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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BAli Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yangzhou 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. Groans and sighs involuntarily erupt from students when teachers mention flashcards. I know. I’ve groaned with the rest at the thought of yet another mindless repetition and recitation. I begin wondering what’s for dinner, what happens next in the story I’m reading, or what I’m going to do when class finishes. But what student objects to playing games? I’ve...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shanmen 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. The four basic skills of language are reading and listening then speaking and writing. They are all important. The reasons for reading and listening are broken down in to two separate categories. Those are for purpose and for entertainment. Some times you may use both reasons simultaneously. For example, when reading a tour book that you find both entertaining but...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuitAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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. There are many resources for use in the classroom at the disposal of an ESL/EFL teacher. Broadly speaking, these are divided into two categories: authentic materials, and non-authentic (or created) materials. The distinction between these two categories is that authentic materials are those that have been produced in the world for a purpose that is not teaching,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tonghua Shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Teaching receptive skills unit I have found very interesting In unit 11, we learned about the two receptive language skills, listening and reading I learnt about the four basic skills in any language, the receptive skills which are reading and listening and the productive skills are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jinqiao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The theory of Multiple Intelligences was developed by Howard Gardner. The theory postulates that there are many different types of intelligences, which involve different skills and ways of thinking. Gardner (1989) relied that intelligence was divided into the following categories: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qingquan 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. Effective teachers know that it is important to provide multiple ways for students to engage with the lesson, skill, or objective. To learn another language, in this case English, there needs to be a balance of skill and drill, practical practice, and learning through play. Flashcards are a tool that allows for all three types of learning while appealing to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuAndun Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lianyungang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Is Teaching Slang and Idioms Important for ESL Students? A language is an extension and reflection of culture. Learning a language entails opening oneself to the culture and nuances from where the language comes from. It has been said that people who learn a language by immersing themselves in its day to day form and use, usually learn the language faster. There...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in TiAncheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianning 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. Introduction English teachers have a significant role to play in a classroom. They are involved in engaging students to maintain a focus on the language. However, the major roles of the English teacher in a classroom are classified into five premium categories. These categories involve their roles as a controller, organizer, assessor, participant, and a helper...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JiAoxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Changsha 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 essay focuses on what “multiple intelligence” is, a comparison between multiple intelligences and the traditional notion of intelligence, what these multiple intelligence categories (“modalities") are, and their significance in the classroom context. "Multiple intelligence" was a theory developed by professor Howard Gardner in the early 1980s to describe...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gongba 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. TEACHING VOCABULARY Words are an important part of the structure of English sentences. If we want to speak English as a foreign language, we need to know new words and even progress. Considering a student who needs to know and learn new words as a teacher, we have to answer this question ‘’What impressive ways do have in teaching vocabulary?’’ To effectively...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hongge'ergAole 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. At first I signed up for this course only because I have been teaching math in English at an international school in China for some time. Students come from all over the world, including the United States, Germany, Brazil, etc. In class, I happen to meet the students when they correct my English. And since it is cross-cultural education, in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tinghuxinqu? 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. Teaching a foreign language was always a wanted and needed thing for many generations so far. Learning English has always been a goal for many people worldwide. The learners’ age varies from 4-5 years old to 60 and above. The majority of schools which offer courses have a structured way of dividing their students – by the age and knowledge. But when testing the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ta'erhu 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. When using flashcards to teach students it allows repetition and improves visual memorization. It helps the student if the teacher was to share little amounts of information to the student, not to overwhelm them, so they may be able to stay focus on the task at hand. Flashcards are one of the many resources that could be used in class activities,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YushAnpu 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. Tenses- Usually it creates tense for many ESL students during communication. It defines and differentiates the situation by time. Is the time important in communication? Yes, it is. The wrong usage of tenses changes the exact meaning of the situation, what the speaker is trying to convey. So focusing tenses in grammar is more essential than others. Still, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yabulai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Alashan Meng — Alxa? 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 skill is an ability to perform an activity or demonstrate an action to great effect. It is accepted that there two categories of language skills. The first is productive skills which are any communication (speaking and writing) that produces language. The second are any communication (reading and listening) that receives language and is referred to as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baofeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shizuishan 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 we stress the importance of pronunciation and different methods used to teach students the phonology of sentences. Its also essential for a teacher to know the phonemic alphabet as we as the symbols as this can aid in teaching children the right pronunciation of the words. On top of that we need to understand how the sounds are formed using different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAnzao 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. “5 activities with flashcards” I would like to introduce five flashcards activities which I found them fun and practical to enhance student’s vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, listening and speaking. 1. Show & Tell This activity designed to teach vocabulary as well as practice listening. It can be used for teaching various categories (animals, food,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Reshui Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chenzhou 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. Level; Beginner Learning objectives; By the end of the lesson students will be able to recognize vocabulary related to food; practice ordering from menu in a restaurant. Time; 1 hour Assessment: The Assessment of Teaching Vocabulary related to food is to monitor the students understanding of vocabulary. The teacher helps recognize where students are struggling and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShAdaogou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu 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. Educators of the English language must take into consideration a diverse range of variables when planning and teaching. An often forgotten factor for novice teachers is the impact that setting will have on their students’ language learning. Within the realm of setting there are two general categories, English as a Second Language (ESL) and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengguAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. When attempting to learn a foreign language, the language’s phonology is often overlooked within the instructional process. In particular, the concepts of phonemic awareness, word-level intonation and sentence-level intonation are not known by students or seldom taught in classes that teach foreign languages. As someone who enjoys learning new...  [Read more]

Humans speak with each other by creating sounds. That is how we communicate with each other. Over the centuries the different languages have created systems of grammar to explain how the words in their languages work. Sometime after that, they began to create systems to explain how the sounds, or phonemes, of the different words work. Two disciplines arose out of this: phonetics and phonology. Phonetics is the study of the sounds themselves. In the world there are a limited number of possible sounds which the human vocal tract can produce. Of these sounds, the distinctive pronunciations of the different languages are produced. But how are theses sounds produced and represented? The answer to this question is the area of study of Phonetics. Generally, Phonetics is subdivided into three...  [Read more]

Humans speak with each other by creating sounds. That is how we communicate with each other. Over the centuries the different languages have created systems of grammar to explain how the words in their languages work. Sometime after that, they began to create systems to explain how the sounds, or phonemes, of the different words work. Two disciplines arose out of this: phonetics and phonology.Phonetics is the study of the sounds themselves. In the world there are a limited number of possible sounds which the human vocal tract can produce. Of these sounds, the distinctive pronunciations of the different languages are produced. But how are theses sounds produced and represented' The answer to this question is the area of study of Phonetics. Generally, Phonetics is subdivided into three...  [Read more]

  And now it's time to have a look at our first grammar unit. Grammar in its widest sense is the structure of a language. We as speakers of the language can structure our language without a problem. However, as teachers of the language we need to be able to better analyze the grammar and the grammar that exists within statements that we make. These basic parts of grammar are called parts of speech. Each part of speech has a certain function within a sentence. Our example sentence here is "My older brother lives in Tokyo." Each one of these words is a certain part of speech, which we'll have a look at in just a minute but let's just think about the words within this particular sentence. We have ?my?, indicating whose brother it is, we have "older", indicating which brother it is....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanglinqiao 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. Question: How is game-based learning helpful to EFL students? Topic 57: Games in the classroom Games are a useful tool for teachers of EFL students because they help with motivation, engagement, and graceful failure (Plass 260-261). I will present a successful example of a teacher using games in an adult grammar class from Indonesia. Second, since I plan to teach...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAojimiao 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. For many people who travel, considering the cultural norms of whatever country you are visiting is helpful in ensuring a smooth trip. It is quite unfortunate that travelers from the United States often have a bad reputation for being loud, inconsiderate, and oblivious. While this is the case, it is also the case for a lot of people from various other countries....  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word anemone. This word is used as a noun and refers to brightly colored flowers of the buttercup family. The word comes from the Greek word anem?n? meaining 'windflower'. 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 unit had three different sections. The modal verbs, the passive voice and the phrasal verbs. This unit reminded me the basic rules when using modals, as well as teaching ideas to introduce them...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAofeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xiangxi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizho? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Topic #37 - pronunciation problems in a country of your choice What are the pronunciation challenges faced by L2 English learners in Mexico? Spanish speakers from Mexico face a number of challenges for acquiring successful pronunciation skills in English. Many students here will have had at least some exposure to English through media and contact...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Taipingqiao 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. I am a university professor. We have a lot of international students that are not native English speakers. They are admitted to the University with a TOEFL score of at least 90-100 and minimum scores of 20 in each section. I teach undergraduate and graduate science classes. My students are generally not required to speak except to ask or answer questions....  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word golem. This word is a noun and refers to a figure brought to life by magic in a Jewish legend. The word comes from Hebrew g?lem meaining ‘shapeless mass'. 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 unit gave me a thorough understanding of the different ways of assessing a student's language level including its purpose and when to properly use the said evaluation method. It is also interesting to know...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word quiescent. This word refers to a state of inactivity. Synonyms for quiescent include inactive, idle, at rest, and quiet. 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 unit was a needed refresher in past tense. As a native speaker, its something I rely on phonetically to do correctly. Understanding verb tenses in a technical sense reinforces the idea the base idea that everything in a sentence has a...  [Read more]