Chris from The Language House
Chris from The Language House
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.
Interested in teaching English abroad?
The Language House TEFL is a certification course that trains new English teachers every single month and helps them find teaching jobs worldwide. We have been around for nearly 20 years & are one of the most highly reviewed programs in the world. Join me and the rest of the staff in Prague! - www.thelanguagehouse.net
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You're amazing Thank you so much!!!
Thanks a lot for this brief grammar apresentation I really enjoy
Thank you so much!! Your content helped me a lot! Here's a comment for support!
I love Fluentize...but is there a similar resource for teaching children? Many thanks!
Excellent points, great ccq ing
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.
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Hello, I really like your tours and I have been applying them in order to provide an affective lesson to my Ss.
I'm going to a class in 15 minutes, i hope it will be good
I really like your videos.
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.
Ccq concept check questions
Wow you voice is so good
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I watched the video for 20 seconds and subscribed. It's obvious that your videos are packed with information and useful tips. Thank you so much.
Hi there! Do you have any tips on teaching English on Zoom? Primarily work with Afghan clients.
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Thanks teacher to teach us to be excellent teachers! 🤩😁
Thank you
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Thanks Chris. This was super helpful!
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!
Thank you Chris, greetings from Indonesia.
wow wonderful teaching
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Great..
This like just for your wife support
Hey Chris! Do you guys have an online course that goes through all of this?
Thanks, Chris! Your content is helping me a lot!
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Very glad to find you and your tutorials, i had some trouble teaching children and thanks to you i could handle them with more ease than before
Appreciate... but doesn't it take a lot of time...i mean wasting the time
Teaching beginners is sooooo hard!!! Half the job is keeping their attention!
Please tell me some information about that programme I wanna be an English teacher
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Can you explain where teaching letter names and sounds comes in? Do you spell out "Jacket" and show that ck work together to make one sound? That's where I'm unclear - teaching the basics of the alphabet. Thanks!
Damn I realized it's next to impossible for me to teach anyone anything. Thanks for making me realize that before I devalue my time and others'. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Why do you feel this way?
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Thank you for teaching us the right way you are really doing same as you saying
My pleasure
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How can I sign up
Send me an email - [email protected]
Hi, Chris! I have a question. Is drilling the pronunciation still appropriate to teach adults who are true beginners? I'm afraid they will be bored or even feel that I underestimate their competency as adults. Are there any other fun ways to drill the words for adults? Thanks in advance!
I recommend to teach drilling with the correct phonetics :) with some pictures
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Having students the ones to make examples using other forms (such as the negative form or the question form) of the same grammar is such a good idea! I need to try this in my next lesson. Thank you! P.S. I think for me, what works best in the beginning is to introduce contexts to students first, then function, and finally structure. This could be done by showing them a video or some pictures, then ask them some lead-in questions about the contents of the video or the pictures. For example, if the grammar is about present perfect tense, I’d probably show them a story about two or more people with different experiences in certain situations. For instance, John and Kevin go to the same school, and on that day they have to hand over their homework. However, only John did his homework. They would have a dialogue that contains the grammar. Maybe Kevin would panic and said “Oh no! I haven’t finished my homework yet! Have you finished it, John?” John would reply “I have. Even Carl has done it, and he’s always the lazy one. Why haven’t you?” Kevin said “I didn’t know we had to hand it over today!” From that example, we already cover almost all of the forms/structures of the grammar point we need to teach. Then what we need to do next is to lead them students to notice them, by giving some lead-in questions, CCQ, and highlight the keywords on the board.
but how would you make all your students listen to this dialog abt makung homework? its point for you but not for them as they don't get what and why you're up to.
@@annaeferina3796 It is just an example. Making students focused is an entirely separate technique.
@ginsan8198 as to me, they work at the same time and stick to e-o
@@annaeferina3796 Yes. I am merely giving an example of contextualizing the lesson, or making the lesson contained within a certain theme or tooic in real life situations. In the example above, the theme/topic is "homework". As for the grammar (which is present perfect tense), that is the language focus of the lesson. So we teach the grammar within the framework of that theme/topic. Of course there could be flexibility or modifications along the way. For example, depending on the characteristics of the students, the topic/theme could be changed. However, the idea remains the same, which is to ground the lesson to reality as much as possible. As for making students focused on the lesson, we could do multiple techniques. Our voice, body language, seating arrangement, randomizing students to answer a question, etc, those are the techniques we can use to make students focused. Making students pay attention has to do more with our delivery in the classroom.