Teach English in Wuwei Shi

Modal auxiliary verbs: They include can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, should, must, have to, have got to, need to, needn?t, and ought

SUMMARY- VIDEO LESSONS LESSON ONE: Students were quite discouraged and not very motivated to learn

COMMON PROBLEM SITUATIONS: FIRST LESSONS: Teacher faced with meeting new classes for first time

Material; In this unit, we will consider the material available for use in the classroom and how this material put into our lesson planning

A good teacher is the one who is flexible and can change her role according to the activity and situation without being dominant over the students

Task Sheet for Unit 19 (Special Groups) Task 1 ? Different categories of beginner students: a) Absolute beginner ? no English at all b) False beginner ? some study or exposure with little retention c) Adult beginner ? usually highly motivated & with some exposure d) Young beginner ? uncertain motivation but able to pick up language quickly e) Beginner w/o Roman alphabet: need lots of initial work on basic literacy & reading & writing practice Task 2 ? adapting approach to beginners a) Be aware of students needs b) Have clear & realistic aims; pace carefully c) Arrange the classroom, careful board work d) Choral repetition, ask lots of questions e) Be as visual as possible f) Lots of pair & group work g) Put weaker students with stronger students h) Repeat A/V work as much as necessary for understanding and comfort i) Keep it in English j) Be positive, sensitive and encouraging k) Explain methods f) Focus on easy, not difficult Task 3 ? Teaching Individual Students a) Less formal than class work, but use activities from course books

This unit taught me how to teach English to special groups

After watching both the videos ,I feel lesson two was definitely more effective than lesson one for several reasons: First of all, lesson two was clearly more structured and well-prepared than lesson one

This unit comprises of 8 sub-headings

Class Demonstration 1: The good thing about this teacher?s classroom was the seating arrangement ? it allows his students to have eye-contact with him and the other students

Methods of teaching English have developed rapidly, especially in the previous 40 years

IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF LESSON PLANNING: 1

This entire unit was about teaching and learning

Teaching English as a foreign language is a challenging, yet rewarding career choice

A conditional sentence consists of two clauses, the ?if? clause and the main clause

This unit focuses on teachers and learners During a typical lesson a teacher will have some of the following roles; a) Manager or controller

There are several methodologies that can be used in acquiring the English language

Unit 8 explains that the future is one of the most complex areas of the English language

This unit talks about Classroom Management, which is the skill of organizing and managing the class, having a friendly, relaxed manner and maintaining discipline

Future tense is a complex area to understand

This is an immensely helpful course

My reflection after watching each film: First film: The teacher's attitude from the start was very presumptuous

The unit covers the tense system

The unit covers the different methods of teaching English as a foreign language as well as highlighting ESA as the preferred method used for TEFL or TESL teaching

Unit 5 presents, Classroom Management, an essential skill since all beneficial classrooms require good discipline and rapport between the teacher and students

This unit is about teaching special groups, there are 5 major groups when teaching English, teaching beginners, teaching young learners, teaching individual students, teaching business English, and multilingual and monolingual classes

This unit teaches us that each of the three tenses used in the teaching, Present, Past, Future have four aspects; simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous

Unit 17 introduces the most commonly utilized teaching equipment in TEFL classrooms

This unit went over how to approach the first day of teaching a new group of Business English learners

Classroom management is the skill of organising a classroom in a friendly and relaxed manner while maintaining discipline