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It's Not Rocket Science: Teaching Slang and Figurative Speech in English Classrooms - TEFL Blog
Mon, 10 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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It's Not Rocket Science: Teaching Slang and Figurative Speech in English Classrooms
Understanding the use of slang in a different language is a benchmark for fluency. Once a speaker is able to navigate society by listening and speaking slang, they are better able to assimilate among native speakers. But whether or not colloquial speech has a place in English classrooms is debated among teachers. While formal English takes precedence in many classes, teaching slang can be important depending on students' reasons for learning English and their experience with the language. Incorporating slang can also be a motivational tool for teaching disengaged students.
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Does Reading Impact Language Acquisition? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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Does Reading Impact Language Acquisition?
One of the most challenging contradictions I had to face as a high school language and literature teacher in Germany was the principle that each child should have equal opportunity when, sadly, the inequality often starts long before high school, and that as a teacher, you should give every student the chance to achieve excellent performances when, in reality, the latter also depends on factors outside of the classroom. In conversations with parents, I often pointed out specific deficiencies in their child's essays as I was taught to. I made suggestions on how to improve them, hoping in vain that next time, the student would get a much better grade. I knew... [Read more]
The Importance of Teaching Slang to ESL Students - TEFL Blog
Wed, 22 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
The Importance of Teaching Slang to ESL Students
In January, I stood in front of a class of breakthrough English students at a university in Bogotá, Colombia. I'd never taught students in an ESL classroom before, but I was pretty confident having seven years of experience under my belt and a degree in literature. I was naive. I began the lesson with the class that my co-teacher had lent me for the first time. The objective of the lesson was to practice using past tense through storytelling; five minutes into it, I called on a student with his hand in the air. " What up, My Nigga!" He said it and I almost lost all of my composure on the first day while I should have been thinking about building rapport.
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7 Activities for Teaching Modal Auxiliary Verbs in the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Tue, 11 Sep 2018 Simon ITTT
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7 Activities for Teaching Modal Auxiliary Verbs in the ESL Classroom
The number of combinations of modals and usages is enormous, so TEFL certified teachers often spend a lot of time trying to find an activity that suits their particular teaching point. Here, we give you some adaptable ideas which should save you time thinking or searching, assuming you already have good grammatical knowledge of the subject and a little bit of creativity.
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Teaching1-1Although there are not many materials available on teaching one to one lessons, it is becoming very popular in the EFL world. Highly motivated students wish to have a class that is suited towards their individual needs and maximum time spent improving their pronunciation and English conversation skills with a teacher. Teachers often find this teaching rewarding because they get to spend more time teaching and getting to know a... [Read more]
How is Language Acquisition Influenced by Reading? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
How is Language Acquisition Influenced by Reading?
I have read everything that has fallen into my hands ever since I can remember, and that goes for both my native tongue, Spanish, and my second language, English. I remember waiting in line and reading and re-reading a thousand times a sign on a window directly in front of me! Sometimes it can be maddening being this way, but in the long run, I firmly believe that my passion for reading has finally paid off!
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5 Ideas How You Can Use Your TEFL Certificate to Make Money - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
5 Ideas How You Can Use Your TEFL Certificate to Make Money
10/20/2021
hey guys welcome to a new live stream with
international tefl and tesol training my name is lisa and today we're going to
discuss a rather important topic how to utilize your tefl certificate
at one hundred percent to make more income uh and while waiting for some more
people to join us i would like to briefly introduce myself so let me
change um the slide quickly so here it is
if you don't know me yet here i am my name is lisa i am an esl
teacher i'm also an esl marketing
consultant and i work as a teflon tesol expert at itt
so these live streams are regular we uh deliver them twice a week i go
live uh usually on tuesday and my colleague linda goes live on uh thursday
or friday so if you want uh to get some uh... [Read more]
How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 Federico Riva
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How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, my name is Liza and I am super glad to welcome you to my weekly live session. Please let me know that you can see me clearly and hear me clearly. Today's live session is going to be devoted to a really popular question in my direct messages. I've received several requests to talk about teaching career advice and I hope everybody will find something interesting in this live stream.
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2021 Online ESL Classroom: How To Plan Effective Online Lessons - TEFL Blog
Wed, 21 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
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2021 Online ESL Classroom: How To Plan Effective Online Lessons
Hello guys, please let me know in the comment section that you can see me clearly and you can hear this video so that I know that my equipment works smoothly. I'll be very thankful for that. To start with my name is Liza and I'm an ITTT TEFL expert and an online English teacher and today we will talk about one of the most important things in TEFL teaching, online lesson planning. Well we will talk about lesson planning in general, but as I'm more specialized in online teaching I'll try to share my personal experience in planning online classes.
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How To Build Your Teaching Career As A Non Native English Teacher - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
How to Build Your Teaching Career as a Non-Native English Teacher
Hello everybody, my name is Liza and I am super glad to welcome you to my weekly live session. Please let me know that you can see me clearly and hear me clearly. Today's live session is going to be devoted to a really popular question in my direct messages. I've received several requests to talk about teaching career advice and I hope everybody will find something interesting in this live stream.
We've got the chat box here and you basically can comment with whatever you want. As I have already mentioned my name is Liza and I am a TEFL expert and a former ESL teacher. I’ve been teaching online since 2020 because of the quarantine and because I just want to work remotely. I'm also a non-native English speaker and... [Read more]
2021 Online ESL Classroom: How To Plan Effective Online Lessons - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
2021 Online ESL Classroom: How To Plan Effective Online Lessons
Hello guys, please let me know in the comment section that you can see me clearly and you can hear this video so that I know that my equipment works smoothly. I'll be very thankful for that. To start with my name is Liza and I’m an ITTT TEFL expert and an online English teacher and today we will talk about one of the most important things in TEFL teaching, online lesson planning. Well we will talk about lesson planning in general, but as I’m more specialized in online teaching I'll try to share my personal experience in planning online classes.
Thanks for joining me, I hope that you are having a great time especially after your long winter holidays. Let me know where you are from. I’m located in beautiful... [Read more]
TEFL Q&A: Online ESL Teaching - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
TEFL Q&A: Online ESL Teaching
06/25/2021
hey guys welcome to the itty weekly live stream
uh my name is lisa and i'm super glad to welcome you uh today uh so while i'm waiting for
some more people to join us uh let me introduce uh today's topic
uh so today's live stream is going to be pretty short but concise because i'm going to focus
just on one specific point which is online esl teaching
uh and if you guys have any questions related to this problem feel free to comment uh
feel free to uh use the comment section uh to send your questions or maybe concerns
um and uh as for myself i am actually going to address uh top five
um questions i've been asked recently on the point of online english
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ESA Methodology of Teaching - Why Every Teacher Should Use It
08/26/2021
hello oh my gosh hello welcome hi linda here from itt
back with another live session this week hi guys how are you doing
um first of all if you can see me if you can hear me just drop a quick hi into um
the comment box we are actually live on facebook and we're also live on youtube at the same time
so if you can see me if you can hear me please just let me know and also let me know where you're watching from where
are you at right now i am in south korea it is 10 a.m friday
morning i'm super excited to be here again so um yeah sometimes there are some
technical difficulties i had some issues i think last week so um there was no sound for some reason for for a few
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2021 Online ESL Classroom: Top Tips for Planning Online English Lessons - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
2021 Online ESL Classroom: Top Tips for Planning Online English Lessons
01/12/2021
hello hello um if you guys join me please let me
know in the comment section that you can see me clearly and you can hear this
uh video uh so that i know that my equipment works smooth
um so please let me know that you're here and you see and hear me clearly
i'll be very very thankful for that um and um yeah
to start with uh my name is lisa i'm an itttttt tefl expert and
an online english teacher and today we will talk about one of the most
important things in tefl teaching online lesson planning well we will talk
about lesson planning in general but as long as i'm more specialized in
online teaching i'll try to share my personal experience in planning online classes
um hello guys thanks for joining me um... [Read more]
Ask A Non Native TEFL Teacher: Career, Motivation, Self Development - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Ask a Non-Native TEFL teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development
Hey guys, it's Liza here and I'm super happy to welcome you to our weekly ITTT live session. Today we are going to talk about some usual teaching stuff and if you are interested in anything related to TEFL teaching or career building, this is for you. Feel free to comment and I'll try to help you out with my thoughts and ideas, and maybe you'll find my suggestions useful. I have to fix my camera just slightly, I feel like it's moving down somehow. I hope that you can hear me clearly and see me clearly, please let me know where you guys are from. Also, let me know what stage of your career development you are at.
As for me, I'm a TEFL teacher. I used to teach in China several years ago but nowadays I'm almost... [Read more]
Ask a Non-Native TEFL Teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Ask a Non-Native TEFL Teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development
04/20/2021
hey guys it's liza here and i'm super happy to welcome you to
our weekly itttt live session uh today we are going to talk um about
some usual teaching stuff and if you are interested in anything related to tefl teaching
or um probably career building so feel free to uh comment
and i'll try to help you out and reach you back with uh my thoughts and
ideas um and maybe you'll find um my suggestions useful okay uh
i have to fix my camera just slightly i feel like it's moving moving down
somehow so um i hope that you can hear me clearly and
you can see me clearly and if you see this video if you see
this live please let me know where are you guys from so what's something is wrong with my camera
uh for some reason i... [Read more]
Ask a Non-Native TEFL teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development - TEFL Blog
Mon, 17 May 2021 Federico Riva
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Ask a Non-Native TEFL teacher: Career, Motivation, Self-Development
Hey guys, it's Liza here and I'm super happy to welcome you to our weekly ITTT live session. Today we are going to talk about some usual teaching stuff and if you are interested in anything related to TEFL teaching or career building, this is for you. Feel free to comment and I'll try to help you out with my thoughts and ideas, and maybe you'll find my suggestions useful. I have to fix my camera just slightly, I feel like it's moving down somehow. I hope that you can hear me clearly and see me clearly, please let me know where you guys are from. Also, let me know what stage of your career development you are at.
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