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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SaihantalA Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xilinguole Meng — Xilin Gol? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. To communicate in any language efficiently, people should know the skills of that language. What are these skills? How many skill types are there? Why is teaching these skills in an ESL/EFL classroom important for ESL teachers? These questions will be answered in this summative task. Skills are ways in which people express their ideas in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuAngma Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangtan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. LESSON PLAN Teacher: solmaz Observer: n/a Date and time: 20/10/19 Class level: Beginner Room: 1 number of students: 4 Language point: consolidation of introduction and ask for the name spelling from previous lesson to bring out new grammar and vocabularies. Teaching aids: board, markers, flashcards of numbers 0-10, 8 flashcards of phone number, 4 BINGO sheets (a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tangdukou 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. When I think of my earliest childhood memories, I remember that I used to love to play games in the classroom (charades, 7-up/head down-thumb up, categories, bingo, etc.). Going from a boring ‘copy from the board’ type of class to a competitive, fun and activity-filled class gave me the ability to open my mind, so I could find the subject being taught more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Futianhe 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. Let’s imagine we are sitting in Macau in a club. We are hungry and order some fried pork, it is called 猪 pronounced as zhū. We see some Saxon made porcelain figurines resembling probably pigs, again in Chinese they are 猪, zhū. We remind the waiter of the forgotten wine and he might address us as 猪, zhū, which might be something like swine. We have...  [Read more]

  This video is part of our ESA Methodology series. The ESA methodology consists of three stages. In this series, we look at the individual purposes of each stage and typical activities for each stage. This second video introduces the study phase of ESA. The purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check the understanding of that material.The second stage or phase of the lesson is known as the study phase and really the purpose of this phase is to cover the actual teaching of the lesson and to check understanding of that material. Typically in an ESA lesson, the study phase will have two parts. The first phase of the study is to cover the actual teaching component in what's known as the board work and what we try to do in the board work phase is to...  [Read more]

What is E.S.A' E.S.A stands for engage, study, activate. E.S.A is a teaching method developed by Jeremy Harmer.The engage phase is used for getting the students to think and talk in English and is also a good way to ease into a lesson. Introductions of the teacher and each student one by one around the classroom gets everyone involved and inspires confidence for students as well as the teacher. Some of the engage activities are: introductions around the classroom, games such as a-z animals, countries, things, places etc. Discussions such as what do you like/dislike, music, stories or pictures. Trying to draw the language out of the students keeps them well engaged and focused taking them into the study phase.The study phase is generally the bulk of the lesson focusing on the lesson point....  [Read more]

What is E.S.A? E.S.A stands for engage, study, activate. E.S.A is a teaching method developed by Jeremy Harmer. The engage phase is used for getting the students to think and talk in English and is also a good way to ease into a lesson. Introductions of the teacher and each student one by one around the classroom gets everyone involved and inspires confidence for students as well as the teacher. Some of the engage activities are: introductions around the classroom, games such as a-z animals, countries, things, places etc. Discussions such as what do you like/dislike, music, stories or pictures. Trying to draw the language out of the students keeps them well engaged and focused taking them into the study phase. The study phase is generally the bulk of the lesson focusing on the lesson...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAngbei Guanliqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Huangshi 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 essay, I will examine the different stages of the ESA methodology and the role they play in memory retention. Key terms: ESA: The ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology is the methodology used throughout this course. Engage Phase: In this phase, the teacher will try to arouse the students' interest and get them thinking and speaking in English....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TantuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baicheng 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 enjoyed watching these 2 videos and trying to elicit everything what I have already learned from the course. It really helps to understand, how good teaching and bad teaching looks in real life, and which results can it lead to. I liked watching the lesson flow in both ways of teaching. I learned a lot from that. I enjoyed watching these 2 videos and trying to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAntaishAnlǚyoukAifA Guanlichu? 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 my experience, one of the biggest challenges that new teachers face when they enter the classroom is finding a balance between teacher talk time and student talk time. New teachers will tend to use too much poor quality teacher talk time in their lessons, rather than not enough quality teacher talk time. It is just as important that teachers...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhAngjiAwei 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. When teaching English it is important to have structure in the lesson. So which methodology do we use? There are many useful techniques out there, but in my opinion the Engage, Study and Activate (ESA) methodology is the most effective. Jeremy Harmer first proposed this method in his book “How to teach English”. The ESA method gives flexibility to conduct a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in SAncha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiaogan Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching receptive skills In any language there are four basic skills. They are equally important and teachers should try to include them in every lesson. Reading and listening are known as receptive skills, while speaking and writing are known as productive skills. Teachers may focus more on one particular skill in each lesson while still integrating the others. All...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Paozi 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. This unit taught me the primary difference between fluency and accuracy activities. Fluency activities focus on the students' creativity and familiarity with the language. Accuracy activities, on the other hand, focus more on the production of correct language. Certain activities should be used to elicit each of these. Controlled activities are closely associated with...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuiquliu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jilin 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 taught me how important it is to follow correctly a ESA lesson plan but also that the attitude of the teacher can also have significant effect on how the students learn and interact within the lesson. In the first video it showed that the teacher did not try to create a rapport at the begging of the class but also during the teaching he was not showing...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longhushan (Longhushan Fengjing Lǚyouquguanweihui) Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingtan 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. Boomerang & Patchwork? 2nd- Self-intro &Greeting ENGAGE--Notes on the board before the cls. Clear and instruction. Every stu tell things. You can see......in the reastautant. Real objects, acting, Elicit ‘you have to pay in the restaurant.”, pronunciation Activate--go around every pairs and check if the stus...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taohe Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baicheng 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. A good teacher should be kind, patient. A good teacher should really love teaching and be able to motivate learners. The lesson plan is important. A good teacher needs to make it clear and A good teacher can use story to elicit the target language smoothly. A good teacher can involve every students into his class and make them enjoin the class A good teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinhuaniuchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Baicheng 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 presented two different examples of an English language lesson to foreign students. The two videos gave stark differences in levels of preparation, posture of teaching, efficiency of process, and personal engagement with students. It was clear from watching the two videos that the second video showed that a positive, well prepared, and respectful...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongshi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dandong 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 are productive skills, and what students will achieve after working on them is more confidence and creativity to elicit vocabulary about different topics as well as using it in real life situations. Students are supposed to practice more accuracy during the study phase of the lesson, so the teacher can have more control over the correct using of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ermi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tonghua 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 found this unit to be very beneficial. I find that listening, in my experience, is the most interesting thing to teach, as well as challenging. I found the order of presentation to be imperatively useful, as I have come across many lessons that can be confusing. I found it useful to present any potentially difficult vocabulary that the students will come across, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinglong 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. This unit taught me how to engage students to elicit their listening and reading skills. Having a large variety of topics means the students will not be bored and will connect better with the material. Also, authentic material may be daunting to beginner students, who will focus how much they don't know rather than what they do know, so it should be used sparingly...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhuzhai 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. After years of tried language teaching strategies, a well known Teacher-Author named Jeremy Harmer came up with an efficient, simple to follow, 3-Stage approach called the ESA method; Engage, Study, Activate. Its focus is known for being "Student centered", while it constantly entail teaching and learning flexibilities throughout its phases. The method has been...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Minying Jingjifazhanqu (Teshuxiang Zhen)? Are you interested in teaching English in Baicheng 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 mood and attitude of the teacher will have a profound effect on the class. A teacher needs to engage his students in a manner that does not intimidate and will allow the students to feel encouraged to participate. The structure of the lesson is also important. Following a PPP or ESA structure aids in piquing students interest and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanrui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shangrao 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, two videos are used to demonstrate the difference between a well-planned and well-conducted class versus the other which is not quite as well-planned nor well-conducted. In the first video, the teacher did not make an effort to get to know the students' names. He was also unable to elicit the answers that he was looking for. In the second video, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangma Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Fushun 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. Writing and Speaking and flow between being creative and being correct often while teaching. It is important to know what kinds of games you should be doing to elicit creative fluent speaking, and what kind of games you should be using when you want accurate grammatically correct language. Drilling and similar games is great for focusing on the grammar of the target...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dakouqin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jilin 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 offers the opportunity to see effective and ineffective teaching. In the first video, we see how confusing learners can be whilst a teacher is not happy teaching and tries to elicit words or verbs from them without any former explanation about the lesson content. Being in this class I would have felt discouraged unmotivated and lost. In the second video,...  [Read more]

  The first part of my study phase is going to be the board work and I'm going to use the information that I generated in the elicitation part of my engage phase to move on to the actual board work. What I'm going to do is to show the structure of this particular tense. So, the phase study I'm expecting to take about ten minutes on this particular part and, again, the interaction will mainly be the students talking to me. So, how am I going to achieve that with this information? Well, we could ask the students to have a look at the sentences themselves and to tell us what they can see. If we look at each of the first words in here, then at this level, I should hopefully be able to elicit from my students what each of these words have in common and they may well give an answer that...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuhezi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Liaoyang 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 productive skill of Speaking and Writing is a great way to elicit communication from students. It is also a means of breaking a student free of his or her's shyness. As was taught in the beginning of this unit the receptive skill of reading and listening, though equally important, does not seem to prompt a student in participation as effectively as a productive...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lengshui Linchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yingtan 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 lesson I got to observe a classroom tefl environment. I got to observe not so good teaching techniques and also very effective teaching techniques. I think this is really helpful because I can refer to this to imitate the teacher's techniques and organization of the class when I am first starting as a teacher. I can also take note of his use of gestures...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word gibe. This word can be used as a noun and as a verb. Used as a noun, it describes a taunting remark and when used as a verb it refers to the action of making a taunting or insulting remark. Synonyms for gibe are taunt, sneer and insult. 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. In a classroom, we must know when to be firm and when to leave students alone. This is what this unit developed here as Classroom...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gaoqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huludao 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 the Unit #12 another important topic was covered - the way we teach productive skills. It's almost impossible to eliminate the weight of accuracy and fluency of speaking, as well as correct writing. That is how we could think about a person's background and education level. It requires much more hard work than jus learning a language using receptive skills. For a...  [Read more]