Elicit Example

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SaihantalA Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? 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. To communicate in any language efficiently, people should know the skills of that language. What are these skills? How many skill types are there? Why is teaching these skills in an ESL/EFL classroom important for ESL teachers? These questions will be answered in this summative task. Skills are ways in which people express their ideas in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shiji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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 may be my favorite, yet most challenging part of teaching. I love to create fun, engaging curriculum and scaffolding concepts overtime, but I tend to love it too much. My pitfall comes from creating complex, elaborate lessons that cause me to spend too much time giving instruction. In all teaching, but EFL especially, too much TTT is problematic. I am...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Paozi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin 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 taught me the primary difference between fluency and accuracy activities. Fluency activities focus on the students' creativity and familiarity with the language. Accuracy activities, on the other hand, focus more on the production of correct language. Certain activities should be used to elicit each of these. Controlled activities are closely associated with...  [Read more]

  The next idea we're going to consider is the use of visual aids and visual aids can include some 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. Well, why are they useful? Well, first of all the use of a visual aid can reduce teacher talk time. It's very much more simple just to 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 ?this is a pen,? rather than trying to actually describe it. Again if we were trying to show examples of fruit and vegetables rather than to try and describe them why not use an actual model and this is going to be much more visually stimulating...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dashizhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xing'an Meng — Hinggan? 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 it comes to teaching English, teachers will sometimes choose authentic materials to ensure English input. English songs are good materials that can be used in classroom and here are some main reasons which I found during my topic based music English corner. To Cultivate Students’ Interest As an authentic material generated directly from native...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongtuya Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baishan 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 two contrasting video classes in this lesson.It shows me two examples of ESA demonstration class.In the first lesson,it’s a wrong demonstration of a class.The teacher makes many errors.For example,he doesn’t make an engage phase,he doesn’t elicit students,he doesn’t give any clear explanations and correct instructions during the study phase,the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Reshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou 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. Level; Beginner Learning objectives; By the end of the lesson students will be able to recognize vocabulary related to food; practice ordering from menu in a restaurant. Time; 1 hour Assessment: The Assessment of Teaching Vocabulary related to food is to monitor the students understanding of vocabulary. The teacher helps recognize where students are struggling and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAncha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan 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 receptive skills In any language there are four basic skills. They are equally important and teachers should try to include them in every lesson. Reading and listening are known as receptive skills, while speaking and writing are known as productive skills. Teachers may focus more on one particular skill in each lesson while still integrating the others. All...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bianzhao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baicheng 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 objective of the lesson was that the students will be able to use can, can’t, have and haven’t in their daily lives using the English language. Lesson 1 and 2 both did complete the objective but lesson 2 did it more so than lesson 1. Lesson 2 was much more efficient for reasons such as building confidence in the student, involving the students etc. The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAohu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang 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 this essay, I will give an introduction on how to teach beginner level students and I will not only outline how to approach the subject matter to teach first but I will also highlight techniques to create a positive learning environment to keep students motivated about studying. I will focus on teaching adults because young learners will need a slightly different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuzhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuzhou 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. After years of tried language teaching strategies, a well known Teacher-Author named Jeremy Harmer came up with an efficient, simple to follow, 3-Stage approach called the ESA method; Engage, Study, Activate. Its focus is known for being "Student centered", while it constantly entail teaching and learning flexibilities throughout its phases. The method has been...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiacun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinyu 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 gives us two examples of a ESA lesson in class through video demonstration. On the one hand, in the first video the teacher starts teaching without an Engage phase and starts teaching without giving clear directions what the students need to do. During the Study phase he does not write the correct negative form of the modal verbs as he misses out the...  [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 Huolianpo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changde 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 more a teacher speak the less attention the learners will pay. Decreasing teacher speaking time can be done with a few practical steps and wonderful teaching methods. It all starts with proper planning. When designing a lesson plan be sure to include assignments and activities that will engage your students and do not call for a teacher dominant role. Using...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Futianhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Let’s imagine we are sitting in Macau in a club. We are hungry and order some fried pork, it is called 猪 pronounced as zhū. We see some Saxon made porcelain figurines resembling probably pigs, again in Chinese they are 猪, zhū. We remind the waiter of the forgotten wine and he might address us as 猪, zhū, which might be something like swine. We have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangdukou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang 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 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maochen Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan 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. Having recently moved to Spain with the full intention of completing a TEFL course and making a new life outside of the UK, whilst studying how to teach English, at the same time as learning Spanish so that I can communicate reasonably, it is this juxtaposition between this my own English competence that has underlined for me just how difficult it can be for anybody...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangfengqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhuzhou 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 key elements of any EFL lesson is to maximise the time that students are practising using English, and minimise the time that the teacher is talking. It is also important to be well organised as a teacher in terms of making a lesson plan, but ensuring there is enough flexibility to adjust for tasks that work well, tasks that take longer and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ganma Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lianyungang 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 English as second language, is as much about the Teacher explaining and facilitating as it is allowing students the space and time to speak. This in turn greatly effects the learning ability of the student in literacy and engagement. Having studied the 120-hour Course and not yet taught a class myself, I can understand the need for an inexperienced...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngjiAwei Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suqian 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 English it is important to have structure in the lesson. So which methodology do we use? There are many useful techniques out there, but in my opinion the Engage, Study and Activate (ESA) methodology is the most effective. Jeremy Harmer first proposed this method in his book “How to teach English”. The ESA method gives flexibility to conduct a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShA'erqin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huhehaote Shi — Hohhot? 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. English is the most spoken language in the world and nowadays business English courses are in a great demand. More and more people are dedicating their time to study English, either for seeking new employment, travelling on business trips or for handling the daily workplace scenarios such as presentations, meetings and negotiation deals. This paper...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinjian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuxi 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 this essay, I am going to discuss how to teach vocabulary. Although grammar is usually integrated with the teaching of vocabulary, we still consider it necessary to introduce ways to present and consolidate vocabulary. I will mainly talk about the following. First, we should know what to teach. In other words , what do students need to know about a vocabulary item....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhihedu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yueyang 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. Learning materials within a classroom setting are essential because they can significantly improve student achievements by supporting beneficial learning habits. Teaching materials can refer to several different teaching resources that help aid in the student’s advancement in English. There are currently two different types of materials that are available:...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuduo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Taizhou 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 we think about teaching young students the first things that come up in our minds are flashcards, songs and funny videos. Flashcards, however, are universal teaching aids that can be easily adopted for different language levels, students’ age, topics and activities. Such materials do not require much effort from the teacher, because they can be created with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kuixi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang 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 I’ve learned from this course begins with the EFL teacher as an instrument of facilitation. The creative spark that ignites a flame in every student that is trying to master a new language. A teacher doesn’t need to be perfect but must be fully present and prepared with a positive, supportive vibe. The successful teacher is a role model, a subject...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dakouqin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jilin 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 offers the opportunity to see effective and ineffective teaching. In the first video, we see how confusing learners can be whilst a teacher is not happy teaching and tries to elicit words or verbs from them without any former explanation about the lesson content. Being in this class I would have felt discouraged unmotivated and lost. In the second video,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lengshui Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingtan 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 this lesson I got to observe a classroom tefl environment. I got to observe not so good teaching techniques and also very effective teaching techniques. I think this is really helpful because I can refer to this to imitate the teacher's techniques and organization of the class when I am first starting as a teacher. I can also take note of his use of gestures...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maopingchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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 is a learning methodology invented by Jeremy Harmer. April 30, 1947, He has taught English in Mexico and the UK and has trained teachers around the world. He is the series editor of the How to teach ... series, and the author of the highly acclaimed The Practice of English Language Teaching and How to teach English. The ESA method which he invented, has all...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guanyao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huanggang 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. Speaking and writing are substantially different however they both are used for the same purpose – to communicate. In many ways writing is the more difficult skill, requiring a greater level of accuracy. When speaking, any misunderstandings can be cleared up ‘on the spot’. Speaking requires a greater degree of fluency. The teacher must create the need and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yitang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou 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. Flashcards are a simple, versatile, yet often underexploited resource and they are very useful to elicit more obscure words. They are a great way to present, practise and recycle vocabulary and some grammar structures. Flashcards can also be bright and colourful and make a real impact on visual learners. It is particularly important to appeal to visual learners, as...  [Read more]