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8 Amazing Places to Celebrate Lunar New Year in Asia - TEFL Blog
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 Linda Dunsmore
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8 Amazing Places to Celebrate Lunar New Year in Asia
Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in a variety of Asian countries. This holiday marks the beginning of a calendar year whose months are cycles of the moon. Typically, the Lunar New Year is celebrated in January or February depending on the lunar calendar.
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Here are 8 amazing places to celebrate Lunar New Year in Asia.
1. China - Chinese New Year
2. South Korea - Seollal
3. Japan - ShÅgatsu
4. Mongolia - Tsagaan Sar
5. Tibet - Losar
6. Vietnam - Tết nguyên Äán
7. Singapore - Lunar New Year
8. Laos - Pi Mai
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St. Patrick's Day Quiz ESL Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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St. Patrick's Day Quiz ESL Worksheet
Here is a free St. Patrick’s Day Quiz for ESL learners covering the most important vocabulary words related to St. Patricks Day.
Answer Key
1. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on the 17th of March.
2. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
3. St. Patrick was born in Wales.
4. People say a pot of gold can be found at the end of a rainbow.
5. People wear green on St. Patrick's Day.
6. People say St. Patrick drove snakes out of Ireland.
7. A shamrock is a plant with three leaves that is considered to be a symbol of luck.
8. The colors of the Irish flag are green, white and orange.
9. Parades are held in cities around the world to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
10. The... [Read more]
Teaching English to Adult Students Online - TEFL Blog
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Teaching English to Adult Students Online
Presently, I take care of my ninety-six-year-old father at home and have no immediate plans to teach overseas. Fortunately, I live in a community (Aurora, Colorado) that has over 140 different language groups and ethnicities. Aurora ranks as the tenth most diverse community in the United States. I have worked toward my TEFL certification for the future; however, I have plans to use the training now.
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Personal Plan
Online Platforms
Requirements
Employment
Salaries
The Effective Online Teacher
Set Expectations
Correct Carefully
Relationship and Feedback
Project (Individual and Group)
Resources
Closing
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Teaching English in China: Small or Big City? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 04 Sep 2020 Anastasiia Ovchinnikova
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Teaching English in China: Small or Big City?
When we think of moving to China, we often imagine this marvelous picture of futuristic cities, glass skyscrapers, and 24/7 buzzing big city lifestyle. That was me 4 years ago while packing my suitcases to start a new chapter of my life in this far and foreign country.
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The Hidden Gems Of Living In A Small City
Long-lasting Friendships
Ultimate Local Experience
Best Way To Save Money
Teaching and The Big City
Expat-friendly Working Conditions
Great Infrastructure
Tons Of Things To Do
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Why Cultural Awareness is Imperative in the Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 12 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Why Cultural Awareness is Imperative in the Classroom
A student's journey to learn a new language can be met with a multitude of intimidating aspects. The vocabulary and grammar alone are enough to create a challenge, but add on to that the reading, speaking, and writing components and the challenges can become daunting. With all the difficulties that come with teaching and learning a new language, the last thing that should ever be an area of discomfort or distress should be cultural awareness within the classroom. For the students and teachers alike, the classroom must be a place of tolerance and respect. Cultural awareness should not only guide how the teacher approaches the lessons but should also set the overall tone of the... [Read more]
Canada Day Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Canada Day Word Search
Here's a fun word search for Canada Day! Celebrate Canada Day with your EFL students with this EFL word search!
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Valentine's Day ESL Vocabulary Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Valentine's Day ESL Vocabulary Worksheet
This is a fun Valentine's Day ESL Word Search Puzzle Worksheet you can use in your ESL classroom to celebrate the romantic holiday.
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My Personal Experience Moving to Beijing to Teach English
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What is more important in teaching language: fluency or accuracy? This is an age-old question that a recent TEFL alumna is trying to solve in this article.
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Inspiring Students to Embrace English Learning in Developing Countries - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 Nov 2023 Minh Huy Hoang
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Inspiring Students to Embrace English Learning in Developing Countries
In developing countries, encouraging lazy students to cultivate a passion for studying English can be a challenging task. However, with the right strategies and approaches, we can greatly improve their motivation and help them discover the benefits of mastering the English language. This article presents five effective tips to inspire even the laziest of students to love studying English.
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Tip 1: Make English Relevant to Their Lives
Tip 2: Implement Interactive and Creative Activities
Tip 3: Foster an Enthusiastic and Supportive Learning Environment
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7 Amazing Winter and Christmas ESL Activities Your Students Will Love - TEFL Blog
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 Linda Dunsmore
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7 Amazing Winter and Christmas ESL Activities Your Students Will Love
When the aroma of gingerbread and eggnog is in the air, you know it's time to translate your love for the most beautiful season of the year into your TEFL classroom with winter ESL activities!
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1. What makes the perfect winter day?
2. Write an article for a local newspaper
3. Make paper snowflakes
4. Read something about winter
5. Play a game of Taboo
6. Holiday Extravaganza!
7. If everything else fails: These worksheets do the trick!
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Halloween Facts Worksheet
This is a worksheet to learn facts about Halloween. It is a reading task and there also are some activities to check the pupils' reading comprehension. The students also can learn about the origins of Halloween and how the Ancient Celtics used to celebrate it.
Here are the exercises for after the reading:
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5 Reasons Why Turkey is a Great Destination to Teach English
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Due to Turkey's huge tourism industry, English is widely spoken among locals, which also means that the opportunities for teaching English in Turkey are vast. Here are 5 reasons to teach English in Turkey.
The Top Travel Apps to Use While Traveling In Italy
Mia Santarelli
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There are many things to consider when thinking about traveling to Italy. Here are a few apps to consider downloading to use while roaming the streets of Italy to ensure a more enjoyable experience.
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Christmas Definitions ESL Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Christmas Definitions ESL Worksheet
This ESL worksheet with Christmas definitions is great for teaching your students more about Christmas, its customs, and how it is celebrated.
Answer Key
1. An imaginary creature that looks like a small person and has magical powers is a pixie.
2. A fat man with a white beard and a red suit who gives toys to children at Chriswtmas is Santa Claus.
3. Animals that are in front of Santa's sleigh are reindeer.
4. A shiny ball hung on a Christmas tree is a bable.
5. Wax formed into a stick with a string in the middle is a candle.
6. The "green" thing you decorate is called a Christmas tree.
7. Tinsel is shiny metal strips.
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Tips & Resources for LGBTQIA+ English Teachers Abroad - TEFL Blog
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 Linda Dunsmore
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Tips & Resources for LGBTQIA+ English Teachers Abroad
Teaching abroad is an exciting and enriching opportunity for anyone, but as an LGBT individual, there are additional challenges and considerations to keep in mind. Moving to a new country means adjusting to a different culture and navigating questions about discrimination, safety, coming out, and handling public displays of affection. While there has been significant progress in LGBT rights globally, including the legalization of same-sex marriage in more countries, there is still work to be done. Therefore, finding a place to teach abroad that is accepting and welcoming to the LGBT community becomes crucial.
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Linda is a passionate traveler, language learner and TEFL teacher. After spending some time teaching in China, she moved to Korea in 2015. She now calls South Korea her home.
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7 Amazing Back-to-School Ideas for Your ESL Class | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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Schools are starting again and students and teachers flock back to the classroom. Check out these simple and powerful back-to-school ideas and your students will surely remember this first lesson of yours for a long time!
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7 Steps to ESL Classroom Gamification - TEFL Blog
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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7 Steps to ESL Classroom Gamification
Games are great tools to motivate students and encourage them to learn things informally. However, ESL classroom games must have a purpose and support the learning process and not distract from it.
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1. Set a Clear Goal
2. Divide the Goal into Simpler Steps
3. Choose a Cool Game Format
4. Personalize the Game
5. Create Motivation Badges
6. Design a Leaderboard
7. Consider Various Approaches to the Game
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Ways to Solve The Motivation Problems When Teaching Younger Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Ways to Solve The Motivation Problems When Teaching Younger Students
Motivation is one of the top priorities when it comes to working with kids. You can use the most effective activities, choose the most interesting topics, but all that will not work if your students are not motivated. This goes a lot easier with adults, as they have chosen to study English by themselves and they often have set one or few goals, so, at the end of the day, they are moving towards the set target. With kids things are a bit more complicated, as they did not choose to study the English language, their parents had made this choice for them.
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Self-Confidence Makes Learning Fun - TEFL Blog
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Self-Confidence Makes Learning Fun
As babies and toddlers, learning a language is a natural thing. We listen, watch, learn, and eventually try speaking for ourselves. We make many mistakes. As a toddler, mistakes are adorable. Our parents, siblings, and grandparents can't get enough of our attempts at language. However, as we get older, mistakes are no longer cute and can become somewhat embarrassing, causing us to fear trying new things. This fear can make learning a new language particularly difficult as we get older. As teachers of foreign languages, it is important to help our students feel comfortable trying new things and even making mistakes. If our students can feel confident, even when they are wrong, they won't be... [Read more]
Most Useful Methods to Increase Interest in Learning English in Your Students - TEFL Blog
Fri, 06 Dec 2019 Federico Riva
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Most Useful Methods to Increase Interest in Learning English in Your Students
Motivation can be categorized into two types: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is a drive that comes from within a person. People are intrinsically motivated when they enjoy doing an activity. Extrinsic motivation is a drive that comes from outside of a person. People are extrinsically motivated when they want to gain a reward (like a prize or a good grade) or avoid a punishment. Motivating Students to Learn English with some Smart Tactics are as follows:
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Make Class Communicative:
Make English Practical:
Forge Relationships:
Make Class Fun:
Give Feedback:
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4 Tips on How to Teach English Using Music - TEFL Blog
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 Barbara Harrison
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4 Tips on How to Teach English Using Music
Celebrate the universal language of music with your students. With music, students at all levels work on the basic skills of learning and improving their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills while having fun! Music improves attitudes toward content and learning, as well as classroom participation. It's also been shown to decrease anxiety and tension on scary topics and increase memory of grammar concepts. The benefits are many, including improved concentration and memory, help to absorb material, inspire creativity, and encourage learning. Music makes learning fun!
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Fun Games in the Classroom for Young English Learners
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In this blog post, you will find several ideas on how to versatile your classes with games and activities for young students.
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This article considers the reasons why teachers need to praise students and celebrate their success regularly.
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TEFL Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Home Based Online English Teacher
Home-based Online English Teacher
Date posted:2020-11-12 | Writer: GoGoKid | Email: [email protected]
You can use your TEFL skills while teaching English online. We aspire to foster an environment conducive to education that will inspire young students in China to commit to a lifetime of learning. Our comprehensive and interactive platform connects enthusiastic and experienced teachers with eager students ready to explore their full potential.We believe that integrating technology and education will revolutionize language learning. We aim to empower our students by strategically facilitating the online learning experience via rigorous analysis of their skills and learning patterns, as well as by providing frequent and holistic feedback with regard to their progress.We offer... [Read more]
Ways of Controlling and Managing an ESL Class Effectively - TEFL Blog
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Ways of Controlling and Managing an ESL Class Effectively
Classroom management focuses on ways used to ensure and secure a comfortable atmosphere in the classroom, these are ways the teacher uses to make the classroom conducive for learners, to achieve this task, the teacher must set up rules that eliminate unwanted behavior that get to disrupt learning. Different approaches can be put in place by the teachers too. Achieving his objective while taking into consideration the age and level of the kid's Different teachers will have a different approach in the respect, taking into consideration the age and level of the kids.
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Confidence as a Skill to Teach in an ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Confidence as a Skill to Teach in an ESL Classroom
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Olga S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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What is confidence?
The very first impression
Celebrate even small achievements
Share the classroom responsibilities between all students is also essential
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TEFL Positions Available Across China
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The processes involved in securing a TEFL position in China can be complicated. However at Connect2Worlds we aim to make these processes as simple as possible. We offer advice, guidance and support to all of our candidates from the moment they register an interest with us and throughout their time in China. We work with a number of schools across the country, and these schools have either a very good reputation or they have been checked by our partners in China. Our application process is simple: register an interest with us, we will then send you a short form and contact you to discuss your application and preferences. Then we can start sending you profiles of our... [Read more]
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Superb Summer Work Opportunity in Russia 2021
Date posted:2021-01-08 | Writer: Dubravushka | Email: [email protected]
Travel and work in Russia while using your TEFL skills. Ideal for young, highly motivated, enthusiastic and committed native level English speakers.We offer an unforgettable summer, comfortable conditions, incredible events, true friends and wide experience!Dubravushka - Russia's first independent boarding school and summer camp - celebrated it's 30 years anniversary this year! And every year 5-6 EFL teachers work with us and have the best time in Russia! The school is located 1.5 hrs from Moscow so it is very easy to exploreDetails of PositionJob Summary:- 5-6 lessons per day (Mon-Fri);- extra individual lessons upon parents request;- participation in camp activities... [Read more]
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ESL Teaching Position in Loja, Ecuador
Date posted:2021-10-24 | Writer: The Canadian House Center | Email: [email protected]
[email protected] This outstanding English academy in the southern region of Ecuador celebrated its 10 year anniversary in 2018. While they continue to grow they welcome teachers who are proficient in English and engaging for students.At their two campuses in Loja, they teach beginners through post-grad classes as well as private lessons. The adult campus, which is located downtown, attracts university students and professionals, whereas the children’s campus appeals to children (and their parents).Youngsters from 3 years old through to high school age learn through an interactive curriculum, technological classroom presentation... [Read more]
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Date posted:2015-02-09 | Writer: Prime Teachers International | Email: [email protected]
Prime Teachers is now recruiting EFL teachers to work in Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama! Japan is a country like no other with a multifaceted culture, influenced by both the western world and old Japanese traditions dating back thousands of years. Experience the celebrated cuisine and the world famous culture for yourself by making Japan the next destination on your world tour!
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Native Level English Teachers Needed in Kazakhstan
Date posted:2021-11-18 | Writer: StudyRoom Educational Center | Email: [email protected]
StudyRoom is a quickly growing language center in the heart of Almaty. We teach all ages and levels, prepare students for international tests (IELTS, SAT, TOEFL), and offer classes in ten different languages. Because we're growing fast, we need more native level English teachers for the current and upcoming school years. We are looking for enthusiastic, energetic teachers who like working with eager learners.We're a collaborative group with five native and twenty local teachers. We have weekly teacher trainings to discuss different methodologies and strategies. We celebrate local and Western holidays, and we try to bring a sense of community to the... [Read more]
All Types of Verbs in the English Language - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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All Types of Verbs in the English Language
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.
What is a verb?
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:
REGULAR VERB
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