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Thanksgiving ESL Vocabulary Matching Exercise Worksheet
This is a fun matching exercise ESL printable worksheet for young ESL students to study and practice Thanksgiving vocabulary.
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Christmas ESL Vocabulary Worksheet
This is a fun ESL printable matching exercise for ESL students to study and practice Christmas vocabulary. The students look at the list below and write the names of the Christmas vocabulary under the correct pictures.
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7 Non-Trivial Online ESL Games - TEFL Blog
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7 Non-Trivial Online ESL Games
There are many famous games used by TEFL teachers that students know like the back of their hand. If you want to change up your online lessons and bring even more fun in your teaching, check out these seven non-trivial online ESL games to help you in every stage of the TEFL class.
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1. Connect The Dots
For this activity, you will need to prepare a digital image and share it with a student during the online class. You can find plenty of connect-the-dots worksheets on the internet. The student needs to have access to the drawing tool, so make sure the online conference program you use has this feature.
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Once we're satisfied that all the students have been engaged and that they've been given the opportunity to say something, we can move on to our study phase. Here, it may be necessary or useful to actually pre-teach some gaps in knowledge that have been shown from the engage phase and those gaps in knowledge may include actual grammar structures or indeed useful vocabulary and it's very important that, before we move on to doing any forms of activity, we check their understanding of this material. So, we need to do some study exercises. It's also very useful if you leave this information up on the board through all that study period. Those study activities can just be the normal types of gap fills... [Read more]
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Overview: The online Bachelor of education in TESOL, (B.Ed TESOL) from Paris University of International Education is an accessible, affordable, and international qualification. This bachelor’s degree is a 120-credit course.
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Teach English in Toronto, Canada
Date posted:2009-01-06 | Writer: Study English in Canada Inc. | Email: [email protected]
We are a private language school in Toronto offering ESL programs as well as specialized courses in TOEFL, TOEIC, and Business English. We are looking for dynamic and experienced ESL instructors. Applicants must have a university degree, TEFL / TESOL certification, adult ESL classroom experience and preferably be native speakers. Candidates should be willing to substitute if needed. Salary is dependant on qualifications and experience. To apply, contact the e-mail address on the job heading page.
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Lesson plan for an 80-minute class
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Solmaz F. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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We are a downtown Toronto, Korean ESL student agency that offers a late afternoon, 90 minute, adult ESL intermediate conversation class, 3 times per week. Normally, the class size is 5 students.We love the students we serve and our success is due to the sense of community we foster with our students. It’s common for our Agency Director to bring dinner for our students or for our teachers and students to become close friends by spending time together outside of work.
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The Intensive English Language Institute is currently seeking experienced ESL teachers for relief teaching and casual employment (6 to 26 contact hours per week) for both our Flinders University and Adelaide CBD campuses. Casual employment may be for short-term study tours, General English classes, and/or English for Academic Preparation classes. With the exception of study tours, which may be for high school groups, all classes are for adult learners.
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Examples of actual UK qualifications at each level are given below:
Level 1: GCSE - grades 3, 2, 1 or grades D, E, F, G
Level 2: GCSE - grades 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 or grades A*, A, B, C
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Level 6: Degree with honors - for example bachelor of the arts (BA) hons
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This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Devina S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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