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Tue, 20 Nov 2018 Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas 7 Amazing Winter and Christmas ESL Activities Your Students Will Love 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...  [Read more]

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How to Deal With Problems That Learners of English Face in China 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...  [Read more]

Thu, 19 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Reasons Why the International Community Chose English as a Language of Communication Language is the main part of our identities as human beings. It provides us to connect to another person, learn about our roots from the written and unwritten side in the world. Historically, language has been linked to culture, customs, and beliefs. Also, people need to get in touch with each other to communicate and continue their social world. Therefore, they use the language. From the past to today, one of the biggest effects on language is that technology which brings people closer and creating the global world. For instance, emails, digitals photos, e-texts, video files. A person who lives in Dubai can send a message to another person who...  [Read more]

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Why Is the role of the Parents Most Significant to a Child’s Achievement? Education is a core part of our life through the socialization process from birth to death. It affects a person's capacity and thinking about defining what is right and what is wrong and also provides us to criticize the information which is taught by the community, family, school and so on. Moreover, there are many alternative paths to get an education at every age. We will examine the child's age and the effects of the parent's role in developing themselves. Table of Contents Learning style Apart from school Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate ARCA B. Please...  [Read more]

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 Lydia Pincott Destinations Alumni Experiences 3 Amazing Hidden-Gem Travel Destinations in Japan "But...why are you here?" It's a phrase often uttered by Japanese, confused about what your reason could be for straying from the usual temples of Kyoto, shops of Shinjuku, and street-food of Osaka. Table of Contents Itoshima Peninsula, Fukuoka Sado Island, Niigata Kurashiki, Okayama Are you ready to explore Japan? Related Articles: The beaten path in Japan is pretty great and worth exploring thoroughly, but if you've done it, or feel like you've done it from seeing other people's pictures, these 3 destinations are for you. Take a 4-week in-class TEFL/TESOL course in Japan and get a headstart in your teaching career! Itoshima Peninsula, Fukuoka Picture this: Sandy...  [Read more]

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences The World Power of the English Language Being able to communicate in English is probably one of the most beneficial things anybody in the world could be able to do today, especially if you are wanting to work, or simply explore in any field on the international level. Table of Contents Frequency of Usage Exposure to English How to Solve the Problem Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Meara B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Frequency of Usage It is one of the most widely spoken languages and one of the fastest-growing in the entire world. So much in fact that in many...  [Read more]

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas My Experience in Child Development I have experience in Childhood development. I've taught over twenty plus years. My experience ranges from infants to school-age children. I have always taught three-year-olds and up. For almost two years, I have had the pleasure of working with children that are 18 months to 24 months old. I am the Lead teacher for our Toddler program. Table of Contents Growing Expertise Every Child is Unique Early Childhood Education Specific Techniques Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Judy N. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Growing Expertise Although...  [Read more]

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How to Teach Reading to Young ESL Students As a part of receptive skills, reading is so important that children start to read both English and Chinese books at the very beginning of their lives. Reading is a beneficial way to learn English well, especially for young learners. They can accumulate more and more vocabulary as well as the way native speakers communicate with each other by reading various kinds of books. As we all know reading a good book just like talking with a great author. Table of Contents Personal Teaching Experience Reading Techniques Parents' Help Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Xiangnan G. Please note that this...  [Read more]

TEFL Natal | TEFL Brazil Our TEFL course in Brazil is located in the amazing coastal city of Natal. Aptly known as the ‘City of Sun’, Natal enjoys a pleasant 360 days of sunshine a year, with a comfortable average temperature of 28°C. Natal is also easily accessible from both Europe and North America as its pivotal location in the north east of the country means it receives direct flights from a number of major cities around the world. Natal is particularly famous for having the best air quality in the whole of the Americas and is also blessed with more than 20 incredible beaches, each with crystal clear waters and beautiful coral reefs. During the weekends you will be free to relax on the beach of your choice and soak up the equatorial sun, although with so many other attractions...  [Read more]

TEFL in Harbin, China (2) Date posted:2007-03-13 | Writer: Harbin Golden Bridge Foreign Language School | Email: [email protected] Golden Bridge Foreign Language School in Harbin seeking teachers. E-mail to [email protected] What we offer to the foreign teacher:  ·  Monthly salary RMB5000.00 gross. Income tax is 5%.  · Providing accommodation at no cost: 1. Provide one bedroom with the basic furniture such as a bed, sofa, desk, chair, TV set, international telephone, gas oven, refrigerator, microwave oven and a washing machine. The apartment has a kitchen, and a washroom with shower. The apartment is very close to the school, only 10-15 minutes by walking. All the foreign teachers will live very close to each other. The school is in the centre of the...  [Read more]

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Motivation in Class as it is According to the Cambridge dictionary, motivation is the need or reason for doing something. Motivation is a way to get somebody to complete something that they might not aspire to execute on his or her own. Teachers have been using different forms of motivation in the classroom for years, which has been positive and negative. My parents used to tell me stories about their school time when the teachers would smack their hands with rulers if they didn't do their homework. They would also use the same rulers to smack the students' buttocks when they were misbehaving. When I was in school our motivation to perform satisfactorily in the class was to get decent grades. Table of Contents Personal Story Key to...  [Read more]

Thu, 09 May 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Cultural Features in an ESL Classroom in the UAE Coming from the UK and only working with British students, when I arrived in the UAE which is an Arab country following a strong Islamic faith, most of my new work colleagues and students were Arabs and followers of Islam. The last six years of working in the UAE have taught me a valuable lesson about why cultural sensitivity is so important, especially when working with the future generation of a nation, not only am I building rapport as a teacher, but also as a representative of my own country. Table of Contents Learning Environment Lesson Content Appropriate questions Will you consider UAE as a destination to start your teaching career? Related Articles: Listen to this blog...  [Read more]

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences How My Previous Teaching Experience Changed My Career Choice This summative task topic personally attracted me due to my very recent experience with teaching. To begin with, I, myself is a 22-year-old fresh university graduate in Hong Kong who undertook Business Marketing. To add to that, I also planned on pursuing a career in the business industry. During my university days, I would take up different kinds of part-time jobs for two simple reasons; to make use of my skills and hobbies and earn some cash from it. These hobbies included babysitting, arts & crafts and more. Table of Contents This Year Training Work Conditions Early Career Professional Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: ...  [Read more]

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Is Culture a Part of Language Learning? 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...  [Read more]

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How Incorporating a Flexible, Communicative Approach into Lesson Planning for the ESL Classroom Accelerates Students’ Learning In the ESL classroom, the importance of lesson planning cannot be stressed enough. There are, however, certain advantages to building flexible activities into a traditional Engage, Study and Activate, or ESA, lesson plan, particularly from a Communicative Language Teaching approach. In the case of ESL classrooms in English-speaking countries, such as the United States, it is essential to allow both flexibility and structured study time so that students may continue to increase their use of the new language once they leave the classroom. Also, the advantage of teaching ESL in an English- speaking country is...  [Read more]

Thu, 20 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas TEFL Summative Assessment: My Experience And Observation As an EFL teacher, I have come to realize that the social environment, age, perception and more, play a vital role in teaching English. This was evident as I taught the kindergarten section of the school. It required more efforts because of their language background ie. Non-English speaking country. So, the effective method of knowledge transfer to this group of kids must be interactive, demonstrative and fun based. Table of Contents Listen to this blog post: English in Focus Activity and Methodology Some of the games we played were: Mime and Action Interactive Dialog Later I add actions too, so the kids can interact physically as well as in the example below: Do you want to...  [Read more]

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas The Place of Family in the ESL Education Parents are the children's first teachers depending on their knowledge and experience parents will raise and educate their children in different ways. This education is important, not only for the child's growth but also for the whole future life.it is said that no teacher can replace parents from the education of the children. The rapport establishes between and their children will unconsciously help to develop good and bad habits and personalities of children.Early childhood is the foundation stage of the child's life, parents should pay special attention to this stage of the education and development of personality.there are several very important factors to consider: Table of Contents 1....  [Read more]

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences Unquestionable Reasons to Get TEFL Certified There are many reasons as to why you should get a Tefl. I'm not going to list every possible reason for the simple fact that it would take too long, and it is simply unnecessary to list every reason. My main three reasons as to why you should get a Tefl is because it helps anybody learn more than anybody thinks they may and or may not have known, it is highly beneficial to whatever kind of students anybody may teach, and it also helps you learn whether or not if this is a job that you truly desire to have. Table of Contents English proficiency Approach to teaching Career path Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL...  [Read more]

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Same, but Different: The Differences Between Teaching High-School and University Students In my years of teaching, the experience of teaching high-school and university students can be somewhat similar. This is because as students who are learning English as a foreign language, all students, regardless of their age group, are likely to face similar struggles in the basic skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, albeit to varying degrees. As such, there are teaching strategies that can be used for these disparate age groups, but with some changes in the level of complexity to account for the ages of the students in question. Table of Contents High-School Students vs. University Students Do you want to teach English abroad?...  [Read more]

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 Tho Nguyen Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas How to Learn English Outside of the Classroom Learning English outside of the classroom can be a great way to practice and improve your language skills, especially if you don't have access to traditional language schools or classes. Whether you are a visual learner who benefits from colorful illustrations and pictures, an auditory learner who thrives on listening to spoken English, or someone who prefers the support and encouragement of friends, there are many different ways to learn and practice English at home. Table of Contents IN CLASS VS AT HOME KNOW YOUR LEARNING STYLE DON'T UNDERATE A FRIEND ENVIRONMENT MATTERS PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT Are you ready to teach English as a foreign language? Related Articles: Check out...  [Read more]

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 Gianluca Costa Destinations Life of an Expat in Hong Kong - What it's Like to Live in Asia's World City Hong Kong is an energetic and exciting city. It is a modern metropolis with high skyscrapers, and its vast mountains make it a truly unique place. Table of Contents Here's what it's like to be an expat in Hong Kong and live in Asia's World City. Expat sport groups Language exchange groups Night out and activities in Hong Kong Come and teach English in Hong Kong! Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! Adding to its beauty, Hong Kong is one of the major international financial centers, having very low taxation and a high standard of living. That's exactly why Hong Kong attracts people from all over the world. Even...  [Read more]

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas How to Develop the Speaking Abilities of Kindergarten Level Students Benjamin Franklin quoted "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Table of Contents Conversation Support Oral Conversation Listening activities Interactive storytelling activities' Vocabulary enhancement Poems, Rhymes, and Games Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: Verbal communication is one of the most essential abilities that a student can lead both for social and educational achievement. It can consider the introductory stage of learning. It is indispensable to cultivate communication skills for the development of young learners so that he/she can carry out of articulating him or herself....  [Read more]

TEFL Alexandria | TEFL Egypt Our TEFL course in Alexandria could well be one of the most exciting and enlightening experiences of your life. Home of the Pyramids, the mighty Nile River and the Valley of Kings, Egypt provides students of our TEFL course with the opportunity to train in one of the most interesting places anywhere on Earth. Alexandria is Egypt’s second-largest urban area and it was once a mighty world city which conquered many lands in the region. Its port was one of the most advanced in the world and remnants can still be seen of the Lighthouse of Alexandria—one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Optional weekend tourist programs are offered to all participants of our TEFL course, helping you to visit some of Egypt's most famous attractions during your TEFL...  [Read more]

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 Simon ITTT TEFL Information 9 Hobbies Every EFL Teacher Needs To Try When Teaching English Abroad It's great to move somewhere new with your TEFL skills and to discover new places but, although traveling is exciting, there are times when you may want to do something without having to move too far from your new base. There are plenty of pastimes or hobbies that can be taken up when moving around from place to place, some of which might help you add variety to your English lessons for your students. For example, you can use your students to teach you about local cuisine to develop their vocabulary associated with food, language patterns for describing how to cook things, or how to give recommendations. They learn, you learn! Table of Contents Listen to this blog post:...  [Read more]

Thu, 13 May 2021 Christian Davey Destinations Alumni Experiences 5 Things You Can Do to Make Your Life Easier for Teaching English in Taiwan Taiwan is a wonderful starting point to begin your teaching profession as the island has a variety of job prospects, plentiful incomes, and companies are usually happy to employ you, even if you have limited teaching experience. Table of Contents 1. Find a private landlord, avoid an agency 2. Find a job in the same proximity as your place. 3. Get your scooter license. 4. Make friends with locals. 5. Join social media groups/like social media pages Are you ready to teach English in Taiwan? Related Articles: Check out what our course grads say in our many video testimonials! Nonetheless, living abroad comes with its challenges, and if you know...  [Read more]

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Acknowledging Different Challenges With Learning I have been teaching English in Taiwan at a local elementary school, grades 1-6 with three different co-teachers since the end of August 2018. One of the biggest challenges I have faced so far is the fact that each student is very different, and all have different learning abilities and struggles with learning English. Table of Contents What Causes Challenges in The Classroom? My Personal Teaching Experience All Students Are Different Team Building Within the Class Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course today! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Aria T. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs...  [Read more]

Mon, 22 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences What Distinguishes a Good English Teacher from Others? Personal qualities are one's identity and the characteristic of an individual. They all define to you who you are and which kind of relationship you have. Therefore, personal abilities are one of the core parts of human life to have effective communication in both daily life and business life. The basic point is that there are a lot of personal attributes such as; patience, sincere, open-minded, reliable, kind, ethical, responsible, enthusiastic, and so forth. Examining the working circumstances and which is the more suitable for defining the workplace because every work has its conditions to study about this occupation. At that point, all around the world, one of the...  [Read more]

TEFL Rome | TEFL Italy The ancient Romans called Rome “The Eternal City” as they believed it would go on forever and indeed this seems to be the case. Even if you have never visited Rome before you have probably seen the city in films and are familiar with some of its monuments and landmarks such as the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and of course the Vatican City. In fact, the entire centre of Rome is a UNESCO world heritage site. Rome hosts many festivals as well. Exhibitions, concerts, Expo and other shows and events take place throughout the year and themes include everything from technology, fashion and modern art to theatre, music and dance from all over the world. The city is brimming with history, arts and culture. From the...  [Read more]

Mon, 10 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas 3 Experiences Possible in the ESL Teaching Career My teaching journey has started when I decided to study science education at university because since I was a child, I'd loved to teach and to learn, to share knowledge and to understand the world around me. There I could learn a lot about didactics, learning theories and psychology, teaching methods, and many other human sciences, in addition to several hours of internship at elementary schools and kindergarten. Table of Contents Personal Language Learning Experience 1. Improvisation 2. Communicational Skills 3. Lesson Planning Current Practice Do you want to teach English abroad? Related Articles: Listen to this blog post: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate...  [Read more]

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina Alumni Experiences The Dependence of TEFL Experience on Students’ Age A learning model is a complex of activities based on the main chosen approach which covers the demand of the group. There are four directions in languages studying: writing, listening, speaking and reading. Table of Contents Learning Modes Children Adults Challenges Useful Activities Do you want to teach English abroad? Take a TEFL course! Related Articles: This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Joseph Victoryia D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Learning Modes Each of them is equally relevant and has its difficulties and tricky moments. To provide students with the sustainable development of...  [Read more]