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  In this video Linda breaks down the difference between "everyday" and "every day". Due to their spelling, it can be quite hard for non-native English learners to understand the difference between the two. This video explains exactly how to differenciate between both expressions. 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. After passing the TEFL certificate and since I am currently working as a communication manager with foreign colleagues who do not have a high...  [Read more]

Teaching adult true beginners from day one is an interesting challenge and requires a strategy which must be formulated in advance. Do you begin with phonics' Can you start with rote memorization' How can you approach people with different learning styles' What has been the students experience in school previously' There are many considerations but in the end a good plan smoothes the way to the first day. When teaching the alphabet the issue of using phonics comes to the forefront. Many programs use a system of phonics instruction along with grammar and vocabulary topics. Teaching the sounds rather than the letter names per say has advantages and disadvantages. The learner will make more progress in speaking skills when he starts by learning the sounds. He will be able to imitate words...  [Read more]

Isn't it funny how our preconceptions are often way off course' Certain things we're preconditioned to think, be it because of cultural influences, peer/family influence or experiences, and, more often than not, we don't question these; Tesco and Wal-Mart are Mecca's; McDonald's food tastes amazing; being quiet makes you a good student. I ran away from this conditioning and ended up on a TEFL course in sunny Phuket, the 'Pearl of the South' : an excuse to escape the real world for a while and maybe earn a qualification with which I could escape for a wee while longer. Many things Western culture had tried to precondition me to believe I'd already balked at- Wal- mart´s and suchlike are more demonic corporations to be run away form rather than Mecca's to be embraced and McDonalds burgers...  [Read more]

Teaching English as a Foreign Language may strike you one day as your vocation in life, or a way of earning a living whilst staying in another country. Either way, it can be very rewarding to spend your working day teaching your own native language. But, if you are lucky enough to live near a college that teaches English as a Foreign Language in your own country, you don't even need to leave your home soil to practice your skills!Where do you start though, having decided this is what you want to do' The increasingly familiar way is to search the internet, as you would have done a reference library, to find out what is offered either in your local area, or online. For myself, I was attracted to an online course which offers me flexibility and came recommended by someone who is currently in...  [Read more]

  Just to finish off this particular section on lesson planning, we're going to go through a couple of procedures that should take place during the study phase periods, particularly when we're doing the activities. It is quite important that before we actually go into a study activity that we go through a process of showing how that activity is going to work and one acronym that is often used for this is D-E-GO. The D part of this stands for a demonstration of the activity. Now, it's very important that you don't try to explain how the activity is going to work but rather you actually demonstrate the process. An example of the demonstration of the process of the activity could be something as simple as taking the first question and using it and writing it on the board. This will...  [Read more]

Once you have completed your training and got that all important TEFL certificate in your back pocket, it is time to start applying for jobs and sending off your CV/resume. Of course, simply sending a resume to a potential employer is not much use without an accompanying cover letter to go with it. Your cover letter is the perfect tool for you to demonstrate your enthusiasm for the job and the reasons why you think you are the best candidate. So what exactly should you put in your TEFL cover letter? Although it might be quicker and easier to use the same cover letter for every job you apply for, tailoring each letter to each specific job will generally reap better rewards. It is highly recommended that you do plenty of research into each employer to give each application a personal feel...  [Read more]

For both newly qualified and experienced teachers, one common concern when planning to teach English abroad is how to find accommodation that is comfortable, in a safe location and suitable for your personal needs. The good news is you are unlikely to be the first foreign teacher in the area you are heading for, so you will probably have several options to choose from. Here we break down the most common aspects of organizing accommodation when teaching abroad. For many teachers, accommodation is not an issue as employers often provide housing as part of the teaching contract. Schools in countries such as China and South Korea, as well as many countries in the Middle East, routinely provide some form of free or subsidized accommodation. If you sign-up for a government-run recruitment...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiangliji 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. I actually gained the knowledge of how to be a teacher from taking this course. Honestly, one day I was volunteering to help an english school with it's Halloween party and the next I was given three different labs to teach with no experience and no idea where to start. I found that it was nice and fun, but I also was honest with myself that I did no real...  [Read more]

TEFL courses are designed to give you all the skills and knowledge you need to start a new career teaching English as a foreign language. Once you have completed a TEFL course and received your TEFL certificate you will be able to apply for a wide range of jobs in countries across the world. Before you choose a TEFL course you should be fully aware of all the course options available to ensure you make the right choice to suit your future plans. Deciding which TEFL course suits your individual learning style, your current situation and your future plans can be difficult as there is no standard length of training or a fixed syllabus that providers have to adhere to. The best advice we can give is don?t simply choose the cheapest or the first option you come across as it may not be...  [Read more]

Spain is one of the most popular destinations in Europe for teaching English abroad for many different reasons, including the buoyant job market, laid-back culture, great climate, and fabulous cuisine. Jobs are available year-round in most major towns and cities, but are you eligible to join the many thousands of people teaching English across Spain right now? This is one of the most common questions asked by those who dream of living and working in Spain, and the answer is NO, you do not need a university degree to teach English in Spain. There is no legal requirement for English teachers to have a degree and demand is so high that most employers are also unconcerned about your degree status. Most employers in Spain prefer to hire native English speakers as this is what local students are...  [Read more]

The term Active Learning means ''student interaction with content, with materials and with peers in a multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory and multi-graded approach' (Meyers, 1993 pg 39). Active learning helps the teacher handle the diversity of student levels in the classroom.In an Active Learning classroom the student is provided with the time, the materials, and the organized classroom routines and expectations they need in order to allow them interaction with their learning. It is important for educators to realize that Active Learning supports not only English-speaking students but second- language learners as well.If we think that students are learning English so that they can use it in their everyday lives to better themselves and their opportunities, we must realize that students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donggang 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. As have been said by many foreigners who are teaching English in Japan, the cultural differences in the classroom can be a great challenge. Moreover, many of these foreigners are still, even after spending some years there already, discovering and learning about all the cultural matters in Japan. This essay attempts to reveal some of the most important cultural issues...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhongfang 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. It is your first day of teaching and you walk into a room with thirty students, everywhere! Some have moved the desks into groups to chat, some are throwing paper around the room, and some are even asleep in the chaos. What do you do? This exact scenario has not happened to me before, though I have walked into other classes just like this. When there is a language...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hefeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit, the future tenses are covered. The seven most common are as follows: the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going+infinitive, the present simple, and the present continuous. First, the future simple indicates actions in the future. The form is as follows: (+) sub + will + verb (base form), (-) sub + will +...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maliang 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. Ornella Hemingway Summative Task Topic: How to teach English to children online Aspects to consider in making lessons fun and effective for children learning English online The following essay is based on my personal experience of teaching one-to-one English lessons to young children (ages ranging from 5-14), through online platforms and companies....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taizhimiao 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. English has become the world wide language, leading to early learning of English in the school context is becoming more common nowadays. It has been suggested that children should master their mother tongue before moving on to their second language. However, if you learn a language after the age of seven, you can never turn it into your mother tongue. You should...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WushijiAzi 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. As an educator, it is my fundamental belief that students should have a relaxed environment with positive reinforcement techniques, and each classroom should have a positive reward system. The positive reinforcement techniques include helping the student feel like they are welcome in the classroom, encouraging them to correct their mistakes, reassuring them that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChuAncheng 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. Whilst entire countries will spend their day to day without much dispute in how to use common language, the question is raised when the English learner is asking how to properly pronounce a word that in Boston, London, New York, or Texas, would sound entirely different. Would it be correct to teach "buh-tuh" or "budder" to put on your pancakes or rather, your...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xintang 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. The United Arab Emirates though being a discrete country, is a league of 7 states comprising of people whose first language is Arabic. UAE being a prominent Arab country in Middle East homes to myriad of Arabs from neighboring countries. Hence, the challenges that a learner faces are also varying depending on the nativity of the person. I firmly believe there are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yonghe 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. Name: Farahnaaz Noordien Summative Assessment Topic: 14. Options for Teachers When an individual realise their passion is teaching students they will strive to fulfil it, by planning. Once a teacher received their qualification and start teaching, learning still continues on a day to day basis. Teachers deal with various personalities and different course work...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhuozishAn 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. Learning difficulties As a special needs teacher, learning difficulties are something I deal with everyday. From my years of experience, I have noticed that learners who are often labelled as ‘challenging’ are usually the ones with some type of difficulty--it could emotional, social or a learning difficulty. What is a learning difficulty and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huolianpo 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. The more a teacher speak the less attention the learners will pay. Decreasing teacher speaking time can be done with a few practical steps and wonderful teaching methods. It all starts with proper planning. When designing a lesson plan be sure to include assignments and activities that will engage your students and do not call for a teacher dominant role. Using...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAnshAn 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. Abstract: Classroom management consists of the practices and procedures that a teacher uses to maintain an optimum environment in which instruction and learning can occur. Management is the act of managing, supervising, guiding and caring for an organization, program, or project you have been entrusted with. A teacher is entrusted with managing a classroom as a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in FanjiAshAn 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. Finding the perfect balance between being a fun teacher who creates an environment in which students want to be a part of and are excited to learn and a teacher who is firm enough to maintain discipline in the classroom is possibly the most daunting challenge of a new teacher. Let’s think about a possible scenario of a new teacher. The very first class...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HongzhuAng 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. Why Is Lesson Planning Important? I believe lesson planning is one of the most important tools for the success of a teacher. How can you plan for success without a plan? How can you go somewhere without knowing where you are, where you want to go, and how to get there? Lesson planning allows a teacher to plot a course for the students that will meet their...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heichengzishifanqu? 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. To answer the question, is online teaching a source of globalization? We must start by defining the word "globalization" According to the Cambridge dictionary, globalization is the increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries. Also, a situation in which available...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Caoqiao 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. Every teacher knows that the most important factor in learning is motivation. It is the driving force that keeps students on track, keeps them from giving up, and provides continual courage when mistakes are made and moral is down. This is why it's so important for teachers to not only provide motivation to his or her young learners but to provide the appropriate...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SongjiAzui 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 an outdoor instructor and glacier guide, I enjoy being outside as much as possible. Spending most of my day outdoors and moving around often allows me to have consistently high levels of energy and motivation. I believe that if an outdoor classroom was used more often, students would be more productive and have a better learning experience. In addition,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yunxian (Chadian Zhen) Jingji KAifAqu? 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. This summative task task is based off of "130. Is teaching ESL/EFL online convenient?" For years and years teaching the English Language has been something where you, study the courses in TEFL, pass the unit exams, receive a certificate and then finally begin the hunt for a job in another nation where one of the first things the school,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglongchang 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. The average four year old has an attention span of eight to 12 minutes. Kindergarteners typically range from four to six years in age so at best, an instructor has approximately 20 minutes in which to work when teaching kindergarten children. Teaching aids are critically important to maintaining the attention of this age group! When...  [Read more]