Greetings from Prague and The Language House! I'm Chris Westergaard, the founder and one of the teacher trainers at The Language House TEFL in Prague.
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What's my favourite teaching resource? Hands down this is a lesson plan site called Fluentize. Hundreds of amazing lessons, all built around real-world videos, with dazzling downloadable pdfs. This site will save you hundreds of hours of lesson planning and give you great content for your students. Use my code CHRIS20 for 20% off - app.fluentize.com/ Try for FREE - Your purchase supports my channel! Thank you!
'You don't want to use translation, because that's not really good either'. Sure, because you're ashamed of how bad your language learning skills are, and there you are, trying to teach them something? Why waste precious time hoping they will learn something you can teach them in two seconds by translating it? And don't give me that bull about having multilingual classes - English is being taught to monolingual student grouos in 99% of classes.
The British Council has it as the past simple. I’d write to them and get this cleared up. Speaking of mistakes… 1. *your verbs 2. *not Simple Past It’s very easy to be critical if someone wants to be. In one sentence, you’ve made more errors than in my 10-minute video. Creating value is harder to do. If you check out the description of the video, I mention the typo with the conditional examples :) Anyway, thanks for watching 👍
It takes you one minute and 50 secs to get to your point. As well like most Americans you have already made a grammatical error in speaking. I have been teaching grammar longer than you have been alive.
Omg I feel so dumb right now T.T I wish I watched this video before starting to teach, I am an extremely introverted person and I am struggling with the teaching thing wondering if I can actually be a good teacher :( you described me exactly how I think the students look me sometimes in the first clip, and it´s embarrasing to admit it bc I keep self-sabotaging instead of trying to be more confident. Thank you for the video, there are some points I still need to improve like the tone of the voice, the confidence and the last tip is a gem tbh, I am going to put it on practice, I always study and review my lessons but I think I still need to study even more in order to become like the queen in the topic lmao, thank u for the video!!!
I remember watching this during my first TEFL teaching job- coming off an online certificate (and with no teaching experience beforehand), I had NO idea what I was doing in the classroom, and these videos helped immensely. Meeting you a little later in Prague itself was a real treat.
Hi Chris, is this considered A-level for teens & adults? I realize A, B, C levels are used in UK education school systems, much like in Asian countries. I'm just trying to see the American equivalent. Some jobs are asking me if I have A-level experience. All these acronyms are like alphabet soup.
Super helpful content - especially as teaching students who aren't familiar with Roman script. Where can we go for lesson plans for these beginners. Fluentize doesn't seem to have many beginner lessons. Most beginner lessons require some level of reading and vocab prior to starting the course. I am having trouble finding total beginner resources.
Your video is bloody brilliant. I'm a new volunteer ESL teacher with absolutely no experience or education on how. to. teach. I need exactly the lessons you're offering: 1) Walk into the classroom. 2) Say hello. 3) Walk over to the board. 4) Write your name.... I've been looking for this PRACTICAL guidance since I started teaching (accidentally, I have to add) five weeks ago!
