Jeremy English

The following books have been found useful by many teachers, during both their TEFL course and teaching careers: The Practice of English Language Teaching, by Jeremy Harmer (Longman) How to Teach English, by Jeremy Harmer (Longman) English Grammar in Use, by Raymond Murphy (CUP) Practical English Usage, by M. Swan (OUP) Practical English Grammar, by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet (OUP,1990) Collins, Cobuild English Dictionary (Collins) How English Works, by Swan/Walter (OUP) More Grammar Games, by Rinvolucri and Davis (CUP) Grammar Practice Activities, by Penny Ur (CUP) Grammar Games and Activities, by Peter Watcyn-Jones (Penguin) The Resourceful English Teacher, by Chandler/Stone (Delta) Teaching English Abroad, by Susan Griffith (Crimson Publishing) It is certainly not essential to have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Machang 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. Joseph Voytko January 20th, 2019 ITTT TEFL Summative Task ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) “Like language learners outside schools, they will need to be motivated, be exposed to language, and given chances to use it. We can therefore say what elements need to be present in a language classroom to help students learn effectively. We will call these elements...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jimunai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Aletai Dìqu — Altay? 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 was quiet a challenging unit and I learned a lot of different teaching concepts. I especially liked the ESA teaching method that was discovered by Jeremy Harmer, in which this approach makes it possible for different teaching methods to be used in a teaching environment where the teacher get to use the facets of ESA- Engage, Study and Activate. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Caoka Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changdu Shi — Qamdo, Chambo? 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 some EFL methodologies, such as: Grammar-translation; Audio-lingualism; Task-Based Learning etc. and in this unit, I have learned one of the useful method called ‘ESA’-Engage, Study and Activate in detail (put forward by Jeremy Harmer). Lots of practical techniques and interesting games which I found quite useful have been explained...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Keketuohai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Aletai Dìqu — Altay? 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. From my point of view all of these methods can be used together in practice. It make sense to combine the methods - use two or three of them - together for better assimilation of the material. ESA method which was put forward by Jeremy Harmer is an example of good combination of several methods. The flexibility of the ESA method gives a large field for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan er'ersan Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou —? 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 learned about the different methodologies in teaching english. Most of these methods have their own set of pros and cons. Jeremy Harmer’s ‘ESA - Engage, Study and Activate’ method seems to have combined most of the methods into one which works for all levels of students. The unit also covered a wide array of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tarong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lasa Shi — Lhasa? 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. Methods of teaching have always been around for the purpose of providing teachers with the most effective approach and techniques for teaching students. Jeremy Harmer studied these teaching methods and developed another method known as ESA. ESA stands for Engage Study and Activate and is the method that this course is based on. ESA is considered the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pubao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Naqu Shi — Nagqu? 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 most common Teaching English as a Second/Foreign language methods are Grammar Translation Method, Audio Lingualism, PPP, Task Based Learning, Communicative Language Teaching, The Silent Way, Suggestopaedia and Lexical Approach. Jeremy Harmer put forward an effective and flexible method that puts all the learner factors together, called ESA. For this method,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang 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. Jeremy Harmer introduced an effective method that helps students feel motivated, exposed to language and thus have the opportunity to use it. It's called ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) method. This approach gives the teacher a great deal of flexibility in the classroom. During the engage stage we should ensure that every student speaks English. Moreover, the main aim...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bazhouawati Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayinguoleng Menggu Zizhizhou —? 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 lesson, I first learned about the various language teaching methodologies. One teaching methodology is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), in which language function is very important. Activities using this methodology tend to be about real life situations. Next, we learned about the Engage, Study, and Activate method,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laodong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang 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 understood from this unit that throughout the years there have been several approaches, methods and techniques about teaching English. Back to 17th century, first we called 'The Classical Method' in other words 'Grammar Translation Method' which based on translating Greek and Latin to the nature language. Then it followed many other methods such as...  [Read more]

  In this TEFL review video, Maria discusses how she is very pleased with her experience of studying with ITTT. Having completed the 120-hour online TEFL course with videos and tutor support she received her certificate within just a few weeks. Maria points out that the course is suitable for anyone no matter their level of expertise. 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 this unit I learned that a beginner may have learned vocabulary but it is not easy to...  [Read more]

  Like many of ITTT's students Chethan had been teaching for some time before taking his online course. In this TESOL review video, Chethan describes how through taking the course he was able to learn new teaching techniques and adapt his approach to improve his English classes. 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. It's very interesting that there is so much study gone into how to give lessons. I'm wondering what kind of methods these videos were made with....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jianshe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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 class, it mainly introduces the theories, methods and techniques. Especially, some useful teaching methods like the Classical Method, which is the most popular method around the 17th used by scholars to translate ancient Greek and Latin texts into their native language. Besides, the Direct Method, it is also called the Natural Method, which tells us that if...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongyue Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 looks at teaching and learning. It identifies the four major groups from which teaching methodologies have been based upon. It then looks at the differences between L1 and L2 and looks at learning versus acquisition. In terms of adopting a teaching approach it is necessary to split the group of 5 to 13 into 2 groups, group 1, 5 to 9 and group 2, 9 to 13....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huilong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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 long as people are learning and teaching languages there were a lot of debates about what method is better and what technique gives a better result. Among those techniques are communicative language teaching, silent way, suggestopedia, audio-lingualism and others. But actually the most effective method Engage, Study, Activate (or ESA) was offered by Jeremy Harmer....  [Read more]

  Telmo lives in Portugal and has completed an online TEFL course with ITTT. In this TEFL review, Telmo tells us how he enjoyed his experience on the course and recommends taking the course with tutor support. ITTT offers a range of course to suit all needs so if you are looking at taking your first steps as an English teacher or wish to refresh your skills you are bound to find something to suit you with ITTT. 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. Teaching...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuanba Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang 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 was very helpful to see the various methodologies used in teaching EFL over the years: grammar-translation, audio-lingualism, PPP, task-based learning, CLT, CLL, the sllent way, suggestopaedia, and the lexical approach. As one who went through a traditional ESL program in elementary school, I believe I was used to the grammar-translation, audio-lingualism and...  [Read more]

  Rory Cripps describes his own experience as a TEFL/TESOL learner in Beijing, China. ITTT is a professional training organization dedicated to raising standards of teaching and professionalism in the EFL industry. ITTT is committed to: Providing a wide range of courses and services to cater to individual needs. We aim to help you choose the right course for you. 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 seems to be a drilling of the ESA methodology. It...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wubao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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. Base on Unit 3, I've learnt lots of useful knowledge about some common methodologies and good techniques which bring out the best result in teaching. Thanks to these above descriptions, I can be more flexible to plan many interesting lessons to help the students study more effectively as they can. With the brilliant method 'ESA' by Jeremy Harmer, it gives many benefits...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sangcun 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. Since inmemorial time all living species have managed to preserve themselves through very sophisticated ways of communication, starting at a cellular level with the apoptosis process in which a single deteriorated cell calls upon the others to commit mass suicide up to the most developed digital systems of interaction amongst humans. It has become very clear...  [Read more]

  Roman is a business communications trainer in Malaysia. Originally from the Philippines, he completed his 120-hour certificate course with ITTT as his first step towards starting a career in English language teaching. In this TEFL review Roman discusses how he found that he learned much more than he expected from the course, including information about classroom management, lesson planning and phonology. Roman also appreciated the great flexibility an online TEFL course provides meaning he was able to study while maintaining an active social life in his spare time. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huzhu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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've leant a lot in unit three. In this part, it mainly talked about the theories, methods and techniques of teaching. I learnt the following method of teaching: the classical method, audio-lingualism, the silent way, suggestopedia, TPR , ESA and so on. Each method has its own positive factors and negative factors. Which one will the you use, it depends on your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xifangcheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Datong 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. You can already be a good experienced teacher of English as a foreign language, but it is never too late to learn something new. As the idiom says: “live and learn”. I want to share what was useful for me from my TEFL/TESOL course. In the first place, it is not a secret that there are so many different approaches and methods of teaching English. It can be...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Benefits of Using TEFL Course Books 3. Top-rated TEFL Course Books 4. Conclusion Welcome to ITTT's guide to the top-rated TEFL course books available in the market today. As a leading provider of TEFL and TESOL training, ITTT understands the importance of quality resources for teachers and aspiring educators. In this article, we will explore the benefits of using TEFL course books and highlight some of the top-rated options that can help you enhance your teaching skills and excel in the field of English language education. TEFL course books are an essential tool for teachers looking to deliver high-quality English language instruction. These books are specifically designed to cover a wide range of topics, from grammar and vocabulary to lesson planning and classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhayu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changdu Shi — Qamdo, Chambo? 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. Deciding upon which teaching method is most effective is still a lively debated topic, different methods have different draw backs and appeals in different contexts. However, no matter the method, TEFL teaches using Jeremy Harmer's "Engage, Study, Activate" framework. The generic version of this framework arouses student's interest and gets them...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuifuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 of this course looks at the general theories about learning and the different teaching methodologies. Here we look at the three major groups of learning and behavior theories such as, maturation, environmental, constructivism, and one further group called, the cognitive developmentalists. All language learning theories and teaching methodologies are based on one...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhongdu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yibin 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'VE LEARNT ABOUT THE VARIOUS METHODOLOGIES USED BY THE TEACHER. GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION, AUDIO-LINGUALISM, PRESENTATION PRACTICE AND PRODUCTION, TASK BASED, COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING, COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING, LEXICAL APPROACH, SUGGESTOPEDIA AND SILENT WAY ARE THE VARIOUS METHODOLOGIES WHICH I'VE LEARNT. I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT COMMUNITY AND...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sipo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yibin 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 starts with a concise introduction and discussion of major methodologies adopted in ELT. Then it introduces the methodology of 'ESA' teaching which has been developed by Jeremy Harper and has been regarded as 'effective' and 'logical' by this course. It is followed by the introduction of 'elicitation' which is an important component of 'ESA'. Later, it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangzhai Zhen? 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. Many people may have pondered the question of whether teaching slang and idioms in a classroom is appropriate. Well, it is up to the reader to decide for themselves because this topic is quite subjective, and many people may have different views. First let’s look at idioms, these are phrases that in most cases have a completely different meaning that what the...  [Read more]