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Register now & get certified to teach english abroad! Here is a free St. Patrick’s Day Quiz for ESL learners covering the most important vocabulary words related to St. Patricks Day.   1. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on the 17th of March. 2. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. 3. St. Patrick was born in Wales. 4. People say a pot of gold can be found at the end of a rainbow. 5. People wear green on St. Patrick's Day. 6. People say St. Patrick drove snakes out of Ireland. 7. A shamrock is a plant with three leaves that is considered to be a symbol of luck. 8. The colors of the Irish flag are green, white and orange. 9. Parades are held in cities around the world to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. 10. The harp is a symbol of Ireland. 11. A...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences With English being one of the most widely used languages in the world, many individuals are learning English in China. The learners include children, businessmen, etc. Although the learners have their own reasons for studying English, there are three main problems that the Chinese learners face while trying to learn English.Table of Contents Drilling vs. Understanding Exams vs. Communication Selfishness vs. Open-mindedness ESL students all over the world need professional teachers! Related Articles: Listen to this blog post: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Ning G. The first issue is that learners pay too much attention to memorizing a new vocabulary while ignoring the phonetic symbols. In China, memorizing English words is...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Destinations Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in a variety of Asian countries. This holiday marks the beginning of a calendar year whose months are cycles of the moon. Typically, the Lunar New Year is celebrated in January or February depending on the lunar calendar.Table of Contents Here are 8 amazing places to celebrate Lunar New Year in Asia. 1. China - Chinese New Year 2. South Korea - Seollal 3. Japan - Shōgatsu 4. Mongolia - Tsagaan Sar 5. Tibet - Losar 6. Vietnam - Tết nguyên Đán 7. Singapore - Lunar New Year 8. Laos - Pi Mai Are you ready to teach English in Asia? Related Articles: Teaching English in Asia is a great way to experience Lunar New Year celebrations and...  [Read more]

Date posted:2024-05-26 | Writer: Kings Young Learners | Email: [email protected] Join our team as an ESL Teacher/Activity Leader at one of our summer centers in the UK and the US! Role Description The main role of the Teacher is to provide ESL instruction to our international students. It may be that there is a double shift system where half the students have lessons in the morning and the other half in the afternoon so there are a few different teacher contract options. 30 contact teaching hours per week: teachers will have 30 contact hours of teaching and will spend a 6th non-teaching day either going to the airport to assist with meet and greet/departure of students; being on site to help with arrivals and departures or general office duties; or leading in a full day excursion. 15...  [Read more]

Date posted:2024-05-26 | Writer: Kings Young Learners | Email: [email protected] Join our team as an ESL Teacher/Activity Leader at one of our summer centers in the UK and the US! Role Description The main role of the Teacher is to provide ESL instruction to our international students. It may be that there is a double shift system where half the students have lessons in the morning and the other half in the afternoon so there are a few different teacher contract options. 30 contact teaching hours per week: teachers will have 30 contact hours of teaching and will spend a 6th non-teaching day either going to the airport to assist with meet and greet/departure of students; being on site to help with arrivals and departures or general office duties; or leading in a full day excursion. 15...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Phonology involves studying how sounds are organized in a language to create meaning. It differs in every language as sounds are organized to create words, which are then organized in sentences.Table of Contents Understanding both phonology and phonetics is important when teaching language to others. The English IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) utilizes symbols to represent single sounds. Do you want to teach English abroad or online? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Jane M. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Phonetics involves understanding how sounds are...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas When the aroma of gingerbread and eggnog is in the air, you know it's time to translate your love for the most beautiful season of the year into your TEFL classroom with winter ESL activities!Table of Contents Listen to this blog post: 1. What makes the perfect winter day? 2. Write an article for a local newspaper 3. Make paper snowflakes 4. Read something about winter 5. Play a game of Taboo 6. Holiday Extravaganza! 7. If everything else fails: These worksheets do the trick! Are you ready to teach English abroad? Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! While this is the perfect time to embrace winter in TEFL destinations with changing seasons, it's also ideal to educate your students living in places with...  [Read more]

Date posted:2004-10-15 | Writer: Linguamir | Email: [email protected] Position title: EFL teacher; Starting date: immediate start; Contract duration: 10 months (up to August, 15); Salary of $350 net monthly; Accommodation: free of charge individual flat (at the moment we provide a flat 2 minutes from the school building); Airfare subsidy of $800 upon the end of the contract; Free unlimited Internet access in the school building. Working conditions: Dedicated classrooms with TV, video and Internet equipment; Working days and possible timetable Mondays-Fridays (mostly evenings from 18 to 21:30), Saturdays (only mornings up to 15:00); 25 teaching hours per week; $4 per overtime teaching. Requirements: Native English speaker; BA/MA in English, TESOL or BA/MA + a certificate...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Establishing rapport in the classroom is essential if you are going to have a successful class. In this paper, I will examine some of my classroom experience and compare my successful classes to my less-successful classes. In doing so, I hope to make an observation about "best practices" that I can implement in my English teaching. Along with using my own experience, I will be talking with other teachers that I know and using the provided text that I have been given for this course. The three areas I will focus on are: Beginning the course, student participation, and being positive.Beginning the Course.Table of Contents 1. Determine the course in the beginning 2. Let students know about themselves 3. Do not supply everything yourself 4. Be positive...  [Read more]

Date posted:2013-05-21 | Writer: Yale Foreign Language Academy | Email: [email protected] Yale, a large and well established private school in Seogwipo City, has opportunities for TEFL qualified teachers who are available to start in July. It has a long history and employs around six or seven EFL teachers. Yale has a good standard of education which incorporates both online and classroom learning. There are set curricula from which to teach along with plenty of resources and the freedom to incorporate your own materials. Yale encourages good communication between Western and Korean co-teachers. The school is located in Seogwipo city on the breathtaking southern coast of Jeju Island in Korea. It is one of the most reputable private academies in Jeju. It was founded in 1989....  [Read more]

Date posted:2013-05-21 | Writer: Yale Foreign Language Academy | Email: [email protected] Yale, a large and well established private school in Seogwipo City, has opportunities for TEFL qualified teachers who are available to start in July. It has a long history and employs around six or seven EFL teachers. Yale has a good standard of education which incorporates both online and classroom learning. There are set curricula from which to teach along with plenty of resources and the freedom to incorporate your own materials. Yale encourages good communication between Western and Korean co-teachers. The school is located in Seogwipo city on the breathtaking southern coast of Jeju Island in Korea. It is one of the most reputable private academies in Jeju. It was founded in 1989....  [Read more]

The first major factor that has an impact on how long it will take to get TEFL certified is which type of course you choose to take. There are three main TEFL course types to be aware of:Table of Contents In-person TEFL course Online TEFL course Combined TEFL course Course levels Entry level = 120-hour Entry level = 120-hour Diploma Specialized Courses The most common form of in-person TEFL course is the four-week, 120-hour TEFL certificate. Trainees on this course usually travel from their home country to one of many locations around the world to take the course. Courses should involve a theory component, covering language awareness and teaching skills, and a practical teaching component where trainees teach classes of real English language learners and receive feedback. These courses...  [Read more]

Date posted:2010-01-26 | Writer: The British English and New Dance Academy | Email: [email protected] We are a small culture school located on the southern tip of Honshu Island, about 40 minutes by train from Shimonoseki - across the Kanmon straight from Kyushu island. Our city is called Sanyoonoda and it has a population of about 30,000 people. We teach "New Dance" and "English Conversation." At present we have 6 English conversation teachers on our staff and 3 dance teachers. The dance teachers also carry out the day to day running of the school. Full Time. Our salary for full time teachers is from JPY250,000 - 270,000 for a maximum 98 hours monthly teaching schedule. Any hours taught over and above that figure being classed as overtime and remunerated at the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Nowadays, English is becoming more and more popular and significant in China because of globalization. In big cities, parents send their kids to all kinds of organizations/schools to study English in their early three years. Some capable parents even use English as their communicative language from the first day the baby was born. No matter how early Chinese starts learning English, it's still not our mother language and the atmosphere is still in Chinese, which makes learning English not as easy as those in English countries.Table of Contents Different Dialects Aims of Learning Useful Methods 1. Environment 2. Role Model 3. Games 4. Family guidance Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Imagine you are a teacher of English, working in Russia. Your students are a small group of preschoolers starting their educational journey for the first time. It's September and the first day of school. All the children are dressed like little dolls. Parents quietly placed flowers on your desk in the morning, a traditional act of respect. Autumn is in the air, days are getting shorter, and the native birch trees are itching to turn golden yellow. Many Russians know this is the calling, the calling of long nights and snow-filled landscapes.Table of Contents How to accumulate a prescribed theme into your teaching syllabus Using modern tools Further ideas for activation Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post...  [Read more]

Date posted:2005-03-18 | Writer: ECC Academy, Donghae Branch | Email: [email protected]   Working Conditions: * Fi-e day work week (Monday thru Friday) * No Saturdays * Up to 30 classes per week (each class being 50 minutes) * Contract: 1 year (renewable) * 1 month's bonus pay upon completion of your contract (se-erance pay) * Internet access is a-ailable at the school * 10 days paid -acation (and all national holidays) (5 days are assigned by the school while the remaining 5 can be used at your discretion. * Schedule is consistent each week. * Curriculum is already set, but is flexible with input from teachers. Monthly Salary and Housing: * 2.0 million Won * Fully furnished single apartment (T.-., -CR, Fridge, Bed, Sto-e, etc.) (2 minute walk from the school) ...  [Read more]

Date posted:2020-08-03 | Writer: Anglophiles Academic | Email: [email protected] Anglophiles Academic are looking for EFL Teachers to work in our Homestay Centres in Kings Lynn, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Nottingham, Plymouth, or Mallow in Ireland. Due to the current situation, tutors must be a resident or live within commutable distance to the Homestay town, as accommodation is not provided. We have two type of posts available, they are:-Post 1: Full-time Tutor: 15 hours or 30 hours (dependent on excursions) a week and supervising afternoon activities from Monday to Friday.Post 2: Part-time Tutor: You will teach 15 hours a week from Monday to Friday in the mornings only.Travel expenses for your daily commute (to and from Centre) are not covered.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:To teach,...  [Read more]

Date posted:2005-03-18 | Writer: ECC Academy, Donghae Branch | Email: [email protected]   Working Conditions: * Fi-e day work week (Monday thru Friday) * No Saturdays * Up to 30 classes per week (each class being 50 minutes) * Contract: 1 year (renewable) * 1 month's bonus pay upon completion of your contract (se-erance pay) * Internet access is a-ailable at the school * 10 days paid -acation (and all national holidays) (5 days are assigned by the school while the remaining 5 can be used at your discretion. * Schedule is consistent each week. * Curriculum is already set, but is flexible with input from teachers. Monthly Salary and Housing: * 2.0 million Won * Fully furnished single apartment (T.-., -CR, Fridge, Bed, Sto-e, etc.) (2 minute walk from the school) ...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The average four-year-old has an attention span of eight to 12 minutes. Kindergarteners typically range from four to six years in age so at best, an instructor has approximately 20 minutes in which to work when teaching kindergarten children. Teaching aids are critically important to maintaining the attention of this age group! When teaching four-year-olds their second, third, or fourth language, good teaching aids will keep the child's attention while also simultaneously teaching them critical content. This paper will explore how to create a schedule in an EFL kindergarten classroom. For simplicity sake and congruence of understanding, I will write from the perspective that the kindergarten classroom is a total immersion learning environment whereby the...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate EUNICE E. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.Table of Contents 1. All Change 2. Board Bash 3. British Bulldog 4. Call My Bluff 5. Chanting Game Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: Players stand in a circle, with one player in the middle. Each player in the circle has a picture or word flashcard. Call out two of the picture card items. The two players holding these cards have to change places without the person in the middle taking one of their spots in the circle. When the person in the middle succeeds in taking a place in the circle, the other player hands over his or her card and takes a turn in...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas It's Black History Month! Now, Black History often falls short in EFL classrooms but if you are able to include it into your EFL curriculum abroad (and you should!) here is an important reason to do so:Table of Contents 5 Great Activities for Black History Month in the EFL Classroom 1. Class Meeting 2. Read Alouds 3. Biographies 4. Black History Biography Necklaces 5. Interactive Board Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: You get to focus on the amazing culture, history, and contributions of Black people, something a lot of EFL students would never otherwise learn. Hold a class meeting to introduce the topic and explain why a month of Black History is needed and brainstorm some famous Black people the students know....  [Read more]

Date posted:2012-10-18 | Writer: Aspirations International Academy | Email: [email protected] Aspirations International Academy is looking for 2 TEFL qualified teachers. We are a higher education institute based in Colombo Sri Lanka. In addition to some higher education programmes, we operate a language training arm where we primarily cater to four main categories - English for Kids, General Conversational English, IELTS, Business English programmes for corporate clients. We have operated this language training arm since December 2011 and we have catered to over 200 students who came for lessons at our study centre and over 300 participants who are employees of our corporate clients. The two facilitators (South Africans)are completing their contract in the mid of December and...  [Read more]

Date posted:2012-09-03 | Writer: Extreme Learning Centers | Email: [email protected] Extreme Learning Center has opportunities for qualified TEFL Instructors to teach in Arequipa, Peru. We are hiring for positions beginning in October, and also have regular vacancies throughout the year. Instructors will be teaching communicative English to Peruvian students.The minimum requirements are as follows: • Bachelor’s degree in any field, plus a 120 hour TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certification course with at least 10 hours of observed student teaching experience. • Dynamic, fun, flexible, responsible, creative, adaptive, team-player who is willing to work with others and lead by example.NOTE: Due to the economic realities of Latin America we CANNOT offer airfare to Peru nor...  [Read more]

Date posted:2019-10-30 | Writer: Explore English | Email: [email protected] Explore English has an opportunity for passionate ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) teachers to join our fantastic team based at our Collins St Campus in Melbourne. We are currently seeking dynamic, engaging TESOL qualified teachers for General English and EAP classes. We have four days of classes (morning and evening sessions available) from Monday through to Thursday, which gives our teachers a three day weekend! We have casual positions available for immediate start! ESSENTIAL SKILLS: An ability to utilise an extensive range of teaching pedagogical approaches Ability to teach all levels of General English classes Available for morning and/or evening shifts (4 days a week) A...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas When teaching English as a foreign language in a country where the native language is not English, it is easy to assume there are going to be some cultural differences between you and the students. The differences could be as little as what you eat for breakfast and which hand you pass things to someone with, or they could be as large as how you address someone and what you are allowed to talk about in public society.Table of Contents Symbols of one culture transferred to another Idiomatic Vocabulary Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Shana H. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Part of learning a...  [Read more]

Date posted:2018-04-02 | Writer: Kings Summer | Email: [email protected] Kings Summer is a thriving division of Kings Education providing an excellent choice of 4 summer residential locations for junior students in the UK. We are now recruiting enthusiastic professional EFL teachers for our various locations in the UK for work starting in late June/Early July. The role of the teacher at Kings Summer is to provide a positive EFL instruction to our international students. Some of our schools operate a zigzag system where half the students have lesson in the morning and the other half in the afternoon over 5 days. In this scenario teachers are required to teach 30 hours per week and also work on a full day excursion or an airport transfer. In centres with morning only teaching, teachers...  [Read more]

Umber Sherjeel Destinations Saudi Arabia has a rich cultural heritage. The old historical buildings, different types of beaches, and deserts distinguish it from other countries. If you come here, you will find yourself enjoying hiking, camping, swimming, and exploring historical buildings and castles. The following are the 11 best places to visit in Saudi Arabia.Table of Contents 1. Jabal Hassan Island 2. Al Duqm Beach 3. Al Zuraib Castle 4. Ibrahim Palace: 5.Wadi Khamal 6. Yanbu-Al-bahr 7. Al Wahbah Volcanic Crater 8. The Ancient City of Mada'in Saleh 9. Murabba Palace 10. Kingdom Tower 11. Edge of the World When will you visit Saudi Arabia? Related Articles: If you like quiet and exotic beaches, you are in the right place. Clean white sand all along the coast and slow blue waves,...  [Read more]

Date posted:2004-09-03 | Writer: Hua Hin Vithayalai School | Email: [email protected] Job: Young learners English Teacher School: Hua Hin Vithayalai School Province: Prachuapkhirikhan Tel: 032-511233 Email: [email protected] Info: We are currently seeking a young learners teacher. The teacher will be teaching our pre-school students(about 30 students per class ) for 10 hours a week with a non-native teacher and the other hours will be divided between elementary and secondary students with 25-30 per class on your own. The position begins in November. We are a Catholic school currently teaching to M3 level(Grade 9) . There are six other native teachers here now. We are offering 25, 000 baht per month for 20 hours teaching per week. We also have a one month...  [Read more]

Before we look at this question closely, we should first make an important distinction. The number of hours you teach in the classroom (often called contact hours) are not the same as the number of hours you will be expected to be in school, often confusingly called contract hours. Next, it is important to appreciate that different teaching jobs have different typical hours. There are basically three types of jobs available.Table of Contents Government and Private Schools Corporate Teaching Private Language Schools Some Cultural Aspects Most schools abroad work normal office hours so you will probably need to be in school, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 a.m. (in many Asian countries) until 4:00 p.m. This equates to around 40 hours per week. You will not have to teach for all of those...  [Read more]

Join our TEFL course in Costa Rica and experience one of the most stunningly beautiful locations anywhere in the world. Lush jungles, turquoise waters, small bays and some of the best beaches in the world, Manuel Antonio is quite simply incredible and undoubtedly one of the best locations to take your TEFL course in Central America. As if that isn’t enough, once your course is finished, we will provide you with lifetime assistance finding employment. Teaching English in Costa Rica is a great experience and our TEFL course in Manuel Antonio has proved to be increasingly popular. Costa Rica is an amazing place to visit, live and work thus its popularity for TEFL courses comes as no surprise. Many beach related activities, including snorkelling, scuba diving and surfing can be enjoyed...  [Read more]