Tesol Course Materials

TEFL TESOL Course Materials   All ITTT TEFL courses come with extensive and in-depth materials that are designed to gradually build your knowledge as you work through the course. Although the materials cover a wide range of key subjects, they are put together in a way that is informative, interesting and easy to follow, so you should never feel bored or bogged down with too much technical information. By keeping our materials current and avoiding the bland, dullness of some educational courses, we aim to provide a learning experience that is rewarding and fulfilling. At ITTT we design our courses with the ultimate goal of ensuring graduates are fully equipped to enter the classroom on their first day with a spring in their step, feeling ready and able to deliver a lesson that is...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and Materials - Types of Materials   This presentation is going to focus on the use of course books, materials and teaching aids. There are many materials that we can bring to our classroom that will help with the teaching of our lessons and these include, though they're not limited to, things such as the wipe board, similar to the one that we're using here, various types of visual aids, created or bought worksheets, the use of cassettes CDs and DVDs and the use of video and in these classroom materials, we can also include things such as dictionaries and course books, various types of resource books that we'll have a look at and other materials such as photo copiers, computers, OHPs. So what we'd like to do is just to take a general look at some of the issues relating...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Best Use of the Coursebook   So how do we actually make best use of the course book? Well, just a couple of factors that you need to keep into consideration when using these types of material, use the course book to help you create a balanced lesson in terms of the range of skills that are being taught and the actual types of material within that the grammar or vocabulary. Secondly, don't use it all the time, particularly with things like activities, we can create our own materials and we can tailor those materials much more specifically to the actual class that we're teaching. As very often the actual creations in the book are very general, we can make our own materials much more specific. The third thing you need to be aware of is that you can't always...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and Materials - Authentic and Created Materials   Just to finish the sectional materials, we'll have a look the difference between what are called authentic and created materials. Authentic materials, as the name implies, are actual materials that are created for any reason outside of the classroom. So examples of authentic materials would be things like newspapers. Those are generated for the general public and they're certainly not generated for the use in the classroom. However, they can be used within the classroom other ideas would be things like songs and poems and even things such as brochures and magazines and indeed menus from restaurants. So these are materials that all can be used within the classroom but they have not been created for that purpose, whereas...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Resource Books Part 2   Let's just consider next, when using these resource books, the student book, the workbook and the teachers resource book, what are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using those types of materials? Well, firstly, the main advantage perhaps of using these types of material is that it's quicker than actually creating your own. Secondly, the course books that you will get will be graded for a particular level. So there'll be a set of books for the starter level, a set of books for the elementary level and so on and so forth. So you know that the activities and materials in there will have been graded for level. The use of the book can also offer continuity so that the syllabuses have been covered in a particular way by the...  [Read more]

Authentic non authentic materials   Authentic and Non Authentic Materials 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. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts This unit was dedicated to the future tenses. It discussed the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going + infinitive, the present simple, and the present continuous. It was extremely beneficial to identify these...  [Read more]

Review from TEFL Student Alexandra   Alexandra is from Russia where she studies linguistics. She decided to take the 120-hour online TEFL/TESOL course with tutor support and video material. The material presented in the course was not entirely new for her but she still learned a couple of new things. She wants to pursue a career in teaching English abroad and is excited to use the new learned skills and methods in her classroom around the world. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

TEFL 120-hour Course - Unit 14   Unit 14 looks at course books and other materials that can be used in your English language lessons. The unit discusses the differences between authentic and created materials and why and when each should be used in a class. It also covers the advantages and disadvantages of using course books and the best ways to use a course book in your lessons. 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. Register now & get certified to teach...  [Read more]

How Should I Prepare for a TEFL Course? Although it is natural to be a little apprehensive before taking a TEFL/TESOL course, there is no need to get overly anxious or concerned. As long as you are enthusiastic, prepared to put in the hours and are open to new ideas, you should have no problem successfully completing the training. However, there are a few things you can do in the run up to your training course to ensure that it is a smooth process that ends with that all important certificate in your hand. Should I plan a schedule for my TEFL studies? If you take an online course, you will be able to set your own amount of study hours and choose when you do them. In this case, it is important to plan a study schedule and keep to it if you want to complete the course in the time frame you...  [Read more]

TEFL Review For Online TEFL Course   Marli is from South Africa and just recently completed the 120-hour online TEFL/TESOL course. She enjoyed the course and filled an entire binder with the printable teaching ideas and materials from the course. Marli is going to South Korea to pursue a career in teaching overseas. She is excited to use the skills and knowledge learned during the course in her own EFL classroom and is sure that the qualification will open doors to unlimited possibilities. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Where to Find Materials for Online English Lessons   Materials for Online English Lessons: In this live session, Liza from ITTT will share the best resources to find lesson materials for online teaching. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 7:30 Before Finding Lesson Materials 11:34 Types of Materials 14:44 Benefits of Professional Materials 16:25 Examples of Coursebooks 20:20 Useful Links 21:45 Created Materials 23:35 Perfect Lesson Materials Recipe 24:47 Useful YouTube Channels 26:13 Extra Resources (Articles&Podcasts) 28:39 Q&A Session #TEFL#BestTEFL #TeachEnglishOnline Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL...  [Read more]

Course Online: 120-hour TEFL course with tutor & videos(for teaching abroad)     ITTT’s 120-hour TEFL certificate with tutor is our most popular course as it offers high-quality materials and the support of an experienced online tutor. Our 120-hour online TEFL certificate course is extremely popular as it includes high-quality course materials and results in an online TEFL certificate that is internationally recognized and welcomed by employers in all parts of the world. The course is also popular because you are able to work through it at whatever pace suits your personal circumstances and learning style. All graduates of this course will also have access to our unique career support services for the duration of their EFL teaching career. Upon completion of the...  [Read more]

TEFL Review For Online TEFL Course   Milosz is from Poland but is now teaching English in China. He just completed our ITTT TEFL/TESOL course and had a great experience with it. He found the material covered in the course very useful for his own classroom in China. He found the course to be very well structured, understandable and also a lot of fun. Moreover, he recommends this course to anyone who wants to live abroad and teach English to non-native speakers. Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Worksheets and workcards   Next, a couple of issues surrounding the use of worksheets and workcards. Firstly, these types of materials can either be bought or they could be made by yourself. Very often many of the book series that we use will have workcards in their teacher resource book. Worksheets and workcards are very useful because they can act as a prompt to introduce an activity or topic. They can also be used for role plays and one of the things you need to be aware of when making worksheets and workcards yourself is that you need to make them durable. So whenever you create a workcard, if you put it on some hard backing and then put it inside some cellophane or covered plastic just to make them durable then those types of workcards and worksheets...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Resource Books Part 1   The next item that we're going to consider is the use of resource books. There are many different types of resource books available and within those books there tends to be a general pattern and typically the resource book pack will come in a three book series and typically that three book series will be in the form of the student book, a workbook and a teacher's resource book. So for example here are those three books for this particular series called ?Total English? and in the student book the type of information that we can gain from here is the actual background to the teaching points themselves plus some additional information in terms of short worksheets and so on and so forth and tape transcripts at the end for listening...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and Materials - Use of the Wipe Board   So let's have a look at some of the more general issues when using the wipe board. Perhaps the most important thing to start with is that we should start with a clean board. Secondly it's always very useful to make a board plan so that you know where things are going to appear on the board by the end of your lesson. It?s very simple to do a board plan. Just take a sheet of paper, which is similar in shape to the board that you're going to use, and then onto that piece of paper decide where all the information that's going onto your board is going to be by the time that you've finished. So a very simple board plan just to show where the information is going to be. Also it's very useful if you make use of tables and columns to...  [Read more]

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What Books to Use: An Overview of The ESL Teaching Materials   ESL Teaching Materials: Do you want to be aware of the most up-to-date materials? Join this live stream and learn about the most exciting coursebooks to use in your ESL teaching. #TEFL#BestTEFL #TeachEnglishOnline Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/3ebcnpM What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/3ebcnpM Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: https://bit.ly/3ebcnpM Teach English online from anywhere you want: https://bit.ly/3ebcnpM Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Cassettes/CDs/DVDs/Video   We now consider what we might call the technology that we could use within the classroom then that could include things such as cassettes, the use of CDs, the use of DVD and video. Some general issues surrounding the use of these types of material, make sure whenever you're using any of this type of technology though you know how it actually works when using it for a listening activity, for example. How long does it take for the whole tape to play through? How long does it take to rewind and so on. Other issues that you might need to think about is if you're using a cassette player or CD or something that you set the volume level before you actually start the lesson so that when you switch on you don't shock everyone with a very...  [Read more]

Classroom Technologies A good source of material for your classroom can come from local English language newspapers. These will contain stories about local events in English and are good way to get students using English and to keep your lessons relevant to current events. Many newspapers have sections devoted to learning English and sometime republish articles specifically for language learners. Magazines are good source of pictures to use in your classroom and can also be used for interesting articles and debate topics. Another use is with reluctant students, especially in one-on-one classes, where bringing in a magazine on a topic they are interested can encourage them to open up and start using English without even realising it. Don’t forget your TEFL course materials! There...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and Materials - Use of Visual Aids   The next idea we're going to consider is the use of visual aids and visual aids can include some examples such as real, objects, which we call realia, the use of pictures and photographs and also the use of models. So let's consider some of the ideas surrounding the use of visual aids. Well, why are they useful? Well, first of all the use of a visual aid can reduce teacher talk time. It's very much more simple just to show a real object than to try to describe it so that we could just ask the students ?what is this,? and they would say ?this is a pen,? rather than trying to actually describe it. Again if we were trying to show examples of fruit and vegetables rather than to try and describe them why not use an actual model and this is...  [Read more]

Coursebooks and materials - Dictionaries   The next item we're going to consider is the use of dictionaries and here perhaps the first thing we should do is to make a distinction between the two main types of dictionary and that distinction is between the monolingual and the bilingual dictionary. In a monolingual dictionary you have a word and its associated meaning and those two are both described for example in English so the word and the description of that word are both given in English. Whereas in a bilingual dictionary that word meaning could often be for example the word given in English and the explanation given in Thai and vice versa. So what can we use a dictionary for? Well, within the dictionary itself obviously we can get things like how words are spelled or the...  [Read more]

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Online Workshop: How to Create Lessons Based on Videos   Do you want to create outstanding lessons for your ESL students? Then this live stream is definitely for you. Our TEFL expert Liza will guide you from picking the best authentic materials to designing and launching a lesson. #TEFL#BestTEFL #TeachEnglishOnline Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: https://bit.ly/3ltqt73 Teach English online from anywhere you want: https://bit.ly/3ltqEPL Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Lesson Planning - Part 2 - What does a lesson plan contain?   So, the document itself needs to contain some general information about the class, for example the name of the teacher, the date and time of the lesson, what level of class is being taught and in what room, how many students are we expecting, this is important, when we've got things like photocopying and materials to do, what is the context of the lesson, in other words, what is the lesson actually about, what vocabulary or grammar point is this lesson covering and sometimes it's also useful to write out what the focus of the lesson is. So, in effect, the context of the lesson is telling us the grammar point, for example, that might be the present continuous tense, whereas the focus is telling us how we're going to go...  [Read more]

How to Hold Effective Demo Lessons for your TEFL Interview   In this live stream, you'll find out what a demo lesson is and what to expect. a learn what kind of scenarios and materials you might receive and how to prepare for your demo. #BestTEFL #TEFLcourse #TeachEnglish Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: https://bit.ly/3ltqt73 Teach English online from anywhere you want: https://bit.ly/3ltqEPL Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Designing Online English Lessons With Miro and Canva   Online English Lessons With Miro and Canva: Are you an online English teacher and want your students to be engaged in the class at 100%? ✅ Join this live event to learn about useful tools - Miro and Canva - that will help you organize your online materials most creatively! #TEFL#BestTEFL #TeachEnglishOnline Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: https://bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: https://bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: https://bit.ly/3ltqt73 Teach English online from anywhere you want: https://bit.ly/3ltqEP Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Check out ITTT's Blog Posts  [Read more]

Organizations Fast TEFL Check out tefl tesol about Organizations Fast TEFL and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: Check out ITTT's Blog Posts E. W. - U.S.A. said: Course MaterialsThe choice of course materials in the ESL/EFL classroom is one that requires much consideration. There are so many options when exploring the different possibilities for materials in the classroom. Textbooks are a popular path to take when teaching ESL but there are sometimes downfalls with this choice. It is important to look at the different textbook from all angles to ensure that the class is always student centered and effective...  [Read more]