Updated 2024/2025 (VERIFIED A+)
TESOL - Answer- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
TEFL - Answer- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Traveling Teacher - Answer- Also known as the TEFL nomad
Expat Teacher - Answer- teachers find a country which they truly feel comfortable in,
and choose to call it home for good.
Private Tutor - Answer- great flexibility,$20-$30 per hour!
English language is made up of eight different types of word - Answer- Noun
Verb
Adjective
Pronoun
Adverb
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection
Noun - Answer- A person, place, thing, or idea
verb - Answer- Verbs describe an action, or the state of a subject..An action word....
Eat, sleep, jump, watch.
adjective - Answer- A word that describes a noun...Pretty, ugly, expensive.
Pronoun - Answer- A word that takes the place of a noun...........I/we/you/she/he/it/they
Adverb - Answer- A word that describes a verb..with reference to place, time, manner or
degree..Quickly, slowly (time)Very, thoroughly (degree)
Preposition - Answer- A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to
another word.They can exist as single words, or as prepositional phrases which contain
several words together, for example:
In, on, under, behind, in front of.
Conjuction - Answer- words that are used to join together sentences, ideas, phrases or
clauses....
connecting words such as and,but, or
,Interjection - Answer- small comments that have specific meanings often caused by
strong emotions.
A word that expresses emotion.....Oh dear, uh oh, huh
concrete objects - Answer- things which can be held or touch
Proper nouns - Answer- are the particular names of people/places/organizations, and
come with a capital first letter, for example, 'Jack', 'London', and 'Asia'. Proper nouns will
usually be taught after regular nouns, as they require additional instruction to capitalize
the first letter.
acting out the verb - Answer- showing video clips, or clear images
verbs can be organized - Answer- Action
Stative
Transitive
Instransitive
Auxiliary
Modal
Regular
Irregular
Action Verbs - Answer- are used to describe actions and movements. They're also
known as 'dynamic verbs',........Speak, play, work, eat, go.
Stative Verbs - Answer- These verbs describe a state instead of an action - they're often
associated with verbs covering thinking, feeling, sensing or owning. Examples include:
Like, hate, want, see, hear, believe, imagine, remember and appreciate.
Transitive verbs - Answer- are those which are accompanied by a direct object, for
example:
The phrase "I love..." has to be followed by something; "I love puppies/ice-cream/my
mother". Just the phrase "I love" on its own doesn't make sense.
Intransitive verbs - Answer- don't need to be accompanied by an object to make sense,
for example:
"She laughed." or "We talked." are full sentences that don't need any extra information.
Auxiliary Verbs - Answer- are used to support the 'main' or most dominant verb in a
sentence.three most common auxiliary verbs in English are "be", "do" and "have", and
they are often used for grammatical reasons, rather than introducing a direct change to
a sentence's meaning.
He is reading a book.
, Modal Verbs - Answer- are a type of auxiliary verb which express ability, permission or
possibility. Examples of common modal verbs are:
Can, could, might, must, should, will and would......
it can help to group them by theme, for example:
Ability - teach can and its past tense, could, as in "I couldn't play the piano but now I
can."
Permission - teach can and may, as in "Can I/ May I open a window?"
Possibility - introduce could, may, might and will as a way to talk about possibilities or
certainties in the future.
Obligation - discuss the difference between could, should and must and compare how
strongly the speaker feels. "You could ask the doctor about your rash", "You should ask
the doctor about your rash" and "You must ask the doctor about your rash" all have a
different sense of urgency.
Phrasal Verbs - Answer- are made up of several words together are known as phrasal
verbs. They are usually formed with a verb combined with an adverb or preposition.
Examples include:
Take off, look into, get away with, or put up with.
Regular verbs - Answer- are those which simply need the addition of "ed" at the end of
the word, to be used in the past, or past participle tenses.
wanted
Irregular verbs - Answer- don't follow this rule - instead the past forms are all different.
eat ate eaten
What are Affixes? - Answer- are essentially parts that are added to words to alter their
meaning or create new words altogether. The most common type of affixes are prefixes
and suffixes.
Prefixes - Answer- are attached to the front of a word, with the most common being 'un'.
Undo
Unable
Unafraid
Suffixes - Answer- additions at the end of a word that alter the meaning, create a new
word or change its grammatical function. A common suffix is 'er', which can be attached
to verbs to create a noun, or adjective:
Trainer
Walker
Happier