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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kunhe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baotou 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 is this saying: "work hard, play hard," and that is the situation with children through to adults. Studying does not always have to be hard, stressful, and tiring. The teachers are there to help their students to learn English and have fun while doing it. The focus of this essay will be on young children and the games that are being played by them. Playing games...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in CaishAn 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. What are some advantages and disadvantages of games in the classroom? In recent years English has become an international language that’s been taught and adopted in so many countries especially in Asian countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia etc. English is a widely used language and thus many people are adjusting to learning the English language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hulihaiyuanzhongfanzhichang? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao 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. Most teachers realize that games are motivating and fun for students of any age. Following I have compiled a list of games that can be adapted for teaching English in a classroom. For consistency and simplicity sake, I have geared all the suggested modifications for beginning English speakers who do not yet have a reading English ability. Obviously...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengguAn 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. Since the teaching of English began, teaching techniques have constantly been evolving in order to be improved. From the grammar-translation method to the various methods and approaches that are used nowadays, many changes have occurred over the centuries. For the sake of making language classes more interesting, games have been introduced into...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guogongping 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. In my experience the classroom can be a great learning environment when using games. We know that learning can be very intimidating to some students when learning a new language, also students might be hesitant to come thinking they will be bored. With the help of games, you have now created a better experience for them when learning and interacting with their...  [Read more]

'Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.' ' Colleen Barrett. (President and Corporate Secretary for Southwest Airlines Co.)A quote I had read as a preteen which stuck with me through the years. How we learn really does depend on our attitude. Lot's of learners, especially young learners, do not look at their tasks in this light. Students either learn because they have to, or simply don't. As humans, we rarely ever try to enjoy ourselves as we go through the process of learning something that does not necessarily interest us. It is usually not easy for anyone to approach work this way. 'Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.' ' Helen McInnis (Author ' best-seller).We cannot expect students to want to learn if they simply are not interested with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baishi 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. I love flashcards. Honestly, I really do. For me, they are a never-ending source of games and activities. Nowadays I work as an ESL teacher in a training center and I teach mostly young learners (students from 3 to 8 years old) and I am strongly convinced that this age group may learn a foreign language only through games, entertaining activities and live...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinyan 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. Hi! My name is Anna. I am 29 year old. I got married and I have 1 girl. I live in Hanoi in Vietnam Preparation Repetition, Repetition, Repetition The purpose of flash cards is rather simple and mundane; we use flash cards to introduce and review vocabulary or concepts. My first language teacher said, “The only way to learn a foreign language is repetition,...  [Read more]

Teaching materials, or auxiliary materials, lend additional assistance or support to the lesson content to further student comprehension. There are many ready-made materials available through the Internet, mail-order magazines, stores, etc. but at times the teacher is compelled to design materials specifically for the needs of their class. Consider creating materials in the following categories: Graphic/Visual aids, Technical aids, Three- Dimensional objects, and Games.The most popular is the Graphic/Visual aids: whiteboard, pictures, and flashcards. When working with visuals, use simple outlines or drawings that are large enough to see by all students. Use color to make the visual attractive to the learner and draw attention to the parts that are applicable to the lesson.The whiteboard...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Youyouban 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. Games are a great tool to encourage creativity and an environment of healthy competition among the students in a classroom. They can also be used to start active communication in students. There are many games that are specifically designed for use by an ESL teacher, or the games can be modified in a way that they can be used in the classroom. The...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lupu 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. Games play a very important role in the classroom when it comes to teaching young learners. Due to the specifics of the age development, children (especially younger ones) have shorter attention span rather adults. And because of that they are very easy to get distracted, bored or get unfocused in some other ways. So one of the main things for the teacher to bear in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Weishui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou 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. “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.” - O. Fred Donaldson (Pulitzer nominated author, and renowned play researcher)[1] In a traditional school, students are expected to study the lesson from the book and from what the teacher discussed. It is a straight discussion without activities, and evaluation is through...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dinghu 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. As teachers one of our biggest goals while teaching English to a class or individual is to keep them engaged and motivated during the lesson while also making them feel comfortable and confident as they learn. There are three important ways in which playing games in the classroom can help effectively promote speaking English. By playing “warming” games, students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAnzao 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. Language English teaching in a non-native environment can be challenging, especially when young learners are involved. Substantial exposure to the target language is usually unavailable, which means inevitable mechanical practice leading to boredom in young classes. Confronting the languor, many teachers —novice as well as experienced—resort to learning games as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tunkendui 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. Every place where human beings gather suppose to be well organized and also need to be clean as well. A classroom is wide enough especially when it has a lot of students if not well managed, the classroom will be so noisy and students won’t be able to study in such an unpleasant environment. In addition, the teacher in concern won’t be able to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YesAnguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou? 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. Introduction: Games are usually a source of fun for many people. It is very difficult to find people who aren’t playing some sort of game regularly. It is even more difficult to and borderline impossible to find someone who hasn’t played and enjoyed a game in their lifetime. There is an allure to games that makes it interesting. And...  [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 HuangshA 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. As I have stated in the past units I often help my mother teach classes by speaking Chinese to the students and basically being a teachers assistant. however in specific cases she has me teach the class while she watches and gives me some sort of constructive criticism, as she knows that I want to be a teacher in the near future. so I often teach her classes for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAndAng 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. Increasing motivation in the young classroom exponentially increases language learning success by increasing participation, desire to discover more language, student-initiated thinking in the new language, and confidence. Motivation can be amplified in many constructive ways. Some of these ways are building rapport, implementing a reward system, incorporating the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuidong 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. Flashcards are a proven way to learn new information. Their use however, does not need to be monotonous or boring. Make your own, play a game, show the card and combine it with art, put them in sequence, or create and fill in sentences. These ideas will stimulate both sides of the brain by combining thinking and doing. This will also keep the students attentive....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuji 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. Teaching Kindergarten requires a very unique approach. Due to their developmental stage, Kindergarteners have a very limited attention span and teachers need to take this into consideration when making their lesson plans. Each segment of the lesson should be no longer than 10-15 minutes long to give the students a chance to get up, move, and get ready for the next...  [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 Banjiedian Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao 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. Games are very useful in any ESL classroom, whether the students are young or old, in individual or mixed classes. Games help students to relax and have fun with learning English. The English language will come naturally in play. Games also encourage the student attendance, as play and games simply make learning enjoyable. Frankly, the students won’t even...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HetAn 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. Defining games for kids can open up a broad prospect but in this topic we are going to specifically talk about the various games that kids can not only enjoy but can incorporate in there learning curriculum. Playing games in classroom helps kids to feel more relaxed and friendly with the teachers. Learning becomes more of a fun activity for them rather then the same...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanglinqiao 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. Question: How is game-based learning helpful to EFL students? Topic 57: Games in the classroom Games are a useful tool for teachers of EFL students because they help with motivation, engagement, and graceful failure (Plass 260-261). I will present a successful example of a teacher using games in an adult grammar class from Indonesia. Second, since I plan to teach...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TuguAnyA 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. One of the things I have learned in this course is the importance of motivation. Both teachers and students have to be motivated so that the teaching and learning environment in the classroom can be a fun and enjoyable experience. There are many ways a teacher can motivate the student to learn , and one of the tools is the use of playing games in the classroom....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in AolibugAo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tongliao 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 online has recently become a common way for students all around the world to learn English and other second languages. Many online platforms use an interface where the teachers and students communicate via a video chat platform, such as Skype. Online education takes many forms. For the purpose if this essay, I will discuss techniques teachers can use...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DianyA Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangyang Shi — Xiangfan? 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. Throughout this course, my favorite units have been the ones that teach us how to lead an effective lesson and have a fun classroom environment. I love all the suggestions and teaching ideas they give, and it excites me to think about using those for my future lessons. For that reason, I chose the topic of five activities with flashcards. This essay...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longtanqiao 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. 1. Game for liars The liar game is a flashcard activity that can be used to drill vocabulary. This activity is ideal for vocabulary that a teacher is introducing as the activity involves repeating after the teacher. For this activity, the teacher should clap twice, point to a flashcard and say the vocabulary word. If the word and the flashcard match, students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAozuo 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. Circle time, also called group time, refers to any time that a group of people is sitting together for an activity involving everyone based on Wikipedia. It is an activity common in primary schools, wherein the children will sit together in a circle with the teacher and interact with one another, play games or read a story. Students have the chance to speak up and...  [Read more]