TEFL Course Materials

All TEFL International trainees are given handbooks for the following areas of the course: Examples of the content of each section are provided.

Teaching Skills - including:

Lesson Planning
EFL Methodology
Teaching Productive Skills
Teaching Receptive Skills
Evaluating and Testing
Teaching New Language

The teaching skills component provides details of the techniques and skills required by teachers in the classroom.

Language Awareness/Grammar - including:

Parts of Speech
Present Tenses
Past Tenses
Future Tenses

The language awareness component gives a solid foundation course in English grammar and provides effective strategies and materials on how to teach grammar.

Phonetics - including

The Phonetic Alphabet
How to teach pronunciation
Pronunciation Activities

The phonetics component provides an understanding of phonetics and provides awareness of how and when it can be used in the classroom.

Classroom Management

Board work
The Role of the Teacher
Setting up Pair and Group Work

The classroom management component focuses on the value of effective class management and provides techniques for achieving successful language learning.

These high quality materials are the basis for the input sessions and will provide you with valuable reference resources during the course and throughout your TEFL career.

The center provides course handbooks and materials, including an A4 folder, which should be organized as follows:

The Course Log

Teaching Practice lesson plans, materials & assessment
Unknown Language Journal
Lesson Observation Journal

This forms a record of the course and should be tidy and professional in appearance. It will be inspected during moderation at the end of the course.

Your Own Notes File

During input sessions, you will receive numerous handouts and may want to take your own notes as well. We suggest dividing the file under the following headings:

Timetable
Classroom management
Teaching skills
Grammar
Phonology

Please Note

Punctuality is ESSENTIAL. Arriving on time is a vital quality in a teacher.

Recommended Reading:
We recommend that you have a copy of, or are familiar with, the following books:

Methodology
The Practice of English Language Teaching, J Harmer
Grammar
English Grammar in Use, R Murphy, Cambridge University Press

"Writing lesson plans on the balcony with crystal clear blue sea on one side and the green far-away hills on the other has to be little short of teaching practice heaven."
Linda Randall