Teacher training Courses

(Fundamentals of Communicative Language Teaching)

It's suitable for existing or future English Language Teachers who would like to learn about fundamental communicative language teaching methods, have better practical teaching performance as well as improve their language proficiency.

Includes Teaching Practice

Entry level: Higher Intermediate +

Level test result: 60%

(Methodology of Communicative Language Teaching)

It's suitable for existing or future English Language Teachers who would like to improve their methodological knowledge and practical teaching performance in the field of Communicative Language Teaching.

Includes Teaching Practice

Entry level:  Higher Intermediate +

Level test result: 60%

(Teaching Knowledge Test Preparation Course)

The course is suitable for teachers who would like to expand their knowledge of ELT and for those who would like to take up ELT as a teaching career. The course includes three modules as outlined below:

M1: Language and background to language learning and teaching

M2: Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching

M3: Managing the teaching and the learning process

The course will look at the following key areas:

• What does teaching pronunciation involve?

• Pronunciation activities

• Looking at a phonemic chart

• Stress and intonation

• Listening to accents

• Pronunciation and spelling

The course will look at the following key areas: 

• What is grammar?

• The place of grammar teaching in ELT

• Grammatical terms

• Presenting and explaining grammar

• Grammar practice activities

• Grammatical errors 

The course will look at the following key areas:

•  What is vocabulary and what needs to be taught?

• Presenting new vocabulary

• Remembering vocabulary

• Lexical approach in language teaching

• Testing vocabulary

This course will look at the following key areas:

• What does a successful speaking practice activity involve?

• Oral fluency focused lesson plans

• Discussion, role plays and related activities

• Assessing speaking

The course will look at the following key areas:

• What is a successful reading lesson?

• How do we read?

• Reading strategies

• Types of reading activities

• Improving reading skills

The course will look at the following key areas:

• What does real life listening involve?

• Real life listening in the classroom

• Learner problems with listening skills

• Activities in the classroom

• Adapting coursebook activities

The course will look at the following key areas:

Teaching procedures

Written versus spoken texts

Methodology to teaching writing

Giving feedback to writing

Teaching young learners versus adults

Planning lessons

YL Classroom management

Feedback to young learners

Teaching methodology to young learners

  Challenges in teaching exam courses

  Course design for exam courses

    Lesson planning on exam courses

   Teaching methodology and feedback

The course will look at the following key areas: 

• What is an effective lesson? 

• Metaphors

• Lesson plan components

• Assessing lesson plans

• Writing a lesson plan

The course will look at the following key areas:

Classroom language - Instruction giving and feedback

Concept checking questions

Grouping Students

Teaching roles/Giving feedback

The course will look at the following key areas: 

Classroom management

Lesson planning

Language analysis

Teaching practice

Revision on Tenses

Passives and Causative Have

Linkers

Different types of sentences and sentence transformation

Conditional clauses 

Topic based speaking activities

Discussion and simulation activities

Grammar based speaking activities

Speaking tasks and presentations

Writing CVs and Cover Letters

Writing emails

Writing reports and proposals

Writing Academic English

Analysing different text types