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Sully

It was great to see this real example of a good lesson and comparing it to a bad lesson was even better. Since I started seeing the first video I realized the teacher was doing a lot of things wrong.

Sumner

Technology in the classroom is definitely the way forward. This unit has been helpful in allowing me to recognize how different devices can be used within the classroom. For example, a video camera ca

Superior

I can honestly say that I really enjoyed watching the two videos from beginning to end. I even watched them again and again to have accurate answers to questions. As I was watching the first one, it w

Sutherland

I have learned that when teaching writing you want to make sure it is being taught in the same way it would be used in speech. Writing and talking go hand in hand especially when it comes to having to

Swaledale

Great unit to finish things up with. Good content on troubleshooting and how to get a class warmed up and working together as a unit. At the same time having good rapport with the teacher. Good solu

Swan

Unit 8 goes through the future tenses. According to the unit, future tenses are some of the most complex areas of the English language, and after reading through this chapter, I agree with that statem

Swea City

Wow, I've learnt a new thing - mixed type conditional. I just studied 4 types of the conditional before- 0, 1, 2, 3. While doing this test, I did some search and I found some mixed type conditional as

Swisher

Many different teaching aids can be used to make lessons more interesting, effective and less dependent on the textbook. Different schools, of course, have different resources available to teachers

Tabor

This unit is a great help in the matters of teaching vocabulary grammatical structures and language functions effectively. Everything clearly demonstrates the procedure to follow. New language learni

Tama

I think the best way to build confidence is to use authentic texts. It may be challenging to find authentic texts that are at levels appropriate for beginning students, but with some thorough searchi

Templeton

In Unit 15 I learned about Evaluation and Testing Number of ways of assessing students language level - Tutorials, Evaluation by the students and Tests *Testing - can take place with a group or indivi

Tennant

Unit 16 is about conditionals and reported speech. Conditionals are sentences containing “if” (or similar such as when) which refer to past, present and future possibilities. I learned in this un

Terril

This unit as useful as others, here I found the information about some very helpful tools, for example: camera; never thought that it might be useful, but after reading and thinking over new material

Thayer

This unit gave me a clearer insight of teachers-learners relationship. It inspired me to do my own research on the matter by discussing with my colleagues and reading some other supplementary material

Thompson

It is vital for teacher to know if classroom is making progress, the only way to find out is by giving evaluation and assessment. giving appropriate exams to students will help teacher find out level

Thor

In 19 I learned about teaching special groups Teaching beginners tends to be the most rewarding. Categories of students - The absolute beginner - No English, The adult beginner - most likely they've m

Thornburg

This was a very complicated chapter. I had to spend many hours studying the tenses. I can also understand how using the wrong tense can cause big problems in communicating correctly. I can just imagin

Thornton

Unit 11 discussed about the two of the four basic skills in any language.The reading and listening skills which is also known as the Receptive skills.The two main reasons for the receptive skills are

Thurman

This unit was particularly difficult for me. As I am not a native English speaker, I have always struggled with the 'right kind' of pronunciation of words. I initially studied American English. Howev

Tiffin

The unit taught me about the categorization of words in depth. Explaining all the concepts that I believe most fluent speakers know how to use, without knowing the terminology to describe what those w

Tingley

This unit broke down the types of students a teacher might be dealing with. It dealt specifically with special groups such as beginners, children, and business English learners. Each special group h

Tipton

Unit 11 covers ways to teach the receptive skills of reading and listening. These two strands are equally important and dovetail with each other – having the written words/sentences/paragraphs avail

Titonka

Teaching English as a foreign language is a challenging, yet rewarding career choice. As an English as a Second Language teacher, I must learn to constantly adapt to your students' needs. Many times,

Toledo

This lesson provides some common-sense and original ideas for working with different groups of learners. I particularly liked the section about teaching a individual language learners, having been on

Toronto

This unit dealt with productive skills and their use in the teaching of English as a second language. The two types of skills are writing and speaking. Accuracy and fluency are the key goals when desi

Traer

There are some ways that you can activate the strengths of your students with special needs, whether you run a full-inclusion classroom, a self-contained special ed classroom, or anything in between:

Treynor

In this unit we scratched the surface of teaching English pronunciation and phonology. Covering topics like intonation versus stress, sound joining, place and manner of articulation, and the internati

Tripoli

Assessment is a critical step in the learning process. It determines whether or not the course's learning objectives have been met. A learning objective is what students should know or be able to do b

Truesdale

The difference in the two videos was eye opening. I enjoyed that the same individual was the teacher in both cases. The first video was hard to watch. The teacher had no real warmth or care for his cl

Truro

This unit covered testing and assessment and the many scenarios in which it is used. Tests are used to measure progress and evaluate student placement. These are very helpful in not only understanding

Turin

In this unit I gained knowledge about different ways of evaluating student`s levels, as well as about common external exams, their usage, purpose, differences etc. In general all tests are divided on

Udell

In this unit I enriched my knowledge of English language grammar, modal auxiliary verbs in particular, and the passive voice, as well as about phrasal verbs and relative clauses. I accumulated knowled

Underwood

This was a helpful grammar review of the present tenses. I am surprised that I had trouble with the last test question where I had to choose which sentence was not in the present tense. I can't imagin

Union

This unit dealt with Unit 16 introduces five methods for constructing conditional sentences in English. The first is zero conditional, which features general truths under present tenses. Second is the

Unionville

This unit has shown me that there are many types of teaching methods and how and when to use the different types. I also learned that the learning curve of students is quite diverse and the teacher n

University Heights

Modal verbs can be used to express a number of different ideas and some of them can really perplex a student's mind and it gets even complicated when students have to express past ideas.Modals with mo

University Park

Unit 18 is a review of the modal auxiliary verbs, the passive voice and phrasal verbs. It's the last and most complicated part of grammar that an ESL teacher will need to teach. This unit makes you un

Urbana

Unit 11 gives an overview of the different methods of testing students for progress and the different tests and programs students might find themselves partaking in. There are three main tools a teach

Urbandale

Grammar is the main focus of the unit and covers the modals, passive voice, phrasal verbs, and relative clauses. I have learned about the basic rules of the modals and passive voice; its uses and the

Ute

Unit 20, the final unit in this program, is about troubleshooting and common problem situations. This unit perfectly describes the procedures I follow when meeting new students every week. I work at a

Vail

With the help of this unit I now believe that I can safely say that I have mastered the present tenses of the English language. Before, I thought that there were only three tenses in English, but now

Valeria

Unit 12 is centred around the productive skills of speaking and writing and explains purposes for why people communicate. Unit 12 gives two examples of a speaking activity lesson and a creative writin

Van Horne

Problems,troubles,bad moods or difficulties are always arisen and we should be ready to deal with them. In the first lesson,which is the most important because we meet our new students or we have the

Van Meter

In this lesson I can learn a lot, the unit 13 and unit 14 are quite simular but both useful to me, it talks about different phases in class, study phase, activate phase, and engage phase and all that

Van Wert

I think this lesson is very important to learn, i have obtained so much, it tell me lots of info about different goals and aims for different classes, for example,we should not say the material is ver

Varina

My biggest takeaway from this unit was the adaptability of coursebook. Prior to this unit, I wrongfully assumed that coursebooks were some type of holy grail to teaching. I did not consider the fact t

Ventura

Unit 7 talks about Teaching vocabulary, introducing grammatical structures, teaching language functions. Vocabulary is important to students especially at an early stage. How easy or difficult a vocab

Victor

This unit focused on the difficulties of teaching productive skills as well as techniques to overcome or even avoid issues. It is important to know the difference between accuracy and fluency, as well

Villisca

Finally about to end this course with the unit troubleshooting and very well explained the troubling situations and how to handle these issues. Overall throughout the course it has been demonstrated e

Vincent

Learnt the difference between predictive skills and receptive skills. The importance on coshing topics that will interest the students to elicit participation. Careful not to pre teach too much vocabu