TEFL Prague and Abroad

 Here's a video of some basic eliciting in the classroom.

Here's a lesson that you can do with intermediates and up. I just shot the video for it (coming soon) so make sure to take a look at it. The lesson primarily deals with lexis, with the topic of words associated with appearance. At the end of the lesson, students become sketch artists for the police and have to ask questions to a witness about a crime.  The lesson I did took right around 60 minutes but can be lengthened or shortened if needed. Materials needed: Pictures of people (about 10 or so depending on size) Warmer: (I had students ask each other about their weekends) Intro: (just a couple of minutes) Change something about your appearance and ask students to tell you what's changed about you. Elicit the concept of appearance. Lead In: (5-10 minutes) Have these questions pre-boarded. Demo the questions out with the students and then put them in groups. 1. What things about your appearance stand out about you? (you probably have to pre-teach stand out) ...

Skip Potts does a demo to a group of intermediate Czech students. The first activity is a Find Someone Who Bingo icebreaker. The second activity is a guess who am I game. The length of the actual activities were about 15-20 minutes. The video has been edited to around 6 minutes. Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2WeZlHaL0

 Here's the video of the lesson I just created and was able to teach recently 'Worst Matchmaker Ever'. You can find the lesson for this here Lesson Plan . It was a new class, so I started of with quick icebreaker (not shown in the video). If you are interested in teaching abroad, check out our TEFL certificate in Prague The Langauge House. Here's the video

  Graduate Spotlights are stories from graduates from The Language House TEFL in Prague. This is one is from John Stanlake, graduate of The Language House TEFL. Language House TEFL graduate John Stanlake John graduated from the Language House in March 2009. He has since taught in the UK, Rwanda, and Bangladesh and he speaks here about how and why he got into teaching, why he chose the Language House, and about WorldTeach, the volunteer teaching organisation he volunteered with in Rwanda. How did you get into teaching? In all honesty I had never really planned to be a teacher. It just kind of happened due to circumstances and because of some choices which inadvertently led me onto that path! I studied Politics and International Relations at university and directly after this I worked in local government for a while. For a number of reasons I decided I needed a change, so I applied to volunteer with WorldTeach. Looking back now I am certain I made the rig...

Love is in the air with Valentine's Day approaching. Here's a listening lesson that deals with these themes.  Just off of the top of my head, I can think of a dozen of different variations of this, so play around with it if you want to. If you want a lesson created for you, just give me any grammar, language point or topic and I'll get one to you. Topic: Dating.  Students listen to Frank Sinatra's 'How about You' (lyrics below). Students then create ' the worst dating agency in the world ' where they pair up the most unlikely of people. Materials needed: Frank Sinatra's 'How about You', Audio (speakers), pictures of different celebrities and horrifically ugly people. You're going to want about 10 or more photos total.  Introduction: about 3 minutes. Enter into the class looking depressed. When the students ask you what's wrong, tell them that you're lonely in the city and want to meet someone. Try to elicit how you cou...

Last week, The Language House TEFL in Prague, graduated 18 great new TEFL teachers on the course. You all did a tremendous job and it was a pleasure to work with you all. We are currently offering deals on our March, April and May courses of 125 Euros off. Sign up while the deal last www.thelanguagehouse.net Grads of the January 2013 course in Prague

7 New ESL Lessons. One a day. Starting tomorrow. All original and all highly interactive. Let's do this!