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What are Conditionals? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 22 Apr 2022 Federico Riva
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What are Conditionals?
What are conditionals? In simplest terms, they say "if this happens, then that happens". They're commonly referred to as 'if' sentence structures'.
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In this blog entry we're going to introduce conditionals. What are conditionals? In simplest terms, they say "if this happens, then that happens". They're commonly referred to as 'if sentence structures' because they often contain the word 'if'. There is variety of patterns that we use depending on the situations that we're talking... [Read more]
What are the Advantages of Reading Stories to Children When They are Learning English? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 29 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
What are the Advantages of Reading Stories to Children When They are Learning English?
Is it useful to read stories to my 3-years-old students? This is a question that many teachers ask themselves when considering reading in English in early childhood. Through careful self-assessment during my years of teaching experience, I have found out that reading stories in the classroom is a powerful resource when learning a new language. For starters, stories grab visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners' attention when seeing the images and connecting words and feelings. It is also worth considering that books enrich readers' vocabulary and strengthen their language skills. Last but not least, readers are motivated, influenced, and... [Read more]
How Old Are You? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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How Old Are You?
This is a cute worksheet to practice writing the numbers in English.
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What are you wearing? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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What are you wearing?
This is a great exercise to practice the pieces of clothing. Students name the clothes and complete the sentences.
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Why Are Teaching Skills Important? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Why Are Teaching Skills Important?
Learning another language is useful and is also an essential skill for life and work. But what qualities make someone is a good teacher and what skills should they possess? A good teacher needs to have qualities such as caring about teaching, having a passion for learning, and having professional knowledge of their fields of teaching.
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Teaching Methods
Body Language
Motivation and Encouragement
Troubleshooting
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What Are Effective Teaching Skills? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What Are Effective Teaching Skills?
Teaching is a professional activity performed by the teacher through a major basic process. The goal is to help a good learning approach. It is one of the works that can be judged, its quality, and mastery through analysis and observation. After evaluation, performance can be improved and improved.
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The Essence of Teaching Skills
Lesson Planning
Execution skill
The use of the blackboard
Homework
This importance of assessment
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Why Course Materials are Important - TEFL Blog
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why Course Materials are Important
Most if not all courses make use of materials, regardless of the topic being taught. In ESL courses materials are crucial to the learning processes from the beginning to the end of a student's education in English. Whether the materials used are authentic, non-authentic, realia, or media, they aid the students by testing, reinforcing, and improving the learner's knowledge. Course materials also provide learners with a reference other than the instructor in the case of dictionaries and other reference materials.
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What are course materials?
Authentic and non-authentic materials
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What are TEFL standards? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL standards?
The concept of TEFL standards can apply to several distinctive aspects of English language instruction and training. We will delve into some of these in more detail below.
Types of regulation: Accreditation and moderation
Accreditation and moderation are two terms that are often mistaken as interchangeable, but they are quite different. Accreditation involves an external validation procedure, in which an authorized entity (like a university) scrutinizes the full course delivery and determines if it fulfills a predefined criteria set for that certificate level. Accreditation is usually granted once for a specific course and may require updating if there are substantial changes in the course or its content.
Moderation, on the other hand, is an ongoing procedure. It... [Read more]
What are TEFL courses? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL courses?
TEFL courses are designed to give you all the skills and knowledge you need to start a new career teaching English as a foreign language. Once you have completed a TEFL course and received your TEFL certificate you will be able to apply for a wide range of jobs in countries across the world. Before you choose a TEFL course you should be fully aware of all the course options available to ensure you make the right choice to suit your future plans.
How to choose the right TEFL course?
Deciding which TEFL course suits your individual learning style, your current situation and your future plans can be difficult as there is no standard length of training or a fixed syllabus that providers have to adhere to. The best advice we can give is don?t simply choose the... [Read more]
What are TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL jobs?
Every year tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds leave behind their existing life and head overseas in search of fun, travel and adventure. They are able to do this by completing a TEFL certification course that gives them all the qualifications they need to apply for English language teaching jobs in countries all over the world. If you want to join this ever growing number of TEFL qualified teachers, there should be very little that can get in your way.
Where can I teach English abroad?
Among the many attractions of teaching English abroad is the fact that you are free to choose not only the region where you would like to work, but also the specific country or even city. For some teachers the history and culture of Europe appeals most, while others are... [Read more]
Are TEFL courses accredited? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Are TEFL courses accredited?
Identifying a good TEFL course and a great course provider with sound graduate services is becoming increasingly difficult. One way to gain some perspective is to check the accreditation that a course possesses, as well as independent reviews of the course.
Why are courses accredited?
Almost every TEFL course provider has some form of external accreditation for their courses. Without external accreditation, the qualification and manner in which it was achieved could come under scrutiny when applying for jobs and work visas. After all, governments and schools want English teachers to be skilled and of significant benefit to their students.
Who provides accreditation for TEFL courses?
The provider of the accreditation should be an independent third party that is... [Read more]
What are EFL countries? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are EFL countries?
Acronyms are widely used within the English language teaching world and EFL is one of the most common. English as a Foreign Language is typically used to describe any scenario where English is being taught or learned in a country where English is not the main language. In this situation most students are learning English as part of their school studies, in order to travel overseas, or as a hobby, and they rarely get to use it outside of their lessons. An example of EFL would be an American teaching English to Italians in Rome.
What’s the difference between EFL and ESL?
While EFL stands for English as a Foreign Language, ESL stands for English as a Second Language. In practice these two acronyms are regularly used interchangeably when talking about English... [Read more]
What are TEFL acronyms? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL acronyms?
Acronyms are an essential tool used in all professions and technical writing. They are powerful tools to reduce word content. However without knowing what the acronym stands for, they can form a barrier to understanding. In the ESL (English as a Second Language) teaching world there is certainly no shortage of acronyms. Here we look at a few and one in particular, TEFL.
Some useful teaching acronyms are:
ELT: English Language Teaching. This is a general term for teaching English and applies to the teaching of English to both native and non-native English speakers.
ELL: English Language Learner. This is a general term for anyone learning English and applies to learners of English who are native or non-native English speakers.
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What are TEFL acronyms? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL acronyms?
Acronyms are an essential tool used in all professions and technical writing. They are powerful tools to reduce word content. However without knowing what the acronym stands for, they can form a barrier to understanding. In the ESL (English as a Second Language) teaching world there is certainly no shortage of acronyms. Here we look at a few and one in particular, TEFL.
Some useful teaching acronyms are:
ELT: English Language Teaching. This is a general term for teaching English and applies to the teaching of English to both native and non-native English speakers.
ELL: English Language Learner. This is a general term for anyone learning English and applies to learners of English who are native or non-native English speakers.
ESL: English as a Second Language: This... [Read more]
What are TEFL standards? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL standards?
The concept of TEFL standards can apply to several distinctive aspects of English language instruction and training. We will delve into some of these in more detail below.
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Types of regulation: Accreditation and moderation
Types of certificate: Levels and entry standards
Types of course
Types of regulation: Accreditation and moderation
Accreditation and moderation are two terms that are often mistaken as interchangeable, but they are quite different. Accreditation involves an external validation procedure, in which an authorized entity (like a university) scrutinizes the full course delivery and determines if it fulfills a predefined criteria set for that certificate level. Accreditation is usually granted once for a specific course and may... [Read more]
What are the children doing? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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What are the children doing?
This is a fantastic worksheet to practice the question words, present continuous, has got, prepositions, colors, and shapes.
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Where Are You - Giving Directions - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Where Are You - Giving Directions
Look at the map and then complete the sentences using the right prepositions of place.
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There Is vs. There Are - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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There Is vs. There Are
We use "there is" and "there are" to say that something exists. The two phrases are often confused so below we take a look at the differences between "there is" and "there are".
We use there is and there are to say that something exists.
Positive Sentences
We use "there is" for singular and "there are" for plural.
We also use "there is" with uncountable nouns:
Contractions
The contraction of "there is" is "there's".
You cannot contract "there are".
Negative Form
The negative is formed by putting not after is or are:
We almost always use contractions when speaking.
The Negative contractions are:
There aren't with ANY
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What are Some Common Linguistic Problems - TEFL Blog
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
What are Some Common Linguistic Problems
As we all know that the process of learning how to speak our first and second or third languages are different, we acquire the first language and learn second and third languages. When we speak our mother language, we can just say it automatically, we acquire our mother language from our environment, before we learn words and sentences, but when we learn a second language, we inevitably need to learn the vocabularies, clauses, sentences, grammar, etc first, then try to translate the second language to our mother language, which is complex. As far as common linguistic problems are concerned, I think there are a lot of problems to consider. Here are some of the most commoner linguistic... [Read more]
School Meetings: What are they about? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 Anna Bondar
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
School Meetings: What are they about?
I've had to attend numerous meetings throughout my career, and it wasn't always a pleasant experience. I'd often get bored, start looking around or doodling.
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School meetings
Types of meetings
1) Meeting for local staff in their home language.
2) English teachers meeting
3) Training (inner session)
4) Training (out session)
5) Additional
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Today, I want to discuss which meetings are the best to attend to ensure one's personal growth, development, and usefulness.
School meetings
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What Are The Best Teaching Skills? - TEFL Blog
Mon, 18 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
What Are The Best Teaching Skills?
In this summative task, I am going to speak about teaching skills, as I think that this is one of the important topics that every teacher should pay attention to.
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Rapport Building
The next skills are Classroom Management Skills
Assessment
As a teacher, you can help to develop somebody's subject knowledge and maybe even their mind and personality.
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I have been teaching for 5 years and during my teaching years I have got my year by year and when I remember myself a few years ago I can say that it was not so skilled. Of course, I have studied much at the University how to teach, what to teach but the main... [Read more]
What are TEFL jobs? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL jobs?
Every year tens of thousands of people from all backgrounds leave behind their existing life and head overseas in search of fun, travel and adventure. They are able to do this by completing a TEFL certification course that gives them all the qualifications they need to apply for English language teaching jobs in countries all over the world. If you want to join this ever growing number of TEFL qualified teachers, there should be very little that can get in your way.
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Where can I teach English abroad?
Which is the most popular region for teaching English abroad?
Where can I earn the most money teaching English in Asia?
What other popular spots are there for teaching English in Asia?
Where are the most popular TEFL destinations in the Middle East?
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Are TEFL courses accredited? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Are TEFL courses accredited?
While many TEFL courses boast about their quality, not all are accredited. A key indicator of a reputable TEFL course is its accreditation by recognized organizations. Additionally, independent reviews can provide insight into the course's quality and the support services offered by the provider. It is crucial to ensure both the course and its accreditation meet the standards expected by employers.
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Why are courses accredited?
Who provides accreditation for TEFL courses?
1) University Accreditation
2) Private Accreditation Providers
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Why are courses accredited?
Almost every TEFL course provider has some form of external accreditation for their courses. Without external accreditation, the qualification and manner in which it was... [Read more]
What are EFL countries? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are EFL countries?
EFL stands for English as a Foreign Language, a term primarily used to depict scenarios where English is taught in countries where it isn't the dominant language. Within these countries, students often learn English for academic reasons, international travel, or personal interest, and their exposure to English might be limited mostly to classroom settings. A classic EFL example would be a classroom in Rome, where a British instructor teaches English to Italian students.
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What is the difference between EFL and ESL?
Which countries offer the most opportunities for EFL teaching?
EFL countries in Asia
EFL countries in Europe
EFL countries in Latin America
EFL countries in the Middle East
What is the difference between EFL and ESL?
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What are TEFL courses? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL courses?
TEFL courses are designed to give you all the skills and knowledge you need to start a new career teaching English as a foreign language. Once you have completed a TEFL course and received your TEFL certificate you will be able to apply for a wide range of jobs in countries across the world. Before you choose a TEFL course you should be fully aware of all the course options available to ensure you make the right choice to suit your future plans.
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How to choose the right TEFL course?
What should I look for when choosing a TEFL course?
How long should an online TEFL course be?
What are the differences between an online TEFL course and an in-class TEFL course?
What are the advantages of an online TEFL course?
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Why are Evaluations and Tests Important - TEFL Blog
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why are Evaluations and Tests Important
It is important to evaluate and test students from the very beginning of any school-related subject enrollment, maybe as simple as taking a course by personal choice or even a work-related situation. There are different ways to evaluate students' levels and their progress as well as the testing or exams that may be required during their studies. In this case, we will focus on the English language, here are some ways to evaluate the students' level: Tutorials, Evaluation by the students, and Tests.
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A popular way for teachers to help students and their progress is tutorials.
Another important factor is the evaluation by the students, it is helpful and powerful to ask the... [Read more]
What are TEFL course hours? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL course hours?
If you have been researching TEFL certification you will undoubtedly be aware that there are many different options on offer, with a wide range of training hours mentioned. Unfortunately, as there is little standardization within the TEFL world, individual course providers are at liberty to provide any format of training they see fit which can often make it confusing for potential trainees. So within this environment, how do you know which course is right for you? The first thing to consider is what do you want to achieve with your TEFL qualification?
What are short-format TEFL courses and who are they aimed at?
One ever-growing opportunity is to spend some time helping others in a developing part of the world by volunteering as an EFL teacher. In many areas... [Read more]
Are TEFL teachers in demand? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Are TEFL teachers in demand?
Of all the questions we get asked as a provider of TEFL certification, this is probably the easiest to answer. The simple truth is that the demand for TEFL qualified teachers is generally very high in most parts of the world and in some areas you can even take your pick of a range of job options as there are not enough teachers to fill the available positions.
Are TEFL teachers in demand in English speaking countries?
Although for many TEFL course graduates the aim is to head overseas to experience living and working in a foreign culture, it is not the only option. Plenty of people use their teaching qualification within their home country as increasing levels of immigration have led to a rapid increase in demand for EFL teachers in English speaking... [Read more]
What are TEFL accreditation bodies? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What are TEFL accreditation bodies?
The growing demand for English language learning has resulted in a surge of TEFL certification providers. Given the somewhat lax regulation within the TEFL industry, potential candidates must exercise due diligence when selecting a provider. Fortunately, there are measures you can take to verify a program's legitimacy, with the initial focus being on independent accreditation. TEFL courses accredited by a third-party institution denote their academic standards have been comprehensively assessed and endorsed.
How can I check that TEFL courses are accredited?
Before choosing a TEFL course, it is advisable to thoroughly investigate the provider's legitimacy. Start with their website, looking for official accreditation badges and pages dedicated to program... [Read more]
Why are TEFL teachers important? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Why are TEFL teachers important?
We can say in general terms that all teachers are important, English teachers among them. However, the requirement for specialist teachers who are able to teach English as a second or foreign language is particularly important. What makes specialist ESL teachers so necessary?
Working knowledge vs Formal Knowledge
Globalized industry has led to an explosion of the use of English as the lingua franca. This trend looks as though it will continue in the near future. Whilst English is a mainstream curriculum subject in many countries, teachers of English are not necessarily equipped to teach English as a second or foreign language. Teachers trained in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) are therefore in great demand.
Whilst it is generally true that... [Read more]