Teaching English as a foreign language for dummies
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Making everything easier, Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Dummies helps you learn to: put an EFL course programme together from scratch; let your students loose in skills classes from reading to listening; deliver grammar lessons in a logical and intuitive way; and, cope with different age groups and capabilities. Michelle Maxom works as an 'English as a Foreign Language' teacher and trainer. It is your one-stop guide to a career that will take you places. If you thought that teaching a language that's second nature to you would be easy, think again! Explaining grammar, or teaching correct pronunciation while simultaneously developing your own skills as a teacher can be a huge challenge. Whether you're on a training course or have already started teaching, this book will help launch your career and give you the confidence and expertise you need to be a brilliant teacher. This work helps you to: make an educated decision to decide between the various courses, qualifications and job locations available to you; start from scratch plan well-structured lessons and develop successful and effective teaching techniques; focus on skills from reading and writing, to listening and speaking, get your students sounding and feeling fluent; get your head around grammar; and, teach students to put sentences together, recognise tenses and use adjectives and adverbs. All shapes and sizes tailor your lessons to younger learners, one-to-ones, exam classes and Business English learners. 'An invaluable manual for anyone thinking of embarking on a TEFL journey. Michelle Maxom's step-by-step guide provides practical tips to get you started and offers key advice to help unleash the creative English language teacher within' - Claire Woollam, Director of Studies & a Teacher Trainer at Language Link, London.