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[dwightz]

I'll be leaving for Thailand shortly and don't want to carry a lot of stuff with me.

What 2 TEFL training books would be recommended for a new teacher to use when finished with TEFL Certification?

Collections of lesson plan outlines?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks, DZ

[80daze]

Hi dwightz,

I brought 3 books to China with me, they are-

Teaching English as a Foreign Language - David Riddell

Learning Teaching - Jim Scrivener

The Practice of English Language Teaching -Jeremy Harmer

I would recommend Riddell and one of the others, however in hindsight I would like to have also brought a really good grammar book!

Hope this helps

[dwightz]

Appreciate the input. DZ

[Pauleddy]

All of those books and more are available in BKK.

This isn't like the Sudan.

U certainly need a grammar book (also available). I am still learning grammar after 17 yrs of TEFL-ing.

Yr course tutors will have a set book (like Harmer), so u shd wait until u get here and not worry.

Lesson plans--many online if u google. IMO you need to be able to devise your own and to understand how a lesson 'runs'. A lesson plan is not always like a recipe to be followed. You always modify or vary.

Eddy

[dwightz]

Thanks for the heads up.

[sr]

Don�t forget you are dealing with Thai teachers, and they want to see your course syllabus before you submit it for approval. Yes they might change it, because a lot of them don�t understand grammar. Case in point I had this one PhD looked at mine, and told me that it was Department of Language, so I tried to explain to her that if it was reversed Language Department then she would be correct. I am wrong so I mixed it up with her, so she had a PhD she won. Later on one of her friends pointed out to her that she was wrong, and I did not say anything. This was at a university.