120 Hour Advanced TEFL Course with Au Pair Specialisation

Module One: How to Make Sense of Teacher/Learner Needs

In the first module of the course we take a proper look at how to make sense of learner needs. Understanding why your students need to learn English to start with can directly influence the way that you build lessons and do things, so it is worth getting to grips with that. We also provide the beginnings of an education into the English language. 

Module Two: How to Understand and Use Grammatical & Teaching Terminology

In the second module of the course we take a proper look at how you can teach grammar to your students. Grammar is a tricky task to try and master so it makes total sense that your students aren’t confident with it. 

Therefore, we strive to ensure that you’re ready for this part of teaching by helping you to become a grammar expert. You’ll learn all about how grammar is used in different places and how you can teach students in a way that you’ll feel confident with and they’ll understand. As a side note, we don’t make you take a quiz for this until later, because it’s a lot to get your head around.

Module Three: How to Plan Your Syllabus & Lessons

In the third module, you’ll learn all about how to design and plan lessons around a syllabus. You need to be able to make structured content which will suit your responsibilities, and we help with this by teaching you different planning tools, and how to work to a syllabus. We also show you how to control a classroom which is one of the harder things you’ll need to do.

Module Four: How to Teach Grammar

In the fourth module, we go through grammar again, but this time we take a proper deep dive into the world of grammar and look at how it can make a big difference to your students. We also look at official tests to see how effectively you’re grasping the course materials now, so be ready. 

Module Five: How to Teach Vocabulary

Now that you’ve gone through the fifth module in the course, you are ready to start looking at vocabulary. This is the midway point, so the concepts that we introduce after this will be a little bit harder to get your head around, but don’t worry, we make it easier to study. Did you know that there are roughly 171,000 words in the English language? Well, you will only have to teach a few hundred of them as part of the course, as we show you how to make vocabulary easy and accessible for your students.

Module Six: How to Teach Pronunciation 

So, in the sixth module, we look at pronunciation and how it can make a big difference to teaching. Your students will naturally gravitate towards you as a role model for how to pronounce words and get difficult terms nailed, so we help you to master pronunciation and also how to teach pronunciation as a lesson. 

Module Seven: How to Teach Reading & Listening Skills

The seventh module of the course is all about receptive skills, specifically listening and reading. These help students to receive language, and once you’ve finished up with this module, you’ll feel confident delivering lessons in receiving language through speaking and listening. 

Module Eight:  How to teach Writing & Speaking Skills

In the eighth module we get into productive skills, which help with producing language. You’ll learn how to teach writing and speaking, both of which are key parts of any English skillset. 

We help you to give students the specific tools that they need to thrive in this specific arena. You’ll be ready to teach these skills and feel confident doing so. 

Module Nine: How to Teach English for Specific Purposes

In the ninth module of the course we take a look at how to teach English for a specific purpose, which is known most commonly as ESL. It’s important to understand that all of your students will be learning English for a specific purpose and this can heavily influence why they learn and how you teach them. Your job will be to tailor lessons to a specific need and see how you can help students grow and develop. 

Throughout this module we take a look at how you can teach English for specific purposes and how you grow as a teacher during this process.

Module Ten: How to Move from Learning to Earning

In the final module of the course, we look at how you can move into teaching and expand your earnings to build a career as a teacher. We show you how to find jobs and build up a career, and if you need to take advantage of some industry connections, then we’re happy to let you use ours to start picking up jobs. 

Module Seven: How to Teach Reading & Listening Skills

These are called ‘Receptive skills’ because the student is receiving language. By the end of this lesson, you’ll know the most effective ways to engage students in reading English and how to write it. This includes setting listening tasks to music, radio and recordings, to reading letters, emails, Facebook posts both inside and outside the classroom. Oh yes, you’ll be setting a lot of homework for your students!

Module Eight:  How to teach Writing & Speaking Skills

These are called ‘Productive skills’ because students produce language. You’ll learn plenty of useful ideas about how to get your students up on their feet and chatting to you about hobbies, politics or story telling. You’ll also get help with how to teach your students to write English – at all levels, from favorite foods, to the economy in Spain.

Module Nine: How to Teach English for Specific Purposes

Your students have a reason why they want to learn English. You’ll learn how to differentiate these different types of students and how to tackle their lessons. For example, how to teach teenagers, or business people or exam classes to help students get into universities in the US or UK. You’ll end lesson 9 armed with a breadth of knowledge about who you are teaching, why you are teaching them and what you should teach them.

Module Ten: How to Move from Learning to Earning

Here you’ll get up-to-date tips on the current employment market. Once you’ve secured your first job, in this module you’ll receive details about how to get the best career ‘teachers toolkit’ ready to jump into any job online or abroad.