Tefl Course Answers

Home > TEFL Videos Watch the following selection of videos that cover all the main features of our courses as they should help to answer many of the questions you may have. Also, you can watch excerpts of training videos from our popular 120-hour TEFL course with tutor support by visiting the teaching videos page.  [Read more]

What does TEFL mean?    The acronym TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. It is commonly used to refer to training courses that almost anyone can take to learn the skills and knowledge required to teach English to non-native speakers in countries all over the world. What is the difference between TESOL and TEFL?    TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language and TESOL stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. These descriptions are generally used interchangeably, however, TESOL is more common in the USA and TEFL is more common in the UK. Do I need a TEFL certificate to teach abroad?    Although it is possible to teach abroad without a TEFL certificate, we recommended that you complete a TEFL...  [Read more]

  When our answers are not correct then, obviously, they need to be corrected but it is quite important that we go through a process of correction that will help students. Quite often they've made a mistake simply because of something like reading the incorrect answer out or misrepresenting what they've actually written down. So, always give the opportunity when a mistake has been made for the student to self-correct first. We can often do this in a nonverbal way to show them that they're not actually correct. We might repeat back what they've said to us in a questioning manner or we may just make a gesture to make sure that they understand that they're not correct. So, we allow for a process of self-correction. It may be that the student has actually got the answer wrong and so we...  [Read more]

  There is no simple answer to this question as it depends entirely on which type of TEFL course you choose to study. At ITTT we have a range of courses that are designed to suit the various needs of our trainees, each with its own time scale for completion. Please see below for a breakdown of our various course options. Online courses are often the quickest route towards TEFL certification. If you are in a real hurry a course such as our 60-hour introduction to TEFL may be a good choice as you can conceivably complete it in as little as five days. Even those who prefer to study at a slower rate should find they can complete the course within one month. However, it is worth remembering that the majority of employers worldwide insist on job applicants having a TEFL certificate of at...  [Read more]

  There is no simple answer to this question as it depends entirely on which type of TEFL course you choose to study. At ITTT we have a range of courses that are designed to suit the various needs of our trainees, each with its own time scale for completion. Please see below for a breakdown of our various course options. Online courses are often the quickest route towards TEFL certification. If you are in a real hurry a course such as our 60-hour introduction to TEFL may be a good choice as you can conceivably complete it in as little as five days. Even those who prefer to study at a slower rate should find they can complete the course within one month. However, it is worth remembering that the majority of employers worldwide insist on job applicants having a TEFL certificate of at...  [Read more]

  Strictly speaking the answer is no, you do not have to possess a TEFL certificate in order to find work as an English language teacher. In some countries around the world it is still possible to secure employment simply by being a native English speaker. However, there are several reasons why we would strongly recommend that you complete a TEFL training course before you set off to teach English abroad. In recent years many popular destinations for EFL teachers have begun to tighten the requirements necessary for teaching English in schools and language centers. A recognized TEFL certificate is now required in order to secure a work permit in many countries, whilst the ever growing number of teachers with a TEFL Qualification means that employers in the majority of countries will...  [Read more]

  So, we'll focus first of all on a speaking skills lesson and perhaps a starting point for this would be to ask a question which is: Why do we speak to each other? The reason that it's important to ask ourselves this question is that whatever answers there are to this should be present in our lessons. So, why do we speak to each other? Well, there are a multitude of answers to that but when you boil them all down to their essence, they probably actually come down to one or two things. We communicate to each other by speaking because of either a need. We need something. We want something or a desire to achieve something. 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...  [Read more]

  The simple answer is no, you do not need to have any knowledge or experience of languages other than English to take a TEFL course or to become an EFL teacher. The ability to speak other languages is not required as the vast majority of TEFL classrooms around the world rely on the communicative approach to English teaching that specifies that English is the only language used in the classroom. In multilingual classrooms where the students could have a dozen or more different first languages, being able to communicate in one or two of them would obviously be of no particular advantage. In monolingual classrooms you may also find that students are more inclined to revert to their mother tongue during the lesson if they are aware that the teacher can understand what is being said....  [Read more]

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  TEFL related jobs are available in cities, towns and beach resorts in dozens of countries spread right across the world, but what is the best way to secure the right position for you? Unfortunately there is no simple answer as it varies from one region to the next. Here we look at the main job hunting strategies that you can use to find and land that dream job teaching English abroad. Online Job Application If you are looking for a job outside the country you are currently in, then using online searches is a common option. There are many jobs boards online that post available positions from countries worldwide. The majority of these jobs will be in regions where the demand for teachers is so high that employers are happy to hire teachers without the need for a face-to-face...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Jobs Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 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: Comprehending the information in the PDF and on the video into the correct correlation for answers is confusing and frustrating. A more simple and definitive question and answer response system could be implemented to help students understand the correct form of the word and its placement in a sentence. The was the questions are formatted become confusing and disheartening when attempting to correctly answer? Comprehending the information in the PDF and on the video into the correct...  [Read more]

ITTT has recently opened a TEFL & TESOL training center in Japan. If you wish to be TEFL/TESOL-certified and would love to take a course in Japan, this is an opportunity you cannot miss. Check out course details and fees for ITTT's Japan. TEFL/TESOL center here! Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Jobs Kashihara Japan 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: This unit required me to use my common sense to answer the questions. Looking at the range of answers available allowed me to feel confident with my level of knowledge when selecting the right answer. I can see that all of these scenarios are...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhenglu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinan 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 chosen to write a bit on the tests of TEFL as it is one subject that I have repeatedly commented on in the individual unit summary writeups. Not only because I have enough of an opinion on the subject to guarantee I can write enough to satisfy the requirements of this task, but because it is in many ways a "path of least resistance" for me. I have already written...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Jobs Abbotabad Pakistan 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: I have worked in the class room environments before and this unit was a good overview and review of how to best work with a varied group of students. Much of my work has been with teenagers and it was helpful to consider how a classroom environment might be different with adults or with younger children. I thought back too to language courses I have taken and realized that my teachers often would call on students to answer questions in a very predictable pattern and so I would spend my time figuring out how...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Certification Spokane Washington 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: This unit is another one of the units which I seem to have a hard time determining which is the correct answer because many times I will be thinking I know what the answers are such as question 20 "which of the following is not an example of a transitive inseparable (type3) phrase verb. My problem is though I think I am correct I am brought down to earth with the red incorrect marks on the test." This unit is another one of the units which I seem to have a hard time determining which is the...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Jobs Komsomolsk On Amur Russia 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: This unit was a little confusing. The sentence reporting was the most challenging part for me. It is easy to choose the wrong reported sentence from the answers as more than one option seems correct. Even with checking the unit examples it is still difficult to ascertain the correct answer. I have learnt the multiple types of ways to test students in a language school but I believe some styles of testing and more examples of ways to progressively analyze and test students would be helpful. Is there...  [Read more]

  Our next main issue is going to be that of giving students individual attention. Here many classroom management and leaving potential discipline problems can be avoided by applying some simple rules to giving your students attention. The first one is to think about the way in which you ask questions. Don't ask questions in a predictable order. If you just go around the class asking questions from one person to the next then the person at the end of the class will know that it's going to be some time before you actually get to them. So try to mix up the way in which you're asking questions. In terms of answers to questions don't allow individual students to dominate all of the answers. One of the things that we can do to help this particular issue is to use the students names as...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Donglin Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huzhou 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 provided form examples and clarifications for the different forms of past tense. In structure, it was similar to the unit dedicated to the present tense. It covered Past tense, Past perfect tense, Past Continuous Tense, and Past Continuous Perfect tense. What I have learnt from this unit is similar to what I learned from the present tense unit; though I can...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Housuo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qujing 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 trouble understanding how to explain why a certain sentence is a particular past tense. For example, "By the time I arrived JOHN HAD FINISHED cooking." I know it's an example of past perfect but to explain why it is, is difficult for me. The questions focusing on those explanations were very difficult for me to answer. I can identify the past tense but I can't...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TESOL Jobs Santiago De Los Caballeros Dominican Republic 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: This Unit needs to described more elaborately it is not an easy unit neither has been explained with examples . I found some sections of this unit informative and some sections confusing . I feel this unit needs to be revised and re-structured for better understanding. It is indeed a very important unit and it needs to be described more elaborately. it is not an easy unit neither has been explained with examples . I found some sections of this unit informative and some sections...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Karnataka? Are you interested in teaching English in Pavagada, Karnataka? Check out our opportunities in Pavagada, 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 gained many things from this course. The reason I took this course was to improve my resume for applying for a english teaching position in South Korea. I never knew it would be so helpful in teaching me the...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Garnavillo 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: I have gained many things from this course. The reason I took this course was to improve my resume for applying for a english teaching position in South Korea. I never knew it would be so helpful in teaching me the methods to teach genuinely and effectively. First of all, it gave me a better understanding of the english grammar. Although I have no problem in answering test questions that involve testing english grammar, I couldn't thoroughly explain the reason of the answers I know and wrote. Now that I have taken...  [Read more]

  Just to finish off this particular section on lesson planning, we're going to go through a couple of procedures that should take place during the study phase periods, particularly when we're doing the activities. It is quite important that before we actually go into a study activity that we go through a process of showing how that activity is going to work and one acronym that is often used for this is D-E-GO. The D part of this stands for a demonstration of the activity. Now, it's very important that you don't try to explain how the activity is going to work but rather you actually demonstrate the process. An example of the demonstration of the process of the activity could be something as simple as taking the first question and using it and writing it on the board. This will...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Longfeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhong 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. Frequently, teachers are understood to be the givers of information and students are the recipients. Students are expected to learn and absorb all of the information that teachers present to them. However, students can often learn much more effectively when teachers shift away from this one-sided relationship to a mutual, back-and-forth interaction. In other...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huili 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. When a teacher first meets a new class, he or she will assess the students’ language level. Most likely, the teacher will find that the language ability of the students is a mixed bag. This has the potential for frustration all around with the weaker students feeling left behind if the lessons are beyond them, while the stronger students are feeling bored and...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Napier Field Alabama 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: It was a very useful and interesting course for me. As a non-native speaker I found all the units extremely useful. The grammar units helped me to focus on various grammar points, study and analyse them. There was a good amount of grammatical theory and exercises; they've helped me to clarify its use in my head, so I can explain it better when teaching. I also came to the conclusion that there is always more to learn and I should not stop here. I have already benefited from it as I became an english teacher in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fenglingdu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuncheng Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. After working in Japan for over two years, I have devised multiple flashcard activities for my young learners in order to keep lessons upbeat and fun. Not only have these games proven to be conducive to each young learner’s English experience but they have also kept students entertained and focused throughout the lesson. Due to constraints, I have provided...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information In this article an ITTT TEFL course graduate answers the popular question: "Can TEFL work for non-native English speaking teachers?" - the answer might surprise you! Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information In this article an ITTT TEFL course graduate describes the advantages and disadvantages of online TEFL courses and onsite TEFL courses. Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information There are three different ways to earn a TEFL/TESOL certificate. The benefits of each course depend on the needs of the trainee, but each option has something to offer everyone. Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information This article was written by an ITTT TEFL course graduate who shares her experience with lesson planning and explains why it's vital to plan your ESL lessons beforehand. ...  [Read more]

Check out Tesolcourse.com about TEFL Shidler Oklahoma 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: Even though I have been successfully teaching esl for the past four years, with thousands of hours of classroom teaching time, there was still much that I have been able to learn from this course. One aspect that I feel has grown is my ability to make well rounded, student centered lesson plans. Up until now, most of my classroom time has been preplanned and simplified by the company that I work for. This method, in my opinion, can become very boring and monotonous for the students and the teacher as well. The...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas In this article, an ITTT TEFL course graduate describes the benefits and risks of new technology in the classroom. Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information In this article an ITTT TEFL course graduate answers the popular question: "Can TEFL work for non-native English speaking teachers?" - the answer might surprise you! Linda Dunsmore TEFL Information In this article an ITTT TEFL course graduate describes the advantages and disadvantages of online TEFL courses and onsite TEFL courses. Jon ITTT Alumni Experiences This article was written by an ITTT TEFL course graduate sharing her experiences of common pronunciation problems in Peru. Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences In this article an ITTT TEFL course graduate shares her...  [Read more]