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  This infographic shows a number of different course books for teaching business English that are available from a variety of different publishers. Many of these books can be bought online either through Amazon or direct from the publisher. If you are teaching business English classes either as a private tutor or an employee of an English language school, you should find something here to interest you and your students. Are you ready to live and teach abroad? Click here and get started today: https://www.teflcourse.net/?cu=YTDESCRIPTION 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...  [Read more]

When planning a TEFL lesson, it is crucial to consider various essential components to ensure effective teaching and learning. These components include setting clear learning objectives, selecting appropriate teaching materials, incorporating engaging activities, assessing student progress, and providing opportunities for feedback. By carefully considering these elements, teachers can create well-structured and engaging lessons that cater to the diverse needs of their students. There are numerous resources available to assist TEFL teachers in planning engaging and effective lessons. Online platforms such as ESL Library, BusyTeacher, and British Council offer a wide range of lesson plans, worksheets, and teaching resources for teachers of all levels. Additionally, books like "Learning...  [Read more]

Lesson planning is a crucial aspect of teaching in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). It involves the organization and preparation of instructional materials and activities to meet the learning objectives of English language learners. Effective lesson planning ensures that teachers deliver engaging and meaningful lessons that cater to the diverse needs of their students. TESOL teachers can utilize a variety of resources to enhance their lesson planning skills and create dynamic learning experiences for their students. The internet offers a wealth of resources for TESOL teachers to aid in lesson planning. Websites like ESL Printables, BusyTeacher, and Breaking News English provide a wide range of lesson plans, worksheets, and teaching materials that can be...  [Read more]

When it comes to planning effective lessons in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), there are numerous online resources available to assist teachers. Websites like BusyTeacher, ESL Flow, and Breaking News English offer a wide range of lesson plans, worksheets, and activities for teachers of all levels. These resources often provide ideas for engaging classroom activities, grammar and vocabulary exercises, and conversation topics for English language learners. Additionally, online platforms such as British Council and TESOL International Association offer free teaching resources and professional development opportunities for TEFL teachers. In addition to online resources, many TEFL teachers find value in using books and publications to aid in their lesson planning. Popular titles...  [Read more]

There is a very large market for ESL teaching books and all the major publishers have some amount of involvement in their production. These books fall into a number of different categories and here we will look at the three main categories. Every teacher will have come across a few different book series that have been specifically written for the ESL teaching market. This type of resource generally comes in five different levels: starter/beginner, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, and upper-intermediate. Each series will also contain three types of book: the teacher book, the student book, and the resource book (or something similar). The teacher book is key as it outlines the syllabus covered and it also breaks each subject up into individual lessons. Each of the lessons...  [Read more]

  The idiom "itchy feet" refers to the need to leave or a feeling of a need to travel, for example: Watching an airplane pass by is giving me itchy feet. 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. Unit 14 focused on the advantages and disadvantages of course books and the differences between created materials and authentic materials used in teaching English as a foreign languag. Course books are either loved or hated by the instructors; nevertheless,...  [Read more]

  As mentioned earlier, to form this tense, we have to use a special form of the verb. Technically it's called the past participle form with irregular verbs. Of course these past participle forms change quite a bit from its base form of the verb. Here are a few examples 'go' moves to 'gone', 'be' moves to 'been', 'write' to 'written', 'speak' to 'spoken' and 'read'. Although very confusing for the non-native speaker, doesn't change its spelling, but does change its pronunciation, resulting in 'read' going to 'read'. 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...  [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]

  In this episode, Linda takes on the pronunciation of the word "estival". Enjoy the episode! 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. The beliefs and attitudes of teachers concerning language teaching procedures are highly relevant for the criteria they use to decide for or against adopting a certain kind of teaching materia. Seeing that most teachers decide for using textbooks, the choice of a certain book also depends on this academic and...  [Read more]

  And now let's look at the future continuous tense. The future continuous tense is typically used to indicate an action in progress at a particular time in the future. To form this tense in the positive form, we have our subject, here we've used 'Karen', the word 'will', our auxiliary verb our helping verb 'to be' and then the present participle or the verb with 'ing', so 'Karen will be going'. In order to create the negative form, we keep with our positive form but add 'not' in between 'will' and our helping verb 'to be'. Finally, we ask a question by beginning with 'will', then we have our subject being sure to include our helping verb and the present participle: 'Will Karen be going?' Some of the more common usages for the future continuous tense are as follows. We can use them...  [Read more]

  So let's take an example of what those drills might involve. So here is an example of a repetition drill. I will model the language and then my class will repeat after me. So "This is a cup." "Spoon" ? "This is a spoon." "Knife" - "his is a knife." Thank you. The reason that it's called or also called the army method is that it was the method adopted by the United States military who had personnel stationed around the world at the end of Second World War and they realized that they needed those personnel to pick up the language very quickly and one of the positive things about this particular methodology is that you do very quickly learn vocabulary. Another positive thing about it is that you quickly learn the correct pronunciation of that vocabulary. However, there are some...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Argentina? Are you interested in teaching English in Avellaneda, Argentina? Check out our opportunities in Avellaneda, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit has taught me that making use of authentic and created materials have their own advantages and disadvantages. Using authentic materials will speak to the intrests of your class...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Sterlitamak, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Sterlitamak, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit discusses the materials and books teachers can use in teaching English, including two types of materials (authentic and created) and the examples. In this unit, some aspects regarding...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Ecuador? Are you interested in teaching English in Quevedo, Ecuador? Check out our opportunities in Quevedo, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! ideally schools would provide all the books and materials that a teacher need, but in reality, often a teacher has to create his/her own materials to either supplement the course book or replace...  [Read more]

  Now, let's take a look at the present continuous tense. The continuous tense is used to talk about actions in progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. The first thing to notice with the continuous tense is that we must use the verb plus '-ing' form, also known as the present participle. You'll see it in any continuous tense, especially with the present continuous. We have three different forms of this tense. First, we have the subject 'I' used with 'am teaching'. Then, we have 'you', 'we' and 'they are teaching'. Finally, we've got 'he', 'she' 'it is teaching'. The 'am', 'are' and 'is' are forms of the verb 'to be' and here with this tense is used as an auxiliary verb or a helping verb. In order to form negative sentences, we simply add the word 'not'...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Spain? Are you interested in teaching English in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain? Check out our opportunities in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit I have learned the various pros and cons of using course books and lesson materials. I have learned how to use course books, authentic material and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Germany? Are you interested in teaching English in Stuttgart, Germany? Check out our opportunities in Stuttgart, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit we are taken through the topic of the course books and the materials needed in class. We are taught when and how to use the course book so that it does not become a boring or...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Are you interested in teaching English in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina? Check out our opportunities in Prijedor, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 14 was about course books and lesson materials. I learned that there are authentic materials that can be programs, magazines, newspapers, songs, poems, brochures,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Russia? Are you interested in teaching English in Mezhdurechensk, Russia? Check out our opportunities in Mezhdurechensk, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This unit is all about the materials used for teaching languages. The materials are grouped into three major categories, Authentic material, Created material and Course books. This unit...  [Read more]

  Okay, so we're going to use this pro-forma as our lesson plan and we're going to fill one out as though we were planning for an actual lesson. So, we start off with some basic information about the class. So, the name of the teacher, date and time and the class level. In this particular case, our class is going to be an elementary class and the room will be room 3. Having looked through the registers we see that the expected number of students for this particular class is going to be 10. This will help us in creating our worksheet copies. The context of the lesson for this class is going to be present continuous tense and it may well be the first time that this particular level of class has been introduced to this tense. So, our focus is going to be fairly general and it's going...  [Read more]