helping verbs. The helping verb 'to have' for the perfect tenses, as well as the helping verb 'be' for the continuous tenses. For our subjects 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they', we leave 'have' as 'have' and for 'he', 'she' and 'it', we conjugate it to 'has'. Because it's a continuous...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zaohuli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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 the existing literature on language education, the terms CURRICULUM and SYLLABUS are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes differentiated, and sometimes misused and misunderstood. Rodger (1989:26, cited in Richards, 2001:39) makes a distinction between a syllabus and a curriculum. According to Rodgers, syllabi (or syllabuses), which prescribe the content to...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In the existing literature on language education, the terms CURRICULUM and SYLLABUS are sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes differentiated, and sometimes misused and misunderstood. Rodger (1989:26, cited in Richards, 2001:39) makes a distinction between a syllabus and curriculum. According to Rodgers, syllabi (or syllabuses), which prescribe the content to be covered by a given course, form only a small part of the total school program. The curriculum is a far broader concept. The curriculum is all those activities in which children engage under the auspices of the school. This includes not only what students learn, but how they learn it, how teachers help them learn, using what supporting materials, styles, and methods of assessment, and in what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chishang 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. Learning grammar is essential in the understanding and usage of the English language and how it impacts learners. One cannot overstate the importance of grammar as the backbone of the English language. Understanding the relation between the two is equally important. The correctness of its usage should follow satisfactory standards. Grammar should primarily focus on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chapan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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. Grammar can be a sticking point for learners. While there are always small nuances to sort out, there is also a general grammatical system which can be a useful starting point. By being able to clearly communicate this grammatical system, it can resolve many questions. For further details, references can be used. Grammar can be a sticking point for learners....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuepuhuxian Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Kashi Diqu — Kashgar, Kaxgar? 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 was useful and interested for me. I note interesting solutions and ideas for practical development of grammatical forms by students. The material is presented simply, but it is absolutely clear and enough, using good examples, i think. Grammatical forms of English are the most difficult item for many students.Thanks to the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qiantong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo 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 lesson taught me important factors to consider when teaching students new vocabulary, grammatical structures and language functions. There are many factors that can affect how hard or easy a vocabulary word is for students to learn, such as, how similar is the word to their own language, how similar is the word to words they already know in English, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guobei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Neijiang 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 content reintroduced grammar and the variety of language used throughout English. This unit helped me remember/learn grammatical parts of the English language which can be tough to comprehend. It emphasizes the complexity of English and the difficulties that could arise when educating others. I found this unit very useful as it has been a few years since I have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingbei 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. This unit teaching the best methods when it comes to introducing vocab, grammatical structures, and language functions. With each part the chapter hit on importance aspects of each that the student should understand. For instance with grammatical structures, it is important the student know the meaning, use, forms/patterns, and spoke/written form. This unit also...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yixing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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. A reminder of the structure of the English Language is incredibly useful for a native speaker, as the language forms naturally with no thought required to construct a sentence, as this happens sub-consciously. Being able to provide the 'building blocks' of the language to students is the 1st step to learning. Being able to provide this in the form of grammatical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Anjing 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. Do we have to learn grammar? This is probably the most repeated question in a typical classroom. Every teacher has to reply, but it's sometimes incredibly difficult to answer without discouraging your students. Learning word tables filled with irregular verbs or drilling exercises seem to be extremely distant from actual usage. Should we ignore this part of language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dingshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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. As stated in the course, grammar can be a struggle for both students and teachers. As native speakers, we have an innate sense of what 'sounds right' that helps us when we speak and write, whereas students do not. I believe it is important to approach grammar as if it was new to us, and try to break it down to simple rules, without getting hung up on every...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Renhe 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. In this chapter I reviewed how certain words fill different types of grammatical functions, as well as how they are used to compose sentence structure. Understanding grammar will help students be able to pick apart sentences to better understand them, as well as help them compose their own message when speaking or writing in English. This lesson also highlighted the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longquan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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 2 was an introduction to grammar and parts of speech. It included topics on basic grammatical elements and examples of usage of nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, adverbs, gerunds, pronouns, and prepositions/conjunctions. In addition to sentence examples, the unit discussed common areas of confusion for students as they navigate the complexity of grammatical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuyan 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. This unit was rather straight forward. There was not much confusion with regards to the grammatical rules. However, I would have appreciated more example sentences on each new topic. The chart with the irregular past simple forms was of great help. As I have progressed through this course, the grammatical formulas have become easier to understand, albeit the 'usage'...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (ICALL), the subfield of CALL integrating natural language processing and artificial intelligence, has typically equated language acquisition with the learning of linguistic patterns and grammatical structures. ICALL system, therefore, has focused on identifying and providing feedback to problems in student performance that are exclusively related to linguistic structures. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Omer Shahid R. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Some of these systems include learner models to adapt explanations, offer advice or decide on how a given student can advance through material. But the view of second...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heping 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. The past tense is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to place an action or situation in past time. In languages which have a past tense, it thus provides a grammatical means of indicating that the event being referred to took place in the past. All that information really helps people to get closer with English and allows them to feel free to speak to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Danianchen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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. Nowadays, an increasing amount of people have taking on a liking on English for various purposes, thus causing heated discussion about learning English, grammar learning especially. Some contend that we shouldn’t learn grammar. While others attach great importance to English grammar. Personally speaking, English grammar is of great essence like the foundation...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaocaoe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo 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 was a short one but one thing that I may find bothersome is teaching about the grammatical structure. For instance, the spoken and written form are different for each person like the example used in the unit section. Some people use "I am going" (written) and other people use "I'm gonna" (spoken). I am one of those people who use the spoken form more than...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qixi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Quzhou 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 students should be exposed to grammar on any levels. The grammar of the language and vocabulary are considered to be as a tree trunk and brunches with the leaves, one can not exist without another and together they reflect the variety of the language. Vocabulary play a very important role for the students. Students may posses passive/receptive and active/productive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinpu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ningbo 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, I have learned that when it comes to teaching new vocabulary, students rely on the similarities it has to their own language, the similarity to the English words they already know, spelling and pronunciation, and its appropriacy. In order for students to understand new vocabulary, it is best to pick words that are similar to ones they know, or words that...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Given that grammar is, unquestionably, one of the fundamental pillars of essentially any language, it is therefore of utmost importance to educate learners the correct grammatical rules, and even more preferably, when the learners are of a very young age, so that they can, presumably, have a better grasp of the underlying grammatical rules before they embrace on a pursuit of more advance intellectual knowledge. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate CHUN YAN T. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Nonetheless, because English grammar is, by no means, the easiest to fully comprehend, not to mention the numerous grammatical exceptions existing within the English language, it can,...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongguangleisixiangjidanwei? 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. Given that grammar is, unquestionably, one of the fundamental pillars of essentially any language, it is therefore of utmost importance to educate learners the correct grammatical rules, and even more preferably, when the learners are of a very young age, so that they can, presumably, have a better grasp of the underlying grammatical rules before...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maying 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. Like many other English teachers out there, I am a non native English speaker. In this summative task I would like to discuss some of the disadvantages, but more importantly, some of the often overlooked advantages of teaching as a non native speaker. Let's start with some disadvantages. When assessing the work of students and correcting them, a non native speaker...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our video series on "Evaluation and Testing of Students". In this video, we look at some of the most common business English exams people take around the world. Many EFL teachers around the world need to prepare their students for these international proficiency tests. 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. Similarly to other grammar units, this unit was really helpful in that it helped me understand more clearly the grammatical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Puqi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wenzhou 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 discusses grammar, vocabulary and functions. When teaching vocabulary, it is important to keep in mind why some vocabulary item may be easy or difficult. For example, keep in mind the similarity to students' own language and similarity to English words already known. When teaching vocabulary, a straight arrow ESA lesson is usually most effective. When...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chunhua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou 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.    Grammatical structures are the essential building blocks to any language, English is no exception. Without a frame, a painting will fall off the wall or lose its form. The meaning behind words is very much the same as a painting in a frame. The ideas which are meant to be conveyed are like the characters of a painting, the grammatical tools are like the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaozhuang 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. Grammar could be defined as the study of the classes of words, their inflections and their functions and relations in the sentence (see Merriam Webster) or grammar is a linguistic tool that determines the rules for presenting sentences correctly. It involves a number of related sub-fields including syntax, phonetics, morphology, and semantics. That is to say, grammar...  [Read more]