Teaching English Conversation Course by Grade University

Conversation-Based Lessons

You can buy this Course for $ 59 or try Demo first

About the course

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Level

New to TEFL/TESOL, Experienced

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Your Students

Adults, Teenagers

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Required time

9 hours

This course is designed for teachers who are interested in making their classes more speaking-oriented. This course is a practical one. It will help you with the coursebook analysis, lesson planning, and feedback during a conversation-based class. It won’t only give you the tools on how to analyze your course books, but will also show some practical examples from up-to-date course books for adults and teenagers. The main problem that the course solves is how to make your students speak. We will create an effective framework that will allow you to structure your classes properly. 

Master the art of teaching speaking by digging deeper into methodology. Be sure that your conversation-based classes are there not only because of a syllabus. Dig deeper and develop an understanding of speaking as a skill. Experiment with different speaking task types, and types of feedback to make sure your students get the best learning experience.

Course Program (in Ukrainian)

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Keywords

  • Activities
  • Speaking
  • Lesson frameworks

Course authors and tutors

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Iryna Chernivchan

Course Author

TKT, TESOL/TEFL, CELTA and DELTA (Module 1) certified teacher of English, Assistant DOS

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Olena Lysytsia

Course Editor

CELTA Trainer, TKT Course Tutor
Teacher: General English, Business English, Young Learners

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Yulia Chorna

Course Editor

DELTA Module 1, CELTA certified teacher of General & Business English

What's in the course?

Efficient theory

from the most reliable sources.

Real-life examples 

from the coursebooks that are often used by teachers now.

Realistic lesson framework

that is actually doable during the lesson, with clear timing and staging.

Self-reflection tasks 

for you to expand your horizons and envisage a theory input into your real-life practice. 

Final test 

to be sure you have taken maximum from the course.

Course Outline

Strict Order

This course consists of integral units that should be done in a strict order. Within each unit, the tasks follow a strict order and should be done one by one.

Course outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:

  • be better aware of the nature of speaking as a skill, including the nature of L2 language acquisition
  • be better able to analyse your coursebook and identify tasks which use speaking as a tool and as a skill
  • be introduced to useful tips of lesson planning, including timing, staging, interaction patterns
  • learn how to choose the best speaking activity for your students
  • learn how to cope with common difficulties that students experience while performing a speaking task

The skills you will learn:

  • adapting coursebook tasks according to your students’ needs
  • analysing tasks according to their aims
  • planning engaging conversation based classes
  • using practical techniques to give feedback on speaking

Certificate

Based on the results of the final test you will get:

0–69% — Certificate of Attendance

70–89% — Certificate of Completion

90–100% — Certificate of Completion with Merit

Certificate will appear in your Profile.

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