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Alabama
This unit introduces the most common problem situations that teachers can encounter in the classroom and also suggest ways of dealing with them.
A teacher will be faced with meeting a number of new c
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Alaska
In this unit I learnt the importance of carefully selecting articles and stories to read to the students, teaching the students difficult vocabulary that will be in the text before beginning to read t
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Arizona
Modal verbs are used to add meaning to the main verb. They can be used to express ability, obligation, permission, possibility, advice, etc. Examples of modal verbs are should, might, can, could, be a
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Arkansas
In this lesson we went over course books and materials. Often teachers have to create their own materials but in some cases it is provided for them. The materials are grouped into authentic materials
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California
Short but effective unit. I am grateful that I have made it to the end, and also thankful for the effort that your company has placed in putting together the necessary information to help me to becomi
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Colorado
In fact, it is a lot of informative and useful in this unit. Through this, i have chances to review some of my grammar. In addtion, i can get much more skills to help students learn tenses without bor
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Connecticut
Unit 15 contains information about Evaluation and Testing. There are 4 types of test: placement test, diagnostic test, practice test, progress test. Every type of test corresponds to the goals teacher
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Delaware
This section focused on teaching special groups of individuals such as beginners (no english experience), business students, and private lessons. When teaching these individuals, it is important to f
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Florida
Modals , phrasal verbs and passive voice are also important in Emglish Grammar . Unit 18 , not only elaborate on how the above are used in English Grammar but also gives some ideas and aids on how to
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Georgia
I feel this unit is very helpful to people who are new to teaching. This unit contains a lot of material that would benefit incoming teachers. I have also tutored students who were in 1st to 12th gr
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Hawaii
For me as a non native English speaker, the most difficult present tenses are - Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous, just because sometimes it is not easy to understand what is better to us
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Idaho
While this unit had a lot of slides, it went by really quickly. A lot of the information within this lesson I knew before hand. There were some good activities to use with the different tools that see
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Illinois
In video one , teacher stars lesson without engage phase which is very necessary to warm up the students and stimulate them to participate in class activities .Teacher usually doesn’t speak cle
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Indiana
Unit 16 was an interesting mix of examples and definitions for conditionals and reported speech. The tables and examples were easy to follow, and the picture was an excellent visual aid; this unit was
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Iowa
I was surprised how little formal grammar I knew. I learned a number of rules I didn't know previously. For example, I knew that ‘beautifuler’ and ‘beautifulest’ were incorrect and instead the
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Kansas
This unit has given insight on equipment and teaching aids available in the classroom environment. It has prepared us to always make the best out of what we have. To improve, adapt and do what we can
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Kentucky
This unit covers the extremely significant and often overlooked categories of pronunciation, stress and intonation within the English language. Firstly the unit discusses the variations in the volume
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Louisiana
I found this unit to be particularly valuable because I had very little knowledge of proper teaching methods prior to reading this. This unit also caused me to reflect on some teachers I had for secon
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Maine
Unit 5 evaluates the significance of managing the classroom. It is very important for teachers to acquire good results after every lesson. Classroom management can simply be defined as the skill of ma
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Maryland
We learn our mother tongue grammar speaking our first words as children. We automatically acquire syntax, memorize new words and understand when to use them. With English, for foreign students, it’s
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Massachusetts
This unit covered the teaching of receptive skills, namely listening and reading. It covered reasons for reading and listening, as well as the varies ways in which we can read or listen. For example,
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Michigan
I don't think much was learned in this unit but rather enforced because I was able to learn this through experience. Usually it is requested that I use created materials for my students to make my cla
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Minnesota
This unit was about planning lessons and effectively teaching vocabulary and grammar. I really enjoyed this unit as I felt it gave me some great options a variety for my potential lessons. There are s
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Mississippi
Just like with receptive skills, students need to feel comfortable and not intimidated while they are practicing their productive skills. When drilling, the students can all repeat the words together
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Missouri
This Unit provides a detailed analysis of the different present tenses when speaking or writing in English. This helps to prepare the teacher with the knowledge needed to tackle any problems that the
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Montana
I think that working with speacial groups is basically the same as working with regular groups with a few tweeks. We tend to chose matierial and subject matter that better reflects the need of the lea
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Nebraska
A teacher play a big role in the classroom and should be well prepared for a lesson or activities for that day. Teachers need to motivate students. She or He need to get to know her or his students to
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Nevada
Classroom management can be considered from a number of levels, including the behavior of the teacher and the physical arrangement of the classroom and organization of students. The teacher's behavior
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New Hampshire
This unit provides a broad overview of classroom management. The lesson not only covers various discipline strategies but also ways to command a classroom based on gestures, one's voice, and classroom
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New Jersey
There are 7 common uses of the future tense. They include the future simple, the future continuous, the future perfect, the future perfect continuous, be going + infinitive, the present simple, and th
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New Mexico
This unit entails importance of lesson planning, principles of lesson planning, practical steps to make a lesson go smoothly as well as an example of a lesson plan. Contrary to the opinion that lesson
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New York
Unit 5 was really brief and explained all the topics covered up til now with examples which clarifies any doubts and presents a clear picture of what has been taught as information before.
It tells i
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North Carolina
The most important thing that surfaces from both the lessons is the attitude of the teacher in the class as it greatly affects the learning of the students. To know how to respond to students' errors
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North Dakota
This unit covered the types of grammar points used when using future tenses. As with the other similar grammar units it covered each of the various structures commonly used with future tenses. I've
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Ohio
Course books are useful tools, but they typically don’t provide all of the tools that you will need to teach effectively. More often than not the teacher will need to come up with some of their own
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Oklahoma
I enjoyed this unit. I got the chance to learn about lesson plans and how they are structured. It gave me a first look to see how class lessons are organized, and even gave me a chance to write my own
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Oregon
It was a nice unit compared to all of the reading and whatnot, but still some problems arise. Some of the answers to the questions were rather odd.
Take number 6 for example: In the first lesson, ho
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Pennsylvania
As you already mentioned, this is the probably the most complicated and difficult parts of the English language...well so far :). Something that I can effortlessly do without thinking has become a cha
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Rhode Island
This section was about the two skills: reading and listening. It discussed their importance and different ideas of how to bring them correctly into the classroom. I found the example lessons interesti
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South Carolina
Several verb tenses are used to express actions or states of being that take place in future time, the different tenses expressing progressive or continuous action or state of being, or not; and expre
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Tennessee
This unit is invaluable to teachers as it teaches the fundamentals of lesson planning and highlights the importance of having a lesson plan. Lesson planning is not to be confused with scripting a fini
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Texas
I learned with unit 20 "Troubleshooting" about common problems and situations that teachers may face in the classroom. Among these challenges teachers can encounter were first lessons, warmers, differ
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Utah
In this unit, I studied about how to teach special groups of students. They usually include: teaching beginners, teaching individual students, teaching children, teaching business English or English f
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Vermont
This unit focuses on productive skills: speaking and writing. This unit looks at the importance of spelling, handwriting, and punctuation in writing English, and the importance of accuracy and fluency
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Virginia
While many languages have only a few tenses, English can be a very intimidating language with twelve different tenses to learn. In this unit I learned about the differences between all four present te
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Washington
In this unit I learned about the usage of authentic materials, created materials, and coursebooks. I learned that in order to have successful lessons, we as teacher need to use material that is releva
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West Virginia
The unit on coursebooks and lesson materials are certainly very interesting. For this part the advantage and disadvantage of using a course book is very clear. A course book provides a very proved les
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Wisconsin
The success of the teaching and learning process rests on how the teacher employs methods, strategies, or techniques in teaching. The most common methodologies used in teaching English are discussed i
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Wyoming
This unit focuses on grammar, various parts of speech, and the rules to follow for constructing a proper sentence. All sentences are made up of the same basic parts, always including a subject and a v
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