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Debate Cards about Technology - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These are some fun cards you can use to practice debates in your ESL classes. Cut out the cards, students pick the card and should give their opinion on the statements written on it.
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Conversation Cards about Experiences - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These are fun conversation cards about experiences. Have your students pick a card, read out the questions and answer them.
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Mastering Error Correction: Strategies for Balancing Fluency and Accuracy in ESL Classrooms - TEFL Blog
Federico Riva
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Navigating the delicate balance between fostering language fluency and ensuring grammatical accuracy poses a perennial challenge in ESL classrooms. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the nuanced world of error correction strategies, exploring how educators can address language errors effectively while nurturing the fluency and confidence of their students. From distinguishing between errors and mistakes to crafting a three-stage correction process, join us on a journey through practical methods and considerations for creating a supportive and growth-oriented learning environment in ESL settings.
Errors or Mistakes?
Are You Working on Accuracy or Fluency?
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What are the 4 skills in TEFL? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
In TEFL, students must master four essential skills to achieve holistic language proficiency: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These are divided into two categories: productive skills (speaking and writing) and receptive skills (listening and reading). Each skill is pivotal, ensuring learners are well-equipped for diverse English-centric environments, be it in the workplace, further education, or during travel.
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In the journey of learning our first language, listening is the initial step, as it enables us to absorb the language around us. For English students, listening is key to understanding the nuances of native English speakers' language usage, including the emphasis or omission of certain sounds. While your TEFL classroom textbook will... [Read more]
Conversation Cards about Christmas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards about Christmas are ideal for classes before the winter holidays.
Print out this sheet and cut out all cards individually and play it with your ESL class. Students take turns picking cards and starting conversations about the questions on the cards.
For big classes: Divide the class into groups and hand one sheet / set of cards to each group. Have the students play the conversation cards among each group.
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Future: Going To - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here some verb cards to practice the "going to" future with your ESL students.
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Would You Questions for ESL Students - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These are some fun conversation cards with "Would you" questions for your ESL students.
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Talk for a minute about - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This "Talk for a Minute" topics activity is a great game to develop fluency and bring some fun into the ESL classroom.
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Likes and Dislikes Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Cut out the cards. Students work in pairs, put the cards face down and Like-Dislike cards face up on the desk. Then they take turns and say whether they like something or not and explain why.
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Talk for 1 Minute About - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Passive Voice Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of 8 printable cards with questions to practice the passive voice.
Have your students work in parks or groups and interview each other. This activity aims to improve your students' speaking skills and their use of grammar.
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Talk About Love Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Let’s talk about LOVE! Here are fun ESL conversation cards for elementary to intermediate level students.
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Future Perfect Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here are some great printable speaking cards aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
Have your students work in pairs or teams. Have them take a card and interview each other on the given questions. This activity is aimed to practice the usage of the future perfect tense in speaking.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Sport - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Traveling - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Jobs - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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Combined TEFL Courses - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Online & In-Class TEFL Courses
TEFL certification courses have traditionally been offered either as 4-week, classroom based courses or as 100% online or distance learning. We understand the benefits and drawbacks to both types of study. In order to offer greater variety and flexibility, we have combined the best of both methods into one unique course. The combined TEFL course comprises of two elements of study: the first being online and the second being in-class study at one of our training centers.
The great advantage of this TEFL course is flexibility. The online component of the course allows you the time to absorb the theories of TEFL teaching at your own pace. Attendance at one of our training centres then gives you the opportunity to put this theory into practice. The combined TEFL course is ideal for anyone... [Read more]
Speaking Activity: Conversation Cards about Books - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Using speaking cards is a great way to encourage conversations among ESL learners. The cards act as guides to give the students a direction in their conversations. Below you will find conversation cards about books and reading for your ESL classroom.
Let's take a look at all of the questions and possible answers.
Possible answer: I recently finished reading the first book of the Outlander series. It's a fantastic book about an English woman from 1945 who travels back in time to Scotland in 1745. The story is very compelling and the characters' personalities are very well thought-through.
Possible answer: One of my favorite books is "The Da Vinci Code" written by Dan Brown. Even though it is a fictional story, Dan... [Read more]
Unreal Conditionals - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a set of cards to practice unreal conditionals questions and short answers with your ESL students. They work in pairs or groups and interview each other.
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5 Perfect Activities With Flashcards - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Flashcards on its own is an easy method to apply when teaching beginners, teenagers even adults because they can match the words to the pictures and it's an easy way to remember new vocabulary. I think this is the best way of acquiring a new word of a second language because identification and recognition is the key.
1. Ask, Guess and Answer
Materials:
2. Display Flashcards on the Floor
Materials:
3 From Here to There
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4. Rhyme Concentration
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5. Puzzling Words
Materials:
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Let's talk about the NEWS - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and two vocabulary matching exercises (one with pictures). The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions.
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18 Dialogs to Practice the Past Simple - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here is a collection of dialog cards to practice the correct usage of the past simple tense.
Cut out the dialog cards and hand them out to your students, who form answers using the past simple tense.
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Talk for 1 Minute About Food - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These printable conversation cards will help your students develop their speaking skills.
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At ITTT we put a strong emphasis on customer care as we know that getting all the information you need and then choosing the right course to suit you can sometimes be a difficult task. If you have any questions regarding our TEFL courses or have any other pre-course queries, you can contact us via a wide range of convenient platforms. Our online contact form is a simple and effective way of sending your questions in and we will do our best to get back to you promptly with all the answers you need. You can also chat to one of our friendly and knowledgeable staff members via WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. On our contact page you will find several phone numbers that you can contact us on directly, depending on your location. You can even arrange a call back from us at a specific... [Read more]
New Year's Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great speaking task to develop fluency for talking about New Year's Eve, the past year, and the year to come. Have your students take turns to choose a card and ask the question to their partner/group.
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Easter Matching Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun activity to place with your ESL students during Easter. Hand out the cards and have your students find their Question/Answer match.
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Let's Talk About Education - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet contains 18 conversation cards and a matching exercise. The cards can be cut out if desired and be used as conversation questions. Can be used with both young learners and adults (pre-int to upper-intermediate). Suitable for older teens, university students, and adults due to the more serious nature of this topic.
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7 Great Games for Your ESL Conversation Class - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
Teaching Ideas
Teaching speaking skills is an important part of an ESL class. Sometimes, entire conversation classes are established that focus solely on speaking. Here are 7 great games for your ESL conversation class.
1. Mystery Party Guest
2. Choose Your Victim
3. Ice-breaker Jenga
4. 20 Questions
5. Apples to Apples
6. Get to Know You Bingo
7. Create A Game
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Write down the names and key points about five celebrities and assign them to the same amount of students in your classroom. One by one, a student enters a "party" with another student playing the host. The host must then find out the identity of each guest by having a conversation with everyone.
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Tefl reviews - Future Tenses Future Continuous Teaching Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Now here are some teaching ideas for the future continuous tense. Here, we have an activity where we'll be asking students to spontaneously make some excuses based upon some invitations. We can do this in pairs or small groups. The teacher will have cut these cards up and the students will place them into a pile, randomly picking up a card. So one student might pick this card up and say 'Would you like to play tennis with me tomorrow?' The other student will be challenged to come up with an excuse as quickly as possible, which might be 'No, I'm sorry I'll be working.' Then, we have the next student pick up the next card and we challenge an additional student to make an excuse. Here we have another teaching idea for the future continuous tense and this involves two students trying... [Read more]