TEFL Prague and Abroad

Here's the video demonstration for the lesson plan 'The Deadliest Animal'. The class I shot it with was a band new group of students at The Language House TEFL. Each course, the trainers of the program teach a demo lesson for the TEFL trainees with the Czech Students. If you like the video, please leave a comment on Youtube and subscribe to my channel. It helps get the word out there.

Teaching Beginners is a much different animal than teaching any other level . Since the students have such a low level of language, you have to really change up the entire approach and lesson structure. Some general tips are to... 1. Hardly ever speak and only use the target language of the lesson when you do. 2. Drill, drill and then drill some more. (And then drill even more). 3. Plan out exactly what you want your students to be using and stick with that. 4. All mistakes need to be corrected. 5. Even at the lowest levels, still work on contractions and natural language. 6. Use your body and picture to teach words. Avoid any kind of verbal explanation when possible. 7. Build up your language points slowly and don't jump all over the place. 8 Assume that they know nothing and teach/introduce all language one point at a time. Introduction to the 5 points (stages) From observing and teaching hundreds, if not thousands of lessons, I've devised a pretty effective me...