English Teacher Courses in Cape Town

English Plus Cape Town:
Teach English, earn money, travel the world and change lives! Situated in the leafy suburb of Claremont, 20 minutes south of Central Cape Town, English Plus Cape Town provides a range of internationally-accredited TESOL / TEFL teacher training courses. Our on-site TESOL Certification programs feature teaching practice modules. We also provide an online TESOL Certification program, and all of our teacher training qualifications are accredited by INTESOL. Our courses all include a module on teaching young learners, so you’ll be fully equipped with the skills that are in high demand by TESOL employers worldwide. English Plus Cape Town also provides English language lessons to students from around the world.

TEFL/ TESOL English Teacher Training Courses:

• 120-hour Combined TESOL Certification with 20 hours face-to-face practical lessons
This option gives you the flexibility to study the theory on your own with tutor support and to attend classes for the practical component of the course.

• 120-hour Combined TESOL Certification with 5 days of face-to-face practical lessons
During your teaching practice you will be involved in observation, lesson preparation and teaching.

Classroom management techniques, lesson planning and practice of communicative classroom activities will be developed.

• 120-hour Combined TESOL Certification with 2 weeks of face-to-face practical lessons
The combined TEFL/ TESOL course with 10 days (2 weeks) classroom based sessions gives you the flexibility to study the theory on your own first and then attend classes where theory and practical examples will be discussed and illustrated.

• Online 120-hour TESOL Certification with tutor support
INTESOL’s online courses have been developed to provide flexibility for those who want to study without having to commit to attending a centre full time.


General INTESOL Course Syllabus:

Unit 1: Study Skills
- How best to organise your study time.
- Pre Module Grammars
- Self-assessed tasks with answers provided to help with Unit 2 The Study of English.

Unit 2: The Study of English
- Module 1 – grammar-tasks on the understanding of grammar, tense & structure – to be completed with the use of a grammar book.
- Module 2 – phonetics – tasks relating to the phonetic alphabet(given), stress & intonation.
- Module 3 – lexis – tasks relating to the presentation of vocabulary, compound words, word stems, language appropriacy & frequency.

Unit 3: The Teaching and Learning of ESOL
- Module 1 – Basic principles
- Module 2 – reading and listening – tasks based on exploitation of authentic materials i.e. magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts etc.
- Module 3 – speaking and writing – tasks based as above but with a more productive bias – getting your students to produce language
​- Module 4 – visual aids – study of all the audio-visual aids available. Production of your own flashcards and aids to be used with a simple flannelgraph.
- Module 5 – error – looking at authentic student errors, classifying them, using a correction code, producing remedial exercises and improving your own practice.

Unit 4: Lesson Planning
- Module 1 – classroom management – task relating to student teacher relationships and how to achieve genuine communication inside and outside the classroom.
- Module 2 – lesson stages and plans – putting all the above into a lesson; timing; warm-up; input; practice and production stages of your lessons.

Unit 5: Teaching Practice
- Observation sessions.