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Relationship Building in Another Culture - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Rapport has long been considered military term-when servicemembers humanize their identity amongst their captors during the time of war. The fashion of rapport has since evolved into a meaningful approach in the teaching world-most notably teachers who chose a career abroad. The important factors listed below could prove to be the difference between miserable teaching experience and solid one.
No Efforts to Learn about the Culture
Curiosity in Another Culture is Beneficial
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The Differences Between TEFL, TESOL, DELTA and CELTA - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Board Game - Name it, Spell it - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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With this fun board game, you can practice vocabulary and spelling in an enjoyable way with your ESL students.
The questions can be adapted to make it more challenging should it prove to be too easy. Make learning fun with this board game.
For higher-level learners, you can ask students to name 2 or 3 answer instead of just one.
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Easter Worksheets - Name Eggs - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here is an awesome Easter worksheet for your ESL students. Work on the alphabet with this "name eggs" activity.
This Easter worksheet is perfect for beginner students. Have your students color the eggs in their name and then write their name on the line provided.
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Name 3 Things Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is the perfect board game to play as a time filler activity for your ESL class. Your students take turns rolling the die and naming three things around the topic on the board.
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Another Word for EXCITED: Wonderful List of 40 Synonyms of Excited in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Are you searching for another word for Excited? Here, we provide a list of synonyms for the word "excited" with example sentences and ESL infographics.
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Christmas Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great speaking activity to develop fluency at Christmas time. Students take turns choosing a question to ask another student in their group.
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Tefl reviews - Classroom Management For Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Students Names - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
It is very important that whenever we?re doing an activity that we use the students names wherever possible when we're asking for feedback and so on and so forth. There are a number of benefits to using the students? names and they can include helping to actually organize the class itself, certainly to acknowledge when a student has given the correct answer and so forth, to indicate who should respond, rather than just asking a general question to the whole class. By using the names we can ask an individual to respond to that particular question. One point to note here is that if you are going to ask an individual student it is very useful if you put their name at the end of the question. This is useful because if you start with their name then all of the other students know that... [Read more]
Giving Directions Tips - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a great activity for practicing how to give directions in English. Help your students ask how to get from one place to another.
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4 Things To Love About Teaching ESL
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Working as an English teacher offers a unique opportunity to explore the world while making a meaningful impact on the lives of others. One of the most significant benefits is the chance to immerse oneself in different cultures and environments. By teaching English abroad, educators have the opportunity to live and work in diverse locations, gaining first hand experience of local customs, traditions, and languages.
1: Exploring the world
2: Making a difference
3: Financial Benefits
4: Personal Growth
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Summer Holidays Crossword - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's another exercise to practice summer vocabulary. Your students have to match the words to the correct pictures and complete the crossword. Then find a secret message.
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Managing a Class as a Foreign EFL Teacher - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
When it comes to managing a class, a teacher must be prepared to face many different challenges. This can be especially true for a teacher in classrooms abroad. In addition to teaching a subject, a foreign teacher may also have to worry about the cultural or social norms of a country they may be unaccustomed to, and other problems might arise from language barriers. An EFL teacher can better manage a classroom if they prepare for these in advance, and utilize the appropriate behaviors and routines while running the classroom.
The Importance of Planning Classes
Setting up Goals
Cultural Habits
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/adapting The Main Verb - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Another point that students find difficult to understand is that modal auxiliary verbs have no tense. Some modals cannot be used to talk about the past or the futures. Watch this video to find out more about this topic.
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Tefl reviews - Who Vs Whom English Grammar Teaching Tips - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
"Who" and "whom" are another set of words that often causes confusion. Howeer, there is actuall a simple trick to deciding which one to use in a sentence. "Who" is used to refer to the subject of a sentence and 'whom' is used to refer to the object. Keeping this in mind will eliminate the chance of making mistakes. We recommend the following trick. The usage of these two words is the same as he and him. "He" is the subject and "him" is the object. If you are confused about which one you should use, look at the sentences and check whether "he" or "him" should be used. If it's "he", then you should use "who". If it's "him", then "whom" should be used.
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Teaching Off The Beaten Path: 10 Alternative TEFL Destinations - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Do you want to teach English in another country but want to go somewhere unique and different? Perhaps you want to teach English abroad but you don't want to go to the typical favorites like China, South Korea, or Vietnam. In this week’s live event, we’ll venture a bit further and explore 10 of the best off-the-beaten-path teaching destinations! #BestTEFL #TEFLcourse #TeachEnglish Are you ready to teach English abroad or online? Click here and get started today: bit.ly/37gs5vO What is TEFL Certification? Where is it valid: bit.ly/36ma2Fg Check out our wide range of TEFL Courses: bit.ly/3ltqt73 Teach English online from anywhere you want: bit.ly/3ltqEPL
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Tefl reviews - Tesol Tefl Reviews Video Testimonial Corinth Greece 1 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TEFL review video another group of trainees share their experiences during the TEFL/TESOL four-week in-class course in Corinth, Greece. They talk about the challenging and rewarding aspects of the course. ITTT's in-class course covers grammar, phonology, teaching methodologies, and lesson preparation techniques. You will also be given the opportunity to teach real students. Our course will give you the confidence to stand up in front of a class of students, we will also teach you how to plan lessons and help you to create and select activities and teaching materials that will make your lessons interesting and productive.
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TEFL Italy - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Quality School In Italy Seeks Efl Teachers
Date posted:2024-02-14 | Writer: Lord Byron College | Email: [email protected]
One of Italy's largest private language schools, with fifty years' experience, a government recognised foundation and authorised testing and training centre for Cambridge English, IELTS, TOEFL and the Cambridge DELTA qualification. We are seeking qualified and career minded native and native level EFL teachers for the period from March to June or July 2024 with possibility of extension. Good working conditions, full support, possibility to become Cambridge and IELTS examiner.QualificationsDegree and TEFL qualification. Please note that we can only consider non EU applicants with right to work in the EU. We can employ Canadian teachers but they must have obtained the Working Holiday visa programme.... [Read more]
How do I become a TEFL trainer? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
After completing a TEFL certification course and working as an English language teacher, some people look to branch out into other avenues of the teaching profession in order to gain more experience or to earn a higher salary. One such route is to become a TEFL trainer. Teaching people to become classroom teachers can be a very rewarding and well paid job and a route into management positions or even setting up your own language school.
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Tefl reviews - Tesol Tefl Reviews Video Testimonial Tefl Video Journal Week 3 2 - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this TEFL review video another TEFL/TESOL student shares some of her experiences as a student with ITTT completing the four week in-class course. Gaining a TEFL certification from ITTT is the first step towards an exciting and rewarding experience teaching English overseas. During your training course you will have the opportunity to meet and study with people from all over the world. Our trainees come from a variety of backgrounds and age groups.
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Tefl reviews - Overview Of All English Tenses Present Tenses Present Continuous Miming - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Another idea for the present continuous tense focuses on the action of miming. Because it's in the present continuous tense, it'll be critical that the student, who is doing miming, continues to do the miming as the students guess what he or she is doing. In order to do this, the teacher will ask one student to come to the front of the class and present them with a card. The card at low levels will just be one word such as 'sleeping,' 'surfing,' 'eating,' or 'playing'. As soon as the student is able to mine any one of those actions, the students continue to guess with 'You are sleeping,' 'You are eating,' 'You are surfing.' Now at higher levels what you could do is continue on from the base of the action and include something like 'You are playing football,' or 'You are playing... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/giving Advice - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Another way to approach teaching modal auxiliary verbs is in context, for example, "How to give advice". This is especially useful for students of higher levels that have some knowledge of the various modal auxiliary verbs.
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Tefl reviews - Tesol Tefl Reviews Video Testimonial Sydney Australia - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Another TEFL trainee shares his experiences of completing his TEFL/TESOL in-class course in Sydney, Australia. In this TEFL review he talks about some of the course components and why he would recommend others to do the course. ITTT's intensive in-class course meets all international standards and our TEFL/TESOL certification courses are internationally recognized and accredited. No matter which of our training centers you select to complete the course you will receive the highest standards and support.
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How much do TEFL teachers get paid? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
Earnings for TEFL teachers vary globally, influenced by qualifications, experience, and teaching location. Salaries can range broadly, with TEFL instructors in high-demand countries earning from $2,000 to over $5,000 per month. Online English teachers may see different rates, often depending on the platform and the number of hours worked. Factors such as the cost of living in the destination country and the type of institution also play a crucial role in determining salary. Ultimately, TEFL teaching can offer financially rewarding opportunities, especially in top-paying regions.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Usage Online Teaching Course Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The past perfect is used as the past in the past to talk about events that happened in the past before another past event. For example: The concert had started before I arrived. The past perfect is covered in more detail in ITTT's 120-hour online teaching course. There are other courses available from 60-hour courses covering teaching skills to a 250-hour Diploma in TESOL. You can also take a specialisation teaching young learners or in teaching business English. Whatever your requirements are, if you are looking to become qualified to teach English from your own home, ITTT will have the right online teaching course for you.
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Tefl reviews - Overview Of All English Tenses Present Tenses Present Perfect Continuous Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
There's another activity for comparing and contrasting the tenses focusing here in this activity on the present perfect and the present perfect continuous. So in the activity, students will start at the start and roll a die. Perhaps they can roll a 5. They will read 'something you've been learning for a long time'. The appropriate sentence may be 'I've been learning English for a long time.' The next student may go and roll 4. They read 'a beautiful place you've visited.' Then, rather than the present perfect continuous, they would use the present perfect tense: 'I visited Paris.' You can encourage students to even ask follow-up questions, which would also include other tenses: 'What was so beautiful about Paris?' Now, this activity will be particularly good for your more advanced... [Read more]
TEFL UK - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Tefl Opportunities In Uk
Date posted:2020-02-26 | Writer: Move Language Ahead | Email: [email protected]
MLA (Move Language Ahead) is an industry leader in providing safe, educational, and cultural vacations to students from around the world. Each year thousands of students travel with MLA as part of our short-term English as a second language (ESL) programs. We are seeking energetic EFL teachers to deliver our cutting-edge curriculum through our exclusive MLA coursebook (new 2020 edition) combined with our MLA E-board teacher's zone at various junior centres throughout the UK. We have centres in Roehampton, Uxbridge, Mile End, Reading, Dover, Bristol, Bath, Worcester, Carmarthen, York, Edinburgh, and Galway (Ireland)
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3 Secrets of Establishing Rapport With Students - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Friendly atmosphere in a classroom is crucially important. Not only does it create a conducive environment for the study process, where students are relaxed and therefore tend to participate more, but also provides a safe space for a teacher. From my experience, building good rapport is especially important for young teachers as it helps to boost their confidence and unleash all the potential they have in order to make lessons effective and fun. Here are some ways of forging a friendly relationship with students, that worked out for me.
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1. Learn students' names
2. Learn about their interests
3. Make fun
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Chantelle details her experience of studying the fifth unit of her online TEFL course with ITTT. In this unit she learnt about classroom management and the different ways you can arrange your classroom and group students according to the needs of the lesson you are going to teach and of the students themselves. The unit also deals with reasons for problem behavior within a lesson and the ways a teacher?s body language can be used to communicate ideas about language as well as to reinforce instructions and requirements of the teacher.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Overview Parts Of Speech Nouns - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Let's begin our examination of parts of speech with nouns. Nouns are our naming words. They name a person or people, such as Jack, Jill, brother, Prime Minister. We have a place or places such as kitchen, Tokyo. Things or the things around us: pen, light, camera. We have our concepts and ideas: beauty, democracy. These people, things, places and concepts fall into two basic subcategories. Those subcategories are countable and uncountable. As their name suggests, the differentiation here is whether or not we can count our nouns or if we cannot count them. We have our countable nouns: dogs, pens, are two examples. The very nature of the words means that we can count these nouns one dog or 5, 10. Then, we have our uncountable nouns. The nouns that cannot be separated: music, bread.... [Read more]
Weather Matching Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great worksheet to practice weather vocabulary and the name of the months in an ESL classroom.
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