English Category

  Our next category in our series of teaching special groups in ESL is English for specific purposes. This video focuses specifically on teaching business English. 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. Unit Two focused on the grammatical aspects of speech. It is clear that grammar will be one of the toughest topics to teach, in my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SunjiAwAn 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. Teachers are always looking for ways to keep students engaged. One strategy is to use games in our lessons. Games are excellent activities for the Engage Phase and the Activate Phase. I adapted two family games – Snowman and Battleship – for young learners. Young learners can be defined as students from the ages of five to thirteen. This category can be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YushAnpu 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. Tenses- Usually it creates tense for many ESL students during communication. It defines and differentiates the situation by time. Is the time important in communication? Yes, it is. The wrong usage of tenses changes the exact meaning of the situation, what the speaker is trying to convey. So focusing tenses in grammar is more essential than others. Still, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ta'erhu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayannao'er Shi — Bayan Nur? 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 using flashcards to teach students it allows repetition and improves visual memorization. It helps the student if the teacher was to share little amounts of information to the student, not to overwhelm them, so they may be able to stay focus on the task at hand. Flashcards are one of the many resources that could be used in class activities,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnzao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangtan 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. “5 activities with flashcards” I would like to introduce five flashcards activities which I found them fun and practical to enhance student’s vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, listening and speaking. 1. Show & Tell This activity designed to teach vocabulary as well as practice listening. It can be used for teaching various categories (animals, food,...  [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 HaimenshilinjiAngxinqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Nantong 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 last October I started working on a private kindergarten in a fast-growing city in China, called 太仓 (Taicang). This kindergarten is called Giraffe. Nowadays Giraffe already have two campus and it is on their way to open the third campus. I must admit I was surprised, on a positive way, the first time I entered my work place. It is a professional,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chungang? 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. I will be answering this question partially from experience while working in the online English teaching platform "Bibo" and partially from what I've learned during this course. Two important factors that should be addressed in this essay are the age of a student and the conduction of classes online (as opposed to the classes that are being conducted in person). My...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yeyi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pingdingshan 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 content of this unit provided the basics on sentence structure and the grammatical intricacies of the English language. By breaking down each part of a sentence, the lesson examined the category in which each word belonged, and the reasons for that placement. As a native speaker of English, I was reminded of the many, often complicated, aspects of sentence...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daguo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luohe 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 different learners of English. We as teachers must be prepared to teach all of them. In the category of beginners there are absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners, and beginners without the Roman alphabet. Teaching individual students has a very different approach than teaching a group. Teaching children requires special...  [Read more]

  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. In this unit, I have learnt about the present tense. EFL teachers believe there twelve tense in all, which is quite different from Asian and Slavic languages on this aspect.There are three times in English: the past, the present, the future. Each of these times has four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous, so twelve in all. This unit focuses on four present tenses: the present simple, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Goumenzi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang 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 unit focused on two of the four basic skills in any language: receptive skills. This includes reading and listening. The unit introduced the five specialist skills that fall under the receptive skills category which include predictive skills, scanning, skimming, detailed information and deduction from context. Following this was some insightful information on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Langhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shiyan 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 English language during adult years is a specific process when a student has reached a certain age, got some kind of profession (occupation), and decided for some specific reasons to learn (improve) English language. These specific purposes can be of various nature. For example, the first category of students I came across made a decision to learn English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Langtou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong 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. Dear sir/ma'am, The unit "Teaching productive skills" finished. In this unit, we noticed that receptive skills are equal with productive skills and each full fill the other as well. Here we saw that those two skills need different treatment because even if they belong to the same category they are completely different. During writing skill you have all the time to...  [Read more]

  Alesheia completed her TEFL certificate course online with ITTT. In this TEFL review video, Alesheia tells us that although she studied TESOL as a minor at university, research showed that the majority of jobs required a specific TEFL certificate. She found the course to be a good refresher of her previous TESOL studies at university and it also taught her a number of new things such as classroom management and lesson planning. Alesheia recommends ITTT to new and experienced teachers looking to earn a recognized TEFL certificate. 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,...  [Read more]

  Tim is from Hong Kong and he completed his 120-hour online TEFL course with ITTT. He enjoyed working independently on the course and enjoyed its flexibility. Now that he is qualified he is able to teach in schools in Hong Kong and had a great time working on the course. 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 section gives a good representation of the various teaching methods used to teach language. I was surprised how many I use each day without ever...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiguo 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. As we all know, there are a great number of differences between teaching English to a small group of students or teaching it to a large group, but teaching English one to one is a unique category in itself. Although individual activities have their own purposes when teaching a group of students (regardless of number), there's also the more common option of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zongluju 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. In my essay I would like to highlight the different approach of categorizing the classroom materials. My first – and most widely known – category is the authentic and non-authentic materials. This classical distinction is well described during this course; in the business English and young learners too. Personally I prefer non-authentic materials in general...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangxinbao 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. In the context of a Japanese student learning English as a second language, the difference between formal and informal language and when they’re appropriate to use can be rather confusing. In Japanese, there is a more rigid structure to what is and isn’t formal language, with various codified levels of formality, for various social interactions. A big...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XinshAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou 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. Unit eight was very useful on its description on future tenses it was very concise and to the appoint it was rather a quite wonderful lesson to go through. I learnt about all of the future tenses as this allowed me to improve my grammar skill significantly in the tenses category. In summation, I am looking forward to teaching this unit later on. Unit eight was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangtingshi 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. I have travelled throughout Asia for some forty five years, Vietnam is now my home. I always found the younger generations had a thirst for knowledge, particularly English as a second language. The difficulties of acquiring the knowledge under what was a repressive regime has diminished somewhat, but the major stumbling blocks to acquiring good English are the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dashi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhou 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. It's interesting to see that after teaching for a while we end up making some mistakes regularly. For example leaving writing activities as homework. Working the writing skill in classroom is necessary and important for the kids. But it is interesting that in the real classroom there are some other challenges that fit this category. For example, sometimes the class is...  [Read more]

  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. In this unit, I have learnt much about past tense. This tense has some similarities with present tense, but it is related with past time periods. This unit focuses on four patterns in the past tense:past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. In each category, it covers form, usage, common mistakes/errors, and sample activate teaching ideas.Students should pay attention to the verb form...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChangtAn? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingmen 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 important intrinsic values in classroom management that need to be addressed with utmost seriousness is the motivation level of students in the class. A teacher may follow all steps required to effectively and efficiently conduct a lesson but if the students present are not well motivated to learn the lesson, the teachings would not reach them and the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuanglong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Siping 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 four basic skills in any language but in this unit we tackled about the two receptive skills-reading and listening. There are two main and wide-ranging category for reading and listening: for a purpose and for entertainment. When reading and listening we must not only be able to recognize and understand the words but also be able to gasp their overall...  [Read more]

In consideration of whether or not teachers of English as a second language should teach slang or idioms in class, or rather, why English teachers should teach idioms or slang, I did some research on the internet regarding this particular topic. For the most part, I found one David Burke's article on the subject to be most informative (Burke, 1). I have formed my own opinion on the matter, which I will discuss at length later in this essay.First, it is constructive to define exactly what slang words and idioms are, to differentiate between the two as well as to be completely precise in this pursuit. Dictionary.com defines an idiom as 'an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements' (dictionary.com, 1). In contrast, slang is 'very...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fanpo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xuchang 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. What I feel I have gained from this course is not only useful skills covering different course objectives, but what I feel is the greatest gain is the ESA methodology. I am currently a student of chinese and can see how the ESA technique could greatly enhance the desire and active nature of learning a language. In my chinese class the majority of class time would fall...  [Read more]

  The next category we are looking at in our series on teaching special groups in ESL are young learners. We consider students aged 2 to 16 young learners. Find out the positives, negatives and tips when teaching young learners 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, Troubleshooting, was focus on some of the most common problem situations that teachers can encounter in the classroom and also suggest ways of dealing with them. In fact,...  [Read more]

  The first group of students we are looking at in this series are the beginners. It is important to understand that beginners can be of any age. This is why we break this category down into the following sub-categories: absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners and beginners without the Roman alphabet. Find out more about this type of student group 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. The unit was an easy ready,...  [Read more]

  The next category we are looking at in our series on teaching special groups in ESL are individuals. Teaching individuals, or one-to-one, forms a large part of the ESL market. Find out the positives, negatives and tips 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. In this unit, I learned about developing good rapport between myself and the students in the classroom. This is very important because it will indicate how the lesson will flow and how the...  [Read more]