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Your
DVD shows eight professional teachers
of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
teaching a variety of skills to their
students. You observe the successful
methods the experts use to introduce
and practise new language and how they
make their lessons entertaining as
well as instructive.
By
watching the lessons and following the
explanations in the accompanying
booklet you will soon be able to
introduce the proven techniques into
your own teaching practice.
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The filming of
authentic students taught by a group of
dynamic teachers gives the video an animated,
spontaneous ‘feel’ which makes you keen to
try the ideas out yourself.
The students taking
part are young adults of mixed nationalities
and they are of intermediate level. However
the methods shown are useful at all levels and
you can easily adapt them for most age groups,
both in the classroom and for individual
tuition.
Your Teach-English
course in more detail:
Unit One: Vocabulary
The tutors
demonstrate to you a variety of ways of
presenting new words. They check meaning,
correct pronunciation and intonation at each
stage.
You learn how to use
mime and visual aids, how to teach abstract
terms, how to build dialogues and introduce
communication activities.
Unit Two:
Story Telling
Using stories is very
effective in teaching the language. This unit
shows how you can teach without speaking. The
students do all the talking – after all,
they’re the ones who need the practice.
You learn the way to
use mime and gestures to encourage vocal
responses from your pupils, how to use
pictures, sound effects and cue-cards to
inspire story-telling.
Unit Three:
Presenting and Practising a Structure
(Grammar)
A superbly taught
lesson showing you the clear, stage-by-stage
way to introduce and practise a new structure,
in this case the tense known as the Present
Perfect, "He has been to France".
The teacher keeps
tight control over the language, places it in
context and gradually leads the class through
a series of exercises and practices towards a
‘freer’ stage where they begin to use the
structure with confidence.
Unit Four:
Communication Activities
Here you see how
different games can be used to stimulate
language acquisition. Students are encouraged
to take risks and try out the language they
already know.
It doesn’t matter
if they make mistakes; it's the communication
that counts. These creative communication
activities are motivating and
confidence-building.
Unit
Five: Error Correction
You watch short
extracts from different lessons where spoken
errors are corrected on the spot. You learn
when to correct and how to do it, how to
indicate to the student that he has made a
mistake, how to locate the error, show what
kind of error it is, correct the error and
practise the correction and all in a friendly,
constructive way.
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