On The Mark Tefl

  In this TEFL review video, Mark from the UK talks about his experience studying with ITTT. Mark took the 120-hour online TEFL course with tutor support and videos. He decided to take the course so that he could teach English in Northern Thailand. Mark had a very positive experience taking the 120-hour course and is now taking a specialised course in teaching English to young learners. 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 discussed the...  [Read more]

  Mary from the US took the 120-hour TEFL course with tutor support and videos after being recommended the course by her friends who are already teaching. In this TEFL review video, Mary discusses her experience of taking the course. Mary found the course videos to be helpful in presenting the course materials in a more visual way, which helped her to better absorb the information. She also found the tutors to be very responsive to her questions often replying within 24 hours. One of the main benefits of the course was that Mary was able to study in her own time enabling her to fit study around her job. 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...  [Read more]

  Mary is an assistant English language teacher in Tokyo, Japan, and she recently completed the 120-hour online TEFL/TESOL course with ITTT. She enjoyed the course a lot and had fun completing all 20 units. In her TEFL review, she also says that she enjoyed the flexibility the course gave her to complete the course in her leisure time. She recommends the course to anyone interested in teaching English and finds the course to be great value for money. 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...  [Read more]

This marks my thirteenth week as a new teacher of sixth and seventh grade students, ages eleven to thirteen. I teach history and my class sizes range from twenty-three to twenty-seven, with a total of one hundred and fifty students throughout the day. As one can imagine, classroom management and discipline are extremely important with groups this size and with children in general. In an effort to improve the effectiveness of my current teaching position and to set the tone for my future ESL/EFL classrooms, I consulted the Phi Delta Kappan, an excellent resource for teachers both beginning their careers and those who are seasoned veterans in the field. Metzger, Margaret (2002). Classroom Management: Learning to Discipline. Phi Delta Kappan 84, 77-84. Metzger is a life-long English teacher...  [Read more]

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, stop. They are designed to help readers to make sense of the written word. Punctuation herds words together, keeps others apart. Their placement, or absence, can vastly change the meaning of a phrase, this is the basis of all those “I’m sorry, I’ll read that again” jokes.Think of the difference to meaning the punctuation marks make in the following examples: Go get him, surgeonsORGo, get him surgeonsWhat is this thing called, love'ORWhat is this thing called love'He shot himself as a childORHe shot, himself, as a childA woman, without her man, is nothing. OR A woman, without her, man is nothing.My son, if sinners entice thee consent thee, not refraining...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fengxi 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. Why testing and evaluation are significant in teaching and learning? No enterprise or activity can be said to be successful or to have failed in life without some forms of standards against which the goals and objectives of the activity are measured and assessed. This also applies to the activity of teaching and learning in the classroom, where the learning goals are...  [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 A'ershAnshitiAnchi 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. By the wise words of Albert Einstein “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken the joy in creative expression and knowledge” we seldom truly understand when we stand in front of our students just how big of an influence we make on their lives and on their future paths that they will take after they have left our class. Teachers have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DazhAng 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. From this unit, it tells more details about teaching pronounciation and phonology.For some people, they will not always focus on the pronounciation, most pronounciation tends to concentrate on personal sounds which means the pronounciation is not really very important.The intonation of each word in a whole sentence has its different meaning if we use different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gushan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Haidong 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 I've learnt the basics of stress, phonemes and mouth placement when speaking. Stress is quite an abstract concept to teach so I have benefited from learning teaching practices such as using choral work or getting students to mark the areas of stress in a sentence. The introduction to phonemic principles e.g. the different placement of the tongue, lips...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL - Diploma In TEFL Distance Learning and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: L. K. - Ukraine said: Generally the ittt course has helped me to structure lesson planning, to think of aims of every lesson and sequence of lessons, helped me to find the variety of games to play in class. It has also enriched my vocabulary, especially with up-to-date not too bookish grammar explanation. Though completing the worksheets has taken so much of my precious time, the result is absolutely benefiting as instead of planning a huge lesson I started planning having 1 realistic goal on my mind....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Saihu Nongchang? 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. From unit 9, I learned how to plan a lesson. In a lesson plan I need to write down a lot for example: The teacher’s name, date and time, class level, room expected number of students, language point, teaching aids, learner objectives, anticipated problems for students, solutions, anticipated problems for teacher, solutions, procedure, phase, timing and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulanbai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chaoyang 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. Speaking and writing skills are productive skills. They are very important because they give students the opportunity to practice practical activities in the classroom. These two skills can be used as a 'barometer' to check how much learners have learned. Speaking is important unless someone learns English completely for academic reasons and does not intend to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in MujiAyingzi 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. While all languages have differences and present unique languages to learners, challenges for Chinese students of English are particularly well understood due the sheer number of English classes and programs for Chinese students and professionals. An obvious stumbling block for Chinese students is the alphabet. Whereas English has a 26 letter Roman alphabet,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Quanzhai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian 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. People from every corner of the world aspire to learn English, the global language that functions as a crucial international communication tool in the multinational world we live in today. A teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) is therefore confronted with learners from diverse nationalities and cultures different from one’s own. The learner’s...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hushi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiantao, Tianmen, Qianjiang & S? 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. Being an English teacher, teaching skills are very important. The quality of learning result depends on many factors, but the teacher's methods are the essential elements for learners' learning progress, motivation, enthusiasm, etc. to help them have the best result in studying English. I will concentrate on "How to teach vocabulary...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulanaodaoyuchang? 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. In a world that continues to become smaller and smaller the importance of connecting to various types of people is at an all time high. English is the most widely spoken language in the world and with the digital age that is the world today, the need to know English is constantly there. A student who has taken the time to learn English will have many doors...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chengguan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Guyuan 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 I have learned from unit 13: Teaching Pronunciation and phonology are the techniques for indicating and teaching intonation like by gesture, humming or singing and also by making marks on the board using straight or angled arrows to emphasize points that are being made. Knowing the stress in words, sound joining and linked speech. But I feel that learning from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tiefo 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. The young learners TEFL course was different from the original 120 hour course but nevertheless, insightful. I learned a lot but several themes stuck out to me. I learned that young people pick up languages much easier than older people but their motivation for doing so is often not the same. They are usually in school because they have to be due to requirements from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Machenglindian Chachang? 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. For a student focusing on self-studying a language, they must determine their objectives and goals, and take responsibility for the rest of their language learning. The learner must choose methods of instruction from correct grammar to vocabulary words through trial and error. In an essay by Edward Allen, he mentions that “the aim of these procedures...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhushi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhumadian 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. Planning a nearly perfect lesson to teach a language can be considered as half of the work done. Because I think that a well-planned lesson will firmly grasp the students' attention and make them motivated to learn. On the other hand if the lessons are not planned well, chances are that the class may not be up to the mark regardless of how good or experienced the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in MaduonongyekAifAqu Guanweihui? 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. What personal qualities are important for English teachers? The skills and qualities that every teacher needs to have are: ENTHUSIASM. A great teacher is enthusiastic about their job and lesson,and encourages students to share the same passion as they do. LEADERSHIP. An effective teacher has the ability to lead and guide her calassroom,she can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DagAng 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. During the journal of learning languages, the progress can separated into many parts: vocabulary, speaking, pronunciation, reading, writing, watching, etc. Among these options, one essential part is grammar. And let’s talk about how crucial is it to learn grammar. Grammar is the structure of the language. After studying grammar, learners are able to become more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gupo 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. Future tense is use to tell what will happen or what shall happen. In Grammer it's a verb form and generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. Future tense is use to tell what will happen or what shall happen. In Grammer it's a verb form and generally marks the event described by the verb as not...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HanfAng 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. Future tense is use to tell what will happen or what shall happen. In Grammer it's a verb form and generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. It can be used for expressing spontaneous decision in time of speaking Future tense is use to tell what will happen or what shall happen. In Grammer...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chouji 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. If there is ever a profession that gets taken for granted, it’s teaching. It is unfortunate that even now, in the 21st century, we consider teaching to be a profession that anyone can take up. In most developed countries, one would be required to have a teaching degree, or some form of qualification, to teach. However, in my country, anyone can become a teacher,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kulun 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. Approximately there are 1.5 billion English speakers in the world including native and foreign speakers (Lyons, 2017). It may seem a lot but it’s just 20% of the world’s population. Although English is not the most spoken language in the world, it has over the years made its mark and is recognized as the world’s official language of communication as it’s one...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xintianpu 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. As a teacher, you have a very unique role to play as not only the leader of a group of people in their education journey. But also as a participant in the journey of education. This is a very delicate balance and requires an English teacher to have an amalgamation of skills and personal qualities to do so. A great personal quality that an English teacher should...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longtang 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 grammar, a future tense is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. As we had already learnt the Present Simple and the Past Simple, it`s easier to learn and explain the future tenses and forms. This unit also introduced common student mistakes that will help a lot in the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gupei 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. Teaching beginners is quite intimidating for teachers. Especially when the students who only know one language and the teacher does not know anything about their mother tongue, or if you have been tasked to teach more than one language group. It is even more challenging, but at the same time exciting as it will definitely enrich your patience and experience as a...  [Read more]