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Present, Past and Future Tense Exercises - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a useful worksheet with exercises to practice the present, past and future tenses.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Usage Online Teaching Course Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The past perfect is used as the past in the past to talk about events that happened in the past before another past event. For example: The concert had started before I arrived. The past perfect is covered in more detail in ITTT's 120-hour online teaching course. There are other courses available from 60-hour courses covering teaching skills to a 250-hour Diploma in TESOL. You can also take a specialisation teaching young learners or in teaching business English. Whatever your requirements are, if you are looking to become qualified to teach English from your own home, ITTT will have the right online teaching course for you.
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Tefl Review For Online Tefl Course 38 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Eva is from Germany and she just completed the 120-hour online TEFL/TESOL course with tutor and videos. She is excited that she received her hard-copy certification and is very proud of her accomplishments. She enjoyed the tutor support as she appreciated the extra motivation she received from the tutor. She completed the course within 4 months and she is now thinking of taking another specialized course to further her education.
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What were they doing? Past Continuous Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet is great for practicing the past continuous tense. Students need to use a verb in the simple past and a verb in the past continuous.
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What support is available for TEFL teachers who experience culture shock while teaching abroad? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
Culture shock is a common phenomenon experienced by many individuals who move to a new country or culture. TEFL teachers are particularly susceptible to culture shock due to the unique challenges of living and working in a foreign environment. Culture shock typically occurs in four stages: the honeymoon stage, the negotiation stage, the adjustment stage, and the adaptation stage. During the honeymoon stage, everything is new and exciting, but this feeling eventually gives way to the negotiation stage, where differences in customs, language, and daily life can become overwhelming. The adjustment stage is characterized by a growing sense of familiarity and comfort, leading to the adaptation stage where individuals feel fully integrated into the new culture.
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Tefl Review From Patricia - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This is a TEFL review from Patricia. She is originally from Brazil but is currently living in Izmir, Turkey. She decided to take our 120-hour online TEFL course and shares her thoughts in this TESOL review. She also shows off her hard-copy TEFL / TESOL certificate that was sent to her upon successfully completing the course. She is now ready to teach English in Turkey and cannot wait for her new career to start.
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How do I handle homesickness and cultural adjustment while teaching abroad? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
Moving to a new country to teach English can be an exciting adventure, but it is common to experience homesickness and cultural adjustment challenges. Homesickness is a natural feeling of missing home, family, friends, and familiar surroundings. Cultural adjustment, on the other hand, refers to the process of adapting to a new culture, language, and way of life. It is essential to recognize these feelings and understand that they are normal parts of the transition process.
To cope with homesickness, it is crucial to stay connected with loved ones back home through regular communication via phone calls, video chats, and social media. Creating a familiar environment in your new home by decorating with items from home can also provide comfort. Engaging in activities you enjoy, such as hobbies... [Read more]
Spring Sequencing ESL Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This kindergarten spring activity is perfect for practicing sequencing. It's a simple and fun cut and paste worksheet with spring-related vocabulary.
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Easter Sequencing ESL Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This kindergarten Easter activity is perfect for practicing sequencing. It's a simple and fun cut and paste worksheet with Easter-related vocabulary.
Read the story together as a class. Next, discuss the images at the bottom. Then, have your students work on the correct sequence and then ccomplete the activity together as a class by glueing the images in the correct order.
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How do I deal with homesickness while teaching English abroad with a TEFL certificate? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
Homesickness is a common feeling experienced by many individuals who move abroad, especially when they are away from their familiar surroundings, family, and friends. It can be particularly challenging for TEFL teachers as they are in a new country, often with a different culture and language. Homesickness can manifest in various ways, such as feeling sad, lonely, or anxious. It is essential to recognize that homesickness is a natural part of the adjustment process when living in a new place.
There are several strategies that TEFL teachers can use to cope with homesickness while teaching abroad. Firstly, maintaining communication with loved ones back home through regular calls, messages, or video chats can provide a sense of connection and support. Engaging in activities that bring comfort... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Overview Past Simple Past Continuous - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this video, we provide you with a useful overview of the various past tenses. We focus here especially on the differences between the past simple and past continuous.
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Great unit for introduction to the intricacies of teaching English as a foreign language. As someone that has no prior experience, I already feel much, much more comfortable being at the... [Read more]
Celta Vigo match schedules and streaming options in the UK - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT TEFL & TESOL
Celta Vigo, a professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football. The club has a rich history and a passionate fan base, making it a popular team to follow for football enthusiasts in the UK. If you're a fan of Celta Vigo and want to stay updated on their match schedules and streaming options in the UK, this guide will provide you with all the information you need.
Celta Vigo competes in various competitions throughout the season, including La Liga, Copa del Rey, and UEFA Europa League. The match schedules for Celta Vigo can vary depending on the competition and fixture congestion. La Liga matches are typically played on weekends, with occasional midweek fixtures. Copa del Rey matches are spread out throughout the season, while... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Overview Past Perfect Past Perfect Continuous - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this video, we provide you with a useful overview of the various past tenses. We focus here especially on the differences between the past perfect and past perfect continuous.
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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After this unit of study, I learned the different ways of evaluating students? levels and progress. As an English teacher who has three years of teaching and tutoring experience,... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. We'll ask our students to describe what a person in a picture had just done before the photo was taken.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Structure - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. This tense is used to express completed actions in the past. In this video, we focus on the structure of the past simple.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on the usages of the past simple tense, which mostly include completed actions at a definite time in the past.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on useful teaching ideas for this tense. A great idea to practice this tense is a picture story. Here, the teacher provides the students with various photos or images and the students are asked to piece them together to make a story in the past.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Continuous Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. The past continuous is very conducive to using pictures and talking about actions. We give our group of students cards with images and ask them to create sentences for what the people in the picture were doing at a certain time in the past.
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7 Activities for Teaching the Simple Past for the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
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The simple past is one of the most important tenses in the English language. As it describes past actions, it's quite an easy tense to teach using a variety of fun and interactive activities. Here are 7 activities for teaching the simple past for the ESL classroom.
1. Preparations
2. Good Days and Bad Days
3. Charades Series
4. Dear Diary
5. Get Out and About
6. Accurate Endings
7. Double Duty Review
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Mill Drill - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we show you how to execute a mill drill activity for this tense. Here, the teacher provides the students with a survey or questionnaire with statements in the past simple tense. The students then go around the classroom and ask other students about their past experiences.
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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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Continuous Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and how it is formed and used. This tense is used to indicate that a certain action was in progress at a particular time in the past.
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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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Continuous Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to talk about two actions in the past focusing on the fact that one of the two actions had been continuing at another point in the past.
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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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect tense. This tense is used to talk about a past action and a related past action before that. We relate two past actions to each other.
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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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Simple Usage Online English Teacher Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The usage of the past simple tense as explained in this video is when you talk about completed actions at a definite time in the past. For example: I completed my TEFL course last year. When did you complete your TEFL course? ITTT's online TEFL courses cover tenses such as the past simple discussed in this video as well as other grammar points such as modal verbs, conditionals, reported speech etc. making sure that you as prepared as you can be before stepping into your first classroom. Once you have completed a TEFL course and are considering your options for teaching jobs it is worth considering becoming an online English teacher. As technology becomes increasingly more available around the world the demand for English lessons given solely over the internet is growing and... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Teaching Ideas Teaching English Overseas Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This teaching idea for the past perfect involves matching pictures of historical events with the appropriate sentence and describing what had just happened in the picture using the past perfect tense. For example: A picture of the Titanic would be matched with the sentence "hit an iceberg" and the student should say "It had just hit an iceberg". As the trainer notes in the video; the scenarios in this activity are western centric. When teaching English overseas it is important to bear in mind how you can adapt your activities to make them more suitable or more interesting to your students. Learning about the local culture and history can make your lessons more relevant to your students and therefore more engaging.
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This is a fun worksheet to practice the Past Simple or the Past Continuous. Students look at the pictures and fill in the gaps with one of the linking words in the box in order to complete the story.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Tenses Review Teaching English Abroad Programs - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video reviews the past tenses. The past tenses form one part of ITTT's online TEFL courses. During the section on the past tenses you will learn the structure of each tense in its positive, negative and question forms as well as the usages of each tense. You will also learn some useful teaching ideas for the tenses. Past Simple: Subject + verb in past simple form I played Past Continuous: Subject + was + present participle I was playing Past Perfect: Subject + had + past participle I had played Past Perfect Continuous: Subject + had + been + present participle I had been playing To learn more about the past and other tenses check out our other videos online and consider taking one of our TEFL courses. A teaching certificate from ITTT will enable you to take part in... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Simple Structure Tefl Course - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video explores the structure and usage of the past simple tense. The different structures of this tense are: Positive: Add --ed or --d to the base form of the verb She worked last night. Negative: Add did not or didn't before the base form of the verb He didn't teach yesterday. Question: Add did plus the subject before the base form of the verb Did she drive yesterday? The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past. For example: I watched television last night. In order to be a confident and successful English language teacher in the classroom, it is necessary to have a good understanding of the various English language tenses such as the one shown above. The best way to achieve this understanding is to complete a high-quality TEFL course as... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Continuous Teaching Ideas Tesl Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TESL training video the teaching idea for the past perfect continuous tense involves giving the students a prompt and asking them to finish it with a sensible answer in the past perfect continuous tense. For example: I didn't have dinner last night... because I had been snacking all day. She passed the test... because she had been studying hard. The past perfect continuous is a rarely used tense and is often quit confusing for learners of English as well as new English teachers. Taking a 120-hour online teaching course with ITTT will give the knowledge needed to make sure you know how to explain such tenses to students the moment you step into your first TESL classroom.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Continuous Structure Teaching English Online - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
This video covers the structure and usage of the past continuous tense. This structure of this tense is: Positive: Subject + was/were + present participle. She was working last night. Negative: Subject + was/were + not + present participle. He was not teaching yesterday. Question: Was/were + subject + present participle Was she driving yesterday? The past continuous is used to talk about actions that were in progress at a time in the past. For example: I was watching television last night. One option that may not occur to most TEFL graduates is that of teaching english online. Not only can you earn your certificate online, but you can also earn your wages by teaching english online. ITTT has many different courses available suited to your needs. Whether you are starting... [Read more]
