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Pre course 1 – What makes a good teacher?

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Before starting the actual TEFL course you’re asked to finish the pre-course task. It mainly consists of some knowledge tests – or at least that’s what I assumed. I subscribed about a week ago and promptly received an email afterwards. To be honest I just quickly read over it to see what it was about without really paying attention as I wanted to do it more thoroughly later. For fun I made one test where you had to count the sounds of the words. For example the word “knight” has three sounds; an “n” sound (as the k is silent), an i sound (like the word eye) and the final “t” sound (as also the g and h are silent). And that with a bunch of words, some easier, some more difficult and some depending on how you want to pronounce them (English or British). I really liked this test because it made me think of English in a different way and you’re not asked to do this anywhere else. On a side note: I only had one error which made me feel pretty good about myself. Anyhow, the email sa