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One-time prices in USD

Choose your TEFL course

Pay securely and learn on our private LMS at tefl.institute. Our expert teachers create the content and provide your support.

6 months access · Support

120-hour Standard

$27 USD

Core TEFL plus online teaching. Selected videos, content review download and basic job support.

24 months access · Tutor support

120-hour Premium

$39 USD

More teaching videos, scenarios with tutor-written feedback, practical tasks and the job support bundle.

6 months access · Support

150-hour Standard

$35 USD

120-hour core plus deeper training for children, very young learners and adults. Standard extras included.

24 months access · Tutor support

150-hour Premium

$49 USD

Expanded training across age groups, plus Premium teaching videos, scenario feedback and job support bundle.

Every option includes a QR-verifiable digital certificate after successful completion. Need the details? 120-hour course · 150-hour course

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Accredited online TEFL certification

120-hour TEFL course.
From $27.

Build your foundation for teaching English online or in a classroom. You’ll study core TEFL units plus a full online teaching unit, with your QR-verifiable certificate included.

  • Standard $27 · Premium $39
  • Self-paced study · Certificate included
  • 24 core units · Online teaching included
Choose your 120-hour course

Same core training.
Choose the learning extras.

Standard keeps your course price low. Premium adds more teaching examples, guided scenarios and job preparation, with longer access.

120-hour StandardOne-time payment · USD

Professional training at a low price.

$27 120-hour TEFL

You’ll get the core training for independent study.

Your training

Industry-standard core TEFL units

plus full online teaching unit

120-hour QR certificate included
  • 6 months of access & support
  • Text lessons & selected teaching videos
  • Quizzes & practical teaching scenarios
  • Downloadable content review
  • Basic job support
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120-hour PremiumOne-time payment · USD

More guidance for your next step.

$39 120-hour TEFL

You’ll see teaching in action and get guidance that helps it click.

Your training

Industry-standard core TEFL units

plus full online teaching unit

120-hour QR certificate included
  • 24 months of access & tutor support
  • Watch teachers teachMore videos of teachers teaching real lessons.
  • Decide. Get feedback. Understand.More scenarios with tutor-written feedback to deepen your understanding.
  • Downloadable content review
  • Job support bundle & TEFL travel guide
Enroll in Premium · $39Questions about support? ↓

Both include a QR-verifiable digital certificate and a downloadable content review. Prices are one-time payments in USD.

Inside the actual course

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Actual IntrepidTEFL course content

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Industry-standard core TEFL units

Learn what a new teacher needs.

You’ll connect grammar, methodology and lesson planning with the decisions teachers make. The course covers online and in-person teaching knowledge.

Your 120-hour foundation

Plan a lesson that works.

Build clear aims, useful practice and checks that tell you what students understand.

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Your 120-hour foundation

A full online teaching unit.

Learn to adapt pacing, interaction and classroom tools for a screen.

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Your 120-hour foundation

Your certificate is included.

Finish successfully and download your digital certificate with QR verification.

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What you’ll study

120-hour TEFL course curriculum

Explore all 24 core units and the final assessment. Search a topic or open a unit to see its focus and learning objectives.

Unit 1TEFL Profession Introduction

Overview: Introduces the TEFL profession and explores where, how, and with whom English teachers work. Learners examine online teaching, private lessons, language schools, institutional settings, and global English.

  • Explain what TEFL involves across online, private, and institutional contexts.
  • Compare learner profiles and identify common English-learning goals.
  • Recognize how context shapes lesson design and teacher responsibilities.
  • Reflect on possible TEFL pathways and personal teaching strengths.
Foundations
Unit 2Basic Grammar

Overview: Builds grammar confidence through the major word classes of English and focuses on how teachers can explain form, meaning, and use clearly.

  • Identify the main parts of speech accurately.
  • Explain grammar through contextual examples.
  • Recognize common learner errors with form and word use.
  • Design simple grammar practice activities.
Grammar
Unit 3ESL Teaching

Overview: Explores what teachers do before, during, and after lessons, including instruction, guidance, modeling, assessing, and professional classroom behavior.

  • Describe the key roles a TEFL teacher performs.
  • Build positive rapport while maintaining authority.
  • Use clear instructions and appropriate teacher language.
  • Reflect on how teacher behavior affects lesson outcomes.
Classroom
Unit 4The Classroom

Overview: Focuses on routines, classroom control, grouping, monitoring, instructions, and the practical habits that keep lessons organized and productive.

  • Set up routines and expectations for smooth lessons.
  • Use pair work, group work, and seating arrangements effectively.
  • Respond to behavior issues calmly and appropriately.
  • Monitor student work while maintaining class control.
Classroom
Unit 5Grammar Tense: Present

Overview: Covers the present tense system and how to teach routines, current actions, ongoing states, examples, timelines, and controlled-to-freer practice.

  • Differentiate the main present tense forms and uses.
  • Teach present forms through context and timelines.
  • Identify common learner errors.
  • Create controlled and freer practice tasks.
Grammar
Unit 6Motivated Learners

Overview: Examines why learners engage, participate, and persist, with practical focus on confidence, goals, feedback, classroom climate, and motivation types.

  • Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
  • Identify factors that raise or lower learner engagement.
  • Use praise and feedback to increase confidence.
  • Respond effectively to signs of low interest or withdrawal.
Classroom
Unit 7Student-Centering

Overview: Shifts attention from teacher explanation to learner participation, interaction, autonomy, and meaningful language use.

  • Reduce unnecessary teacher talking time.
  • Increase learner interaction and decision-making.
  • Use scaffolding to support independent task completion.
  • Design pair and group work with clear language goals.
Classroom
Unit 8Grammar Tense: Future

Overview: Explains how English expresses future meaning through plans, predictions, arrangements, schedules, spontaneous decisions, and context-based form choice.

  • Differentiate common future forms and meanings.
  • Teach future choices through situations and timelines.
  • Identify frequent learner errors.
  • Create speaking and writing tasks using future forms.
Grammar
Unit 9Teaching Methods

Overview: Introduces major approaches to language teaching and encourages informed flexibility rather than rigid dependence on one method.

  • Differentiate between approach, method, and technique.
  • Compare traditional and communicative teaching models.
  • Balance fluency and accuracy work.
  • Use interactive and task-based techniques appropriately.
Foundations
Unit 10Planning Lessons

Overview: Teaches how to build organized, purposeful, realistic lessons using aims, outcomes, staging, timing, interaction, checking, and feedback.

  • Write clear lesson aims and measurable outcomes.
  • Sequence activities in a teachable order.
  • Use planning frameworks such as PPP and ESA.
  • Adapt planning choices based on learner response.
Classroom
Unit 11Midterm

Overview: Reviews core concepts from the first half of the course, including grammar, methodology, lesson planning, motivation, and classroom practice.

  • Demonstrate understanding of foundational TEFL concepts.
  • Apply grammar knowledge from early units.
  • Recognize effective lesson structure and planning choices.
  • Identify practical motivation and engagement strategies.
Assessment
Unit 12Grammar Tense: Past

Overview: Covers past tense forms and teaching approaches for sequence, duration, completion, interrupted actions, earlier past actions, and narrative meaning.

  • Differentiate the main past tense forms and uses.
  • Teach past meaning through timelines and contextual examples.
  • Use storytelling tasks to practice past language.
  • Create past tense lessons from controlled to freer use.
Grammar
Unit 13Advanced Grammar

Overview: Develops advanced grammar teaching through conditionals and reported speech, focusing on meaning, tense shifting, and student-friendly explanations.

  • Teach conditionals clearly and accessibly.
  • Explain real, possible, and hypothetical meanings.
  • Present reported speech in manageable stages.
  • Use concept-checking questions to confirm understanding.
Grammar
Unit 14Teaching Vocabulary

Overview: Focuses on teaching vocabulary for communication, retention, and active use, including meaning, pronunciation, spelling, collocation, and word grouping.

  • Select useful vocabulary based on learner level and goals.
  • Teach meaning through visuals, context, and guided discovery.
  • Highlight collocations and lexical relationships.
  • Move learners from recognition to active vocabulary use.
Skills
Unit 15Teaching Productive Skills

Overview: Looks at speaking and writing as productive skills requiring support, task design, correction strategies, confidence building, and purposeful feedback.

  • Design speaking tasks with real reasons to communicate.
  • Teach writing through planning, drafting, and revising.
  • Use correction strategies for speaking and writing.
  • Assess productive work with useful criteria.
Skills
Unit 16Teaching Pronunciation Skills

Overview: Treats pronunciation as a communication tool, covering individual sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, intonation, and connected speech.

  • Teach pronunciation with intelligibility as the main goal.
  • Model stress and intonation clearly.
  • Use drilling and pronunciation activities purposefully.
  • Integrate pronunciation into speaking and listening lessons.
Skills
Unit 17Receptive Skills

Overview: Introduces reading and listening as active skills that require prediction, strategy use, comprehension support, and staged lesson design.

  • Use pre-, while-, and post-stage lesson structure.
  • Teach skimming, scanning, and predicting.
  • Sequence tasks from gist to detail.
  • Extend receptive work into speaking or writing follow-up.
Skills
Unit 18Teaching Receptive Skills

Overview: Goes deeper into listening and reading sub-skills, text selection, learner processing, comprehension breakdowns, and scaffolded task design.

  • Teach listening and reading for gist, detail, and inference.
  • Select materials suited to level and lesson aims.
  • Support comprehension of speed and connected speech.
  • Diagnose common causes of receptive-skill difficulty.
Skills
Unit 19Teaching Equipment

Overview: Covers classroom and online tools including boards, visuals, handouts, realia, devices, and digital resources, with focus on purposeful use.

  • Select equipment based on lesson aims and learner needs.
  • Use boards, visuals, and handouts effectively.
  • Integrate realia and props into communicative tasks.
  • Adapt resources for low-tech and high-tech environments.
Classroom
Unit 20Feedback & Assessment

Overview: Explains how to assess learners fairly and meaningfully using informal and formal assessment, test types, rubrics, and feedback cycles.

  • Differentiate formative and summative assessment.
  • Use placement, progress, and achievement measures appropriately.
  • Create tasks for reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
  • Use assessment results to adjust future teaching.
Assessment
Unit 21Games in Teaching

Overview: Examines game-based learning and gamification as tools for participation, motivation, challenge, movement, collaboration, and language practice.

  • Explain the difference between gamification and game-based learning.
  • Design language games that remain purposeful.
  • Use rewards and challenge without unhealthy pressure.
  • Maintain control during high-energy tasks.
Classroom
Unit 22Teaching Special Groups

Overview: Introduces special learner groups including young learners, exam-preparation students, and adults with specific interests such as business English.

  • Set up and manage an effective young learner classroom.
  • Use engaging techniques such as TPR.
  • Conduct needs analysis for different learner types.
  • Understand common assessments such as IELTS.
Classroom
Unit 23Online Teaching

Overview: Prepares teachers for online teaching through platform use, pacing, interaction, digital classroom management, and backup planning.

  • Set up and manage an effective online teaching space.
  • Use chat, breakout rooms, and screen sharing confidently.
  • Adapt task flow and instructions for online delivery.
  • Monitor understanding and participation remotely.
Online & Work
Unit 24Finding Work

Overview: Takes learners through the world of ESL teaching abroad and online, including job searching, demos, applications, recruiters, and professional expectations.

  • Identify common TEFL job types and destinations.
  • Understand where to search for online and overseas roles.
  • Prepare for demos, profiles, and applications.
  • Approach job adverts with realistic expectations.
Online & Work
Final Exam120-Hour Course Completion Assessment

Overview: The final assessment checks understanding across the core TEFL course, including methodology, grammar, lesson planning, classroom management, language skills, assessment, online teaching, and job preparation.

  • Demonstrate understanding of core TEFL concepts.
  • Apply teaching principles to practical classroom scenarios.
  • Recognize effective approaches to planning, management, motivation, and skills teaching.
  • Consolidate knowledge needed for beginning online or overseas English teaching pathways.
Assessment
IntrepidTEFL certificate with an embedded QR verification code
Digital certificate included

A certificate employers can verify.

Once you’ve completed the course successfully, your digital TEFL certificate includes QR verification. There’s no extra course fee to add that code.

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Would 150 hours suit you better?

Go deeper into teaching different ages.

The 120-hour course already covers core TEFL and online teaching. The 150-hour course adds in-depth training for children and very young learners, including phonics and sight words, plus adult teaching beyond the basics.

You’ll receive certificates at the completed 120-hour and 150-hour stages. Choose it if those extra teaching contexts fit your plans.

150-hour Standard $35150-hour Premium $49
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IntrepidTEFL’s course accreditation and provider credentials give you independent sources to check. You can also read learner feedback on GoAbroad and Go Overseas.

Accreditation, certificate verification and employer acceptance each answer a different question. Hiring and work eligibility depend on the role, employer and country.

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120-hour TEFL course FAQs

Check the access, support and certificate details so you can choose the option that fits you.

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What’s included in the $27 120-hour TEFL course?

Standard includes the 24-unit core course, a full online teaching unit, text lessons with selected videos, quizzes and teaching scenarios, support, basic job support, 6 months of access, a downloadable content review and a QR-verifiable digital certificate after successful completion.

What does the $39 Premium option add?

Premium adds more videos of teachers teaching real lessons, more scenario-based learning with tutor-written feedback, more practical tasks and tutor support. You’ll also get 24 months of access and a job support bundle with CV-making help, interview tips and a TEFL teaching travel guide.

Does Standard include tutor support?

Standard includes technical and account support rather than full tutor support. Choose Premium if you’d like tutor support and the extra guided learning activities.

Can I use the course for online and in-person teaching?

The course has a dedicated online teaching unit while covering core TEFL methodology, grammar, lesson planning, classroom management, language skills and assessment. Employers set their own requirements, so check the jobs you’re interested in before enrolling.

Is this a teaching practicum?

No. You’ll learn online through course material, examples, quizzes and scenarios. The course doesn’t include supervised teaching practice with real students. If your target job requires a practicum or a different qualification, check that requirement before choosing your training.

How long do I have to finish?

Standard includes 6 months of access. Premium includes 24 months. You’ll study at your own pace, and the time you need depends on your starting knowledge and study schedule. Both include a downloadable content review you can keep.

Is the TEFL certificate included?

Yes. A digital 120-hour TEFL certificate with QR verification is included after successful completion. Apostille processing and courier services, if you need them, are separate services.

Is a cheap TEFL certificate accepted everywhere?

There isn’t a certificate that satisfies every employer and work route. Check the required training hours, course type, degree and work-permission rules for the roles you want. Independent accreditation and QR verification help explain and verify your training; they don’t guarantee a job or visa.

Should I choose 120 hours or 150 hours?

Choose 120 hours if you want the core TEFL foundation plus online teaching. Choose 150 hours if you want deeper training for children, very young learners and adults. Both course lengths have Standard and Premium options. The 150-hour route includes certificates at both completed stages.

Do I need previous teaching experience?

You don’t need previous teaching experience to begin the core training. You’ll need strong enough English to understand the lessons and assessments. Job requirements are separate from course entry requirements. Contact us if you’re unsure whether the course fits your needs.

How do payment and learning work?

You’ll pay securely and learn on our modern, private LMS at tefl.institute/intrepidtefl. Our expert teachers make and update the course content, and we offer the support. Your enrollment button opens a short course summary before continuing to the selected LMS course page.

Can I try the course before paying?

Yes. Our free TEFL lesson lets you explore the teaching content and practice activities before choosing a course. Read our current terms for the refund policy and its conditions before enrolling.

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