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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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