Course Program:  

12 Modules, of 10 hours each

(five 2-hour lessons) 

 

Teaching Reading                           10   hours

       Tips on Reading Comprehension

        Skimming

        Scanning

        Readability -- Cloze test

        Common Texts --  Headway

 

Teaching Writing                              10

      Pre-writing

      Paragraph structure

      Proofreading

       Academic writing

      Target audience

 

Teaching Grammar                            10

      Syntax

      Conditional Sentences

      Phrasal verbs

      PPP model

      Inductive and Deductive approaches

 

Teaching Speaking/listening          10

       Tips on teaching speaking

       Tips on teaching listening

       Recording and listening to yourself

       Pronunciation -final consonants

       American/British/Australian accents

 

Teaching TOEFL preparation             10

      About TOEFL

      Reading comprehension

      Listening

      Grammar

      Writing

 

Teaching IELTS/Duolingo 10

About IELTS

Differences between IELTS and TOEFL

Practice tests

About Duolingo

Differences and practice

 

 

 

 

Teaching idioms 10

Activities for teaching idioms

Aphorisms

Sports idioms

Bible idioms

Old English (Shakespeare)

 

Slideshow presentation 10

Structure your presentation

Speaking to your slides

Legibility

Interactive tricks

Adding photos and videos

 

Teaching online 10

Types of online teaching

Styles of online teaching

Strategies for online teachers.

Online assessment

Interactive lessons

Using songs and poems 10

 

Use songs that the students know

Nursery Rhymes

Children’s TV songs

Famous lines from poetry

Xmas carols

Lesson Plans 10

Parts of the Lesson Plan

SMART objectives

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

Interactive Lessons

Pre-packaged Lesson Plans online

Plan several lessons ahead

 

Assessment 10

What skills are you trying to measure?

Grading on a curve

Weighted averages

Assessment as a learning experience

Assessing written work