Unit 1: Core Issues in the learning context Classroom dynamics 
Student interaction and teacher roles 
Learning styles 
Motivating students to learn 
Learner autonomy 
Lesson planning and determining aims 
Analysing written and spoken language 


Unit 2: Micro skills of teaching ESOL Teacher language 
Questioning techniques 
Giving instructions 
Pace in the classroom 
Drilling techniques 
Conducting feedback on classroom activities 
Correcting spoken errors 
Correcting written language 


Unit 3: Teaching skills-focused lessons Listening 1: A typical listening lesson 
Listening 2: Learner-friendly listening lessons 
Reading 1: Knowing about strategies and sub-skills 
Reading 2: Setting tasks for reading texts 
Speaking 1: Fluency
Speaking 2: Strategies 
Writing 1: A product approach and features of written language
Writing 2: A process approach 
Literacy 


Unit 4: Teaching language-focused lessons Teaching Pronunciation 
Teaching Vocabulary 1: Different approaches 
Teaching Vocabulary 2: Concept checking 
Teching Grammar 1: Different approaches 
Teching Grammar 2: Grammar from texts
Teaching Grammar 3: Using communicative activities 
Teaching Grammar 4: Concept-checking grammar
Task-based language learning 
Teaching functional language 


Unit 5: Materials and resources Using authentic materials 
Timetabling a sequence of lessons
Using songs
CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning 
Using DVD or video
Using games
Using drama activities

Resources

• Classroom Dynamics by Jill Hadfield (Oxford University Press 1992)
• Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers by Michael McCarthy (Cambridge University Press 1991)
• Drama Techniques: A resource book for communication activities for language teachers (3rd edition) by Alan Maley and Alan Duff (Cambridge University Press 2005)
• Games for Language Learning (3rd edition) by Andrew Wright, David Betteridge and Michael Buckby (Cambridge University Press 2006)
• How to Teach Grammar by Scott Thornbury (Pearson 1999)
• How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornbury (Pearson 2005)
• Learning Teaching (2nd edition) by Jim Scrivener (Macmillan 2005)
• Learning to Learn English by Gail Ellis and Barbara Sinclair (Cambridge University Press 1989)
• Music and Song by Tim Murphey (Oxford University Press 1992)
• Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom by Tricia Hedge (Oxford University Press 2000)
• The Practice of English Language Teaching (4th edition) by Jeremy Harmer (Pearson 2007)
• The Self Directed Teacher by David Nunan and Clarice Lamb (Cambridge University Press 1996)
• Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom by Jane Sherman (Cambridge University Press 2003)

The following DVD and workbook is referred to at the end of ETS TaskBook  lessons: