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Explore where English teachers work and how learner goals shape the decisions they make.

• Compare online, private and classroom teaching contexts.
• Recognize different learner needs and reasons for studying English.

Build a clear understanding of word classes and how to explain them through examples.

• Identify common parts of speech in context.
• Connect grammatical form with meaning and use.

Look at the roles a teacher moves between before, during and after a lesson.

• Give clear explanations and instructions.
• Build rapport while maintaining a purposeful lesson.

Explore routines, grouping and the practical organization that helps lessons run smoothly.

• Use pairwork, groupwork and monitoring purposefully.
• Respond to classroom difficulties calmly.

Work through present forms, their meanings and ways to practice them with learners.

• Distinguish routines from actions happening now.
• Plan controlled practice and meaningful communication.

Consider what helps learners participate, persist and feel able to use the language.

• Connect activities with achievable learner goals.
• Use encouragement and feedback with a clear purpose.

Shift attention towards what learners do with English during a lesson.

• Create space for learner interaction.
• Support learners without doing the task for them.

Explore how English expresses plans, predictions, arrangements and future decisions.

• Choose useful contexts for different future forms.
• Help learners distinguish meanings with examples.

Compare approaches and techniques so you can choose activities for a reason.

• Connect methods with learner needs.
• Balance attention to accuracy and communication.

Learn how aims, stages, timing and interaction fit together in a lesson plan.

• Write a clear learning aim.
• Sequence activities and allow time for feedback.

Bring together the ideas from the first part of the course and check your understanding.

• Review grammar and classroom principles.
• Apply teaching knowledge to course assessment questions.

Explore past forms through events, stories, sequences and earlier experiences.

• Use context to clarify past meaning.
• Plan practice that moves towards a communicative task.

Develop explanations for more demanding patterns, including conditionals and reported speech.

• Break complex language into manageable examples.
• Check meaning as well as grammatical form.

Consider what it means to know a word and how learners can remember and use it.

• Teach meaning, pronunciation and useful word combinations.
• Move from recognition towards active use.

Explore how to support speaking and writing through well-staged tasks.

• Give learners preparation and a reason to communicate.
• Choose useful correction and feedback.

Work with sounds, stress, rhythm and intonation as parts of communication.

• Model pronunciation clearly.
• Practice intelligibility within useful language tasks.

Examine reading and listening as active processes that require different strategies.

• Distinguish gist, detail and inference.
• Help learners prepare for a text or recording.

Go further into text selection, comprehension support and staged reading or listening lessons.

• Sequence tasks from broad meaning to specific understanding.
• Plan a purposeful follow-up activity.

Choose classroom and online resources according to what the lesson needs.

• Use boards, visuals, handouts and real objects purposefully.
• Prepare alternatives when equipment is unavailable.

Explore how teachers find out what learners understand and what to teach next.

• Distinguish ongoing feedback from formal assessment.
• Use evidence from learner work to inform the next lesson.

Consider how games can create useful language practice while remaining manageable.

• Give a game a clear language aim.
• Plan instructions, participation and feedback.

Explore how lessons change for young learners and groups with particular goals.

• Consider age, interests and learner needs.
• Adapt activities to the group rather than relying on one format.

Prepare for teaching through a screen, where interaction and pacing need careful thought.

• Use online tools to support participation.
• Plan routines and alternatives for technical interruptions.

Explore applications, recruiters, job adverts and professional expectations.

• Prepare to discuss your teaching approach.
• Check the requirements of individual roles before applying.

Bring together the teaching knowledge developed across the course. Your digital certificate follows successful completion of the required assessments.