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Creating your Own English Immersion Experience for ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 Estefany Garduño
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Creating your Own English Immersion Experience for ESL Students
When you hear about English lessons, the first thing that comes into your mind is probably lessons taken from a book, answer lesson sheets, and talking in pairs applying a small group of vocabulary, and that's all. Let's change the game by giving a higher immersion of English to your ESL students without going to an English-speaking country to obtain more vocabulary, pronunciation, and speaking practice.
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What is an English Immersion Experience?
How could I start?
Select a topic according to your students' English level
Include as receptive as productive skills.
Build confidence in students
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Modals and Passive Voice - Difficulties for Students
This video looks at the difficulties students have when learning modal auxiliary verbs. The number of usages and the modal auxiliary verbs that can be used for various usages often bring about problems for the students. Also, the structure of sentences with modal auxiliary verbs can be confusing. Watch this video to understand all the difficulties students face with modal auxiliary verbs.
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... [Read more]
Past Simple Quiz - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Past Simple Quiz
Here's a fun English ESL worksheet to practice the past simple tense for ESL students.
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Telling Time in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Telling Time in English
Telling the time in English is one of the most important skills for any English learner. There are a lot of expressions and phrases used when it comes to telling the time in English and teachers need to be able to teach it in a way that makes sense to the students. Below are five simple steps for telling the time in English.
Choose which clock to use
There are two ways how you can tell the time in English: the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock. For the 24-hour system, you use the numbers from 0 – 23 to indicate the hours, whereas the 12-hour system useses only 1 - 12. To indicate morning or afternoon time, you use ‘am’ after the time in the morning and ‘pm’... [Read more]
Hello How Are You? ESL Beginner Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Hello How Are You? ESL Beginner Worksheet
This is an ESL worksheet for beginner English students. Students fill in the gaps with the correct word to make a correct dialog.
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Present Continuous English ESL Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Present Continuous English ESL Worksheet
This is a helpful worksheet for ESL students to practice the present continuous tense in English.
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Top 10 ESL Activities for Older English Learners - TEFL Blog
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 Francesca Marchi
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Top 10 ESL Activities for Older English Learners
From my experience, when you deal with older ESL learners, you have to take into account the fact that they do not want to look bad while practicing their English skills. Actually, activities and exercises should make them feel at ease and confident in their learning, as well as satisfied with the goals achieved so far. It goes without saying that the teaching techniques that include a direct confrontation between an adult student and the teacher or a classmate as a judge of their performance should be avoided so as not to make them feel uncomfortable. Here are a few ideas for you to try.
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Reading Simple Sentences for Summer - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Reading Simple Sentences for Summer
This is a fun ESL worksheet for young English students. Have the students read the sentences and color in the pictures with the correct colors.
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Happy Mother's Day Coloring Sheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Happy Mother's Day Coloring Sheet
This is a great worksheet for Mother's Day to practice numbers and colors in English with your young ESL students.
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Francesca Marchi
I’m Francesca, an experienced teacher of ESL and Italian as a second language. I have been teaching for about 10 years now to different age groups, especially adults, in a country area in the north of Italy. I also worked as a language translator in a local company for 9 years. I adore everything that revolves around the English language and I’m proud of my ITTT TESOL certification as well as of my other qualifications and degrees. I really like traveling and the latest trips I have taken with my family are fabulous: for instance, we have completed the Kumano Kodo in Japan and the Way of St. James in Spain on foot so now we all are ‘Dual Pilgrims’(Dual Pilgrim » Enrico De Renoche & Erminia De Renoche …). We have also driven along America’s Mother Road,... [Read more]
7 Go-To Activities For Your ESL Conversation Class - TEFL Blog
Thu, 06 Aug 2020 Linda Dunsmore
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7 Go-To Activities For Your ESL Conversation Class
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As an ESL teacher, getting your students talking can be one of the most difficult things to accomplish. English learners often lack the necessary confidence to speak openly and freely in English. The following activities are perfect for getting your students out of their shells!
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Here are 7 go-to activities for your ESL conversation class.
1. Dialogue
2. Role-Play Change-Up
3. Interviews
4. Tag Team Role Play
5. Mystery Partner
6. Problem Solved
7. Creative Improvisation
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Career Possibilities with English Knowledge - TEFL Blog
Tue, 21 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Career Possibilities with English Knowledge
In the current world, we live in being able to communicate is a massive factor in the making of one's career success. English is an internationally recognized standard for communication at the workplace. There are many reasons why we should learn English. There are many reasons why being able to communicate effectively and clearly in English can affect a student's future career.
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Global Job Opportunities
International Experience
Rapport Building
Broadening Horizons
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What are Common Pronunciation Challenges Faced by L2 English Learners in Mexico? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 01 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
What are Common Pronunciation Challenges Faced by L2 English Learners in Mexico?
Spanish speakers from Mexico face several challenges for acquiring successful pronunciation skills in English. Many students here will have had at least some exposure to English through media and contact with American-English speakers, however, this does not mean that they will have a complete understanding of the phonemic system in English and how it differs from that of Spanish. This essay will briefly describe some outcomes stemming from pronunciation problems in students, followed by an overview of the basic phonetic and phonological differences between English and Mexican Spanish with examples and discussion around the rules that govern English... [Read more]
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Teaching Special Groups in ESL - The 5 Student Groups
There are many different types of groups of students that you will encounter when teaching English as a foreign language. This video introduces you to the five different types of student groups.
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.
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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Alumna Experience: ✅ The Principles of Building a Successful Teaching Career | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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TEFL Information Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
In this blog post, our TEFL graduate shares their experienc of taking a 60-hour TEFL course with ITTT and talks about several milestones on building a successful EFL career.
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Online Workshop: How To Create Lessons Based On Videos - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Online Workshop: How to Create Lessons Based on Videos
Hey there it's Lizzy here and I'm super happy to welcome you to our weekly live stream. This live stream is provided by ITTT, International TEFL and TESOL Training. If you haven't watched our recent live streams please feel free to go to one of our social networks and check out the previous videos, because we share really useful topics on a regular basis. Today's live stream is going to be devoted to creating lessons based on videos.
I'm going to change the size of the slide right now. Let me know if you can see and hear me clearly. There is a comment section in the live stream so feel free to write down any greetings there so I know that someone is there and someone is watching. It's always easier to communicate with the... [Read more]
Idioms and Slang for ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 19 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Idioms and Slang for ESL Students
This paper will discuss the benefits of teaching slangs and idioms to students learning English as a second language. It posits that both are necessary to fully use and understand the language, and will look at when it would be appropriate to introduce them to different types of students and how they might be incorporated into lessons.
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What are slang and idioms?
Possible challenges and ways to overcome them
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Estefany Garduño
Estefany Garduño is an English Teacher and a Biotechnology Engineer from Mexico. During her professional life, she has taught subjects like English, Microbiology and Chemistry, which has helped her to identify both different kinds of students and the way they like to learn. She not only loves to be healthy and practice exercise every day but also, she thinks that at least one smile during your day can change it totally. Her favorite phrase is: “A day without laughter is a day wasted” by Charlie Chaplin.
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Creating your Own English Immersion Experience for ESL Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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How English Grammar Can be Acquired More Effectively by ESL Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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In this blog post, our TEFL graduate explains the ways of acquiring grammar.
How Can Knowledge of First Language Acquisition Aid Successful Second Language Acquisition? | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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How Can Reading Influence Language Acquisition? | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Liza is a translator, freelancer and ESL teacher from Russia. She had been teaching in a Chinese bilingual school for more than two years and recently moved to Thiland to run her blog about teaching and freelance job.
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What is the Role of a Good Teacher? | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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In this article, our TEFL graduate shares their point of view on a good teacher's personal qualities.
Reasons for a Lack of Confidence in English Students from China | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
This blog post contains information on the reasons why Chinese students may have a lack of confidence.
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Canada Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Canada Board Game
Here's a fun ESL board game about Canada. Students answer questions, describe the pictures, or give the English word for the thing/activity in the picture.
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5 Fun ESL Activities For Interactive Online Lessons - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
5 Fun ESL Activities for Interactive Online Lessons
Online ESL Activities: Are you an online English teacher? Do you want your students to enjoy and have fun? Then, this live stream is for you! Our TEFL/TESOL expert, Liza, will share five interactive activities that you will be able to use at your next class. Great news that these games will suit any age group and level. Don't miss!
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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 Activities for Teaching Conditionals in the ESL Classroom | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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Use these 7 activities for teaching conditionals in the ESL classroom to help your students understand the correct structure and usage of this complex grammar point.
5 Simple Ways to Motivate Your EFL Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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As an EFL teacher, it is imperative that you know how to motivate your students. These 5 simple ways to motivate your EFL students will help you to achieve just that.
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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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How Teaching Slang Can Benefit Your ESL Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Alumni Experiences
In this post, an ITTT course graduate gives their opinion on why teaching slang can benefit your ESL students in the long run!
The Two Most Common Learning Difficulties For English Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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This article was written by an ITTT TEFL course graduate who shares their thoughts on the two most common learning problems for English languages.
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How Important is the Difference Between American English and British English for EFL Learners? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 17 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How Important is the Difference Between American English and British English for EFL Learners?
This summative essay will exam the importance of teaching the differences between American English and British English for EFL learners. I will examine the intention behind teaching these differences, and when these teachings should be applied, and to what effect and purpose. This essay will focus primarily on the problems of pronunciation and spelling, which are the two main differences. I am a British citizen, born and raised in London, England, and currently teach at a public high school in Tokyo.
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Spelling
Challenges for Beginners and Intermediate Learners
What do Students Think?
Grammar
Interesting Experience for... [Read more]
British or American English: ✅ What Variant is More Beneficial to Learn - TEFL Blog
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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British or American English: ✅ What Variant is More Beneficial to Learn
One of the greatest and most spoken about topics I have come across, both in the English language classroom and in general conversation with people from all walks of life, is the use of US English and British English, and which of the two is more ''correct'' or ''better'' to learn, or even what sounds nicer to the ear. This is a controversial topic because the ideas surrounding these questions will be more favorable to one use or the other, depending on the influences both English types have in the country the student is studying in. Another factor that will affect opinions and thoughts on the subject is the personal history... [Read more]
Online ESL Tutoring In Russia From Zero To Pro - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Online ESL Tutoring in Russia from Zero to Pro
Online ESL Tutoring in Russia: Are you a native or fluent English speaker? Do you want to teach English to international students online? Russia and the CIS countries is an emerging market with great demand for TEFL certified English teachers.
In this live stream, our guest speaker Andrei from progressme.ru/en/ will tell you about how to start your tutoring career in Russia, how to find your first students, and run your social media to get more. You'll also learn about switching between teaching one-on-one to teaching groups online and what tools to use to deliver your classes efficiently.
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The Benefits of Reading English Stories to Younger Groups of ESL Students | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Reading can be helpful in a language acquirement. In this blog post, our TEFL graduate explains why to use reading activities in an ESL class.
The Role of the Teacher in an EFL Classroom | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Teacher plays an important role in any setting. However, in EFL classes teachers take even more responsibilities.
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Top Tips for Teaching English to Younger Students Online | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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Alumni Experiences
In this blog post, our TEFL graduate shares their experience of working with ESL children online. They explain all possible difficulties and benefits.
What is Challenging in English Pronunciation for Japanese Native Speakers? | ITTT | TEFL Blog
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A Comprehensive Lesson Plan for Intermediate ESL Students in a 1-Hour Class
Federico Riva
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Enhance your ESL speaking skills with this comprehensive lesson plan! Designed for intermediate learners, discover engaging activities and targeted language practice to boost fluency and confidence. Level up your communication abilities today!
Mastering the Art of Teaching English: Essential Qualities for Success
Federico Riva
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Discover the vital qualities that empower English teachers to excel. From cultural awareness to adaptable teaching methods, learn how to create an engaging and impactful learning experience for non-native English speakers. Unleash your... [Read more]