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Which are the best Spanish speaking countries for teaching English abroad? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
There are several great Spanish-speaking destinations for teaching English abroad, here are our favorites right now:
Each of these countries not only offers a vibrant Spanish-speaking setting but also has a significant demand for English teachers. Immerse yourself in the language and culture while shaping the future of eager learners.
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If you are looking to teach English in a Spanish-speaking country, Spain might be the obvious choice. Here are some great reasons to consider it:
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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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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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TEFL Spain - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Study Spanish Teach English ann. 2
Date posted:2024-04-04 | Writer: Canterbury English Teaching Academy | Email: [email protected]
Since 1991, Canterbury English has been offering exciting opportunities and has graduated English speakers (native and bilingual) from all walks of life to teach, while experiencing the thrills of living in a foreign country.
Madrid is the vibrant capital of Spain with a low cost of living and a state of the art transportation system.There is a diversity of people and cultures, coupled with the greatest nightlife in the world.Rich in history, tradition and architectural beauty, as well as being one of the safest capitals of the world, Madrid provides the perfect surroundings to live and work.
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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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Helping Spanish Native Speakers to Get Motivated and Confident to Participate in EFL Lessons - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
To finish the TEFL course, I would like to write on a topic that worries many EFL high school teachers in Spain: the lack of motivation, improvement, and participation of their students in the classroom. This is a topic that was widely discussed during my MA in Foreign Language Teaching. For this reason, I would like to take this opportunity to do some further research on this since I believe it's a topic of ultimate importance to all EFL teachers working in Spain. I will discuss how to solve this issue through the use of IT created to facilitate school exchanges.
National Statistics
Reasons of the Problem
Student Exchange Program
Need of New Teaching Methods
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IAcademy Education - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
ICan is a Canada based online ESL company committed to transforming ESL learners into dynamic, confident English speakers. ICan offers Speaking Classes, Writing Classes, and IELTS preparation courses.
Ican Speaking: Young students of speaking and conversation are given interactive playful lessons with new vocabulary, phrases, and games. Our teachers are there to help guide their pronunciation, correct their mistakes, and to create as much conversation as they can from what the student has given them.
Mid-level and more advanced students use an interactive but less playful program which is more based on the conversational aspect of English. Along with grammar, the students are regularly prompted by the course material to speak on the different subjects introduced. Each lesson begins with a... [Read more]
Happiness Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun two-part speaking activity about happiness. First, have a class discussion with the question of part one and then have students discuss the quotes of part two in pairs.
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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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ESL Christmas Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great speaking activity is for developing fluency on the topic of Christmas.
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ESL Speaking Activity about Animals - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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These speaking cards about animals are ideal for teen ESL students to practice speaking or can be used as class openers or finishers and even as writing prompts.
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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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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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This is Me - Writing and Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun multi-purpose worksheet to practice writing and speaking skills.
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Silent Letters when Speaking English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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When practicing speaking English it can be confusing for language learners to find that certain words have a silent letter that shouldn’t be used. Here we look at some of the most common examples.
When teaching English to non-native speakers the presence of silent letters can be a cause of great confusion among students and teachers alike. For the learner it can be frustrating to find that the written form of the word they have just mastered is actually spoken without using all the letters. There are a few basic rules when it comes to silent letters, but as is usually the case with English, there are often exceptions.
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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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Speaking Practice: All about Apartments and Houses - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a free printable ESL worksheet about apartments and houses to practice with your students.
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How to Decrease Teacher Speaking Time - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Traditionally, education in the classroom has largely employed a teacher-centred approach. Focus is on the teacher who talks, rather than on the students, who exclusively listen and are discouraged from collaboration.
Student-Centered Approach
The ESA Method
Peer Feedback
Corrections
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In recent years, however, more emphasis has been given to student-centred education: instructors share classroom talk time with learners, allowing them to communicate with their teacher and each other. By minimizing teacher domination... [Read more]
Speaking Tips C1-C2 Levels in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Are you about to take an English speaking exam or simply want to improve your speaking skills? These advanced C1-C2 level English phrases are going to spice up your English conversations and make you sound more professional at the same time.
We've all been there. You're in a conversation and get asked a question but you have no idea what to answer or don't understand the question. Instead of giving a blank stare or blurting out "huh?", there are some more professional things to say when you don't understand a question:
Getting asked about things you like and dislike is part of almost every conversation. Instead of answering with a simple "yes" or "no", there are some better ways to spice up the conversation:
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This is Tony - Writing and Speaking Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun multi-purpose worksheet to practice writing and speaking skills in the third person.
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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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The Importance of Speaking English in Today's World - TEFL Blog
Hoàng Minh Huy
TEFL Information Alumni Experiences
Language is a tool for communication; we use it to share our ideas and learn about those of other people. Communication occurs anywhere speech is present. Without speaking, we are unable to communicate with one another. Therefore, speaking skills are crucial for language learners of any language.
The Importance of Speaking Skills in Language Learning
The Benefits of Fluent Speaking in a Second Language
Challenges Faced by Language Learners in Speaking
Strategies for Improving Speaking Skills in English
The Global Impact of English Language Proficiency
Conclusion
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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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Non-trivial Ways of Teaching Speaking and Writing - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Many language learners will have the difficulty of creating something new in the targeted language. Reading something written out loud is not as challenging or rewarding as reading your own work. When a language learner starts creating her own work, then she can start feeling productive and confident in the targeted language. There are many different ways of teaching productive skills such as speaking or writing.
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Natural skills
Higher level of interest
Types of writing
Teaching writing
What is speaking
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What Does it Mean to be a TEFL certified Non-Native English Speaking Teacher?
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Well, before starting this summative task and as I was going through the list of topics, I noticed this one…TEFL for non-native English speaking teachers (N°30) and thought: that's the one I want to talk about.
What TEFL means for a non-native English speaking teacher
What it does not mean
A balanced and broader view of this situation should help such one to remain optimistic and confident.
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Yes, I am a non-native English speaker and months ago, I have given to my life a completely different orientation, leaving behind nearly a 30 years career spent in the financial and business fields. As being one important step included in this global professional and personal project,... [Read more]
Talk for 1 Minute About - Speaking Cards - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Can TEFL work for non-native English speaking teachers? - TEFL Blog
Linda Dunsmore
TEFL Information
TEFL is considered a career with few opportunities for non-native English speaking teachers as a lot of employers only hire native English speaking teachers. However, with the expansion of TEFL worldwide and the increasing number of individuals ready to get TEFL certified and move abroad to teach, there are also many non-native English speakers who enter the career of TEFL teaching. A TEFL certificate allows teachers to explore the world, break out of their national boundaries while working a rewarding job and earning a competitive salary.
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Create your teaching portfolio and materials
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Problems for Learners of English in Mandarin Speaking China - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Over the past three years, I've had the privilege of teaching English as a foreign language online for a company called Education First. The format would normally be an internationally diverse group in an audio-only platform. During these sessions, I found that my students from China would have specific challenges in pronunciation that many of my European and Brazilian students would not. I recognized their tendency to add an "a" at the end of words that clearly ended in a consonant. Unfortunately, I was not educated enough in the specific challenges that Mandarin speakers faced in their attempt to learn English. I'm scheduled to begin teaching in China later this year, and it has become clear to me that I need to drill into the specific challenges faced... [Read more]
Why English Speaking is Difficult for Many Thai Learners - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Thailand is famously known as " the land of smiles". In some situations, smiling is the way to save face or to avoid conflicts. This often includes the time when Thai people have to communicate with foreigners in English and have no idea what the other meant. They simply smile to get out of a situation instead of making the best out of it by practicing their English speaking skill. On the other hand, they build up a fear of making mistakes and avoid being in that particular circumstance in the future. As English today plays important roles in tourism and the Thai economy as a whole, still, Thai people struggle to communicate effectively. Here are some areas suggested why it is difficult for Thai learners to improve their speaking skills.
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