Intermediate Plateau

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAocun Zhen? 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. Each student has different learning ability and we can distinguish them with beginners, elementary, low-intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate and advanced. But the standard of distinction is different in each country, so beginner student in Korean can be elementary in Japan. We can say students who have zero knowledge of English are beginners, students who...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lingtou 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. I believe that teaching children is diffrent from teaching adults. Adults who come to the classroom with clear objective are usually highly motivated,presenting less discipline problems to teachers and are easily involved in the classroom due to some identical life experience or prior knowledge.Nevertheless, they are more anxious and nervous when reaching the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuAnghe 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. A role of a teacher is not only to teach us but also to mold us as a person. They are the ones who share wisdom, learning, and experiences to us. We don't have any other professions if we don't have teachers. As a student, we may all have favorite teachers from our elementary, intermediate, and upper intermediate classes. And we have all our own...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hezhou 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. Needs and skills assessment during the first Business English lessons Need for assessment. ESL teachers when they meet their class for the first time should learn what students know and what they need to know. Even for General English in schools or university classrooms where students have more or less the same level of English. There should be some short tests to...  [Read more]

In the same way that we would expect our surgeon, dentist or airline pilot to have undertaken some training, our students of English might also expect their teachers to be trained and competent. What does it mean that our English teacher is competent? Possibly there are two major components to the answer: 1. The teacher has adequate subject knowledge. 2. The teacher has some classroom delivery skills. First you need to find a course that offers these components. While many native English speakers have learned the rules of English grammar sub-consciously as part of their language development, this does not give them the necessary subject knowledge required to teach English. So both native English speakers (NES) and non-native English speakers (NNES) should have some background knowledge of...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngzhuAngpu 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. Every language has its own peculiarities, more so in English language, which is spoken in the largest number of countries in the world. And thus has attained the status of a global language. Factors attributed to this phenomenon are many. One of the major reasons is that the Britishers had a large number of colonies which enabled them to come in contact with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingandi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fuxin Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I think it was great to point out the difference between fluency and accuracy. I think the weight of importance of each needs to shift as students move from beginner to intermediate to advanced. The first level of communication is being able to say something and get your basic point across, fluency is more important, as your level increases and your communication...  [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]

  Milica completed her 120-hour TEFL course with ITTT and is now teaching English to students in a summer camp in Italy. In this TEFL review video she gives an insight into the kind of activities her students enjoy while learning English. 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 is about some of the basics and intermediate ideas of grammar. Grammar is usually one of the more difficult sections to understand about English and once again proved to be...  [Read more]

  In this ITTT TEFL review video Ben talks about his experiences during the first week of his TEFL/TESOL certification course in Phuket. He gives some insights as to what the course involves, both the theory and practical components of 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. I think this unit is very important to me. I am currently teaching English to both Kids and Adults and most of them are beginners or intermediate level. I've learned a lot of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cailing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jiujiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This unit cover lesson planning. It covers the importance and best practices of lesson planning. Then it goes into some examples of lesson planning for the elementary and intermediate classes. The lesson plans were straight arrow lessons which means that it goes through engage, study, and activate. It's a bit tricky to order the parts of the lesson rather than...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangshi 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. IS DRILLING AN EFFECTING TEACHING METHOD? 1) INTRODUCTION Teaching is a way of impacting knowledge to students. When teaching English as a foreign language, it means the teacher will be impacting knowledge about the language to his/her students, according to the level of the student eg starters, elimentary ,pre intermediate,intermediate or upper intermediate level....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yongxing 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. Any language is basically a form of oral communication that has writing as its graphic embodiment. Native speakers will naturally first learn to speak and then, little by little, will relate the oral language to its respective written representation. As a receptive skill reading is not an act of speaking in itself but rather the reproduction of the...  [Read more]

  Sairi from Mexico was already teaching English when she took the ITTT online course. In this TESOL review video she talks about how the course has helped her develop her teaching skills. 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 3 explores ways you could develop a course for young learners (syllabus). The unit describes the different levels which have been divided into a five-level scale. The levels are starter, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huzupu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinyang 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've learned that there are many aspects to be considered when teaching. One must be fair, intelligent, entertaining to be able to satisfy the students and create a comfortable classroom. I've learned that each students do posses different needs and we are to be able to cater to each individual student. Although, I've been studying english since intermediate school I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nancun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang 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 major benefits that I really have gained from this course is that it was a good revision for my four years university grammar course ( tenses, present, past, future, conditional, phrasal verbs, clauses, adjectives, adverbs, verbs etc, and methods of teaching english as a second language. It also gave me insights how to deal with my class, how to arrange it, how...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhushAnqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yongzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Jeremy Harmer is a well-respected author and educator of the communicative language in teaching English. Although there are various methods or procedures for teaching English, Mr. Harmer introduced the method ‘ESA’ – Engage, Study, Activate in 1998. Even though ESA is like the ‘PPP’ methodology – Present, Practice, Produce; it is not as rigid as PPP...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fengji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinyang 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 gained a lot from this course. I have a better appreciation of the teaching process, being student focused, and not just simply lecturing. I thought the course covered a lot of material and was very practical. Finally, I learnt and enjoyed very much the lessons on grammar which stimulated in me a wide interest in language and communication. I am undecided...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mancun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This course has been very useful for me. It has given me confidence in teaching grammar and in making me reflect on different approaches for different types of groups that I will encounter (monolingual, multilingual, beginner, intermediate etc). I have found the lesson planning and thinking about the Engage, Study and Activate stages particularly beneficial and I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShenshAn 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. I was born in Saudi Arabia and I had to finish my education from kindergarten to high school in Jeddah and other cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As a student and a resident for more than 12 years there, I think that I have some experience in the education system in Saudi Arabia. I will try here to explain English learners’ problems in Saudi Arabia in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hekou 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. This summative essay will exam the importance of teaching the differences between American English and British English for EFL learners. I will examine the intention behind teaching these differences, and when these teachings should be applied, and to what effect and purpose. This essay will focus primarily on the problems of pronunciation and spelling, which are the...  [Read more]

  This TEFL review was recorded ITTT graduate Kyrylo. Kyrylo took the 120-hour course with tutor support and videos. He found that the units were useful and the tutor responses were fast and clear. Although the final task was challenging, Kyrylo thinks that completing it useful to your future teaching career. 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 EFL Levels of students are:↵Starter, Elementary, Lower-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Erdao 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. In summary, this unit describes 2 videos from a TEFL class following ESA techniques by a language teacher to Thai students who are in the intermediate level. The first video follows ESA techniques in which it demonstrates an ineffective teaching progress as well as shows a drastic and a significant difference to the second video. The second video seems to be one of the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in FAngli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinxiang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This course was a great incentive to re-learn past, present and future tenses. This is the foundation of learning english grammar and it was very beneficial to re-study these subjects. In order to communicate in the english language, knowing the past, present and future tenses is essential for beginner, intermediate and advanced students. This I found was very...  [Read more]

Universally recognized is the advantage of one teacher for one student. It is an evident need for students in school requiring help with a specific subject. Also, advanced students benefit from being able to progress at a more rapid pace. Shy students find this very helpful in overcoming their hesitancy to speak out. For those with a busy schedule and disciplined progress is very difficult, one on one teaching is almost a must. These are just a few examples of why there is a boom in requests for this type of teaching. Of course, this type of teaching situation can cause some problems for the teachers that they would not encounter in a classroom setting with many students. There is a great intensity and often a need for very precise preparation. The material prepared will need to be almost...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yihegong 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. The task of reading from texts as part of language acquisition is a useful and important activity for all stages of the learner, whether beginner, intermediate or advanced. By using reading materials, accompanied by comprehensive listening, writing and vocal skills, it allows the student to have a wider view of the language. Reading in a new language can often...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wuqiang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangqiu 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 gained many insights about teaching the english language during my coursework. The various chapters of information about teaching skills and language awareness are highly valuable to me since I am a beginner with regard to teaching. I found the information well organized and a valuable resource for me to refer back to when teaching. I have strengthened my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAndu 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. Receptive skills When acquiring a new language, the skills required can be split into two main categories; receptive and productive. These can be split again into reading and listening (receptive) along with writing and speaking (productive). Many decisions around the planning of lessons such as learning materials, activities, student participation levels etc. are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luohansi Zhongchuchang? 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. Although there are hundreds of methodologies for an online English teacher, I am going to be focusing on five techniques that are favorable among the young learners. The five techniques are: 1. Total Physical Response. 2. Introducing Items of Cultural and Personal Relevance. 3. Using Authentic Materials. 4. Displaying Visuals and Realia. 5. Remembering the...  [Read more]