Miniature White Board

  One of the major ideas here when writing on the board, is that we need to be aware that whenever we're using the board to write down information, we should not be talking and whenever we are talking we should not be writing on the board. This will inevitably lead to what's known as dead time when nothing is being said as we're putting information on the board. This dead time is not a problem but we can actually minimize it by using a number of techniques. We could use pre-prepared material. So we put information onto large pieces of paper and then instead of writing on the board, we actually stick those materials onto the board as we go through the class. Another idea is to actually ask students to write on the board for you. Another thing is that we could actually put work up...  [Read more]

  The idiom "white elephant" refers to an expensive item that is costly to maintain, for example: Shortly after Tanya inherited her aunt's castle, it turned out to be a white elephant she could not afford. The phrase originates from a long time ago when white elephants where regarded as precious and even holy in Asia, especially in Thailand. When the king was displeased with someone, he would gift them a white elephant as the upkeeping would likely ruin them. 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...  [Read more]

  So let's have a look at some of the more general issues when using the wipe board. Perhaps the most important thing to start with is that we should start with a clean board. Secondly it's always very useful to make a board plan so that you know where things are going to appear on the board by the end of your lesson. It?s very simple to do a board plan. Just take a sheet of paper, which is similar in shape to the board that you're going to use, and then onto that piece of paper decide where all the information that's going onto your board is going to be by the time that you've finished. So a very simple board plan just to show where the information is going to be. Also it's very useful if you make use of tables and columns to separate different areas of your work and in the same...  [Read more]

  There's another activity for comparing and contrasting the tenses focusing here in this activity on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. So in the activity, students will start at the start and roll a die. Perhaps they can roll a 5. They will read 'something you've been learning for a long time'. The appropriate sentence may be 'I've been learning English for a long time.' The next student may go and roll 4. They read 'a beautiful place you've visited.' Then, rather than the present perfect continuous, they would use the present perfect tense: 'I visited Paris.' You can encourage students to even ask follow-up questions, which would also include other tenses: 'What was so beautiful about Paris?' Now, this activity will be particularly good for your more...  [Read more]

  The first part of my study phase is going to be the board work and I'm going to use the information that I generated in the elicitation part of my engage phase to move on to the actual board work. What I'm going to do is to show the structure of this particular tense. So, the phase study I'm expecting to take about ten minutes on this particular part and, again, the interaction will mainly be the students talking to me. So, how am I going to achieve that with this information? Well, we could ask the students to have a look at the sentences themselves and to tell us what they can see. If we look at each of the first words in here, then at this level, I should hopefully be able to elicit from my students what each of these words have in common and they may well give an answer that...  [Read more]

1. Introduction 2. Celtic FC's Global Fan Base 3. Celtic FC Fans in Peru 4. How to Connect with Celtic FC Fans in Peru Celtic FC, based in Glasgow, Scotland, is one of the most iconic football clubs in the world with a rich history dating back to 1888. The club has a massive global fan base that transcends borders and cultures, connecting millions of supporters worldwide through their passion for the green and white hoops. One such country where Celtic FC has a dedicated following is Peru, where fans come together to celebrate their love for the club despite the geographical distance. Celtic FC boasts a massive global fan base that stretches far beyond Scotland. With supporters in every corner of the world, the club has created a strong community of fans who share a common love for the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Banzhuyuan 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. EQUIPMENT & TEACHING AIDS. Over the last few decades the growth in different types of classroom Equipment & Teaching Aids have been incredible. And we have the opportunity to Access to the content from exciting ways, thus, the process of teaching – learning depends of equipment available in the classroom. There are many Equipment & Teaching Aids...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zitongmiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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 WHAT ACTIVITIES CAN BE USED WHEN TEACHING ONLINE Lucy BRYANT | ITTT TEFL | 29/07/19  Introduction In this summative task I will be looking at which activities to use when teaching online. As with any language class, students need to be involved as much as possible to keep their attention and interest. This can be particularly challenging when you...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mashan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching aids in the classroom are an important part of a student learning abilities. It is important because they create a visual and interactive experience for the students in the classroom . Teaching aids and equipment can also be used to make lessons more interesting to the students. To help with the students in the class we use equipment such as the white/black...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangjia 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. Although I have many years of experience teaching English in a traditional classroom, recently I began teaching English online to Chinese children. As a result, I have realized that unique techniques are needed when teaching online, especially to young learners! To that end, my summative response will address several teaching techniques I believe are useful for online...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yimen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The proper use of various resources in the classroom can make teaching interesting and fun; and learning more effective. There are many resources that are likely to grab and keep the attention of students rather than sitting and reading from one form of hard copy during entire class session/s. Some of the resources that are helpful in the classroom are: black/white...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huanggai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jining 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. How does ESA work for new teachers? Before taking this course, I used to think teaching is only preparing a lot of materials and passing on to students as much as possible. The monologue style is very different from the interactive that I have learned in this course. Presentation, practice and pronunciation “(PPP)” is an old method in teaching. The ESA structure...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiqiaozi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang 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. Our world is quickly changing all the time and especially recent times. Modern technologies are a part of our everyday life and even more children can't imagine this world without gadgets. Our generation saw the world without digital technologies, and we have an opportunity to compare it “before” and “after”. But children see all new modern technologies...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Let's have a look at our top tips when using the wipeboard. Perhaps the most important thing to remember is that we should start with a clean board. Students have a tendency to read what is on the board, so if anything has to be pre-written, cover it up with paper until it is needed. Secondly it's always very useful to make a board plan so that you know where things are going to appear on the board by the end of your lesson. It is very simple to do a board plan, just take a sheet of paper which is similar in shape to the board that you're going to use. Then onto that piece of paper decide where all the information that's going onto your board is going to be by the time that you've finished. So a very simple board plan shows where the information is going...  [Read more]

  It is very important that whenever we?re doing an activity that we use the students names wherever possible when we're asking for feedback and so on and so forth. There are a number of benefits to using the students? names and they can include helping to actually organize the class itself, certainly to acknowledge when a student has given the correct answer and so forth, to indicate who should respond, rather than just asking a general question to the whole class. By using the names we can ask an individual to respond to that particular question. One point to note here is that if you are going to ask an individual student it is very useful if you put their name at the end of the question. This is useful because if you start with their name then all of the other students know that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongdao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching Business English By Jill Kaminski Based on my research into teaching English abroad, it seems business English courses are becoming more popular and in demand. With the internet creating more connections between people, businesses, and commerce, English is becoming the common language of global business. This creates a great opportunity for native English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingqiaoyi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hanzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teacher:John Smith Time: 45 minutes Date and Time: 21/1/19, 4:30 pm Class Level:Elementary Room: 14 C Expected number of students: 16 Language point: Use of adjectives and nouns to describe animals and colors. Teaching aids: The book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? By Bill Martin, Jr. Illustrator: Eric Carle Small Pointer for pointing at words and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Youfeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. There are many reasons why classroom management skillsets are really important for the basics of teaching generally. It effectively helps build a great classroom atmosphere for everyone in it as well as create rapport between the teacher and the student. Few of the most important skills the teacher needs to acquire are the special details towards their eye contact,...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word sprightly. This word is used to describe a person, usually a little bit older, who is full of energy. 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 is based on the various teaching equipment that teachers have at their disposal like projectors, white and black boards and dvds just to mention a few. we also at their advantages and disadvantages and how they and be helpful to the activities done by...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangbamiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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 is a very hard work. For being a teacher you need to have some special skills. Especially when you are a teacher who teaches different groups. In my summative task I would like to discuss the differences of teaching young learners and adults. With young learners you need to combine fun and teaching. As it is not possible to dictate or read lectures for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Subao 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. LESSON PLAN Teacher:Larysa.xu Expected student numbers: 8 Date & Time:June 20th Class level:L1 Teaching aids: IWB Cue Card 1-Engage Picture Cue Card 2-Finding Mistake Worksheet Cue Card 3- Negative Form Worksheet Cue Card 4- Question Worksheet Cue Card 5- Gap Filling Worksheet Cue Card 6-Role Play Picture Cue Card 7- Interview(A/B): Reporter and interviewee Learner...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and how it is formed and used. This tense is used to indicate that a certain action was in progress at a particular time in the past. 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 learnt that the intelligence of a student alone is not enough but requires a teacher's input for them to learn English.A teacher can teach using different...  [Read more]

  This video focuses on some of the problems teachers of business English might encounter. 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. This unit covered the various equipments used in the classroom and ones that are most commonly available to teachers. The unit gave a very in depth look at the functions of equipment such as white board,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xingcun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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. Imagine a student walks into English class for the first time and sees the teacher [a woman - solely for example’s sake] fumbling for a cord and searching for an outlet because her lesson was based off a slideshow on her laptop, which ran out of battery power and she wasn’t prepared to have to plug it in. The student might get a negative first impression of the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Trang V. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Also Read: Moving Forward: My Personal Teaching Experience, Changing Careers STAGE 1 - Understanding And Learning The Meaning Of New Words (10’) Firstly, students watch a video that is related to colors. Students give their attention the main words: Black, white, yellow, pink, blue, green, orange, grey, brown, purple, red Help them to understand what topic we learn today. They watch the video once and try to remember some of the colors. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4XUBGJK180 Then the teacher will move around class make them have more focus: The Teacher will hold a sticker of colors...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dusi 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. Alexander Coffey 4/4/19 120hr TEFL course Summative exercise on classroom arrangements An interesting topic discussed in the TEFL course was the advantages and disadvantage of different seating arrangements in the classroom. For what would seem like a simple subject, it turned out to be quite intriguing. Space in a classroom can be limited at times so it's important to...  [Read more]

  In this TEFL review, Roksana from Poland tells us about her experience taking the 120-hour TEFL course as well as the business English course. She decided to take the courses with ITTT after a recommendation from her friends. She found both courses to be very clear with plenty of materials and examples. 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. After studying unit 4 I have learned to distinguis between the present tenses better then before. I've also learned...  [Read more]

  In this video, we explain the difference between the usage of "capital" and "capitol". These two terms are often confused due to their similar spelling and pronunciation. The word ?capital? is used to refer to a capital letter, a city that serves as a center of government and also wealth in the form of money or property. A good example sentence would be: In American schools, the capital letter "A" means your work was at least 90% correct. This sentence uses 'capital' to refer to a capitalized letter, 'A' in this case. Tokyo is the capital of Japan. In this example, capital refers to the capital city of Japan. The business did not have enough capital to buy the new building. Here, capital means money or wealth. "Capitol" spelled with an ?o? on the other hand refers to the actual...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuantan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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. For the past five years, I have been a teacher for students as young as 4 years and as old as 35 years at all levels of learning English. Therefore, I can say with certainty that the success of a class resides every time on a well prepared class material. All kinds of students at all levels love to do games during class. Fun games are most of the times used in my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangxie 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. Seating in the classroom is an effective way to take control of behavior, good or bad. Many teachers overlook these simple arrangements of the room. The summation will be to describe several types of seating arrangements along with the advantages and disadvantages. This information comes from course material and experience. The first of these seating arrangements...  [Read more]