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The Biggest Differences Between British English and American English - TEFL Blog
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
The Biggest Differences Between British English and American English
While both Americans and the British speak English, there are a few variations in the language which can cause some confusion for non-native speakers. Therefore, it is important to take a look at the most notable differences between these two versions of the English language.
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Spelling
Grammar
Pronunciation
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Why Teaching Productive Skills is so Important - TEFL Blog
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why Teaching Productive Skills is so Important
Communication is essential for everyday life activities. It's impossible not to communicate. Even when you don't speak a word, you communicate. That's because communication represents the way we express put thoughts, our ideas, and our opinions. It is as much about effective listening and reading as it is about speaking and writing. Communication is built on these four important skills which are divided into Productive Skills (speaking and writing) and Receptive Skills (reading and listening).
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In this text, we take a look at the Productive skills which wouldn't exist without the Receptive ones.
People engage in communications for specific reasons:
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Five Fun and Adaptable Games for ESL Classes - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 May 2021 Shirin Sophy
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Five Fun and Adaptable Games for ESL Classes
Today's pedagogical approaches put considerable emphasis upon the importance of providing students with the opportunity to have a joyful educational experience through adding enough and well-located variety to the lessons. One practical way to do so is designing and adding aimful games to your plan in order to inject positive energy into your lessons, improve the mood of your class and make your lessons stick in students' long-term memory.
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Pizza game
Hot seat
Hot potato
Spelling games
Whisper chain
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Team-teaching: The Good and The Ugly - TEFL Blog
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 Amanda Stern
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Team-teaching: The Good and The Ugly
A preferred method of teaching abroad is the team-teaching approach. This is where two teachers, dubbed T1 (often the "main" teacher") and T2 (often the "assistant"), work together to develop a syllabus, prepare materials and lessons, teach students, then evaluate the results and make changes whenever deemed necessary. As the base, unless T2 has strong language skills in the local language, T1 will be expected to explain core grammar. Both are responsible for their own contributions to the class in order to create a cohesive classroom for effective English learning.
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The Good
Shorter Preparation Times
More Collaboration with Ideas
Utilizing Each Other's Strengths
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8 Big Mistakes To Avoid When Applying for TEFL Jobs - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
8 Big Mistakes To Avoid When Applying for TEFL Jobs
05/02/2022
hello hi linda here from itt back with another live session this week
i told you same time same place i would be here so i hope you are too
thank you for taking some time out of your day today to spend it with me today we're going to talk about applying for
tefl jobs eight big mistakes to avoid
that's today's topic kind of continuing on our like job seeking
series um i did a couple of those kind of job related videos or live sessions in the
past few weeks so i thought this would fit perfectly into our little collection
um as always we do save our previous live sessions in our playlists um you
can find them on facebook you can also find them on youtube just like we are live on both platforms today so we are
live on facebook and... [Read more]
Master Your TEFL Interview Demo Lesson: Tips and Strategies for Success - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Master Your TEFL Interview Demo Lesson: Tips and Strategies for Success
11/10/2022
Hi, welcome Linda here, from ITTT. Back with another live session this week. And this week we're talking about the demo lesson and how to hold effective demo lessons for your TEFL interviews so you get hired. Yeah, welcome back, I'm back here again. You know we go live every week. I hope you know by now. Don't forget to like and subscribe so you always stay up to date, you never miss any of our upcoming live sessions. We usually go to go live at this time on this day so please stay tuned, give us a like, give us a subscription wherever you're watching from. We're actually live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time, so whichever platform you prefer you can tune in.
Of course you can leave a bunch of... [Read more]
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2023 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Countries for Teaching English in 2023
12/09/2022
Hi, welcome Linda here. Back this week with another live session for ITTT today. We're going to talk about the best countries for teaching English abroad in 2023 next year. It's already December, it's December 9th today here in South Korea. It is 10:30 a.m. where I am.
So, the new year is approaching fast. Time flies. So, that's what we're going to talk about. Where are the best countries to teach next year? What are some predictions also for the EFL industry (English as a foreign language industry) for next year? What are some things that we see? What are some things that we can expect? And yeah, that's what we're going to talk about today.
So, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for joining. If you can see me,... [Read more]
What to Watch Out for Before Signing Your TEFL Contract - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
What to Watch Out for Before Signing Your TEFL Contract
07/15/2021
hello hi welcome to another live session from itt
my name is linda um yeah welcome back this week
if you've noticed last week our live or my life was actually on a different day different time um if you've seen it it
was really really interesting i had some really really interesting guests two
sisters from australia who are currently teaching in japan under the jet program and we had a
lovely chat it was really fun so if you have not seen that i highly recommend checking it out if you're interested in teaching
abroad uh teaching in japan if you're from australia check it out two really lovely girls it
was so much fun talking about what it's like to teach in japan and this week i have i'm here by myself
again and i have... [Read more]