Our 120 hour TEFL course covers all the skills needed to be a real TEFL professional. You’ll learn about the ESL industry, the content that goes into lessons, how to create engaging lesson plans and the skills needed to manage your classes effectively. By the end of this course, you should have all the preparation needed to start a career overseas.
If this is your first time accessing your course, click Introduction below and begin your first lesson.
Modules
Introduction
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—Course orientation
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—TEFL lifestyle
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Class content
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—Parts of Speech
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- Types of word – Introduction
- Types of word – Nouns, verbs, adjectives
- Types of word – Pronouns, adverbs, prepositions
- Types of word – Conjunctions & interjections
- Types of word – Recap
- Types of word – Quiz
- Types of verb – Introduction
- Types of verb – Action and stative
- Types of verb – Transitive, intransitive, auxiliary, modal
- Types of verb – Phrasal, regular and irregular
- Types of verb – Recap
- Types of verb – Quiz
- Affixes – Introduction
- Affixes – Rules of use
- Affixes – Teaching affixes
- Punctuation – Introduction
- Punctuation – Periods, commas and colons
- Punctuation – Apostrophes, question, exclamation and quotation marks
- Punctuation – Hyphens, dashes, brackets and slashes
- Punctuation – Recap
- Affixes & punctuation – Quiz
—Sentences and Tenses
Lessons
- Tenses – Introduction
- Tenses – Introduction continued
- Present tenses – Simple and continuous
- Present tenses – Perfect and perfect continuous
- Past tenses – Simple and continuous
- Past tenses – Perfect and perfect continuous
- Future tenses – Simple and continuous
- Future tenses – Perfect and perfect continuous
- Tenses – Summary
- Tenses – Quiz
- Sentence structures – Introduction
- Sentence structures – Simple and compound
- Sentence structures – Complex, and compound-complex
- Sentence structures – Conditional sentences
- Sentence structures – Z conditional and first conditional
- Sentence structures – Second and third conditional
- Sentences – Recap
- Sentences – Quiz
Language skills
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—Vocabulary
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- Teaching vocabulary – Introduction
- Teaching vocabulary – Meaning, form & pronunciation
- Collocation – Introduction
- Collocation – Types of collocations
- Collocation – Teaching collocations
- Word roots – Introduction
- Word roots – Why they’re important
- Word roots – Teaching tips
- Teaching vocabulary – Summary
- Teaching vocabulary – Quiz
—Reading
Lessons
- Teaching reading – Introduction
- Teaching reading to beginners – The alphabet
- Teaching reading to beginners – Phonics
- Teaching reading to beginners – Vocab limitations
- Practicing reading with advanced students – Introduction
- Practicing reading with advanced students – Scanning, skimming & reading for detail
- Practicing reading with advanced students – Activities
- Teaching reading – Summary
- Teaching reading – Quiz
—Writing
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- Teaching writing – Introduction
- Teaching writing to beginners – Foundations
- Teaching writing to beginners – activities
- Advanced writing skills – Getting over the hump
- Advanced writing skills – activities
- Advanced writing skills – activities continued
- Teaching writing – Summary
- Teaching writing – Quiz
—Speaking
Lessons
- Teaching Speaking – Introduction
- Teaching speaking to beginners – Setting the scene
- Teaching speaking to beginners – Pronunciation
- Teaching speaking – Intonation
- Teaching speaking – Intonation continued
- Word stress – Introduction
- Word stress – Types of word stress
- Word stress – Teaching tips
- Sentence stress – Introduction
- Sentence stress – Teaching tips
- Teaching speaking – Advanced classes
- Teaching speaking – Advanced activities
- Phonetics – Introduction
- Phonetics – International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- Phonetics – Uses and problems
- Phonetics – Final thoughts
- Teaching speaking – Quiz
—Listening
Lessons
- Teaching listening – Introduction
- Teaching listening to beginners – Classroom English
- Teaching listening to beginners – Prep and practice
- Practicing listening with advanced students – Introduction
- Practicing listening with advanced students – Activities
- Teaching listening – Summary
- Teaching listening – Quiz
Preparing for lessons
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—Creating lesson plans
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—Class Context
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—Motivations
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—Spicing Things Up
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- Spicing things up – Bringing fun to your classes
- Spicing things up – Bringing in realia
- Spicing things up – Using flashcards
- Spicing things up – TPR
- Spicing things up – Classroom games
- Spicing things up – Films and videos
- Spicing things up – Online activities
- Spicing things up – Conclusion
- Spicing things up – Quiz
Managing your class
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—Learning environment
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—Testing students
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—Rules and problems
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—Observations
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Teaching online
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- Teaching English Online
- Teaching online – Introduction
- Teaching online – Equipment
- Teaching online – Setting up your classroom Free Preview
- Teaching online – Selecting and using props
- Teaching online – Teaching techniques
- Teaching online – Motivating students
- Teaching online – Demo classes
- Teaching online – Demo class example
- Teaching online – Conclusion