Online Trinity CertTESOL TESOL course timetable

Online Trinity CertTESOL TESOL course timetable

Below is a daily timetable for the four-week EBC Trinity CertTESOL accredited online TESOL certification course. Each day comprises live input sessions with your classmates and trainer and self-study sessions where you study online course material.

Course information

• READ ME FIRST – How to use this course and what the symbols mean (self-study)
• Live sessions and assigned trainer(s) – A list of the trainer(s) assigned to the live input sessions
• Course hours
• How to use the CertTESOL material written by Trinity College London (self-study)
• Introduction to the 5 Trinity foundation units (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills documents and how to complete the unit (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness documents and how to complete the unit (self-study)
• Unit 3: Learner Profile documents and how to complete the unit (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment documents and how to complete the unit (self-study)
• Unit 5: Unknown Language documents and how to complete the unit (self-study)
• How to upload your assignments (self-study)
• Course manual
• Grammar manual
• Form 4 – Trainee work log and how to fill it out
• Suggested lesson planning topics for your teaching practices classes
• Useful books (self-study)
• Ready-to-use classroom material (self-study)
• Useful internet resource sites (self-study)
• Trainer supplementary material that your trainer may ask you to use

Help about using ZOOM

• ZOOM – a short video tutorial about the ZOOM meeting control panel (self-study)
• ZOOM – a short video tutorial about how to use ZOOM breakout rooms (self-study)
• ZOOM – a short video tutorial about how to share material with ZOOM meeting participants (self-study)

Forum – general questions about the course

• FORUM – Questions about Unit 1: Teaching Skills
• FORUM – Questions about Unit 2: Language Awareness
• FORUM – Questions about Unit 3: Learner Profile
• FORUM – Questions about Unit 4: Materials Assignment
• FORUM – Questions about Unit 5: Unknown Foreign Language

Unit 2 – language awareness – grammar, lexis, phonology, pronunciation, etc.

• Unit 2: Language Awareness – What is grammar? (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language awareness – Tense, Aspect and Voice (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present simple (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present continuous (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Past simple and continuous (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Past perfect simple and continuous (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present perfect simple (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present perfect continuous (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Future tenses (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present simple – Exercises 1 to 5 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present continuous – Exercises 6 to 11 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Past simple and continuous – (self-study) Exercises 12 to 15
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Past perfect simple and continuous – Exercises 16 to 19 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present perfect simple – Exercises 20 to 24 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Present perfect continuous – Exercises 25 to 26 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Future tenses – Exercises 27 to 34 (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – English Phonology and Pronunciation (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Phonology, phonetic alphabet and pronunciation (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Pronunciation – vowels and consonants (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Passive Voice and Reported Speech (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Future forms, Modals and Conditionals (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Will / Would and Can / Could (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language awareness – Noun phrases (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – May / Might and Must / Have to (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Adjectives and Adverbs (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Needn’t / Mustn’t, Shall / Should, Ought to (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Frequency Adverbs, Comparatives, Superlatives (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Articles, Countable and Uncountable nouns (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Both, Neither, Either, Some and Any, Quantity: How much/many? (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – Each and Every, Make and Do, Rise and Raise, So and Such (self-study)
• Unit 2: Language Awareness – World Englishes (self-study)

Day 1 – Monday

Day 1 live classes timetable

• • Welcome and introductions (Live, 1 hour) This is where you, your peers and your trainer(s) get to meet each other for the first time. You will also be told: What to expect during the course. Details about each of the 5 units you must pass in order to get the CertTESOL. Administrative information about the course schedule, teaching practice classes, uploading your assignments and the end of course external moderation.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Practice – Introduction to lesson planning (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will learn about the principles of planning a lesson
  • Unit 1: Teaching Practice – Teaching receptive skills (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session to introduce you to principles of planning a reading and listening lessons.
  • Trainer support for the remaining day’s activities (Live, 1 hour) Your trainer will be available to provide additional input and take your questions.
• Day 1 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Guided observation video 1 (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Teaching models that have influenced current teaching practice (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – The learning cycle and types of learners (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Learning and teaching models (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Introduction to the lesson structure and presentation (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Presenting explanations and instructions (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lesson structure and presenting (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – What we know about language learning (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How engage, study and activate (ESA) fit together in lesson sequences (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Language learning and ESA (self-study)

Day 2 – Tuesday

Day 2 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – A discussion about guided observation lesson 1 (Live, 15 minutes) This is a live input session for an open discussion about what you observed when you watched guided observation class 1.
  • Unit 5: Unknown language – lesson 1 (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you are a student learning a foreign language taught by your trainer.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Introduction to grammar (Live, 45 minutes) This is a live input session to introduce you to English grammar and associated underlying terminology.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lesson planning workshop for lessons 1 and 2 (Live, 1 hour and 45 minutes) This is a live input session where you will discuss materials and lesson ideas for your first and second teaching practice classes and get individual guided preparation from your trainer.
• Day 2 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How do I plan my lessons effectively? (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Different lesson components (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Critique a sample lesson plan (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – What are the best kinds of lessons? (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Ideas for planning lessons for different age groups (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom activities (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – List of suggested lesson plan topics (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Introduction to classroom interaction and management (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom interaction and management (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom interaction (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – The classroom (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Asking questions (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Asking questions (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Concept checking (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Concept checking (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Guided observation video 2 (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lesson planning – Frameworks (self-study)

Day 3 – Wednesday

Day 3 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – A discussion about guided observation lesson 2 (Live, 15 minutes) This is a live input session for an open discussion about what you observed when you watched guided observation class 2.
  • Unit 5: Unknown language – lesson 2 (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you are a student learning a foreign language taught by your trainer.
  • Unit 3: Learner Profile -Unit explanation (Live, 45 minutes) This is a live input session where your trainer will give you an explanation of CertTESOL Unit 3: Learner Profile.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Micro Teaching lesson plans 1 and 2 (Live, 2 hours) This is a live input session where you and your classmates will each present a 15-minute outline of your lesson plans for classes 1 and 2 to the group and receive feedback from the trainer and your peers.
• Day 3 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – An overview of Receptive Skills (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Planning a Receptive Skills Lesson (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Engaging the Learner through Context (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Planning a grammar/functions lesson (self-study)

Day 4 – Thursday – teaching practice class 1

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 1 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Presenting and explaining grammar (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Presenting new vocabulary (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Ideas for vocabulary work in class (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Remembering vocabulary (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Teaching vocabulary (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom management – Teacher language, drilling and board work (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Giving feedback to learners(self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Giving feedback to learners (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Supporting Learners with Vocabulary (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Supporting Learners with Structures (self-study)

Day 5 – Friday – teaching practice class 2

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 2 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – What is really involved in reading? (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – What is really involved in reading? (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Real-life reading in the classroom (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Real-life reading in the classroom (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Using Authentic Materials (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – What do reading sequences look like? (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Reading activities (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Written versus spoken text (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Written versus spoken text (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom management – Teacher language, drilling and board work (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom management – Teacher language, drilling and board work (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom management – Discipline (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Classroom management – Discipline (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Basic Classroom Management (self-study)

Day 6 – Monday – reminder – upload coursework

Upload all your unit work so far into the Moderation Zone

Day 6 live classes timetable

• • Unit 5: Unknown language – lesson 3 (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you are a student learning a foreign language taught by your trainer.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Vocabulary homework review (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session to review the vocabulary worksheet homework that was assigned last Wednesday.
  • Unit 4: Materials Assignment – unit explanation and grading (Live, 1 hour) Your trainer will give you instructions and guidance for completing the CertTESOL Unit 4: Materials Assignment.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Introduction to phonetics (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will learn about the basics of English phonetics.
• Day 6 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Guided observation video 3 (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Tasks that stimulate writing (self-study))
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – More writing activities (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – how to use written and spoken material in class (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Practice For Verbal Fluency (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Verbal fluency (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – The Functions Of Topic And Task (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Role Play and Related Techniques (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – What Do Speaking Activities Look Like? (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Speaking Activities (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – What Is Really Involved In Real-Life Listening? (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Speaking and Listening (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Real-Life Listening In The Classroom (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – What Do Listening Sequences Look Like? (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Listening Activities (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – how to use written and spoken material in class (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Example games/exercises for pronunciation (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Planning Speaking Lessons (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Planning Writing Lessons (self-study)

Day 7 – Tuesday

Day 7 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – A discussion about guided observation lesson 3 (Live, 15 minutes) This is a live input session for an open discussion about what you observed when you watched guided observation class 3.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Presenting grammar (Live, 45 minutes) This is a live input session covering how to present and explain grammar: teaching past tenses to demonstrate meaning, structure and use.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lesson 1 and 2 feedback (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you have an individual tutorial (in private) with your trainer about your previous two teaching practice classes and your progress.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lesson planning workshop for lessons 3 and 4 (Live, 2 hours) This is a live input session where you will discuss materials and lesson ideas for your first and second teaching practice classes and get individual guided preparation from your trainer.
• Day 7 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Guided observation video 4 (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Motivation (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – The teacher’s responsibility (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Extrinsic motivation (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Intrinsic Motivation And Interest (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Fluctuations in student interest (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Motivation (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Learner Motivation and Preferences

Day 8 – Wednesday

Day 8 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – A discussion about guided observation lesson 4 (Live, 15 minutes) This is a live input session for an open discussion about what you observed when you watched guided observation class 4.
  • Unit 5: Unknown language – lesson 4 (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you are a student learning a foreign language taught by your trainer.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lessons 3 and 4 planning workshop and individual progress tutorial (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will continue creating lesson plans for teaching practice classes 3 and 4. If you did not have an individual tutorial yesterday, the tutorial is given during this session.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Micro Teaching lesson plans 3 and 4 (Live, 1 hour 45 minutes) You will present a 15-minute outline of your lesson plans to the group and receive feedback from the trainer and your peers.
• Day 8 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Reflection on Learning and Teaching (self-study)

Day 9 – Thursday – teaching practice class 3

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 3 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Building Empathy with Learners (self-study)

Day 10 – Friday – teaching practice class 4

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 4 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Materials Assignment explanation about material choice, written assignment, external assessment (self-study)
• Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Examples of how you will be assessed (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Providing Practice of language (self-study)

Day 11 – Monday – reminder – upload coursework

Upload all unit work so far into the Moderation Zone

Day 11 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Language Awareness – Future tenses (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will learn how to present and teach future tenses.
  • Unit 3: Learner Profile – Trainer guidance and help for completing Unit 3 – Error Analysis and Planning a one-to-one lesson (Live, 2 hour) You will fill out the Unit 3: assignment section on error analysis based on the material you have gathered using the Trinity CertTESOL Unit 3 template. Your trainer will also help you to plan your one-to-one lesson with your ELL. Your trainer will guide you through to completion of the Unit 3 assignment.
  • Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Trainer guidance and help for completing Unit 4 (Live, 1 hour) You will fill out the Unit 4: assignment based on the material you have selected. By the end of this session, you will have completed your Unit 4: Materials Assignment using the Trinity CertTESOL Unit 4 template. Your trainer will guide you through to completion of the Unit 4 assignment. All problems and doubts must be raised during this session. The trainer will not be available outside of this session.
• Day 11 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach infinitives and gerunds (self-study)

Day 12 – Tuesday

Day 12 live classes timetable

• • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Modal verbs (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will learn how to present and teach modal verbs.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – Conditionals (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will learn how to present and teach conditionals.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lessons 5 and 6 planning workshop and individual progress tutorial (Live, 2 hours) This is a live input session where you will begin to create lesson plans for teaching practice classes 5 and 6. You will also have an individual tutorial (in private) with your trainer about your previous two teaching practice classes and your progress.
• Day 12 live classes
• Unit 3: Learner profile – Planning a Series of Lessons – Storyline output (self-study)

Day 13 – Wednesday

Day 13 live classes timetable

• • Unit 3: Learner Profile – Trainer guidance and help for completing Unit 3 – Recommendation for further study (Live, 1 hour) You will fill out the Unit 3: assignment based on the material you have gathered. By the end of this session you will have completed your Unit 3: Learner Profile using the Trinity CertTESOL Unit 3 template. Your trainer will guide you through to completion of the Unit 3 assignment. All problems and doubts must be raised during this session. The trainer will not be available outside of this session.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Lessons 5 and 6 planning workshop and individual progress tutorial (Live, 1 hour) This is a live input session where you will begin to create lesson plans for teaching practice classes 5 and 6. If you did not have an individual tutorial yesterday, the tutorial is given during this session.
  • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Micro Teaching lesson plans 5 and 6 (Live, 2 hours) You will present a 15-minute outline of your lesson plans to the group and receive feedback from the trainer and your peers.
• Day 13 live classes

Day 14 – Thursday – teaching practice class 5

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 5 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – What difference does age make to learning, comments, teaching children, pictures, stories, games, teaching adolescents (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – In-class assessment (self-study)

Day 15 – Friday – teaching practice class 6

• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Observed Teaching Practice 6 (Live, 1 hour per trainee)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Alternative approaches to lesson planning (self-study)

Day 16 – Monday – reminder – upload coursework

Upload all unit work so far into the Moderation Zone

Day 16 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Final progress tutorial (Live, 1 hour) Individual tutorial (in private) with your trainer about your previous two teaching practice classes and your progress.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – English language test final preparation (Live, 2 hours) Your trainer is on hand to give additional information, advice and answer questions about tomorrows English language test.
  • All Units – Corrections and completion (Live, 1 hour) Your trainer will be available to provide additional input and take your questions.
• Day 16 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – English teaching jobs (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Teaching challenges and how to overcome them (self-study)

Day 17 – Tuesday – language awareness test

Day 17 live classes timetable

• • Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Recap of the main theories of TEFL (Live, 1 hour) Your trainer will provide a recap of all the main TEFL theories.
  • Unit 2: Language Awareness – English language test (Live, 1 hour 30 minutes) You will take the English language test under exam conditions.
• Day 17 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach reported speech (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach time and relative clauses (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – How to teach prepositions (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Introduction to popular English exams (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Teaching English in different contexts: EAP, ESP and Online (self-study)

Day 18 – Wednesday – job workshop

Day 18 live classes timetable

• • Unit 2: Language Skills (Live, 1 hour 30 minutes) If you need to retake your Language Assessment test, you will have one hour to do the test. If you fail again, you will be referred to Trinity and you may fail the course or Trinity may ask you to pay more to retake the test at a later date. If you passed the Language Assessment test, you will use the hour to start reviewing the Unit 4 materials assignment interview. You may want to watch again the Materials Assignment interview videos in Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Examples of how you will be assessed (self-study) task that is in course day 10 .
  • Job workshop (Live, 2 hours 30 minutes) Your trainer will walk you through job opportunities as an English teacher in Spain and around the world. You will learn about job interviews, writing a CV, expectations regarding types of courses, pay and working hours.
• Day 18 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – EFL testing and feedback (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Introduction to Special Educational Needs “SEN” (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching skills – Continuing Professional Development (self-study)
• All Units – Finalise and upload all your course unit work into the Moderation Zone (self-study)

Day 19 – Thursday – moderation interview preparation

Day 19 live classes timetable

• • Unit 4: Materials Assignment – Moderation interview preparation (Live, 3 hours) A final review of your Unit 4 material. The trainer will explain what to expect at the Moderation interview and answer any questions you may have.
• Day 19 live classes
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Syllabus planning (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – End of course assessment (self-study)
• Unit 1: Teaching Skills – Employment resources (self-study)
• End of course survey

Day 20 – Friday – external moderation assessment and interview

• Your external moderation