How to be a good English teacher

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How To Be A Good English Teacher? 10 Must-Have Skills
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
10 January
‘So you want to be a good English teacher? That’s great! Working to be the best English teacher you can is not only a great investment in your career, but will help all the students you teach.
Nobody forgets a great teacher. So whether you want to be a general English teacher, teach other subjects in English to university level or be creative with younger learners, make sure you’ve got all the skills you need. Why not come and do your teacher training in Galway, Ireland, where we can offer everything you need to become a good English teacher? And if you’re already a good English teacher – we can help you become even better!
Read on to find out about 10 skills that every good English teacher needs – and how to get them.
10 Skills That A Good English Teacher Needs
1. Excellent English pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar skills
It sounds obvious, but once you start work teaching in English you need to keep on improving your own language skills. Your students need to be able to understand what you say and trust your grammar. Sometimes teachers don’t get helpful feedback from their managers about this to support them to improve. Here at the Galway Cultural Institute, all our English teacher training courses include intensive lessons in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.
2. Confidence and skills to give motivating and interesting lessons to your students
Teachers are a bit like actors. You have to put on a show to get your students focusing on your lesson and keep their interest. Some people can feel very uncomfortable doing this. So our courses will give you the skills to keep your students learning, and the confidence to use them’

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Have you ever apologised for your ‘bad’ English?
‘You know, those situations where:

You’ve written an email to a supplier requesting information and you end the email with “Sorry for my English. I hope you can understand my email.”
You’re on the telephone to a client and they ask you “what do you mean” and you respond by apologising first “ Sorry, my English is not very good. What I mean is…”
You’ re in a meeting and you’ve just given a brief update on a project your team’s working on. One of your colleagues asks you a question that you don’t understand. You automatically assume it’s because of your ‘bad’ English skills and reply: “I’m sorry, but my English is not very good. Can you repeat that?” ‘

sample: A

https://englishwithatwist.com/2018/09/06/stop-apologising/

Sept. 6th, 2018

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by Shanthi Streat

https://englishwithatwist.com/blog/

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Introduction to British Expressions
‘Like any language, English words and phrases are adapted and change over time in different regions and cultures. For example, although Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales and the US are all made up of populations that mainly speaks English, each area has varying ways of greeting one another, and different words and phrases will have different meanings.

Why learn British expressions?.- When you are learning a new language, you will usually begin with the basics rather than focusing on informal slang or words and phrases that are location or culturally specific. This means you might struggle to understand British people you meet in your day-to-day, even if you are beginning to get to grips with the language!

In the UK, slang is a common part of most people’s vocabulary and learning some common British expressions will help you understand others in conversation more easily and also communicate your own needs more easily.’

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