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Apply Now!Home / TEFL Videos / TEFL Videos - Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Speaking Skills - Before the Lesson
For the lesson that even takes place, there are a number of things that you need to have considered. Obviously, you need a very clear idea of what it is you're expecting the students to have to do and they need to know why. It's very important before you ask them to do an activity that they have an understanding of the purpose of that activity. You should, secondly, have had a thought about what they already know. Linked to that is, will it be necessary to do any form of pre-teaching before I can expect them to do this activity and finally, we need to make sure that we have prepared all our materials and our instructions for this particular activity. So, we'll consider a straight arrow ESA lesson, the focus of which is to be speaking skills. So, we'll start with our engage and in a typical lesson, what we might do, is ask our students about the weather in their country and if they know anything about the weather in any other countries. So, throughout this engage phase, what we can be doing, is to be drawing information now from the students, getting that information up onto the board and starting to generate some interest in the topic itself.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
Whether or not a student understands and learns from the lesson often depends on the attitude of the teacher. Even a simple smile can do so much to lighten the room. If you show up excited to the classroom, the students will be excited as well. If you show understanding and patience, the students will not be too intimidated to participate. Positive reinforcement also goes a long way to keep students invested in the lesson and their education as a whole.This unit covered examinations, both the varieties one might encounter as an English teacher, as well as the external varieties that students would need to study, live or work abroad. It is very useful to explore these tests as I will surely encounter diagnostic, progress, and practice tests in my school and it will be vital to know the type of external test, if any, my students are preparing for in the long term as well as their long-term motivations.
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