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Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies Making Everything Easier! Teaching English as a Foreign Language for Dummies 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 Cope with different age groups and capabilities 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 eas y, think again! Explaining grammar, or teaching correct pronunciation while simu ltaneously developing your own skills as a teacher can be a huge challenge. Whet her 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 b e a brilliant teacher. Make an educated decision decide between the various courses, qualifications and job locations available to you Start from scratch plan well-structured lessons and develop successful and effec tive teaching techniques Focus on skills from reading and writing, to listening and speaking, get your st udents sounding and feeling fluent Get your head around grammar 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. Michel le Maxom's step-by-step guide provides practical tips to get you started and off ers key advice to help unleash the creative English language teacher within." Claire Woollam, Director of Studies & a Teacher Trainer at Language Link London Open the book and find: TEFL, TESOL, EFL what all the acronyms mean The best course books and materials to supplement your teaching Advice on running your class and handling difficulties Lesson plans that you can use in the classroom Activities and exercises to keep your students on their toes Constructive ways to correct and assess your students' performance Ways to inject some fun into your classes Insider information on the best jobs around the world Product Details Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (January 24, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0470745762 ISBN-13: 978-0470745762 About the Author Michelle Maxom has been teaching English throughout the UK and Italy since 1997 and has the Trinity Certificate and Licentiate Diploma in Teaching English to Sp eakers of Other Languages. Formerly Director of Studies at Avalon School of Engl ish, she now trains would-be TEFL teachers and runs one-to-one and executive Eng

lish courses. Reviews I'm planning to teach English as a foreign language and this was my first choice as a primer. It's complete and contains a vast amount of information, all of wh ich is relevant. It is well-organised and clearly written by a master of her cra ft. What surprised me was that there was so much on the business of teaching stu dents of all ranges of ability. There is a lot of treatment of the teaching of g rammar as well, and these parts are quite intense. Actually, I learned a lot abo ut my own languages; for example, I didn't realise that there are twelve tenses (plus four conditional moods) in English! My only criticism was that, when refer ring to tenses, the writer spoke of the 'past perfect simple' tense, which confu sed me because it is clear that the simple and perfect are separate tenses. In a ddition, the process of converting it to Kindle format has lost some of the foot note and sideline layout but that's not really important. Those points aside, it contains links to good and useful resources and I found this book easy to read and will keep it as a basic reference. This book is well organized, well-written and simple enough without being condes cending. It is definitely for TOTAL newbies in the field of ESL, those that don' t even know what country they wish to teach in. It has details of several of the different ESL countries, but also goes in depth on classroom management and tec hniques for teaching reading-writing-listening-speaking. Overall a great intro f or beginning teachers. I bought this book because I work with someone who wanted to learn English bette r. I offered to teach him, but cautioned him by stating, "Look, I'm not a teache r, but I'll do my best to help you." The biggest challenge is explaining the atr ocity known as written English... But this book does a fabulous job in giving so me direction on where to start, and where to take it. Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies. Good information and instruc tion in the book; easy to understand; applicable information in the book.