Esl Activities For Beginners

This research article will highlight and investigate two major aspects of preparing and starting an EFL course to beginner-level students. They are; 1) the approaches (i.e. the mindset, theoretical beliefs and methodologies that a teacher applies to the course, short and long term), 2) the techniques - (i.e. the specific assignments, arrangements and tools/aids utilized to carry out the teacher´s approaches and achieve the student´s goals). The article will move through the various, early stages of planning and teaching an EFL Beginners Course, in (roughly) chronological order. Its focus will only be to shed light on common, recommendable teaching approaches and techinques for an EFL Beginners Course. Along the way, a teacher - in reality - would encounter more,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Anliang 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. Beginner ESL student levels go from absolute beginners, false beginners, adult beginners, young beginners, and beginners without the Roman alphabet. When teaching individual students, one should maximize on the students' interests and experience, and use a range of activities like reading articles, idioms, topical discussion, etc. When teaching children, one...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuanzhongchang? 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. Unit 1 list the attributes of a good teacher. Good teachers: • Are Kind and patient • Love teaching • Are Lively and Entertaining • Motivate Learners • Have Good Subject Knowledge • Have Good rapport and interaction with class • Involve all students equally throughout lesson • Correct Students without offending or undermining motivation • Know...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XiejiApu 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. Teaching groups There are different types of classes. We will be teaching and adults and children. Let's take a more detailed look into each group. ESL teachers are often work with beginners; however, some people could have been exposed to English previously. We can refer to these students as 'false beginners.' This subgroup could include adults who have learned...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DaheishAtu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? 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 should one do as a teacher when faced with a multilevel ESL class. Effectively teaching a class with many different levels can be a daunting thought. How does one successfully focus on teaching more advanced students while ant disregarding the beginning students and vice versa. It is difficult because the teacher wouldn’t want to content...  [Read more]

Learning a new skill can be difficult, and applying that skill can be even harder. Now teach that skill to someone else so they can adeptly apply it, and there might be people who become intimidated b Online English teaching is relatively new in the field of EFL. As the joint product of technological advancement and globalization, it has gradually been taking over the market share of traditional EF Reading is essential for students that wish to learn another language. By reading books in another language, the students are exposed to more complex grammar and vocabulary. It is crucial as a supplem The teacher's ability to develop student-student and teacher-student rapport, utilize the various teacher roles appropriately, and effective classroom arrangement will dictate a teacher's ability...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Rulin 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. CTBE Summative Task Classes of Mixed Ability Leigh Kelly Teachers of ESL will often find themselves in charge of a class with students at different levels of proficiency. When this happens, the teacher needs to know ways to adapt and manage the class and activities in a way that benefits all the students. The stronger students could become bored if the teacher caters...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuAminglou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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 a new language is an inherently challenging task. One important way for ESL teachers to help beginner students learn English is to focus not only on teaching language concepts but on building their confidence to experiment with the language and persist with their learning. This essay will firstly examine why building confidence is important in ESL...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luoshi 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. What are Important to Teach Beginner Students I am an English teacher. I am teaching beginner students who are aged from 3 years and half to 8 years old. My students are very young learners who normally have shorter attention spans, and have not even completely mastered their own mother tongue. They are generally amenable to fun games, singing, drawing. For my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tongxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng 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. Cultural sensitivity in the ESL classroom entails a complex of factors and considerations including intercultural competence, awareness of global cultural, economic and socio-political diversity on both individual and collective grounds, and national as well as transnational educational differences for learners of English. Cultural sensitivity is, thus, crucial in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DuguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Sanmenxia 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 tefl course has been a wonderful learning experience for me in many ways. Even though I have previous teaching experience (in the sciences) at the university level, the TEFL program has given me the opportunity to learn much about the unique challenges in teaching english to students who do not speak it as their first language. As well, I feel I now have a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baiju Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng 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 more than seven years of teaching English to young learners, teaching beginner level students is not new to me. I believe there is no exact guide on how to handle students of all levels, but there are tips that I have learned along the way. 1. Presenting the lesson. Stepping in a classroom with 16 beginner students around two to four years old is not a joke....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Songping Linchang? 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. Lesson planning In my experience and the experience of my teacher colleagues, lesson planning has never been among the most interesting or engaging activities. The reasons are always different: some believe that lesson planning is not effective because a teacher cannot predict the direction of the lesson. Others think that it is a complete waste of time...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sijihong 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. I took the ITTT online TEFL course not in order to prepare to teach English as an employee working abroad, but as a volunteer in the United States to teach refugee and immigrant adults. I completed the units a few months ago, but I waited to do this summative task until I could begin teaching classes as a volunteer teacher and reflect on that experience. I’ve...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huaihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Suizhou 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. “Student motivation” is affected by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors” (Reeve, 1996). It is part of a teacher’s job to boost student’s interests for knowledge and understanding, knowing as intrinsic motivation. The real problem for the teachers is: how to keep students motivated in an everyday classroom? The recommendations are as follows: Being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAnyu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ji'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. Unit 9 emphasizes the importance of lesson planning. Lesson planning as a beginner ESL teacher is essentially mandatory. While being too staunchly adherent to a lesson plan may cause issues with flexibility of teaching, it is integral in mitigating issues of control of the Classroom. More advanced teachers may keep a less strict approach to lesson planning in order to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huomachong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huaihua 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. From 2018 to 2019, I taught two eighth grade English classes in the rural Thies area, experiencing some of the challenges and advantages to teaching students who were just embarking on their language study. I was paired with a long-term Senegalese teacher who walked me through the basics of teaching a foreign language: engaging the class, developing study...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in NiubitAn 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. English teachers take on many roles and require certain personal qualities to be successful in teaching English as a foreign language. The most important qualities include organization, kindness and patience.These qualities should be used everyday in the classroom setting with each and every student. These qualities can determine the quality of your teaching. Being...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulubutie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hulunbei'er Shi — Hulunbuir? 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. Before talking about the importance of learning vocabulary in the ESL, it is suitable to understand the meaning of the word vocabulary, for instance, it is according to the Longman Modern English Dictionary a list of words, usually arranged alphabetically and defined, explained or translated the range of language, the stock of words at person’s...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luoyang Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Unit 6 deals with various issues teachers may face in the business world In unit 19, I learned about teaching specialized groups such as: teaching children, teaching a beginner class and teaching English for businesses This unit covered the topic of teaching new language, which included...  [Read more]

  Former ESL student Kieu recorded this TEFL review after completing her TEFL course online with ITTT. Already an English teacher, Kiue thought taking the course was the best decision of her career. The course gave her the confidence to apply appropriate teaching methods in her classroom. 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 we have learnt specially the techniques of teaching English to Individuals and group of people such as class group or...  [Read more]

The market for ESL teaching books is very large and all the major publishers have some form of involvement in the production and selling of these resources. There are many different types of books and resources that are used in ESL teaching and we will consider three main categories. 1) Book series 2) General teaching theory books 3) Activity resources There are a number of well known book series. These are specifically written for the ESL teaching market and are generally set at the five levels most often taught. These levels are Starter or Beginner, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper-Intermediate. A typical book series at each level will contain three books. These are the teacher book, student book and resources book (or similar names). The teacher book gives an...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Damiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chifeng 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. 70. Motivating students Why learning to motivate is essential for ESL teachers This essay will explore the importance of motivational based teaching in an English teaching context. Specifically, the discussion will be focused on generating motivation in younger school-aged learners, below the age of 16. Understanding motivation is critical as it affects the students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JishAn Zhen? 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. What is peer learning and is it useful in an ESL classroom? Let’s first define what is peer learning. “Peer learning essentially refers to students learning with and from each other as fellow learners without any implied authority to any individual, based on the tenet that ‘Students learn a great deal by explaining their ideas to others and by participating in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yancheng Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Imagine walking into a classroom filled with students who are not in the least bit motivated to participate in the lesson for that day After more than seven years of teaching English to young learners, teaching beginner level students is not new to me Being a teacher is one of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuzhou Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| My personal work experience with teaching English as a second language takes me back 14 years ago Some people think grammar is very boring but it is very important for learners Learning a foreign language requires a commitment to the educational process When one decides to learn a new...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XiAnghuAling 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. What an interesting topic to choose. Learning teaching skills, and why? From my teaching experience of teaching English to foreigners of other languages, I had never realized how important it was to learn different teaching methods and skills. I did not major in teaching nor anything related. I majored in Business Administration and simply was given the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nongche Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? 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 facilitators of student learning and creators of productive classroom environments, in which students can develop the skills they might need at present or in the future. However, before we begin to understand the evolving role of an ESL teacher, let’s outline some of the most popular teacher roles. Harmer, J. states that ‘it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lugou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng 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 education sector has undergone a process of rapid transformation within the course of the last decade with the arrival and development of digital technologies. It is no longer necessary to travel abroad in order to teach English to foreign students. Currently, widespread internet availability has made ESL courses accessible through online means, making it...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lianyungang Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| ‘In second language learning, as in every other field of human learning, motivation is the critical force which determines whether a learner embarks on a task at all, how much energy he devotes to it, and how long he perseveres it’ (Littlewood, 1987, p53) I am a fresh English...  [Read more]