Esl Online Activities

  So speaking activities will come in many different forms but we can generalize them into three basic types. Control activities tend to be used in the study phase and here, the teacher will be helping the students in terms of what they need to say and how they go about saying it. So, there's a high level of structure within a controlled activity. A guided activity has slightly less structure than this and it can be used in either the study or the activate stages themselves. The final type of activity or class of activity is called creative activity and this one would be used in the activation phase. In a creative activity, we're giving a scenario or a very small amount of structure and we're asking the students to actually create their own answers to this particular question....  [Read more]

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

Anastasiya Akpinar Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas One of the most popular approaches to teaching is the ESA method. ✅ In this blog post, we will discover how to use the ESA teaching method for online English lessons. Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our TEFL expert shares several useful tips on creating the perfect introduction video for teaching English online platforms. ✅ Check it out and look for students online like a pro! Anastasiya Akpinar TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Zoom has become a staple for many teachers worldwide. If you are new to teaching with Zoom or want to learn a couple of tricks to make your Zoom lessons more engaging, this blog post is for you! Anastasiya Akpinar Alumni...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xuefang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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 is no doubt that it is the Information Age people are currently living in. And it is cannot be ignored that online education is one of the fastest growing teaching and learning methods in recent years due to different reasons and needs, which takes the advantages of Internet, and save both teachers' and learners' time and energy that have been spent on the...  [Read more]

TEFL Lemon began in 2014 as an ESL blog on the WeChat platform in China, quickly becoming the biggest ESL blog on WeChat. TEFL Lemon provided English teachers with ELT articles to read and share, as well as free ESL lesson ideas, ESL games and fun speaking activities which TEFL teachers could use in their classes. English teachers in China could also download free ESL flashcards on a variety of themes. Following their success on the WeChat platform, in 2018, TEFL Lemon decided to build their own website to offer their ESL Flashcard Games for Kids, ESL Warmers, ESL games and speaking activities for teens and adults for free to TEFL teachers around the world. You can visit their website here. Not only do TEFL Lemon offer teachers brilliant ESL games and teaching ideas, but they also have...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This blog post is devoted to usage of songs in the classroom. Our TEFL graduate shares their thoughts. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This article contains information on activities for different groups of students. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our TEFL graduate shares their ideas of games for ESL teaching online. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This blog post overviews the problem of punishment and contains information on its influence on students' motivation. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Nowadays teaching online is a new reality. Our TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on this mode. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this article, you will find out the challenges and principles of teaching tenses...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas ESL students face the rules for the degrees of comparison early on in their English learning path. However, this topic may become daunting and lead to constant mistakes later on due to problems like confusing different degrees, doubling up, formulating unbalanced comparisons, etc. In this blog post, you will learn five easy steps you should take to teach this grammar point in your ESL classroom. Before you start digging deep, elicit some ideas of what adjectives are from your students. When you see they understand what adjectives are and don't confuse adjectives with other parts of speech, you can continue further. You need your ESL classroom to know two main functions of adjectives: * They are words that describe a person, place, or...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences There is no doubt that it is the Information Age people are currently living in. And it is cannot be ignored that online education is one of the fastest growing teaching and learning methods in recent years due to different reasons and needs, which takes the advantages of the Internet and save both teachers' and learners' time and energy that has been spent on the distance and traffic. Among that, ESL online learning gets a great acceptance from the ESL learners. And here is a discussion about the advantage of ESL online education. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Xue L. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Compared to traditional teaching mode, there is no time...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guangxing Zhen? 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. A teacher a person who teaches, instructs or an educator. The ESL teacher is one who is teaching English to people who do not speak English or those who don’t speak English very well that is intermediate level. So the teacher is important in the ESL classroom. The teacher is important in the ESL classroom because he helps to control the discipline in the class...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Chuanzhusi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Aba Zangzu Qiangzu 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. What activities can be used for teaching English online? Unit 17 provides a wealth of different online learning resources that can be used to teach English as a foreign language. It covers seven different categories of provided websites to be used as teaching resources. They are dictionaries, learning, literature and poetry, media, resources,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Banfanggou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulumuqi Shi — Urumqi? 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 gave a good review of the 12 tenses used in English. It also gave some very good "engage" activities that I can use with ESL students, to keep them engaged and to make learning the very difficult tenses of English interesting and easier. This unit gave a good review of the 12 tenses used in English. It also gave some very good "engage"...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Watching videos is an effective way to switch between different activities or time fill. Modern students are more likely to watch videos or look at images than to do worksheets or read. Videos are also excellent sources of audio-lingual information that develops listening and speaking skills. However, to use videos during the online ESL lessons, it is essential to follow several rules that our TEFL expert shares in this article. Before watching videos, think carefully about the exercises you’ll give to your student and the purpose of this activity. When planning online ESL lessons, understand your student’s needs, and set up appropriate goals to make sure the video activity will be useful. Also Read: "The Way to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Liushisan Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Yili Hasake Zizhizhou — Ili? 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 will help learners to articulate their sentences accordingly as they can have the fitting tenses for their thoughts. It is helpful as an ESL teacher that typical mistakes are explained and how to fix it and activities. As there is recommended lessons, there is linkage to previous units. This unit will help learners to...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yafan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinhua 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 gives me the general idea of how ESL should be taught, particularly topics involving new vocabulary and grammar structures, whilst taking into account the difficulties and other possible factors the students may encounter in learning. This will help when selecting new words and planning the activities. This unit gives me the general idea of how ESL should...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yantou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinhua 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 gives me the general idea of how ESL should be taught, particularly topics involving new vocabulary and grammar structures, whilst taking into account the difficulties and other possible factors the students may encounter in learning. It certainly helps to consider these criteria when selecting new words and planning the activities. This unit gives me the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Eastern Cape? Are you interested in teaching English in Cambria, Eastern Cape? Check out our opportunities in Cambria, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit I learned various teaching methods for a variety of esl class types. To improve on language acquisition in the various different types of classes; instructors should use strategies and activities...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas This article was written by a course graduate who shares her thoughts on the importance of cultural sensitivity in the classroom and gives tips how you can implement it. Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas This article was written by a course graduate who shares his thoughts on how to become a more confident teacher in the ESL classroom. Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas Are you teaching high schoolers and aren't seeing high participation rates? Here are some of the best ways how to motivate high school students in the ESL classroom. Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas EFL classroom games are an important part of any English language course. Used correctly they can enhance any lesson for the students...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Do parents actually influence on students' overall development? In this blog post, our TEFL graduate shares their thoughts on this point and expresses their opinion towards family participation in the ESL education. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this article, our TEFL expert shares an EFL lesson plan for teaching speaking skills. Get inspired or simply use this ready lesson with your advanced level students. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas In this blog post, our TEFL experts share three great online tools for ESL teachers. Create your own games and activities for teaching English online. Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Our TEFL graduate considers two modes of teaching: one-to-one and group. Read in this blog post. Elizaveta...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lianhua Zhen? 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. In this unit, a review of the theories in ESL were outlined. This is important because we don’t usually look at theory as we focus on teaching. Most of the time, we only accept the given lesson plan as it is. Knowing these theories will help me to know how to add to the lesson plan. Moreover, the breakdown of engage, study, and activate is useful as it was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in KwaZulu Natal? Are you interested in teaching English in Hluhluwe, KwaZulu Natal? Check out our opportunities in Hluhluwe, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Even as a native speaker, grammar is and always has been a problem area for me. I can only imagine what it must be like for ESL/EFL learners. This section has reminded me and refreshed my memory on things I...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Postville Iowa and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: (1) I gained a lot of knowledge of english grammar, such as parts of speech, verb tenses and conditionals. My previous esl teaching experience in Taiwan had been difficult at times, because I didn't have a good understanding of the grammar points. (2) I learned useful ways to approach teaching new language concepts. I think the ESA method is well-structured and easy to follow, and will be a very useful tool to use to produce an effective lesson plan. (3) I learned a lot of different games and activities that can be...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Andhra Pradesh? Are you interested in teaching English in Tiruvuru, Andhra Pradesh? Check out our opportunities in Tiruvuru, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I have found the esl course personally beneficial to me in countless ways. Since this is my first exposure to tefl all the units contained valuable information which, I intend to use as reference material...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Nongshiershiyilingsi Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulumuqi Shi — Urumqi? 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 gives a good review of the 12 tenses used in English. It also offers some very good suggestions to "engage" students with a difficult part of learning English. I feel that the activities would engage students and make the tenses more palatable and can see myself using many of them with ESL students, to keep them engaged...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GanjiahuMuchang? 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. The perfect usage of tenses is one of the difficult topic to discuss and as an ESL Teacher we need to study the rules of each tenses. There are 4 aspects of Tenses; Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present perfect & Present Perfect Continuous and each aspect has its own rules and usage. We have to be creative in discussing these topics to our students....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Ontario? Are you interested in teaching English in Belleville, Ontario? Check out our opportunities in Belleville, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! This course was very informative. As a native english speaker, I never really gave much thought to how english sentences are composed because it is something that I learned over time and through daily practice. This...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Ontario? Are you interested in teaching English in Owen Sound, Ontario? Check out our opportunities in Owen Sound, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I've learned a lot from this course. The ESA structure has been most interesting to me, as it provides such an effective way to develop a lesson. The planning activities have given me so many opportunities to tap...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Quebec? Are you interested in teaching English in Sainte Catherine, Quebec? Check out our opportunities in Sainte Catherine, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net 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. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! I've learned a lot from this course. The ESA structure has been most interesting to me, as it provides such an effective way to develop a lesson. The planning activities have given me so many opportunities...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luxi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Mianyang 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 I have learned from this unit are the qualities, roles and responsibilities of teachers as an ESL teacher. There are some things that you have to posses. First, the teacher must know how to establish a good rapport. It is also necessary to be kind and patient to all the students. Second, the teacher must know how to gauge the students' level. Lastly, making sure...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teaching English online is a huge growing market in today’s globalized society. According to the British Council, there are over a billion people who are learning English (750 million English as a foreign language learners and 350 million English as a second language learner). The difference between EFL and ESL learners is that EFL learners live in a country where the language of the community is not English and English is used by a learner in rare instances such as for business or pleasure; while ESL learners live where English is either a primary language or has an established role in the society and the language is used daily. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Nina S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily...  [Read more]

Charlotte Lam Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas There are quite a few phonics teaching systems for teachers and parents to teach the children. Here are the top tips on how you can implement teaching phonics to kindergarten students. Alina Martinez Alumni Experiences Are you interested in teaching English online? Read this guide on how to work for QKids, a leading online teaching platform. Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas This blog post was written by a recent ITTT TEFL graduate who considers the problem of ESL teaching materials. ✅ Read this article to find out how to create and implement teaching materials in TEFL teaching. Elizaveta Pachina TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas This blog post was written by a recent...  [Read more]