Vocab Box

  Place of articulation deals with the placement of the vocal organs when producing a sound. Before we can cover the particulars of places of articulation, we'll need to take a look at the various vocal organs and their locations. Moving from the front to the back we'd begin with our lips. We can use both lips in order to create a sound or we can use one of our lips with one of our rows of teeth, usually the top, in order to produce another sound. We also have other sounds, which use both of the rows of teeth. Further back we have what's called the alveolar ridge. That's the bit of the mouth that may get burnt when we're eating a pizza that's a bit too hot and the cheese burns just behind there our top two teeth. That again is the hard bit just behind our top teeth, called the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tuoshi 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. The Importance of Teaching Vocabulary: One of the things of the English language that can make English hard to get to grips with. Vocabulary knowledge is highly correlated with reading comprehension and reading achievement. Vocabulary is required for students to achieve cognitive academic language proficiency. All good reasons to make sure...  [Read more]

When I was growing up in school, I experienced many different teaching styles that for the most part did not work for me. Not that I lacked the intelligence, it was because the teaching style did not suit me. After a few years out of school I realized I was better off and figuring it out as I went along. At work if an engineer was trying to explain something I?d have to look at the job and I?d usually figure it out myself. It would go in one ear and out the other when it was being explained to me. This method might not work for everyone. I?m not sure but I think it would be similar to internet learning and doing the work yourself. My experience of learning languages is mixed. When I was learning German, I had a drill-sergeant type teacher in fact he was actually a corporal in the army....  [Read more]

When I was growing up in school, I experienced many different teaching styles that for the most part did not work for me. Not that I lacked the intelligence, it was because the teaching style did not suit me. After a few years out of school I realized I was better off and figuring it out as I went along. At work if an engineer was trying to explain something I’d have to look at the job and I’d usually figure it out myself. It would go in one ear and out the other when it was being explained to me. This method might not work for everyone. I’m not sure but I think it would be similar to internet learning and doing the work yourself.My experience of learning languages is mixed. When I was learning German, I had a drill-sergeant type teacher in fact he was actually a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ZhenleishAnfengjing Guanliju? 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. It's amazing how much this course refreshes the grammar that I had forgotten. It's one of those things that you learn once and sort put away in a box in your mind. It was amazing how much dust that box had collected! Since, I wasn't a Linguistics major, I never really thought about grammar and sentence structure. I remember the drills we had in my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changmu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hainan Zangzu Zizhizhou? 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. Unit thirteen was a very interesting lesson. For me the most interesting part was translating phonetic script. I found it quite interesting and I can't wait to incorporate it into my future lesson plans when teaching english. Learning the anatomy of your voice box and such on was very interesting in correlating it to the way we talk. In summation, I...  [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 DianyA 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. Throughout this course, my favorite units have been the ones that teach us how to lead an effective lesson and have a fun classroom environment. I love all the suggestions and teaching ideas they give, and it excites me to think about using those for my future lessons. For that reason, I chose the topic of five activities with flashcards. This essay...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HanzhuAng 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. I must say that I have gained priceless information from this course that I will be able to use practically in my future experience as a TEFL teacher. Most importantly it is the general psychology of teaching theory which I have really found useful. The protocol for effective teaching taught by this course is not only very practical but also very logically...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lizhong 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. When it comes to teaching English as a second language, we English teachers have a challenging job on our hands. We not only want to make sure our students are learning English, but also that they are enjoying themselves while learning in the classroom. For this reason English resources are important. Having a set of English games for kids to play for each lesson is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liyanglu Jiedao? Are you interested in teaching English in Hebi 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 always found that it is important to use my imagination and to think outside the box for motivators. what would be the most interesting and beneficial way to get my point across and to teach a lesson. I like the idea of a course book and an outline to follow because it means consistency in teaching. When a student is going through a grade system and teachers...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huangyangtan Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Yinchuan 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 learned about Pronunciation and Phonology. Intonation, words stress, sound joining, phonemic alphabet- those are all important components to teach to students. Phonemic alphabet is universal no matter where the person teaching English come from and their accent. Articulation is another subject to teach. Where do the sounds come from? what...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yunlianghu Guanliqu? 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. What outdoor activities can help teaching English? I would like to say that there are plenty of outdoor activities that are effective to teach English. However, many teachers prefer indoor activities rather than outdoor, as they think that it might distract the students. Nonetheless, outdoor activities can increase their motivation for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yantianhe 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. As a professional educator, I think all classroom activities within the student's education should include their ideas. Including the student's will help the classroom atmosphere, run smoother within the classroom setting. The teacher's role, should accordingly; make sure every activity, will help each child meet their educational goals. My experience throughout...  [Read more]

Pronunciation problems happen when speaking a second language because most people are used to hearing and making sounds only exist in their mother tongue. For example there might be many sounds in your mother tongue and English that are similar.Some however,are only partially similar and others are totally different.When you hear or trying to say the partially similar or totally different sounds it?s easy to make mistakes because you are used to hearing and making sounds in your mother tongue.It is important therefore,to make yourself aware of how sounds in a different language are made and practice listening to them and saying them as much as possible. To make language sounds we move our jaw,tongue,lips and the vocal cords in our throat in a number of different ways.If,for example,your...  [Read more]

  Now let's take a look at our fricatives. As the name indicates, especially in the beginning there we have a friction going on in the vocal tract and that's basically what we're dealing with mostly. There are a number of fricative sounds and they're made by placing two vocal organs together and making them vibrate to a point, which is audible. We have nine of these sounds and then move from the front to the back of the vocal tract. Let's take a look here in the front of the mouth we have two sounds, which involve our lips. Those two sounds are ?f? and ?v?. The only difference between those two sounds is that one is voiced and the other is not. Regardless we do involve our lips and they are the furthest front of the vocal tract with our fricatives. Again those sounds are ?f? and...  [Read more]

  And now we have our nasal sounds. There are three nasal sounds and basically the pattern of air that's moving out of our vocal tract has to do with two big instances and that is a closure in the vocal tract. Except aside from the plosives and affricates, what we have is air escaping through our nasal cavity. These sounds include ?m?, ?n? and ?ng?. We're moving from the front of the mouth to the back of the mouth. First with the M sound or the ?m?, we're closing both lips and the air is escaping through the nasal passage ?m?. Next we have our N sound or our ?n? sound. There, the closure is inside the mouth but our tongue is closing up near our alveolar ridge and the air is escaping through the nose. Again that's ?n?. Finally we have our NG sound and the closure there is happening...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wutai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoukou 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 me as a teacher it was really interesting to look at the english language and its teaching methods from an EFL point of view. Many of the things I have studied were reminders of university days but also got me back on track a bit after years of doing it ?my way?. I can and already did apply much of the information to my own classes (eg. play more! Many times the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in OujiAngcha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yiyang 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. Phonology involves studying how sounds are organised in a language to create meaning. It differs in every language as sounds are organised to create words, which are then organised in sentences. Phonetics involves understanding how sounds are physically made, what part of the vocal tract is used and how air is used to produce sounds. Understanding both phonology...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhonggu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tieling 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. Unit 13 detailed teaching pronunciation and general phonology. Pronunciation in the learning environment may be lacking as it is usually focused on individual words and not the flow of words together in the form of a sentence. This is also true when single words can be comprehended as whole sentences as the pronunciation may change the context of the sentence....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangquan 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. Parents play a major role in the education of their children. This is because children tend to listen to the instruction of their parents and are usually motivated by what they see their parents doing. In most countries where education is not free, the parents play the role of sponsor as they pay their children’s tuition fees. This is a major role because if not...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Anfusi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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 Learning Teaching Skills Is Important? Introduction: Modern society demands high quality teaching and learning from teachers. Teachers have to possess a great deal of knowledge and skills with regard to both teaching and assessment practices in order to meet those demands and standards of quality education. Effective teacher learning and professional development...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuji 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 thought I knew the english language well as it is my first language and I have no qualms reading, writing or communicating in my mother tongue. However, after learning more in-depth about different kinds of tenses, grammar and structure, I definitely only know a fraction of what there is to know about the english language, and that it is a very complicated...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhujiafang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang 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 focuses on Phonology. It highlights three main areas; Intonation, Stress and Rhythm. Intonation carries the message in a sentence and expresses feeling as well. Intonation either rises and falls, falls and rises, or remains flat throughout a sentence. Stress indicates the word that is of interest in a sentence. Rhythm has to do with the process of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fenyan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jingzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Many students of English as a Second Language (ESL) find that, of the many struggles they have with the language, pronunciation is the most difficult to master. Pronunciation is an extremely important ability to have in order to sound more fluent in English. By gaining the knowledge and skill of proper pronunciation, an ESL student can come across at a much higher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dingtang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wuzhong 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. Unit thirteen is a challenging section on teaching phonetic concepts. Although I am a fluent English speaker, many of the symbols in the phonetic alphabet were new to me. The chapter showed how different parts of the mouth and vocal cords are used to create certain sounds. Additionally, it was interesting to learn in a formal manner how native speakers naturally...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qianjin Nongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Shenyang 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. Pronunciation is a oft neglected part of English language teaching but one which students do indicate they would like more help on. Phonology is the study of sound. Three areas of this is intonation, rhythm and stress. The IPA is a more scientific way of representing distinct unique sounds for English. Each sound has a IPA symbol representing it. Articulation...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mingsha Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhongwei 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 injoy studing this unit and i had great idea about how to speak and how we respond to the voice and human speech is an enormously complex area of study linguists are constantly learning more about thisamazing human instinct. We have begun our investigation by looking at the vocal cords. But other organs are involved as well. They include.. The three items in the...  [Read more]

  Then, we have a set of objectives and aims. Here, the learner objectives relate to what we're hoping the students are going to be able to do by the end of your lesson and quite often, that can be a useful way of writing out what the objectives are. So, we would start the sentence "By the end of the lesson, students should be able to?" and then a list of two, three or four items that we're expecting the students to be able to do by completing this lesson. The learner objectives are different to the teacher aims the teacher aims are what you are expecting from that lesson itself. Now, when you first start teaching, quite a normal aim might be to complete the lesson successfully, to get through the whole thing without having any problems. As time goes on and you become more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DuzhenwAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yichng 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. - Always limit time (use a timer) – students will know how much time they have to finish a task. - Clear instruction – sync your words and body language, use clear TPR, practice in an empty classroom or in front of a mirror if needed. Use super simple word and sentences, so students can get used to the routine. - Step by step instruction – if the game is...  [Read more]