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Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Well, before starting this summative task and as I was going through the list of topics, I noticed this one…TEFL for non-native English speaking teachers (N°30) and thought: that’s the one I want to talk about. Yes, I am a non-native English speaker and months ago, I have given to my life a completely different orientation, leaving behind nearly a 30 years career spent in the financial and business fields. As being one important step included in this global professional and personal project, I decided to apply for a TEFL course and graduate in June 2019. However, before committing to the ITTI TEFL course and even until now, I am still reflecting upon what TEFL means for a non-native English speaking teacher. So far, I have reached some conclusions...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences As someone of mixed heritage, I have always had an interest in learning about cultures other than the one I live in America. My father is Colombian and my mother is American, so growing up I felt obliged to learn more about the Colombian background I was fairly unfamiliar with. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Catherine P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. I never felt satisfied with the amount of exposure I had to my Colombian heritage. My mom never learned Spanish, so around the house, it was easier for my dad to speak to my siblings and me in English. As a result, we barely grazed the surface of the Spanish language and we were not exposed too much to the...  [Read more]

The topic chosen for the summative task is number forty-three: establishing rapport. The title is “Why Establishing Rapport is Important”. This paper will convey in why rapport is important for th This Unit underlines the theories, methods and techniques required for teaching a class. Firstly the different methods and all its pros and cons were discussed briefly. The main part of the Unit was t This unit was extremely helpful. The many examples of games and activities and how they serve to induce learning, will be immediately useful to my classroom. Further, the ESA framework has helped me When I reac this unit, I didn't understand those. So I read several times and Now I understood. The various stages of examples listed here were very helpful. The methodology is based around and teac...  [Read more]

The Course Development in Teaching English to Young Learners consists of six subjects such as Level testing and needs analysis, limiting factors, syllabus design, examination, assessment of student an Troubleshooting is part of the teaching experience A typical ESL lesson always presents problems. But , there are other problems that rise when the teacher has to face particular situations. A good ES This unit has help me put names to the activities that i have been doing in class without even knowing. Managing a class is extremely important especially if you are a school teacher working with tee “If you talk to a man in the language he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, It goes to his heart.” This is an allusion to the effect of language to...  [Read more]

Already bear in mind that a good teacher is a combination of teacher's personality of being kind, patient, caring, lively, passionate and of teacher's ability of building up comfortable as well as suc I learnt from adjectives that many games can be played in the class room using students height, age, size and many more. And also it is very difficult for teachers and students to make common mistakes This unit has been extremely helpful i have learned the various forms of eliciting L2 and great ways to make my class interactive and very much didactic. One of the best topics were the plannings arou In unit two I have learned that parts of speech are a very difficult topic for foreign students. When teaching this section students that want to speak English, must have a proper understanding of...  [Read more]

It goes without saying that establishing rapport is one of the most important things you as a teacher can do in your classroom. Rapport is simply a relationship between two people with mutual understa I have been working as a teacher and tutor for fifteen years now. Through all of my teaching experience the problem of motivation and engagement evolved every time when I would step into the classroom The English Language has many tenses and if you are not a native speaker it could be very difficult to construct sentences the correct way. This makes it very important to know the difference between The unit gives an overview of the four groups of the present tense: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. It gives information about their usage and formation. Besides, one can find...  [Read more]

This unit in on Present Tenses. It examines all the complexities of the Present Tense, including irregular formations. Perhaps one of the best part of this unit is the Usage section where it explains English has become one of the most globally used languages around the world than can be typically used during travel, business, internationals schools, ant etc. Although English is not the most spoken I have been teaching some capacity since I was 13 years old. My first teaching experience comes from martial arts. I was spending many hours everyday in the dojo and my instructor asked me to be the p After completing Unit Six I feel I have a much better understanding of the topics covered in Unit Four. I Love that you guys include sample activities for different topics, its a huge help for my...  [Read more]

What is the degree of responsibility of a teacher to build rapport in a teacher-student relationship? Most of you may think that i would be exaggerating when i say the teacher is the most responsible Should teachers punish students ? I think that punishment should be allowed. We all know that teachers have a tough job. They are typically dealing with 20 to 45 students in their class. Students WIL When starting a teaching career, maintaining the decorum of the class can be one of the many tough challenges a teacher is likely to face. Formulating certain classroom discipline strategies can turn This section dealt with sentence structure, tense, and verb conjugation. The part of the lesson that stood out to me was the subtlety of each case. In a practical lesson, these ideas are more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dongjie? Are you interested in teaching English in Datong 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. Right now? I’m here sitting in a famous milk tea shop in Vietnam, sipping ‘sin to buh”, it’s a smoothie made out of fresh avocado’s. I think milk tea has become a trend now in Asian Countries and I personally have been to countless milk tea shops in the past years. When I was still a kid my mom would always buy several National Geographic magazines and every...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hudong? Are you interested in teaching English in Datong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. During the last decades more attention is paid to establishing rapport with students. It is very important, especially when teaching foreign languages, because it is essential to make students speak new language as much as possible and experiment with it. But fear of making mistakes, of being criticized and becoming a laughing-stock may prevent at least some of them from...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DongyuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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. Motivation is a key element of a student’s academic experience and growth. Quite simply, when motivation is low, students and teachers alike, will struggle. When motivation amongst the class is high, the lives of everyone becomes easier and students learn much more effectively. In particular, when students don’t have their individual needs met, they will lose...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QingliuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ziyang 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 students should be exciting,so one should involve them and encourage the learners to speak english as much and as often as possible.correcting a student is good but to many is also not good.One should focus on language fuction rather than grammer Teaching students should be exciting,so one should involve them and encourage the learners to speak english as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YongfuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Neijiang 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 the different parts of a sentence, correct terminology for each part of the sentence, the grammatical rules of making a sentence and where to place different terms, adverbs, adjectives, propositions, conjunctions, etc. The most common mistakes are positioning of words and spellings of verbs in different tenses, especially irregular verbs. ...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuanghuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou 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 learned all about the importance of knowing all the different past tenses. There are so many, and as teachers we need to know all of them and be aware of common mistakes students will make so that we can help them learn and grow from their mistakes. In this lesson I learned all about the importance of knowing all the different past tenses. There...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HeliuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Binzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. What is the difference between teaching Monolingual vs multi lingual groups? Classes or group of students generally fall into two major categories i.e. • MONOLINGUAL GROUP – This group comprised of students living in their home country and all students speak in one common language. Here they learn English as a Foreign Language. • MULTILINGUAL GROUP –In this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BayuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Baoji 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. Now we all know that as a teacher we have to deal with very crucial software and that crucial software is the mind of the learner .As all students are coming from different societies and from different cultures and it’s a very very heterogeneous nature in classroom, some are of them are motivated and some are of them having lack of confidence. Motivation is the key to a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChaoyanghuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Chengdu 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 been studying English since my primary school, over nineteen years. Before, I studied English at school, including primary school, middle school, high school and my university with traditional method. At that time, teachers focused on vocabulary and grammar. The tests were over and over. After graduating from my university, I went to an English training...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in WufuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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 unit was short but concise. All the parts of speech were covered well and the explanations were quite easy to understand. Very informative!! The unit was short but concise. All the parts of speech were covered well and the explanations were quite easy to understand. Very informative!!  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Cangdegekuangqu? Are you interested in teaching English in Tacheng Diqu? 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 believe that even for us native speakers that this topic -tenses- poses a bit of trouble. It requires a full understanding of all tenses to be able to identify them, clearly explain them to students as well as explain how to correct and why a particular answer is the correct one. This unit really hit a nail on the head and has shown me that I need to delve...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in JinyuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Deyang 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, the content included the different parts of a lesson plan and how to use an ESA method to create a lesson plan. The unit also discussed the difference between authentic and non-authentic materials, the pros and cons of course book, how to use the internet for materials and good techniques for classroom management. The two topics I found the most...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuifuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 2 of this course looks at the general theories about learning and the different teaching methodologies. Here we look at the three major groups of learning and behavior theories such as, maturation, environmental, constructivism, and one further group called, the cognitive developmentalists. All language learning theories and teaching methodologies are based on one...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GuangfuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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. Students at this level are just starting their academic careers. School may be intimidating for some of the students in your class so, in order to encourage everyone to participate, it is important to make your lessons relaxed and fun. Keep exercises fun and short because these students have short attention spans and are easily distracted. Overacting and projection...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xijie? Are you interested in teaching English in Datong 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 not that long ago that I was a student myself, so I know all too well how important motivation in the classroom is! I have experienced excellent teachers who have had the skills to make their class focus on what they are talking about. What is more, they seem to have a knack for delivering information that is memorable. I have also been subjected to teachers who have...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DazhuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dazhou 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 learned all the different stages a classroom should be using. Including Engage, study and activate and how these stages can vary to improve learning. I have also learned the differences between aquiring a language from a young age naturally as opposed to learning in a classroom. The classroom table arrangement can be essential to how the class learns, how groups...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ShuangliuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Nanchong 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, Parts of Speech to be a very good review of all the parts of speech I had learned many years ago in school. I really liked the presentation and examples of each section and really have a better understanding from the examples and completing the 5 Tasks at the end of Unit 2. I feel I now have a good understanding and have gained confidence in my...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XujiahuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Linyi 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. At first, teaching beginner students may seem difficult, especially in a mono-lingual classroom where the students use their native language most of the time and you know nothing of their language. Soon this will be the most rewarding teaching experience one can have. Beginners can be at any age and have their own reason for learning English as a second language. They...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HuiquZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang 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 couldn’t imagine myself doing the same things every day and expecting a different result for each day. It must be impossible. As what Stephen Covey said, “To achieve goals, you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before. It is undeniable that variation and diversity make a situation more meaningful and fruitful. That’s...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in DonghuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zigong 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 learned about the different types of lessons and the importance of the ESA method of teaching. I learned which activities go best with each part of the ESA method, which was helpful in that there are specific tasks helping learners of the language in each stage. The lesson also stressed the importance of focusing on teaching the grammar of the language rather than...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChangtuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoushan 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. Again this has been a good reminder on the future tenses. It gave me a deeper understanding from the stand point of a teacher. It also led me to plan in my head how to pass teach the structure of each tense, and how not to make the students confused by each one of them. Again this has been a good reminder on the future tenses. It gave me a deeper understanding...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in BihuZhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Lishui 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 or introducing new grammar, language structures or new vocabulary can be a daunting tasks for a new class to be taught by a new teacher. From my experience, what I do is focusing on the vocabularies each student already know and try to correct their mistakes before teaching them new words because student's receptive vocabulary is much more than the words they...  [Read more]