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Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! This is a fun worksheet for ESL students to practice the colors. Have them color the correct colors on the sheet.   Register now & get certified to teach english abroad!  [Read more]

Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! This is a fun worksheet to practice the different types of conditionals.   Register now & get certified to teach english abroad!  [Read more]

  The idiom "all ears" means that someone is very keen to hear what you have to say and you have his/her full attention. For example: Why are you crying? Tell me, I'm all ears. In this case, the person asking really wants to know the reason for the other person to be upset and crying. 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. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! In this lesson I learned several types of teaching methods to use with...  [Read more]

hello there uh it's time for a live stream so uh i'm super glad to welcome you uh at today's live stream uh as usually i and my name is lisa i'm a tefl and t soul expert at itt and an online esl teacher who is also a non-native speaker so today's live stream is devoted to a really popular question of itt's lifetime job support so if it is something um interesting to you stay tuned stay with me here and we will um have a discussion over this topic uh by the way uh if you watch me right now if you watch me live could you please send your greetings to the chat box and let me know where you guys tuning in from uh i'm staying in russia uh so i'm located uh in in central russia pretty far from moscow uh and what else i usually go live on tuesday or wednesday so today's wednesday and i've chosen...  [Read more]

Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! This is a fun worksheet about mom this Mother's Day. Have you students come up with sentences about their mom for Mother's Day.     Register now & get certified to teach english abroad!  [Read more]

There are a number of National Qualification Frameworks (NQFs) worldwide. The USA, UK, Europe and Australia, for example, all have their own system. The general features of the frameworks relate to a number of factors, typically including: Combining a number of features from frameworks around the world, the ITTT Qualification Framework is indicated as follows:             *Please note that these course levels are not an official TEFL/TESOL grading system and should only be used as a guide that allows you to compare our different courses based on the criteria stated above.  [Read more]

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Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Verbs are one of the most important parts of speech in English and incredibly important for learners of English. The below infographic showcases all types of verbs in the English language.   Generally speaking, a verb is a word that shows an action, state or an event. It is an essential part of a sentence and is known as the soul of language. For example: "They study English grammar." (Action) "We celebrate independence day." (Event) "I sleep at night." (State)    Following are the different types of verbs:   When a verb's past tense (2nd form) and past participle (3rd form) is created by adding ‘d’ or ‘ed’, it is called a regular verb. Some examples of a regular verb include: Walk ...  [Read more]

Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! This is a game to help students revise vocabulary related to sports, daily routines, the home, school, and leisure activities.   Register now & get certified to teach english abroad!  [Read more]

  The main function for the present perfect tense is to relate something in the past to the present. We can do so in a number of ways. First, we have indefinite past actions. 'I have been to Italy twice'. We're not concerned with when it happened, we just simply want to say that it has happened in the past. It's a fact of something I have done in the past but yet it's still true in the present. Unfinished past actions: 'I have lived here for three years'. I started living here in the past and it's still true now. With this usage, you will typically see time expressions. Finally, we have past actions with present results. I have lost my keys. It's implied that I still haven't found them. I lost them in the past. I don't have them now. I've lost my keys. Below you can read feedback...  [Read more]

  Our second example sentence 'I am playing football at the moment.' is the present continuous tense. This has a different structure as the subject 'I', the verb 'to be' in the present tense 'am', 'is' or 'are' plus the verb with an '?ing' on the end. So here: 'I am playing football at the moment.' Whereas the present simple tense is used to talk about habits routines and facts, the present continuous tense is used to talk about actions in progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. Our third example sentence is the present perfect: 'I have played football twice this week.' Here, the structure is the subject 'I', auxiliary verb 'have' or 'has' plus the past participle. The past participle is usually formed just by adding '-ed'- on to the end of the base form of...  [Read more]

  Before looking at specific teaching ideas for the present simple tense, let's first look at some considerations for teaching ideas in general. We have to remember that these activities will be used in the activate stage of your lesson. Here, the focus will be on building fluency and using the language in a bit more of a free-flowing way yet still focusing on that class' language point. We also have to consider the appropriacy for a number of factors: timings. Whether the activity will be too short or too long. We want to look at ages making sure that the activity is appropriate for young learners or adult learners. We also have to take into consideration our language levels. Will the activity be appropriate for our starters or our pre-intermediates or our intermediates? Will the...  [Read more]

  Now we'll have a look at the present perfect tense. The form for the present perfect tense is again our subject here, our auxiliary verb, or helping verb, in this case it's 'have'. For subjects 'I,' 'you,' 'we,' 'they', we leave the auxiliary verb as 'have'. For 'he,' 'she' and 'it', our auxiliary verb needs to be conjugated or changed into 'has'. Following these helping verbs, we have our main verb in the past participle form. Here we have the verb 'to play'. 'To play' is a regular verb. So for regular verbs we simply add '-ed'. The result is sentences such as 'I have played football today,' or 'He has played snooker today'. 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...  [Read more]

  The two most common usages for the present simple tense are habits and routines, as well as general facts and truths. Our example of routine would be 'I teach every Monday.' We've used our subject 'I', our base form 'teach' and 'every Monday' speaking about the routine that I have. We also have our general facts 'The sun rises in the east.' Here, 'the sun' would follow under the pronoun 'it' so we've had to conjugate our verb per our pattern and finish our sentence. We could also talk about general truths such as likes or dislikes. 'I like football,' or 'He likes football.' Of course, there are other usages but these are the two most common. Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses...  [Read more]

hi guys hi linda here from itt with another live session this week super excited to be here again um thanks so much for tuning in today and if you're listening to this as a podcast episode thanks so much for the download we really really appreciated as you might know we turn all of our live live sessions into podcast episodes and you can find our podcast on all major podcast platforms like itunes google podcasts spotify um yeah you just search for itttt or it's actually called the tefl and tesol podcast by itt and you can find all our episodes there as well so hi guys hi tiana hi thanks so much for tuning in today how are you how are you awesome i'm so excited to be here again and i think today's topic is going to be really really really interesting um obviously for people who want to go...  [Read more]

  We can see that this particular usage of the unfinished past can be used for both the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. Where we've got action verbs, we usually prefer to use the present perfect continuous. However, there are state verbs which don't usually go into the continuous form, such as 'know'. We would say 'I have known her for 10 years,' not 'I have been knowing her for 10 years.' So when we have these state verbs, such as 'know', 'be', 'seem' and 'appear', we would usually put these in the present perfect but with the action verbs, such as 'play', 'cook', 'work', we will use these in the present perfect continuous. Normally, we also use the present perfect continuous fairly frequently with words, such as just or recently to express a recently completed...  [Read more]

  Here's a teaching idea that focuses on two very specific aspects of the present simple tense, one of which will be making statements about a habit and a routine. The other will be conjugating the verb into the 'he', 'she' or 'it' form. Here we'll present students with a picture. They will see various objects in the picture. Based upon the presence of these objects in someone's room, the students will have to make an observation such as 'She drinks coffee,' 'She plays the guitar,' 'She watches television,' 'She doesn't smoke.' Again, it's very specific used for the 'he', 'she' or 'it' form and habits and routines. At the end of the activity, the teacher will have the pairs or the small groups report back their various findings. Another idea for the present simple tense will be the...  [Read more]

  Now, let's take a look at the present continuous tense. The continuous tense is used to talk about actions in progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. The first thing to notice with the continuous tense is that we must use the verb plus '-ing' form, also known as the present participle. You'll see it in any continuous tense, especially with the present continuous. We have three different forms of this tense. First, we have the subject 'I' used with 'am teaching'. Then, we have 'you', 'we' and 'they are teaching'. Finally, we've got 'he', 'she' 'it is teaching'. The 'am', 'are' and 'is' are forms of the verb 'to be' and here with this tense is used as an auxiliary verb or a helping verb. In order to form negative sentences, we simply add the word 'not'...  [Read more]

  As mentioned earlier, our example sentence has used a regular verb 'to play'. With the regular verbs we simply add '-ed'. This spelling pattern changes for words that end with a consonant and a Y: 'cry' goes to 'cried', 'try' to 'tried'. Another spelling pattern we have to be aware of is our consonant plus vowel plus consonant. In these instances, we double the consonant used: 'shop' needs the double P; 'ship' needs the double P. With these spelling patterns, and most spelling patterns in general for the English language, there are always exceptions to the rules. So we have to be aware of those exceptions. We also have to impart those exceptions on to our students. We can do so through various exercises and various activities to end our class. To form the negative sentence here,...  [Read more]

hello everybody hello and welcome we're actually also going live on instagram today so i'm gonna check that out as well so when i look here hi this is on instagram and when i look here this is on facebook and youtube so hopefully everything will be working fine i hope everybody can hear me well and can see me as well so this is the first time that we're actually live on instagram and on facebook and youtube at the same time so i have a lot of screens here in front of me hello there i see somebody tuned in on instagram and a couple of people here as well on facebook and youtube so i hope everything is going well today hi great okay so unfortunately if you're watching on instagram um you won't be able to see like the screen and maybe some questions that i'm popping in there but um that's...  [Read more]

  A first example of a teaching idea for the present simple tense will be a classic activity called 'Find someone who'. Here, we will be trying to find someone who has a general truth such as the ability to play a musical instrument or the fact that they have a brother and a sister. This results in students going around the room asking questions in the present simple tense, such as 'Do you play a musical instrument?' 'Are you a teacher?' 'Do you have a brother and a sister?' The answers resulting will also be in the present simple tense. They will be generally 'Yes I do,' or 'No I don't.' The students will go around trying to find somebody who fits the general truth and when they do, they will write their name in the appropriate space. The students will mill around the room for...  [Read more]

  There's another activity for comparing and contrasting the tenses focusing here in this activity on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. So in the activity, students will start at the start and roll a die. Perhaps they can roll a 5. They will read 'something you've been learning for a long time'. The appropriate sentence may be 'I've been learning English for a long time.' The next student may go and roll 4. They read 'a beautiful place you've visited.' Then, rather than the present perfect continuous, they would use the present perfect tense: 'I visited Paris.' You can encourage students to even ask follow-up questions, which would also include other tenses: 'What was so beautiful about Paris?' Now, this activity will be particularly good for your more advanced...  [Read more]

  Now here's a teaching idea for the present perfect continuous tense. If you remember we use this tense to talk about actions that had been continuing up until the present moment or very recently. In this activity, you'll be giving a student a card. That card will include the past activity as well as some results. This card says 'You've been driving in the rain on your motorbike. You're all wet and your clothes are too.' The results are 'you're all wet and your clothes are too.' You'll present that information to the rest of the class and, therefore, it's up to the class to guess the action that was occurring up until the certain point in time. What will happen in this activity is, the student at the front of the room will express the present results 'clothes being wet; I'm all...  [Read more]

  Completing an online TEFL course could not be a more user friendly experience thanks to our unique online study platform. Once you have signed up for a course you will receive a code via email that will give you exclusive access to your own personalized dashboard. Through the dashboard you will be able to navigate your way through every step of the course with ease as all the materials and assessment strategies will be at your fingertips whenever you need them. Crucially, you can access the dashboard from any location with an internet connection and via any device you like, such as a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Not only will you find all the written materials necessary to complete the course on hand via the dashboard, you can also choose to download them and print them...  [Read more]

  In order to make your TEFL training experience as smooth as possible we are able to accept a wide range of payment methods. If you want to get started as quickly as possible, we recommend using a credit or debit card as this is a quick, secure and hassle free option via our online payment page. As soon as you make the payment you will be able to get your exciting new life as a TEFL qualified teacher up and running. We also accept other quick and easy online payment methods such as Paypal and WeChat which also allow for a quick and convenient way to get the ball rolling. If credit cards and online payments are not your thing, no problem, we also accept more traditional payment methods including bank transfer and Western Union. Although these options might take a few days to...  [Read more]

A TEFL Level 5 qualification holds an equivalent stature to the well-known CELTA or a Foundation Degree. Understanding TEFL certification levels is important when selecting a course. With levels ranging from TEFL Level 4 to Level 6, you need to know which aligns with your teaching aspirations and can enhance your prospects for sought-after teaching positions. What is the difference between TEFL level 4, TEFL level 5, and TEFL level 6? What are the distinctions between the various levels of TEFL certification? TEFL courses with no level TEFL level 3 courses TEFL level 4 and level 5 courses TEFL level 6 courses To begin, keep in mind that TEFL levels are based on the UK qualifications framework. This includes levels 0 through to 8. Check out the graphic below to get a better understanding...  [Read more]

Our online courses provide a streamlined path to earn your TEFL qualification. They offer flexibility, allowing you to study at your own pace and in the comfort of your home. Beyond the initial TEFL certification, you can also pursue specialized or advanced certifications to bolster your CV/resume. Moreover, all our online courses come with the support of an experienced online tutor. Additionally, all course participants benefit from our lifelong teaching support and job guidance services. Are online TEFL courses as good as in-class TEFL courses? If I choose an online TEFL course, will I still be issued a full TEFL certificate? Who accredits the online TEFL course certificates? How will I receive the online TEFL course study materials? How will I be assessed during an online...  [Read more]

  The Republic of Indonesia consists of a mind-boggling 17,508 islands and has a population of approximately 230 million people, a figure that makes it the fourth most populated country in the world. However, despite the huge population, Indonesia still has vast areas of wilderness that are home to some of the most diverse flora and fauna on the planet. Indonesia touches both the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean while also bridging the continents of Australasia and Asia. The Indonesian Archipelago stretches for over 5,000km and is located entirely in the tropics, on both sides of the equator. The country is culturally and linguistically diverse, with around 500 languages and dialects spoken by its many different ethnic groups. Indonesia is also an incredibly beautiful country with...  [Read more]

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  Take a TEFL course in France with ITTT and discover a world of art, history, fashion and culture. Our TEFL courses in France give you the opportunity to learn how to teach English in one of the most charismatic and exciting countries in the world. France is a country with a full and rich history. Its varied landscape entices you to discover fascinating cities, snow-capped mountains and picturesque beaches. Combined with its gastronomic excellence, stunning architecture, and electrifying night life, you can begin to see why France is one of the world’s leading destinations for in-class TEFL courses. If you are interested in gaining your TEFL certification in France, you will find that demand is high for English language teachers throughout the country so you should have little...  [Read more]