 Hi, welcome. Linda here from ITTT. Back with another live session this week and this week we're talking about the demo lesson and how to hold effective demo lessons for your TEFL interview so you get hired. Yeah, welcome back. I'm here back here again. You know we go live every week. I hope you know by now. Don't forget to like and subscribe so you always stay up to date. You never miss any of our upcoming live sessions. We usually go live at this time on this day so please stay tuned. Give us a like, give us a subscribe wherever you're watching from. We're actually live on Facebook and on YouTube at the same time so whichever platform you prefer you can tune in. Of course you can leave a bunch of comments as well. Please let me know where are you right now? Where are you watching from today? How are you doing? What's your name? Please let me know. Join us. Join the conversation. I always like to have a conversation, have a chat with you guys. 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And we are a leading Teflon TESOL course provider worldwide. Lots of different courses. I know many of you watching are already certified. So yeah, you already know what ITTT is, but I know we also have a lot of new viewers today. And you might not be familiar yet. So I want to give this quick intro. All right. Good. Then again, 30% off. Just want to leave this on here real quick. While I'm looking at the comments. So we have LaTurk here. Hi, LaTurk. He says, Halalinda, watching from the Philippines. It's nice to watch your live session again. Thank you so much. How are you doing today? What's the weather like in the Philippines? I wish I was there right now. Then we also had an early comment before the live started from Marina. She says, Halalinda, this is Marina. Thanks for this topic. It's very, very useful. Yeah. I hope it's going to be very useful for you guys because we covered the, what did we cover? We covered the interview before, the intro video. So now it just makes sense to also talk about the demo lesson next. It fits in very nicely in our live session topic calendar, I suppose. We have Daniel here. Hey, Daniel, how are you doing? I'm doing very well. I'm getting ready for today's live. I'm watching from Mexico City as always. Nice. What's the weather like over there? I really want to go to Mexico one time. I have not been yet and I really want to go. I want to see the pyramids and of course I also want to go to, you know, Cancun and stuff and see the beach. All the beautiful pictures you always see from Mexico is just very nice. And the food, oh my gosh, I could just go for the food alone. Awesome. Well, thank you guys so much for being here today and for joining me when we talk about the demo lesson. So maybe I know that some of you are already teaching. So let me know in the comments and I should have prepared this as a banner, but did you have, did you do a demo lesson before? Let me know. Did you or have you done a demo lesson before? Let me know. Can I put this up? Yes. Okay. So let me know in the comments. Have you done a demo lesson before for a teaching position in person or online or whatever else? Let me know in the comments. Just yes or no. Yes or no. Let me know. And then maybe, you know, I always like to invite people onto our live sessions. So, you know, if anyone has done a demo lesson in the past, feel free to share your experience. That'd be really good. That would help us all, right? Learn more and improve. So that'd be great. Let me know guys. Have you done a demo lesson before? How did it go? Did you get the job or you haven't done that yet? That's why you're here. You get, you want to get more tips for if and when you need to have a demo lesson in the future perhaps. So let me know guys. And then we can begin the lesson. I just want to know before if anybody had to do this before. I'm actually, I'm thinking. I think I haven't had to do one before. I had interviews of course, but I don't think I had to actually do a demo lesson. But we would have in our, once I was hired in my job, sometimes we were observed and by fellow teachers. And we had to get feedback sessions and stuff. So it was kind of similar to that, but it was not for the interview actually. Okay, LaTerks says yes, an online demo. Interesting. How did that go? Let us know. We're also going to cover online demos in this presentation. So maybe that time you can give some input how your experience went. That's really interesting. Cool. An online demo. Very interesting. Nice. Cool. Good. While I'm waiting maybe for more answers, just say yes or no if you have done a demo lesson before in the comments. Let us know. Let's go over today's agenda, today's aim basically, and this is a little small, so I'm just going to put this here. So this is what we're going to go over today. Basically that's the aim. By the end of this live session, you should know what a demo lesson is. You'll learn what a demo lesson is. If you don't know yet what it entails, why we have demo lessons and all of that good stuff, then also how of course to prepare for the demo lesson. How do you prepare what goes into it? What materials do you need to use? And then the last point is to understand what happens during the session or during the lesson and after all the steps from before, during and after basically for a successful demo lesson that gets you hired for your job. Basically that is today's agenda. That's what we're going to talk about today. All right, then let me just remove this big banner so we can all see this better. I am keeping an eye on the comments. So as always, feel free to ask your questions or just give feedback input if you have experience. Daniel says, no, I haven't just yet, but I'd like to learn the ropes. Show us how it's done, Linda. Love it. Thank you, Daniel. I'm going to try my best. Amitava is also here. Hi, Amitava. How are you fairing? I'm very good. I'm watching your live session from Kolkata, India as usual. It's 7am right now. I have not done any demo lesson as of yet. It would be a nice experience to know it for future purposes also. Absolutely. Yep. Great. So that's why we're here today. We're going to talk about the demo lesson. I'm going to show you how it's done to the best of my abilities and maybe Luturk who also has some experience with a demo lesson can also share some thoughts. So that'd be really great. So let's have a look at the first things. First, right? We start at the basics. So what is a demo lesson? What is a demo lesson? Demo, demonstration. So a demonstration lesson. So why are they done? Basically the purpose of a demo lesson is that the employer wants to find out what you're like in the classroom. What kind of teacher are you? What kind of person are you? They're going to look at things like pronunciation, your classroom management skills. You know, do you get the job done effectively? Do you manage your students well? Your teaching techniques? Can you bring across the topic that they want you to bring across? Are you a good teacher and language awareness? Right? How do you speak? Do you do know about grammar? All of these kinds of things, right? And that is a demo lesson. So typically it will take place either as part of the TEFL interview. So first you have an interview and then maybe at the end of the interview they will ask you to give a demo lesson. It might be all combined into one, but maybe it could also be the second stage of an interview where you first have an interview and then they like you and then they're like, okay, now the second step would be a demo lesson. And this would be scheduled on a different day, for example. So it depends on the school. Sometimes they do it differently, but that's usually how it's done. And don't worry, they're not gonna throw you in cold water and just be like, okay, teach now. The school will actually always tell you how long the demo lesson should be, the level and the age of the students you are gonna teach in your demo lesson and any other information in advance. So what the topic should be, how long it should be, the level you should teach, right? So they're gonna let you know all of that in advance so you can prepare for it. It's not just like, okay, here stand in front of us and teach now. That would be a little too crazy, I suppose. But Liturk, how was that with you? Well, it was online, I suppose, so a little bit different. But I'm sure maybe they also let Liturk know in advance the topic and kind of a little bit more information about the demo lesson. That's usually how it goes. So you have time to prepare. But we're gonna talk about that in next, actually, I think, right away. Yes. So the next point is we're gonna look at exactly the materials you'll need. How is the preparation gonna go for a demo lesson? All right. So there's actually two ways. So one is the materials are sent to you in advance. So when you get your materials, sometimes it depends on the school, how they do it. So in many cases, you will actually actually receive the lesson materials via email in advance of your interview, right? It might be a week, might be a few days in advance. But basically, this means that you'll have time to exactly plan your lesson out and put your own spin on the materials. You might also make your own additional materials. We're gonna also cover that in a little bit. But this also allows you to ask the employer if there's anything you're unclear about at this point, right? If it's sent in advance, you can check back with them if you have questions, if there's anything that's not clear. And I'm also gonna show you in just a few slides what questions should be answered before the demo lesson so that you can prepare to the best of your abilities. So if one of these questions is not answered by the employer before your demo lesson, you can check back with them and ask them for more information. That is not a bad thing to do, to ask for more information. If anything, it shows that you wanna do a good job. You wanna do your best in preparing. So I think that's not something negative if you check back and just clarify things. So that is one thing, they can send you the material in advance. However, some other schools, they might provide you with the materials on the day off, right? So a little bit less time to prepare here. You sometimes might be given some preparation time of course, before the demo lesson. So it might be on the same day, you might have an interview and then they'd be like, okay, here we want you to teach a demo lesson and you have 10 minutes, 15 minutes to prepare for it. And here is what you should teach. So you'll be given either materials to teach. They might give you like a little paper of level and topic and things like that, or they might also give you a page or two from a book or a worksheet that you should make a lesson around, right? They're also gonna let you know how long this demo lesson should be. Of course, this way is a lot more frightening, right? But if this happens to you and you have less time to prepare, just don't freak out. Don't overthink too much what you're doing. Just use, just put what you know from your Teflin T-Soul course to good use and make the most out of it. Don't overthink too much, just try your best. So of course, this way is a little bit more scary. You don't have as much time as when they give it to you in advance, but some schools prefer this way, right? They can also see how do you work under stress, might be an additional test for you, while some other schools might provide you the materials way in advance, a couple days or a week even, and here you might only have 10 or 15 minutes. So it depends on how it goes. Okay. And then, so for preparing for this demo lesson, for planning it all out, you should have the answers to all of these questions. So first, you should know what is the age of the learners that you'll be teaching and what is the level of the learners. So age and level. So usually they would let you know, okay, you're gonna teach beginner, kindergarten students, or for example, intermediate, intermediate, high school students. So very different, right? So you need to adjust your lesson then, your demo lesson. They also might let you know, are there going to be any students, any real students, or is it going to be a fake student? We're gonna talk about that too in a little bit. How many students are there gonna be? They should let you know. How many teachers or observers will be there? And of course, this is the most important part. How much time do I have? So usually they would be like, it might be 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, usually not longer than that for a demo. But this is very important information because this is for structuring your entire demo lesson, you need to know how much time you have. And then of course, also very important, what is the topic of the demo lesson? Usually they would let you know exactly what topic they want you to teach. So this could be a skill. For example, reading, listening, pronunciation, whatever, or it could be a certain grammar point, for example, or I actually have a list here of example topics that I have seen come up. So for example, for beginner, kindergarten, really popular topic is just colors and fruits. And you can do a lot of things with that. For more advanced students, you could do a grammar topic example would be, for example, present simple and present continuous, the difference between the two, or maybe something like irregular verbs. Or they give you something a little bit more broad where they're like, okay, can you make a demo lesson around Christmas, for example, or Thanksgiving that's coming up or anything like that. So these are all example topics that can happen to you. I'm curious if liturgy, if you're still watching liturgy, what do you remember what the topic of your demo lesson was? Yeah, let me know. I think I had to do one before and it was actually colors and fruits because it was really young students. I think I remember vaguely something about that. That's why that was the first thing that came to mind. Because for very young students, colors and fruits is always very popular and grammar things like, yeah, simple tense versus continuous tense, that's also very popular for a demo lesson. So these are some example topics that might be asked of you. And then let's have a little bit talk about who are the students during a demo lesson because depending on the school, there might also be some differences. And for in-person demo lessons. So if you're actually in the real school and you teach a demo lesson in person in real life, you might be even teaching real EFL students who go to the school. So they will have this scheduled and you might get some time from their regular schedule and you'll be asked to come in and teach those actual students. So that can happen. But you might also give a demo lesson to just members of the school staff. It's very different. And most of the time an observer may also be in the room and take notes. So that's very common as well. And don't freak out about that. You know, they just note things down so they don't forget. But nothing to be worried about. Of course, you know, someone's there and usually they have like a very stern look on their face and they write stuff down. It can be, you know, it's, I mean, it's a nervous situation. But don't worry too much about it and just go with the flow and do your thing and use the things you learned from your TEFL or TESO course and you will do great. Now for online demo lessons, most of the time you won't be actually teaching a real class or a real student, but rather a fake student. And they are often an experienced teacher within the company. So sometimes they're even larger online teaching platforms where they have specific staff. They're like hiring staff, HR staff that always take on this role of onboarding new teachers. And this includes a demo lesson. So they're very experienced with demo lesson evaluation and feedback and things like that. And one thing that might be a little bit weird to you if you've never done a demo lesson before is that these fake students who are actually adults and also English teachers, for the demo lesson, they will often adopt mannerisms and accents and errors of a typical student. So they kind of slip into a role of a student. And it might be a little bit weird, right? Because they pretend to be a child or a teenager or they pretend to be from a different country. They put on like a different accents and they also will make a lot of mistakes that obviously they wouldn't make in real life, but they want to see how you deal with a real student who has this accent or who makes those mistakes, how you go about with error correction. And so they kind of just slip into this role. But then after the demo lesson they will be back normal, I guess, and talk with you for feedback. But just be warned that this often happens, right? So yeah, it's a very funny situation sometimes. But don't laugh or anything, keep your cool and also slip into your role of the teacher. So both of you have these roles and you can put on your teacher face, your teacher voice, smile and, you know, you'll be good to go. So these are a little bit of the differences where in person where you might actually be teaching real students versus the online where you're most likely going to be teaching or having a demo lesson for a member of the company. And then we are looking at how to prepare for your demo lesson. And also I see a comment here from Black Vulture Music who says, Linda, you're awesome. Thank you. Thanks for joining. And also let us know. I'm just going to put this banner up one more time. Where is it? Have you done a demo lesson before in the past? Let us know. And also let us know what your experience was. I'm very curious. Let us know in the comments, please. And if you have any other questions or comments, you know, put them down below. I'm always curious and I want to see your feedback and just join us, join the conversation. All right. So let's have a look at how you can prepare for a demo lesson. And I'm going to, I split it up into three different sections. So the first point is preparing your materials. Then the second point is researching the company. And the third point is some online considerations. So if you do an online demo lesson, there are some additional things to think about, which we will cover in this third point here. All right. So let's have a look at how you can prepare your materials for a demo lesson if it would load a little bit faster. Okay. So of course you can and are encouraged to use technology. And while they, you know, might have, of course, their own equipment, try to use your own laptop or your own tablet if you have one, because then you'll have all your materials and the programs you need on it. If you've had any presentations in the past, you might have experienced that, that you bring like a USB thing and, you know, you can't open your files on the other computer. They're not compatible or something. And then it would just really be a bad situation. So just bring your own device if you can, or have it all online in the Dropbox on the Google Drive. But then you also need to make sure that you have the right programs on the school computer to run your files. So just kind of safer to bring your own laptop if you can or own tablet. It would be just much safer. Then in terms of activities, of course, try to put in a lot of activities into your demo lesson. And my number one tip is just for the demo lesson also, just follow the ESA methodology that you will learn in your Teflon TESOL course. ESA, again, stands for Engage Study Activate. And if you follow this format, this layout of teaching, you'll be really safe. You'll be safe. It's a really foolproof methodology. And you can have some fun activities at the end for the engage phase, for the activate phase. I'm sorry. Such as games and communicative activities for the target structure. And you may also have handouts or worksheets for the study phase. Of course, because your demo lesson will be very short, it might only be 20 minutes. So try and fit in everything, the whole ESA methodology into those 20 minutes. Of course, they know that this is just a demo and this is not what an actual class would be like, that it would be like, it would be much longer in real life. They know that. So if you show them like a condensed version of your ESA teaching methodology skills, I think that would be really great. And if you have a quick worksheet, you don't have to do the complete the whole worksheet, right? You can only do number one, you know, the first exercise and then move on. For example, you don't have to do it all just as an example. So they see how you would normally do it. Slides, you can also have some slides, they can come in very, very useful. Because we get obviously very nervous during a demo lesson. And if you've had any presentation or demo class or even teaching your first class before, you will know that time goes by like this, right? When you're nervous, when you're doing this, you don't really have a concept of how much time has passed, how much time you have left. So having some slides is very useful. They just keep you organized. They keep you on topic. And you will have everything you need to avoid forgetting something. And they also save time. So if you have slides, you could focus on the slides, don't talk too much around the topic to waste time, to make it longer unnecessarily. But at the same time, just keep it short and simple for your demo lesson. And the slides can really help you do that. And of course, if you have some fun slides, that also makes a good impression. And then once you have all of this, you take all of that into consideration, you plan out your lesson following the ESA methodology from your Teflur TESOL course, you have your lesson plan for this demo lesson. Of course, after that, we'll practice it, right? We'll practice, practice, practice, so that it comes as natural as possible. And I also recommend practicing teaching the lesson at home. And if possible, have a friend observe and critique your lesson, right? Especially if you have any slides or worksheets or anything like that, you only have two eyes, four eyes or six eyes are going to be a lot better and they're going to spot some maybe mistakes you made, a spelling error, or something small that, you know, you're too much into it, you don't really see the big picture anymore, they will be able to really give you a lot of great feedback and maybe spot some little things that you just overlooked. So always have someone look over the things one more time just to help you out and to avoid any unnecessary spelling mistakes because that would be really, really bad. But if, and I just remember this, if you have a typo or a spelling error on your worksheet, take responsibility, take accountability and just say, oh, there isn't a typo on the worksheet here. It, you know, we don't spell this word like this. How do we actually spell this word? Who can tell me how it is correct? What's the typo? Let me know. You can kind of turn this into a teaching lesson. That's what I always do. Because we make, we're human, we make typos. And you can just turn this into a lesson. Oh, how is this actually spelled correctly? Who can let me know? Who can tell me? So yeah, own it. Just own your own mistakes as well. Because teachers aren't perfect. We teachers learn all the time as well. So might as well just own it. And I think that comes across this really honest and also again, a good teaching skill to have, I think. Yeah. So this is the first point, how to prepare your materials. Again, you can have some technology in there. You can have activities in there are great. Of course, slides will help keep you on track. And as an overall structure, follow the ESA methodology that you learn in your Teflon TESOL course and have some friends or family members look over what you have created and put together if they spot any mistakes. Okay. Very good. Let me know if you're still here in the comments. I hope you're still here. It's been very quiet the last couple of minutes. But yeah, if you have any feedback, let me know. Then we're going to look at researching the company. And I think a lot of people actually forget this point that they don't really do that. You know, especially if you work, if you apply for a big school or like a chain, what you can do and what can really make a difference is searching forums like Reddit or company review sites such as Glassdoor or, you know, reviews.io or whatever, TrustPilot. And they, these sites, they might bring up helpful information about what other people went through, right? Other people share some thoughts or blogs even, you know, some people share that stuff in blogs, what their demo lesson experience or interview experience was like for this company. And you can get some ideas of how this company in particular, that school in particular, handles and deals with demo lessons. You can also have a look online for any demo lessons that have been uploaded. And YouTube is a really good place to start, obviously. So what you can do is search for the company name or the school name and demo lesson. And you can see if there's an example out there, right? A lot of big schools, big chains, people will usually have something uploaded or, you know, you can just get some inspiration from other demo lessons that people uploaded. So anyway, you know, searching on YouTube or forums is a really good way to just see what other people are doing, what worked for them, what didn't work for them. So have a look around and kind of absorb as much information as possible, do's and don'ts and things like that. So yeah. And for this particular, for a particular company as well, that can be really useful because as we've talked about in the beginning of the slides, some companies, you know, or schools, they do it one way and other schools do it a different way. So it really depends on the individual school and how their system is. All right. This is the second point. And now we're going to talk about the third point, which is considerations for when you're doing an online demo lesson, because there are some additional things you have to think about. So the first and probably this is like a common sense thing, but you need to set up and get ready to teach online. So have all the necessary programs you need installed, obviously, like Zoom or Skype or whatever. Some schools might also have their internal platform. Just make sure like everything is up to date. The worst thing that can happen is on the day off. Your computer suddenly needs to update and install like 20 different updates and it takes an hour and you miss, you know, your scheduled interview time or your demo lesson time. So that's really bad. Just be prepared already because as we all know, technology sometimes doesn't do what we want, right? So just start your laptop or your computer in advance. Be early. Have everything updated. Have everything set up. Download the necessary software. Also have your equipment ready. I always have a microphone here ready. Have that plugged in. I have some lights here. You know, it's also a huge advantage for online to have a headset because this way, because now if I'm doing this, you don't know I have a microphone because you can really can see it a little bit, but you might not have known. And if you're applying for an online teaching job and you're doing an online demo, they want to see and it's very important to online teaching platforms, your internet speed and your equipment that people can hear you clearly, see you clearly. So if you're wearing a headset, you can show them. Oh yeah, like I know this is important. I care about it. I have a nice headset. You can just, you know, even if you're not actually using it normally, you can use it for the demo lesson because it just looks good, right? And also we talked about this last time when filming your intro video. And this is kind of similar to that. If you watched that live session, you remember that it's important to have an appropriate background to sit in front of and also well lit. I have my, again, I have my window here in front of me. I also have an additional light here. So make sure you have this all set up so people can see you clearly. Don't sit like in a dark room where nobody can see your face. That would be really bad. And also again, have an appropriate background so you can have something like bookshelves or a map of the world in the background or what we talked about for the intro video last time. If you apply for a teaching job for children, you can have something more fun and colorful behind you like a board with like ABC magnets or like flashcards of animals and colors and things like that. You can have that. So these are just additional things to think about when you do an online demo lesson. And the most important thing really is the audio and video, right? That they can see you and hear you clearly. And that the technology cooperates. You have all your updates installed and ready. And there are no complications. That's the most important thing for online, for online demo lessons, basically. Good. All right. So this was your planning and how you can make sure that your demo lesson will go smoothly. And next, we're going to talk about what happens during the actual demo. Okay. So we've gone over the planning, how you prepare for it, and now what actually happens during the demo. So, of course, you are going to teach during your demo. You're going to teach what you've prepared. But at the beginning, most likely, you'll be introduced to the students. So if you're doing a demo lesson, like in person in a real classroom, their actual teacher will introduce you to the students. They'll be like, oh, this is Ms. Linda. She came in today and she's going to teach you about this and this and this. And everybody say, welcome, Ms. Linda or something. And then you can take it from there. And then you also introduce yourself, right? You introduce yourself, who you are, maybe a little bit where you're from. And then what you're going to talk about today. Also, same thing. If you are teaching a fake student, that's the same. You should also do that. And it's okay to be nervous. We're all nervous in situations like that. And everybody knows that it's okay. Just keep calm as calm as you can be. Keep smiling. That's very important that you have a, you know, I always call this my teacher's face, right? You always want to be smiling. You want to look welcoming, inviting. You want to look friendly. And yeah, having your professional material and everything. And you know your material, you practice it, you know the software, you've done everything you can, you've done everything you can. Now it's just up to fate, I guess, or in the moment. A lot of things I think are also just luck. You never know what kind of students are there. You know, maybe they're just not really good students. It's not your fault, right? Do your best. And if you followed all of these steps we talked about until here, you've done everything you can. There's nothing more you can do. It's now just up to the school. If they like your style, if they like how you talk, you know, there's nothing more you can do. Also just make sure to speak slowly and clearly use your teacher's voice. And just make sure that the students understand everything before moving on. This is also something you learn during your Teflon TESOL course, right? To ask your students if they understand it, how you check for student understanding, use those techniques you learn. And most importantly, keep your time limit in mind, right? Don't end early, but also don't go on forever, right? You've practiced your demo lessons, so you should know exactly, you should have planned it out exactly to fit that time limit that they want. 15, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. So don't end early and also don't do much longer than that. More often than not, the observer or the fake student, they will stop you and they would be like, okay, thank you, that's enough. Once they, you know, have seen everything they need to see and they have already made their decision, yes or no. And they might just end it early. That's also not a bad sign. I just, I've learned that people just don't want to waste anybody's time, you know, for more than necessary. So if they say, okay, that's enough, you can stop, that's not necessarily a bad thing. They might just already be impressed and be like, yeah, okay, that's what we're looking for. Doesn't have to be a bad thing. So just also keep that in mind. So that's during the lesson. Of course, there are many other things that go into it with the teaching skills, but of course, I cannot teach you how to teach now during this live session. But that's what the Teflon TESOL courses are there for. And if you've taken a course, you'll learn how to teach, you'll learn how to structure, how to teach with the ESA methodology. So you'll be more than prepared for a demo lesson like this. And then it's just about combining those skills that you've learned in your Teflon TESOL course with this, what I put on my slide, just to smile, stay calm, and to just use that in the moment and keep your time limited. So that's the whole package here, basically. Yeah. Then after, this is what happens after your demo lesson, you're going to get some feedback. So sometimes you will receive feedback immediately after, but you might also receive feedback by email after the demo, or even both, they might give you some feedback then right away and also email you more later. If the demo lesson was successful and they liked your demo lesson, you might be higher now. So you're going to follow those steps. And as with all feedback on your teaching, you should always consider it carefully and just make some adjustments to help you improve next time. You can take this, even if it didn't work out, you can take this as a valuable experience, right? Even if it didn't work out, you can turn it into something that will help you next time. Learn from it, improve on the points that they told you you should improve, and then it will be better next time. And this is kind of something similar now, what happens next. So after feedback and after everything, the next steps are, like I said, if your demo lesson was successful, then you'll usually be offered the job and you'll be given some further information or documentation. That will be the next steps. You have to do all the paperwork, you get the contract, you need to sign it, maybe you need to start your visa process, all of these things. Those are the next steps. Again, if it was not successful, you might even be offered the opportunity to do a second demo lesson. This also happens quite often because they want to see, so they give you feedback and then they offer you a second demo lesson and they want to see how well you can take this feedback and turn it around and improve. So that's also a really good skill for employees to have, and they want to see if you can do it. And if that's the case, just make sure the employers really see that you have made improvements based on the feedback you were given. Really take every point of the feedback into consideration and improve that in your next demo lesson. And if it didn't work out, like I said, no hard feelings, there are other teaching jobs out there you can apply for and you can just take this feedback, learn from it and go on to the next thing. It's not the end of the world. There are so many other teaching jobs out there. It's just life sometimes that it doesn't work out. So nothing to worry about too much. And yeah, this is all about today. So let's recap real quick what we talked about. So why are we doing demo lessons and what are demo lessons? So employers really like demo lessons to get to know you and to assess your teaching skills. Most importantly, they want to see how you teach and if you fit in with the school. We also talked about using the materials provided to create a lesson following the ESA methodology, the methodology that you learn about in your Teflon TESOL course. So how do you prepare for it, take that too hard, put in your activities, think about the technology, bring your own laptop or tablet if possible and think about the online aspect for online demo lessons. Again, you want to be in a quiet and well lit space. You want to also dress well and you want to use proper equipment. We talked about the headset. Even if you normally don't use a headset, if you wear it, it just makes a really good impression. And then again, as always, just smile and use your teaching skills from your Teflon course. And then everything else is up to the stars, up to the gods if it works out or not. This is the best you can do. There's nothing more you can do if you follow all of these steps you have given your best and there's really nothing more you can do. You can be proud of yourself if it didn't work out. Again, use this experience for the future. And if it worked out, congratulations! You are hired and you are starting a teaching job. So this is really all there is to it. And what I can say again, take to the internet, do your research, use YouTube, use Google to find demo lesson examples. And then I think you're all set. You're all set. And just let your personality shine as well. That's very important. Show them who you are. And this is who we are ITTT and how you can find ITTT online if you're not not get Teflortiso certified. Again, we have 30% off today. I'm going to share the link again. And you're going to see it again. So 30% off any Teflortiso course, you can scan this QR code right here, or you can follow the link that I'm going to share right now with you in the comments, which is this one. It ends with Facebook live minus Linda. And this code will get you 30% off any Teflortiso course. And we also have lifetime job assistance at the end of the Teflotiso course, which also includes things like this, the preparation for a Tefl interview and some pointers for the demo lesson as well. So this is also included. And you can get some more insight and more help with that as well when you complete a Tefl course with us. All right. We have Bi Huang who says useful suggestions. Thank you so much. How are you doing today? Thanks for watching. All right. And now we are in Q&A. If you have any questions about demo lessons, what we talked about today or anything else related to Tefl or Teesol or teaching English abroad. Now is your time to ask and I'll be hopefully able to answer it. Let's see. And I hope you enjoyed today's lesson. I hope you learned something. My advice, really my number one advice is just to be yourself. Put on your teacher face and your teacher voice. Maybe create a cute worksheet and some cute slides. And I think you're good to go. So yeah. Let me know if you have any questions. Also don't forget to like and subscribe again. So you are updated on future live sessions. We go live every week. So you don't want to miss it. We have a lot of exciting topics just like these that are coming up and all free of charge, of course. And we also have a podcast. So if you prefer listening to this as audio only, we also have a podcast. So you can go to the place where you normally get podcasts from and just type in Tefl and Teesol podcast by ITTT and you'll find it there. And you can just listen to my voice in podcast episodes. All right. Let's see. Q&A is open. So ask me your questions. If you have any, like I always say, you probably know this, there are no stupid questions. So feel free to ask away anything related to Tefl and Teesol and today's topic. I still have some time to be on here and answer your questions today. So don't be shy. Ask me your question. Danielle said we love to see Linda delivering a demo lesson one day. Yeah, you know, I should write that would be great now. I should. Well, I did. Didn't we, we had a live session before where we played some games. I think it was icebreakers. So that was kind of like a demo lesson. We played some icebreaker games. That was fun. I would love to see Danielle deliver a demo lesson one day. Maybe Danielle, you should come on here as a guest and we should do that together. How about that? That would be great too. Maybe I should give you all some homework. That'd be also cool. I would give you homework and you record a very quick demo lesson and you send it to me and then we can talk about it. Evaluate it. I'll give you feedback. How about that? That'd be really good too. We can pick one of the topics I had on my slides. You can create it and I'll give you feedback on it. I would love that. Also, if you have any topic suggestions, I always mention that as well. Topic suggestions for upcoming live sessions, let me know. All right, Bi Hong has a question. How would you respond if asked to compare two or more words in demo class but you fail to explain them clearly? Yeah, so two words, two or more words. Like what words? Some synonyms or something? Well, so you usually have time to prepare. When you prepare, you are allowed to use Google, you're allowed to use, do your research. You can already prepare for that in advance. If they ask a question, they put you on the spot and you fail to explain that. I don't think it's the end of the world. And as a teacher, also, you get asked a lot of questions also by students and people. And teachers don't know everything. So a good answer to always say is, oh, I'm not 100% sure about that one, but I will research and I will let you know in the next class something like that. You can just say, yeah, I'm not 100% sure. So I don't want to say anything wrong. So I'm going to research and then I'll let you know next time. I also do that a lot because I don't know everything. And I need to research sometimes and find better explanations. And that's perfectly fine. A lot of teachers do that and they get back to you next time. So I think that would be a good answer. Yeah, Daniel says that's true. I remember that live session about icebreaker games. Yeah, that was fun, wasn't it? That was really fun. But that's a good question, Bi Huang. And yeah, I think it all comes down to again, you're not expected as a teacher to know everything. So you can always say, oh, I'm not quite sure. I'm not 100% sure. I'm going to double check and then I'm going to get back to you next time. It's better than saying, I don't know, you know, it's better than that. So ooh, okay, Christian Faldivia has a question. What is the best technique to make students fluent? Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a huge debate about that out there. There's so many different techniques. And, you know, one technique might work for one student, but it doesn't work for the other student. So is there a best technique? I think the best you can do is mix it up, use many different techniques. And if you're, you know, talking about fluency in particular, of course, a lot of activities that revolve around speaking. And I think that's really lacking in a lot of classrooms, a lot of students learn a lot of reading, they learn a lot of grammar, but they don't really learn a lot of speaking. So you can have, I really like to use conversation cards. And if you Google this or on Pinterest, you're going to find a lot of ideas, ESL, ESL conversation cards around different topics. Also for all different levels, you can use this. You can also do like debate style questions, you know, things like should, you know, there's this, it's like this always comes to mind with debate, but about school uniforms, right? Should school, should we wear school uniforms? Yes or no? And then you can have a team. Yes, we should wear school uniforms because this is this or no, we shouldn't wear school uniforms because this and they list some arguments. Of course, there's a little bit more advanced, but yeah, just get them talking as much as possible. And also, you know, sometimes you can disguise this and not let them know that this is actually teaching, but you can just ask them like in the morning when you walk in the classroom, you know, how was your day? What did you do? I always start like this usually, you know, when I get them to talk about the past, what did you do on the weekend? So they have to use past tense or then, Oh, what are your plans for the weekend, for the coming weekend at the end of the class? And then they need to use future tense. So, you know, and they don't realize most of the time that this is part of class, this is part of teaching, they just think we're making conversation. And of course, always a good idea is to find out what your students interests are and, you know, incorporate that in your lesson, right? If they really like sports, I don't know, you can have conversations about sports, right? Now the soccer football World Cup is coming up. And, you know, you can have something about that current events, current interests, they always that always gets them talking. So then this is, wow, that'd be awesome. Linda, I'd like to take part of a demo class for ITTT in the future, so that we show others do's and don'ts about it. It sounds like a challenge. That would be great. Yeah, absolutely. That would be great. Let's do it. Christians is awesome things. Yeah, I hope that was helpful. It's just usually what I use, I like to use and seems to work. So again, there are just so many different techniques. And, you know, don't stick to one, you can use many different things. Also, having a lot of variety in your teaching, in your classes and your lessons, I think that's also a really good way to improve, you know, your student skills, fluency. If it's too repetitive, they lose interest or it's too predictable, they know the structure and they know what's next. And they lose interest, so always keep it exciting and different. Yeah, and incorporate your students interests, I think that's a good idea to get them participating and talking. Great. Thank you, Christian. It was a really good question. I like that. All right, let's see. I can take one more question if there is one. And if not, I'm going to sign off. We are one hour in now, usually that's where I cut it off, or it gets too long. But you can always come back and rewatch these live sessions. We have playlists of all of our live sessions on YouTube and on Facebook. So you can rewatch, you can leave comments and we will get back to you later as well, even after the live is finished. Also, I want to mention that you can always email us if you have any questions, but ITTT, Tefl courses, etc. Email us at courses at tesall-tefl.com. And you can also reach out to me directly if you want on Instagram. At Linda Goes East, give me a follow and send me a message and I'll get back to you. And then I hope to see you guys again next week. Let's see if there's one more question. Okay, Daniel has the last question. Do you guys recommend using, what is it, eulish? Eulish as a teaching tool. Have you ever used it before? No. What is that? How do you even say that? Eulish? I don't know. Euglish. Okay. Euglish. Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation. Ooh. Wow. I have not heard about this. So thanks for mentioning that. I am going to check it out. I haven't heard about it. Interesting. Cool. Thanks, Daniel. I'm going to check that out right away and I'll let you know next time if I like it or not. Thanks, Daniel. All right, Amitabha says, thanks a lot, Linda, for all of your help and suggestions. Thanks for watching every time and staying until the end and getting up so early, Amitabha. I know it's very early where you are. So thank you so much. And I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I hope to see you all again next week. Same place. Same time. I will be here and I hope you'll be here too. Thank you. You're welcome. And thank you too. All right. LaTarx says, yes, I will rewatch, Linda. Thank you for your tips and suggestions. Happy weekend. Bi Huang, have a nice weekend. Have a nice weekend too. Thank you. Have a nice weekend, everybody. And see you all again next week. All right, guys. Bye-bye. This is a show. Check it out, Linda. I've used it a couple of times and it's fun. All right. I'm going to check it out. Thank you, Daniel. All right. Have a great weekend, everybody. And I'll see you next week, hopefully. Thank you. I'm out. Bye.