Language Functions In A Lesson Plan

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chongren 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. Teaching foreign language to novice learners is a challenging and demanding task. Teaching foreign language requires the implementation of three main components including grammar, vocabulary and functions. The latter are complementary elements since each component completes and influences the other. Hence, for a balanced exposure of any new language; vocabulary,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongjun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. What I have learned when planning lessons is the importance of writing a lesson plan. These are the functions that are associated with it which are it creating a record of what the lass has covered, so you can recap the work with the students to check how much understanding they have gained from the lesson. Another function is it helping with the entire planning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qishan 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 best thing that I have learnt from TEFL/TESOL course is lesson planning (model 9), lesson planning has been a grey area for me for a long time, because I have come across very good teachers that always have a lesson plan, I have also come across good teachers who believe that lesson plans make lessons boring, inflexible and less productive both categories have a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Beijie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lishui 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 7 touched upon the importance of teaching vocabulary, grammar and language functions, and that when a student is learning a new language it is important that they be exposed to it, understand the meaning, understand how it is constructed, and be able to practice and produce it. Therefore, using the right lesson plan is important and the same method cannot...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lishui-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Lishui-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| I learnt that in selecting a vocabulary item, students need to know the meaning of the word for example if you select close the book- you have to explain till every students understands the meaning of close the book I learnt that in selecting a vocabulary item, students need to know the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lishui-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Lishui-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| another good chapter that highlights at what level you would start your english teaching This unit 7 will certainly be useful to organize and prepare better my lessons according to their objective This unit 7 will certainly be useful to organize and prepare in a better way my lessons...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dahekan 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. The primary reason I selected this topic is that I find it very difficult to write a detailed and well structured lesson plan. It takes more time than the actual lesson. The secondary reason was to learn more about planning and to find somehow a happy medium for that. First I am going to describe a lesson plan with its parts, secondly the functions of writing a...  [Read more]

  Once we're satisfied that all the students have been engaged and that they've been given the opportunity to say something, we can move on to our study phase. Here, it may be necessary or useful to actually pre-teach some gaps in knowledge that have been shown from the engage phase and those gaps in knowledge may include actual grammar structures or indeed useful vocabulary and it's very important that, before we move on to doing any forms of activity, we check their understanding of this material. So, we need to do some study exercises. It's also very useful if you leave this information up on the board through all that study period. Those study activities can just be the normal types of gap fills or matching activities and, as always, we need to demonstrate those activities,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangting 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. This Summative Task will focus on the importance of lesson planning for a class, with particular attention on the concepts learnt throughout this course and my personal understanding of the material. Having a form of structure has always been a vital element in order to perform any task to my best ability. Therefor, lesson planning was a subject which I knew would...  [Read more]

  This video presents a teaching idea for reported speech. The activity includes having the students walk around the classroom asking other students for various bits of information. At the end of the activity, the students will report back the answers in reported speech. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next. This unit has explained what a teacher needs to do to help a learner learns a new language, by being exposed to it, learn the vocabulary, grammatical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiazhuang 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. Games are a unique form of learning that helps make the experience of students interesting and exciting on multiple levels. The entertaining component of games makes the lesson emotionally colored. The emotionality of games activates the psychological processes and functions of the child. Another positive aspect of the game is that it promotes the use of knowledge...  [Read more]

  Jamiu from Nigeria took the 120-hour online TEFL course without tutor support from ITTT. IN this TEFL review video Jamiu discusses what the learned on the course including how to structure a lesson plan and different teaching techniques and strategies. The course also helped him clear up some misunderstanding he had about English grammar. 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. Perhaps because I have already started teaching allot of the information seemed...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuci 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 talk about what aspects we need to pay attention to when teach a new language, that is, vocabulary, grammar and functions. In addition, the discussion also emphasizes the different focuses of teaching vocabulary, grammar and function, for example, when teaching vocabulary, teachers need to focus on the meaning, use, word grammar, interaction and so on. Focus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dajing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangluo 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. “Some theorists suggest that lesson planning is not a good idea as it creates a more fixed, teacher centred lesson” (ITTT TEFL 009 Lesson Planning, pg 1). However, I would argue that without a lesson plan many inexperienced English teachers may often lack direction. I will discuss how to best use a lesson plan to achieve the greatest successes in each lesson....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huji 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. Lesson planning is, at least to some degree, a vital function of teaching. The degree to which a lesson plan is necessary is often directly proportional to the teaching experience of the teacher. The less experience the teacher has the more necessary and beneficial the lesson plan is and vice versa. Lesson plans give the class structure, hold the teacher accountable,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sixi 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. In the Unit 4 – ‘Teaching New Language’ I learned many important things related to teaching vocabulary, grammar and function. Through this Unit, I could understand that whatever the level of the class, there are four things that students need to do with new language: 1) be exposed to it. 2) understand its meaning. 3) understand how it’s constructed, and lastly...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangqi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ankang 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. Summative Task: Lesson Planning A well planned and designed lesson plan can be a great tool for the professional English teacher. Especially for beginning teachers, a lesson plan can be an invaluable aid in keeping the class on course, and in making sure the intended learning objectives are fulfilled. Some critics of lesson planning contend that lesson plans keep the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The lesson plan functions as a roadmap for the teacher, providing an organized framework for the planning, preparation, and execution of the lesson and serving as a record of what has been completed. It should not be a detailed script, but rather a guide that allows for flexibility and adaptation in the classroom. The plan is a living document that may continue to be refined and enhanced after execution, incorporating lessons learned. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Simona H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Through the process of developing a plan, the teacher will be able to organize their thoughts on the lesson objectives and the sequence of steps required to meet...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shaoxing-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| I found Unit seven very useful with great guidance in teaching a new language Unit 7 is about what to consider when teaching vocabulary, grammar and functions This unit incorporate the various theories, methods and techniques into teaching new language This unit has helped me to...  [Read more]

  The idiom "all ears" means that someone is very keen to hear what you have to say and you have his/her full attention. For example: Why are you crying? Tell me, I'm all ears. In this case, the person asking really wants to know the reason for the other person to be upset and crying. 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. I have learned about the various past verb tenses and how they are used in everyday English, as well as how to teach them. I learned about...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nanshu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qingdao Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are differences of opinion regarding to lesson planning. Some, more experienced teachers, are probably able to conduct a lesson without much planning. But, for a young and inexperienced teacher such as myself, lesson planning is very important, mostly because I imagine it would be very hard for me to predict some of the language problems that may arise....  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Lesson planning is, at least to some degree, a vital function of teaching. The degree to which a lesson plan is necessary is often directly proportional to the teaching experience of the teacher. The less experience the teacher has the more necessary and beneficial the lesson plan is and vice versa. Lesson plans give the class structure, hold the teacher accountable, and function as a helpful aide, overall adding to the effectiveness of the class and the student’s opportunity to learn. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Katie A. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Unit 9 from this course points out that lesson plans can range anywhere from a few notes scribbled on a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guangping 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. Lesson planning is an indispensable part of successful lessons. Generally speaking, lesson plans have various functions that are conducive to the classes.Here are its main functions: First and most importantly, lesson plans can help teachers think and deliver classes logically through different stages of the classes. It can also give teachers hints needed. When...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiaxing-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiaxing-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| This unit showed me the proper ways in which a teacher can introduce new language and grammatical structures, and how to encourage the students to use them in unison By studying unit 7, it has helped me to understand what sorts of process students go through and as a teacher what I should...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhenchuan 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. WHY SHOULD WE PLAN LESSONS? First of all we need to know that what is a lesson plan.Lesson plan is the teacher's quide for running a particular lesson, and it includes the goal(what the students are supposed to learn), how the goal will be reached (the method, procedures) and a way of measuring how well the goal was reached(test, worksheet, homework). A lesson...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangyan 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. Is lesson planning important? Well, there are varying opinions on the issue, and some more experienced teachers prefer to jot down notes rather that create lesson plans as they feel they are rigid and stifle creativity and flexibility. However, most can at least agree that the writing of lesson plans has a number of important functions and is a vital part of ESL...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taohongpo 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. In my country there are so many people who are quite sure that the teacher’s job is one of the easiest and most desirable on the planet, and as a bonus it gives you a lot of free time. “Oh, come on”, they say, “you just stand and talk for few hours, then you go home, like, at 1-2 o’clock, and we have to work from 8 till 5”. We are not going to discuss...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The classroom is the place where the students spend a big part of their life. Building safety and organized classroom environment is a very important task for the teacher. Many researchers explored problems of classroom management to create a safe classroom for the students and to establish rules of conduct. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Rozalina K. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Classroom management includes all organizational and procedural and control measures in the classroom. Usually, this is a wide range of actions, which teachers make and maintains conditions facilitating the effective learning of the classroom. This is a long process, involving and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Quzhou-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit gives general and brief introduction about teaching vocabulary, grammar, and functions Any teacher, teaching new language should stick to the basic strategy of ESA methodolgy, however one has to take into account the type of new language instruction as there happens to be findings...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teaching English as a foreign language in another country can be overwhelming for someone without any teaching experience, specifically English teaching. Planning for lessons is very critical for good lesson plans to help to improve the efficiency of students’ English learning. There are a couple of aspects to consider to ensure a good lesson plan. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Dakota H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Based on how long each class is, how many classes in total, and how long the course lasts, making a teaching plan according to clear teaching goals is significant. There will be the time that the lesson plan has to be changed, but having a...  [Read more]