Teach English [antikvár]

Introduction To the teacher Teach English is a teacher training course which develops practical skills in teaching English as a foreign language. The course contains 24 units. Each unit focusses on a different area of methodology, and provides about four hours of training material. The units cover a wide range of teaching skills and techniques: basic classroom skills (presenting, eliciting, organising practice, correcting errors); practical techniques for developing listening, speaking, reading and writing; use of aids and materials (the blackboard, other visual aids, workcards); and skills of preparation and evaluation. This is the Teacher's Workbook accompanying the course. Each unit in the Workbook contains five or six activities, which you will follow in the training session under the trainer's guidance. These activities take the form of discussion, practice and simple workshop tasks, and are designed to help you develop insights into teaching methods as well as to give you practice in teaching techniques. The final activity in each unit is 'Lesson preparation', which will give you an opportunity to apply techniques from the training course to one of your own lessons. This is followed by a 'Self-evaluation sheet', which you can use to help you reflect on your own teaching after the training session. This Workbook also contains four 'Background texts', which deal with more theoretical aspects of language teaching. These appear after every fifth unit, but can be read at any point in the course. At the end of the Workbook, there are brief summaries of each unit for reference.