To Elicit

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiwangzhuang 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. Teaching online is quite a different process than teaching in a classroom, and this is true for teaching English as a Foreign Language as well. When approaching this form of teaching, it is important to be aware of what activities will not work for online teaching, and which ones will. It is also important to be aware of the time and effort needed by the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Teaching can be a gratifying career, but with it comes great responsibility. Possessing a high grasp of grammar, teaching theories, techniques, etc., will hold you in good stead. However, there are many other wide-ranging characteristics required to be a great teacher. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Elicia B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. A great teacher needs to be adaptable as they are not just a teacher. They are a motivator, organizer, entertainer, prompter, corrector, and participator, to name only a few. It is essential that the teacher can identify when is appropriate to employ each of these roles to elicit the best out...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guguantun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaocheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. One of the most popular methods for ESL lesson planning is the “ESA” method, or Engage, Study, and Activate. The ESA method was coined by Jeremy Harmer as a simple and flexible structure to apply to each lesson. Because of its inherent flexibility and proven effectiveness, it is highly recommended for new and trainee teachers, and therefore I will do my best...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our ESA Methodology series. The ESA methodology consists of three stages. In this series, we look at the individual purposes of each stage and typical activities for each stage. This second video introduces the study phase of ESA. The purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check the understanding of that material.The second stage or phase of the lesson is known as the study phase and really the purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check understanding of that material. Typically in an ESA lesson, the study phase will have two parts. The first phase of the study is to cover the actual teaching component in what's known as the board work and what we try to do in the board work phase is to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangluo 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. I believe this unit is the most useful and educational method so far. I have learnt new information with every line. The games are really fun and I am lookinf forward to trying them on my new students.In addition I have noticed that there are various ways of doing something such as the way we elicit answers. I believe this unit is the most useful and educational...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qujing 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. Nice and short go through of the past tense. had this pretty much under control, compared to the present tense. interesting to see the different options you have to elicit the students or other ways to activate them in class. interesting course so far and i am really liking it. struggeling a bit with this as well, but working on the sheets makes it much easier. Nice...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bamei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou — Garze? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This was a great way to learn what not to do as a teacher (like raising your voice to a scream). The lesson also taught me how to show students how to approach activities, and how to elicit constructive feedback from them to ensure they carry out (or are able to carry out) the activities (by performing a practice round of a game, for instance). I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chentang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rikaze Shi — Shigatse, Xigaze? 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 section, I have acknowledged the importance of establishing good content when teaching. It is important to elicit vocabulary from them. At the beginning of my lessons, I will show them a video for the students to talk about the topic. For the final task, I will allow them to interview or survey their classmates about their favourite food...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sangtamu Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Akesu Diqu — Aksu? 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 unit, the method of teaching used depends on the level, culture, and personality of the students and teacher. I think using a mix of different techniques can increase effectiveness as well as engagement. I learned a lot about ways to elicit vocabulary and language from students. I also found the ideas for the engage, study, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chencang 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. I have gained the knowledge for teaching skills in the classroom about the role of teacher such as facillitator, istructor, mentor counsellor, policeman and the last one is psychologist. And I undestood the differences between the one to clients and group classes for this case we have to be more carefull when we have group lessons Because each student may have...  [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]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences When I think of my earliest childhood memories, I remember that I used to love to play games in the classroom (charades, 7-up/head down-thumb up, categories, bingo, etc.). Going from a boring ‘copy from the board’ type of class to a competitive, fun and activity-filled class gave me the ability to open my mind, so I could find the subject being taught more interesting and made it easier for me to absorb the information. Young learners may not have an interest in studying because they don’t yet have any motivation from learning, so they are only interested in games, songs, and other fun activities. When playing most of the games in the classroom, young learners are compelled to communicate with each other for the game to be able to work, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Caozhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinhua 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. When teaching a new language, teachers can follow 3 steps: Engage ==> Study ==> Activiate. For Engage stage, teachers use videos, pictures, discussion, mine and action to elicit a new language. For Study phase, teachers should use some activities to practice a new language such as gap-fill, matching, word search, crosswords,... For Activate phase, teachers use...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wangda 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. From this unit I have learned about different methodologies and strategies on teaching English. I was fascinated by all the different activities and ways you can keep students engaged and communicating. Although there was a lot of information on worksheet activities for Study phase, I found this unit lacking information on the techniques to elicit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tatirang Zhen? 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. Learning all the different teaching methods I would strongly pick these four to use: Audio lingualism - Presentation Practice and Production - Commutative language teaching - the lexical approach. Of course this would depend on the level of the students abilities. Learning different ways to Engage-Study-Activate. Elicitation and getting the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jixiong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shannan Shi — Lhoka? 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 seems there are many effective ways to introduce and practice material with a class. In all of them, the teacher needs to be respectful of the students. This includes being respectful of their ability (not introducing topics that are too hard, not asking them to engage in boring activities), effort (allowing them to self-correct, not over criticizing),...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on the usages of the past simple tense, which mostly include completed actions at a definite 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. This lesson teaches the various forms of the future tense, including various forms of present tense (present simple and present continuous) that can be used for events that...  [Read more]

  This video covers the difference between 'discreet' and 'discrete'. Their similar spelling and pronunciation makes them a word pair that is often confused. The word 'discreet' describes something that is unnoticeable and/or modest, whereas 'discrete' refers to something that is separate and distinct. Watch the video for detailed examples on the two words. 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 cleared out some mistakes that I do generally in a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanyinhe 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. Like any project, we plan to outline the action that should be taken in order to reach our goals, education is no exception. Planning a course or a lesson is the first step to communicate with the learners in an accessible manner. A lesson plan is a working document that can be passed to other teachers to carry out when the main teacher is not available; it also...  [Read more]

  John is currently teaching in Seoul, South Korea in a local school and at his home. John completed the TESOL course with ITTT. In this TESOL review video, John tells us what he gained from taking the course. The knowledge he gained from the course has already helped to improve his lessons and he is getting positive feedback from his students. John runs all of his own classes and is responsible for creating and choosing the materials for his classes as well as planning the lessons. Having completed this TESOL course, John is now considering taking further courses including a TESOL diploma and possibly a master’s in TESOL. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Puhui Muchang? 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. the most striking idea for me in this lesson is the effective way of delivering the engage, study and activate stage of learning. Many ways are given on how to facilitate the engage stage where in the teacher should elicit existing information to students. This stage could also be an overview of the current level of students. This stage could...  [Read more]

Federico Riva TEFL Information Teaching Ideas Here we're going to consider the use of visual aids in the classroom. Visual aids can include examples such as, real objects (which we call realia), the use of pictures and photographs and also the use of models. So let's consider some of the ideas surrounding the use of visual aids. First of all the use of a visual aid can reduce teacher talk time (TTT) which is always desirable. It is much simpler to just show a real object than to try to describe it, so that we could just ask the students, “what is this”? and they would say, “that is a pen” rather than trying to actually describe the pen. Again if we were eliciting names of fruit and vegetables, rather than to try and describe them, why not use the real thing (or a model) and this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pali Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Rikaze Shi — Shigatse, Xigaze? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit is exposing me to a variety of established theories and teaching techniques that I’m excited to further explore in my training! The ones that catch my attention most are audio-lingualism, that uses a behaviorist approach to language that conditions a student’s mind and ear to verbal cues and context in order to develop appropriate...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pandian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dezhou 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. Songs in the classroom Why are songs important for young learners? It is very well known the fact that English is a very melodic language, it sounds very soft and children love singing in English. When you keep a certain rhythm, rhyme and pace, it is very likely to learn faster and better almost any topic. For a group of very young learners it is quite a must to use...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shitou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yan'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. For this task, I have selected the course structure. As a teacher, a lot goes into the daily operation of the classroom. They need to consider their classroom setup, their management style, and the students they will teach. However, one very important facet of teaching is lesson design and teaching the students appropriate standards to help them in their English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Boli 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 many types of teachers in the world of ESL. This also means that there are many various types of teaching styles. Although, some teachers tend to lean on their most comfortable style, it’s important to remember your students personalities and the way they take in the information. Over the past 17 year of teaching ESL in Japan, I’ve had the chance to focus...  [Read more]

  So, for the study phase what we're going to do is to show them the idea of the cartoon strip. In the cartoon strip what there's going to be are some people with speech bubbles and this is going to represent where dialogue will appear and in the bottom, there are these rectangular boxes, where there will be descriptive things happening. So, it will explain the actual situation that these people are in. So, we get across the idea, first of all, that these are speech and these are for description and we can then show them a blank one of these cartoon strips and try to elicit from our students what could possibly the people be saying and in what actual situation are they in, in order for them to say that. Once we've gone through that, we can move on to our first study activity and in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fuquan 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. Despite learning grammar, vocabulary and functions are also a part of requirements in English language to enhance the standard of sentences. ESA methods are specifically targeted to grammar and vocabulary which can help students to lead to a manageable and balanced way in mastering English language. How can a student master the vocabulary well is having an...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Siji 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. ESA stands for Engage, Study, Activate. ESA is a guided form of teaching in a classroom setting. It is a highly used with students that know basic English. There are many ways to use ESA in a classroom. The beneficial part of ESA is that you can adapt it to how the students learn and what they need from the lesson the most. One way to teach ESA is the ‘straight...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangmiao 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. At begin of this paper, I want to explain the reason why I choose this topic. From the TEFL lessons, I have learned lots of things, so I want to say thanks. Let’s talk about the teaching skills in classroom now. The most useful one for me is the ESA teaching method. Why the teaching method is useful, because it give me some teaching ideas and give me a standard...  [Read more]