Task 5

Read the opinion of an EFL teacher and make up this list with your views

• Appear confident- Timidity goes straight out of the window, or you go out of the window, and that applies as much to adult teaching as to the teaching of children, who you will probably also have to teach. A teacher can hide behind a lot of methodology, but personality of all kinds is important, too, whatever they tell you. You can be a quiet type or a lively type, for example, but you need to give the impression you know exactly what you are doing, and that takes confidence.
• Don’t have a chip on your shoulder about accents or other types of English than your own.
• Love your language, without arrogance. There is nothing more inspiring to students than a teacher who really appreciates our highly idiosyncratic, vocabulary-rich and tense-rich language, mad prepositions, terrible phrasal verbs, and all.
• You don’t have to be a grammarian to be a good teacher. But you must be willing to learn the grammar yourself, however, as you move through the levels, and be one step ahead of students at least.
• Be aware of your own mistakes in the classroom and try to work on them.