How Can We Make Our English Class More Interesting

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tumuji 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. Class management is always a serious issue for new teachers, we need to think about the questions below: Why is it essential? In my opinion, class management is the key to deliver a good lesson, as the teacher, if we can not manage our class well, it will be a mess, because the students will easily lose their concentration, either they don't think the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fanji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoukou 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 been a student myself, I have a better appreciation for all of my teachers I?ve learned under. After completing these tasks, and creating lesson plans, I have a better understanding of what it is like to be a teacher (of any subject), and now have a newfound respect for them. As a student, I believe that we take our lessons for granted and do not understand all...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhoutie 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. Grammar is a basic and essential factor in learning language. So teaching grammar is really important, but more challenge when we teach language for young learners because most of them are reluctant and interruptive. In my opinion, it's so hard to teach grammar for children. As you know, grammar is a unique language system and it helps our language skills more perfect...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangji 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. Personally I gained quite a lot from this course. We think we know how to speak the language, which might be true, but we usually don't know why we use certain words at certain times(the rules), even less how to explain it to a non-native speaker. I definitely learned how to be a good teacher, by getting them involved, making the class interesting to keep them...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAbao 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. Discipline is an essential part of any classroom. It is the key component to effective classroom management. But how do teachers establish and implement a discipline plan for the class? The answer is simple. We’ve got to teach it! Yes, discipline in the classroom, like all the lessons from the textbook, should be taught to the students from day one no matter what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LanshAnnanling Linchang? 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. Is it important to do a lesson plan before a class? Obviously, the answer is “YES”. So why is it so important? and how can it help us with our English teaching? Outlined below is my analysis of this question. In the first instance, lesson planning can help us to set up the subject to be taught and also the aim of each class, allowing us to follow our...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in PaizhouwAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning 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. We have many teachers throughout our lives and in very differing forms. For example, our very first teachers are ourselves, as we learn to grow through nature and get stronger. Our next teachers are our parents, family, and friends who essentially teach us how to communicate with others, right from wrong (if we are lucky!), and how to navigate our way through...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Anyang 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. Lesson plan is a structure of the course that you will give to your students, a clear guide as to what you want to achieve and how you are going to do it. A good lesson plan generally consists of learner objectives, personal aims, language points, procedure, phase and interaction, etc. It is of great importance because it can help teachers to have confidence at class,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JinzhushAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Loudi 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 opinion, classroom management is the most important part during teaching. Classroom Management does not have only the skill of organising and managing but also the relaxing manner. It is a critical skill. Simply put, classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to ensure that their classroom runs smoothly, without...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ming'Antu 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. Vietnam is a developing country, which attracts a lot of foreigners come to live and work, so the need to use English for work and in life is increasing. However, there are many learners who learn English for a long time but still cannot communicate. Even have some people who have studied more than 10 years but still cannot speak English well. So...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gengwei 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. Nowadays technology is everywhere. The way to communicate has changed so we do not have to be surprised if the way to teach has also changed. Today we can teach English or any other language from the comfort of our house or private office to the other side of the world because of internet. Online classes are very convenient for both parts and are becoming more and...  [Read more]

Put simply, language is a verbal expression of culture which means that culture clearly has to be seen as an important part of language learning. Although it is important to learn the vocabulary and grammar of English during lessons, to truly grasp what the language means to native speakers it is vital that EFL students learn as much as possible about the culture of English speaking nations. The good news is that students generally love learning about cultural issues, whether it is music, films, books, and TV, or other things such as food or fashion. So, how can we incorporate culture into our EFL lessons to make them interesting and productive? Authentic materials can be anything that native English speakers might use that can be adapted for use in an EFL classroom. This type of material...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngjiAji 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. Reading is one of the key elements for all English learners. By reading authentic stories and books, not only do we learn reading and understanding the text we are working with, but we also expand our vocabulary by discovering new authentic words you wouldn't be able to find in your course books, and more importantly, you can see it in context...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingong Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'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. There are many ways and reasons why children make friends. Sometimes it is the child of their parents' friend, or they are classmates in school, or they are involved in an extracurricular activity together. But what about in an English as a Second Language class? If you have a multilingual class, students might be reluctant to make friends with someone who doesn't...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAndu 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. I guess we all have been there. Sitting in a classroom where the teacher never stops talking. How did it feel? Was it interesting and motivating or was it perhaps boring and discouraging? Did you have the feeling of having learned something when the lesson was over? Whereas getting students talking in the classroom has proved quite a challenge to many teachers,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shishi 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. How can I be a good teacher, that is the question that we, as prospective teachers should be working on and should never stop asking ourselves. It is important, first of all, to know what makes for a good teacher. What kind of skills do you actually need to succeed in your goal and what things should you keep in mind walking towards it. First of all, the main thing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baitabu 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. Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, English language teachers have access to practically unlimited teaching resources. Simple web search can provide us with useful websites containing lesson plans, teaching ideas and materials. Every day we get more and more teachers sharing their ideas, which can be very important especially for kindergarten teachers. Their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAnxinghuan Yuanzhongchang? 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. One of the most important problem encountered while learning a foreign language is undoubtedly pronunciation. Knowing a language fluently may not always be enough. Fluency level may be open to discussion if an accurate pronunciation is not used. Therefore as teachers we must teach our students how to use the correct pronunciation. However pronunciation...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dalun 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. I have started asking myself the question, why are games so important and why do we use them to teach English? I must admit, the thought never crossed my mind until my journey into esl teaching started.Let us look at four classroom scenarios and then we can discuss it. Our first two scenarios looks at the atmosphere and the environment of the classroom.Imagine a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAyantaolai Sumu? Are you interested in teaching English in Alashan Meng — Alxa? 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’ve had the opportunity to work at an nontraditional language school, where the groups were reduced (5-student limit) or students could opt on having individual classes. This gave me a new take on how classes should actually feel like, what kinds of activities work better on different situations, and forced me into adapting myself to different ways...  [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 Morong 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. We would all like to be the perfect ITTT English teacher. However, various dynamics could at times affect our best intentions and love for teaching. The reality is that relocation to another country will be involved in order to pursue an ITTT English teaching career abroad. Whilst this opportunity will present with much excitement, it would also...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shihe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huai'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. When we think of school or learning in general, we draw a picture of a classroom in our imagination. With a teacher standing behind a desk reading something from a book to the class, while half of them are listening and the other half are talking to their friends or flat out not paying any attention. In terms of experience we mostly remember it as dull and boring for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BaiyinchagAn 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. Teaching English as a Foreign Language or as a Second Language is fun but sometimes it takes experience and knowledge of the lesson to make the class lively. Reducing teacher speaking time is an issue that needs to be looked at. For clarity, I will limit my essay to teaching young learners of age 10 to 13 years with good foundation of the English...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XinkAi 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, young learners and adults are totally different, so there should be a big gap in teaching these two groups. For English teachers, we must be aware of these distinctions and use various methods to enable them to learn English quickly and effectively. The first thing we need to mention is the obvious differences in learning experience between adults...  [Read more]

TEFL teachers often work in different countries and face different national students. Sometimes, the students keep silent or show no interest on the course content. How to motivate them in the classroom has become a leading concern for teachers. Through my personal experience and TEFL course study, I find some effective ways as below:1. The teacher need know about the students' culture background. We know, every nation has its distinctive clothes and food customs, religious belief, value points and so on. If the teacher gets some information and knowledge, he/she can talk about relative topics in the class, especially, in first class. The students are great likely to communicate on these topics. This is a good beginning for following lessons.2. The teacher must have some ideas about the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanmenkou 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. Nowadays, English is becoming more and more popular and significant in China because of globalization. In big cities, parents send their kids to all kinds of organizations/schools to study English in their early three years. Some capable parents even use English as their communicative language from the first day the baby was born. No matter how early Chinese...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heling 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. It is obvious that good classroom management is one of successful keys during the educational process. So, what is the classroom management? How can teacher achieve effective classroom management? Where is the line between a kind, understanding teacher and a firm, demanding teacher? All these questions are certainly an important part of the educational process and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAyinhuA 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. The role of the teachers is extremely important. Many students think that their teachers are role models and everything their teachers do are right. So, they will imitate the teachers’manners. And the teacher should behave in a professional manner. Besides, the teacher will become more wonderful when they care about the students’ social lives. So, I write about...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LanshAn 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. Before we talk about the causation of learning difficulty, we should figure out why is it important for teachers to know about it? After we understand the importance, we will analyze the causation in multiple ways. Last, we will look a couple major and common difficulties students could meet and how should teachers deal with them? Firstly, why is it important to know...  [Read more]