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Reasons Why the International Community Chose English as a Language of Communication - TEFL Blog
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]
How to Deal With Problems That Learners of English Face in China - TEFL Blog
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.
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Different Dialects
Aims of Learning
Useful Methods
1. Environment
2. Role Model
3. Games
4. Family guidance
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7 Amazing Winter and Christmas ESL Activities Your Students Will Love - TEFL Blog
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!
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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!
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How to Teach Reading to Young ESL Students - TEFL Blog
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.
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Personal Teaching Experience
Reading Techniques
Parents' Help
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Why Is the role of the Parents Most Significant to a Child’s Achievement? - TEFL Blog
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.
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Learning style
Apart from school
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Is Culture a Part of Language Learning? - TEFL Blog
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.
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Symbols of one culture transferred to another
Idiomatic Vocabulary
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TEFL Summative Assessment: My Experience And Observation - TEFL Blog
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.
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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:
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3 Amazing Hidden-Gem Travel Destinations in Japan - TEFL Blog
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.
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Itoshima Peninsula, Fukuoka
Sado Island, Niigata
Kurashiki, Okayama
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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.
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Itoshima Peninsula, Fukuoka
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My Experience in Child Development - TEFL Blog
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.
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Growing Expertise
Every Child is Unique
Early Childhood Education
Specific Techniques
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Growing Expertise
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Life of an Expat in Hong Kong - What it's Like to Live in Asia's World City - TEFL Blog
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.
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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
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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.
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The world Power of the English Language - TEFL Blog
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.
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Frequency of Usage
Exposure to English
How to Solve the Problem
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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]
How to Develop the Speaking Abilities of Kindergarten Level Students - TEFL Blog
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."
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Conversation
Support Oral Conversation
Listening activities
Interactive storytelling activities'
Vocabulary enhancement
Poems, Rhymes, and Games
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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]
How My Previous Teaching Experience Changed My Career Choice - TEFL Blog
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.
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This Year
Training
Work Conditions
Early Career Professional
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Cultural Features in an ESL Classroom in the UAE - TEFL Blog
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.
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Learning Environment
Lesson Content
Appropriate questions
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Motivation in Class as it is - TEFL Blog
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.
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Personal Story
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TEFL China - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Tefl In Harbin China 1
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... [Read more]
TEFL Natal - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Brazil ▷ ITTT course
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]
How Incorporating a Flexible, Communicative Approach into Lesson Planning for the ESL Classroom Accelerates Students’ Learning
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]
Why and How do We Use Games in The EFL Classroom? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Why and How do We Use Games in The EFL Classroom?
The game we are talking about here is not only something we do to make students play and laugh but also a kind of activity with some certain purpose that serves teaching contents. It can also be called teaching techniques.
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As far as I am concerned, playing a game is a necessary part of a lesson plan, it can make the teaching process more fluent and complete.
As talked above, preparing some games in the lesson plan is very important, then how do teachers use them when teaching English as a foreign language?
When using games properly, they can motivate students and make classes efficient. There are some items that teachers are supposed to bear in mind when applying... [Read more]
Unquestionable Reasons to Get TEFL Certified - TEFL Blog
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.
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English proficiency
Approach to teaching
Career path
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The Place of Family in the ESL Education - TEFL Blog
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:
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Same, but Different: The Differences Between Teaching High-School and University Students - TEFL Blog
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.
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High-School Students vs. University Students
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What Distinguishes a Good English Teacher from Others? - TEFL Blog
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]
The Best Ice Breaker Games Every EFL Teacher Should Know - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The Best Ice Breaker Games Every EFL Teacher Should Know
06/10/2021
hi guys hey linda here from itt with another live session this week i'm so happy to be
here again hope to see many of you guys today thanks so much for joining
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talking about and today i'm going to share with you the the best icebreaker games that
every efl teacher should know so yeah i'm gonna be showing you guys
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Do accents matter when teaching English abroad? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Do accents matter when teaching English abroad?
When it comes to accents we all have one no matter where in the world we were brought up. Most of us are familiar with the basic differences between British and American accents, but what about accents from Australia and New Zealand, Canada and South Africa? And within each of these countries there are dozens of regional accents, just to complicate things further. So, we all have an accent, but is it a problem when teaching English as a foreign language?
What English accent should I teach my students?
The first thing to remember is that there is no right or wrong accent when it comes to teaching and learning English. When teaching it is fine to speak naturally, just be sure that you always speak clearly and that all your instructions are... [Read more]
How to Learn English Outside of the Classroom - TEFL Blog
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.
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IN CLASS VS AT HOME
KNOW YOUR LEARNING STYLE
DON'T UNDERATE A FRIEND
ENVIRONMENT MATTERS
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
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Acknowledging Different Challenges With Learning - TEFL Blog
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.
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What Causes Challenges in The Classroom?
My Personal Teaching Experience
All Students Are Different
Team Building Within the Class
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TEFL Alexandria - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL Egypt ▷ ITTT course
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]
The 11 Best Places to Visit in Saudi Arabia - TEFL Blog
Thu, 30 Jul 2020 Umber Sherjeel
Destinations
The 11 Best Places to Visit in Saudi Arabia
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.
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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
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What Drilling Is and How This Method Can be Used in TEFL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
What Drilling Is and How This Method Can be Used in TEFL Teaching
Drilling is a simple yet effective teaching technique used to practice and master language skills. The teacher models a word or a sentence, and the learners repeat it. It is a way of developing a standard pronunciation of the language and introducing a language easily. Drilling started about 70 years ago when the armed forces used it to teaching language.
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The Army Method
Why It's Effective
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