Tesol Games

In the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL), games are very important, with adults and especially with children. Let’s face it, no matter how much one wants to learn another language sometimes class discussions about verb tenses and vocabulary can be monotonous, slow, and boring. Games make learning fun and can be used to add a little spice to class. Many people are motivated by competition so games can stimulate this enthusiasm and help to stimulate participation. Games can be used to aid in: learning vocabulary, verb usage, vocabulary review, pronunciation practice, phrase building, confidence building, and encouraging students to think and respond in English. Games are great ways to begin or end a class. Openers for classes are used to introduce new...  [Read more]

In the classroom, games can be a very useful and valuable resource. A teacher with a good mental list of games can make even the blandest information interesting. Games warm-up a class, rev-up a class, give an opportunity to change the mood of the class, or give the students a good send off so they leave excited about the class (Ruyter, 2000). Games can be used during any part of class, any stage of the learning process, and with any age group or level. Games can be used to get the students interested in a topic, to introduce a topic, to teach a topic (logic games are great for this stage), to review and practice, even to test the students (Myerhoff, 2001;Ruyter,2000)! Games are not limited to vocabulary and spelling. Games can be used during reading, testing (lowers testing...  [Read more]

  Throughout section on the teaching of productive skills and the teaching of receptive skills our activate activities will usually involve some form of game and our final consideration here will be the use of games in the classroom. We can start with a definition of what we actually mean by a game and it basically has three components. A game is an activity that has rules it should have for its purpose in the classroom a teaching point and by nature to the fact that it's a game it should also include an element of fun. So that will be our working definition for a game that we're going to use in the classroom. There are many different types of games and they range between the competitive and those will require cooperation and there are all sorts of games that involve both of these...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Genghuang 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. With the help of this tesol course, I learned a lot about the english language. But I didn?t learn only the english language but also I gained new tips as to how to be a good and efficient teacher inside the classroom. Now, I have confidence that I will be able to teach english well to students and be able to share the knowledge that I gained to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WAnggang 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. The tesol course offered me many things that I would love to treasure. One of these is the quest for knowledge. As an educator I must not only set learning objectives for my students, but also for myself. By setting realistic goals I can keep myself fresh and energized year after year. I need to seek personal and professional growth so that I will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yingyang 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. Through this course I have gained the knowledge of how to efficiently and effectively plan lessons that can get the most positive results from students whatever their age and level. The course has also highlighted the possible challenges of teaching in a foreign country and how as a teacher these challenges can be overcome. My personal knowledge...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangchengqu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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 began taking this course while I was currently teaching english in korea. I have been incorporating the ESA lesson structure. As a teacher sometimes I get lazy and forget to engage the students, which makes a huge difference. Before this tesol course I was also very uneducated in parts of speech in the english language and have found the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XuzhuAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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 language teaching being my major subject at University, most of the units in the tesol course were very familiar to me. However, as time went past I had simply forgotten some of the important aspects of language teaching. This course has really expanded my views and had increased my knowledge of teaching english to other groups and cultures....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Duji 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 think that the most important thing that I personally gained from this course was how to plan each class effectively. Before enrolling in this tesol course I did not have a clear vision of how to run each class to be the most effective for the students, but now I do. I think that making all of those ESA lesson plans, be they the straight forward,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donghua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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. TESOL has taught me many useful tools that will greatly benefit me as a teacher. One of the most important things I have learned is how to plan a lesson. Knowing how to plan a lesson will have me prepared for each class I may have and the strategies given to me will aide me to reach all students regardless of the level. The review over grammar...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yingguo 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?ve had some teaching experience with (young) adult migrants. I taught them Dutch as a second language which I really loved. Having said that, I found it sometimes difficult to describe a lesson or put in a lesson-plan that addressed the question in its entirety. During teaching, you improvise, change and then new ideas will come to your mind on...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiazhai 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. It was a very useful and interesting course for me. As a non-native speaker I found all the units extremely useful. The grammar units helped me to focus on various grammar points, study and analyse them. There was a good amount of grammatical theory and exercises; they?ve helped me to clarify its use in my head, so I can explain it better when...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhengzhou Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhengzhou 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| The most important aspect gained from for me was to learn and understand correctly the basic or simple grammar structures, how to recognize them and to have the ability to teach these to other individuals I began this course because I wanted to improve my pay grade in the...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinxiang Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| I have learned a lot from this course This course has done nothing but surprise me! I have had some experience in teaching/playing and I have seen plenty of examples of poor tuition techniques (my children go to a spanish state school where teaching methods are demoralizing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinyang Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The lesson plan you will see attached is designed for students that have some english knowledge but will be perfectly adaptable for students with less approached to the english language, in that case more language body will be use, including short role plays with me and one...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in LongxingchAng 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. Why do children prefer playing games to studying? The simple answer is that the games are easy and fun. Human beings are more motivated to perform actions that would require minimal input and give maximal outcomes. Learning through games is an essential part of human development and it is used as a study tool in a number of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAyi 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. The games provide teachers to make their lessons more effective and enjoyable for the students. Teachers are aware of that students can only focus on the lessons if the subject is interesting. Meanwile they can make their lesson more understandable. Learning with games enchances the students’ achievements. That’s why teachers should know that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangxu 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. In my opinion games are very important in a classroom or in any learning institution. If a teacher keeps reading and writing everyday just as a daily routine in class believe me students will be bored to attend his or her class most especially young learners they will be bored to hell, because of that they will start climbing on chairs and tables...  [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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuAnshi 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. Teaching English as a foreign language with little to no experience is a daunting task and one that should be seriously considered. There are many aspects to teaching that I was expected to know and implement while teaching English in another country. I had to learn how to teach in about two weeks and although I learned many techniques and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WAnjing 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. Games are seen as time wasted. According to me, it is a pointless prejudice. Because some people suppose playing games in the classroom can only be as computer games; on the contrary, games in classroom are more instructive for the self-improvement of students. Meanwhile, the research has shown that the games in classroom affect students...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuoduwAn 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. Education and teaching are always changing. Thus, teachers are constantly thinking of new ideas and techniques they can implement in their classroom and teaching plan in order to more effectively educate their students. Presently, the notion of games within the classroom is widely popular among teachers. One may think that this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wudian 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. Nobody doubts that motivated students learn better and assimilate taught contents more easily than non-motivated ones but keeping students motivated and engaged during class is one of the teachers' biggest challenges. Playing games in class, though, seems to be of great help when it comes to engaging, reinforce materials and retain...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JirigAlangtu 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. One of the most interesting ways to draw in young learners that are learning English as a second language is to use games in one’s lesson plan. The way in which games can be implemented into a teacher’s lesson plan are that they must be used correctly and have relevance, as well as understanding the different age levels and which games...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in FAnggAoping 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. In recent years, there has been a change in language teaching from focusing on linguistic skills to communicative competence. In the past, a successful language learner was identified based on his/ her ability to grasp grammar rules, sentence structure and parts of speech. At that time, teaching foreign languages, in particular, English, was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shilong 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. Learning an unfamiliar language is no easy feat and with the globalization of the English language, more and more people are faced with the task learning English to better their lives. It is no secret that English is one of the more difficult languages to learn given its many peculiarities and the lack of clues to pronunciation. This makes learning...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zaoyang Jingji KAifAqu? 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. The use of Games in lesson plans for younger learners of the English Language is something that I think is very important. This is because they are excellent at providing a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere in the classroom. This helps in encouraging beginning students to participate. They also provide a challenge for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dayi 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. Games have always been a medium that has an educational purpose to it, and this from a young age. Toddlers learn to interact with shape and physics with blocks, babies learn to talk with picture books and teenagers learn to socialize and develop logic with competitive games. Throughout human lives, games are essential tools. Nowadays, video games...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Maqiao 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. Introduction Growing up, hearing the word games in the classroom was almost always associated with a lack of concentration on the students’ side or maybe just a side note on activities to be done during recess. Today, especially after taking this course, I have come to see just how essential academic games could be! From young...  [Read more]