Teaching English as a Foreign Language

40 Part I: Getting Started in TEFL Speak to local schools and colleges about their teacher training programmes. CELTA and Trinit ...

Chapter 3: Examining Courses, Qualifications and Jobs 41 What the course covers Most distance certificate courses run along the ...

42 Part I: Getting Started in TEFL Although you’re expected to have a degree before applying, if you speak to the course provide ...

Chapter 3: Examining Courses, Qualifications and Jobs 43 provider is another city and you need to commute or stay over for a wee ...

44 Part I: Getting Started in TEFL to set up peer observations where teachers watch each other teach and offer constructive feed ...

Chapter 3: Examining Courses, Qualifications and Jobs 45 By the way, you should ask about holidays and seasonal closures because ...

46 Part I: Getting Started in TEFL Potential employers you can try include: ✓ English First, known as EF advertises scores of va ...

Part II Putting Your Lesson Together ...

In this part... B eing able to structure and deliver a lesson effectively and engagingly is what TEFL is all about. This part gi ...

Chapter 4 Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson Planning the Lesson In This Chapter ▶ Looking at student l ...

50 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together However, when you begin teaching it can be quite difficult to know what stu- dents are ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 51 ✓ Countries and nationalities: ‘He is from the UK. He’s British.’ ...

52 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together Pre-intermediate At pre-intermediate level students learn to discuss their experiences ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 53 Grammar to cover includes: ✓ More modal verbs: (should, may, migh ...

54 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together ✓ Modal verbs in the past: I could have come. ✓ Passive verb forms: The room was cleane ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 55 ✓ Active and stative verbs (actions and conditions): She bought ( ...

56 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together So if the syllabus for beginners doesn’t include detailed descriptions of fur- niture b ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 57 This explanation is an example of poor grading. Logically, if you ...

58 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together If your students don’t know any of these things, you may want to reconsider whether the ...

Chapter 4: Starting from the Beginning: Planning the Lesson 59 Be able to compare their travel experiences with other people by ...