Classic 120-hour Christian TEFL Course
Most popular Christian TEFL course
Whether you're thinking of using a TEFL qualification for mission or employment, this course is an excellent choice. The 120-hour Classic TEFL course is accredited to ACTDEC Level 3 and contains everything you need to qualify to teach in a language school around the world or to help you teach English in a mission setting.
Why this course?
Working alongside an experienced Christian TEFL tutor, you proceed through the course at your pace, with continuous assessment tasks and tutor-marked feedback. You'll watch great video teaching segments, listen to teacher stories and discover materials that you can use in a range of classes, either for teaching online or in person. You have the option to benefit from shared learning experiences from our online TESOL forum, with ongoing assessment and no final exam.
What makes a Christian TEFL course through Global English different?
All profit from course sales goes towards supporting one of Christian TEFL's mission partners: Cambodia Action, ReachAcross, TeachBeyond, WEC International, People International and Interserve, or to ESOL outreach in the UK.
Top-quality training
Created in line with ACTDEC Level 3 requirements for 2024, this course contains newly revised and updated content so that we can guarantee quality teacher training that is relevant for you today.
You can customise your learning with our new reflective notes feature, so you are able to put what you learn into your own words at regular intervals. Keep on top of your progress with ongoing assessment, tutor feedback, online support regular email course time reminders to help keep you on track.
This is our most popular starter course for Christians looking to either teach online or work in a classroom setting.
Opinion matters
With over 25 years' experience in TESOL training, what do people say about Global English?
"Kerry was really helpful in her feedback. The course was brilliantly structured and the content well organised. I never realised how little I knew about my own language, and now I feel confident teaching it to others."
Geoff Baines, CT 120 hour Classic TEFL course graduate
For more course reviews, see Student Comments.
How this interactive course works
This course is ideal if you’ve got a good broadband connection and can work entirely online via a tablet/PC/Mac. You’ll complete interactive exercises, create lesson plans and view video and graphics that bring the course to life. Enjoy all the benefits of our interactive platform.
Eligibility
Open to native and non-native English speakers over 17 years old with good written and spoken English. If you are a non-native English speaker, please see the course eligibility requirements on our FAQ page. Remember you can always ask us if you are not sure about your level of English.
Duration
This course usually takes between 6-12 weeks to complete, but we go at your pace and allow up to 6 months for course completion for maximum flexibility. Some people have completed it within 14 days. It's entirely up to you.
Everything you require to complete the course and earn your certificate is included in the single fee above. However, check out these optional extras:
- additional time course extensions available if you need access beyond 180 days
- Printed and embossed certificate available for an extra fee
- opportunity to move to the ACTDEC accredited Level 4 after completion, with the 30-hour upgrade to TESOL Advanced course
- optional ACTDEC Level 3 PDF certificate available upon successful completion
This course blends perfectly with any other Global English specialist TESOL course, for an additional 10% discount.
Purchase your course below and get started today.
* Please note, A TESOL certificate alone may not grant you access to EFL jobs online or overseas. Employers may wish to see a degree and/or have certain nationality requirements. See our course destinations pages for more.
Classic 120-hour TEFL Course Content
This course covers the internationally accredited ACTDEC Level 3 course material in 28 interactive modules.
On the course you will answer a range of tutor-assessed and computer-assessed questions, write two lesson plans, one extended essay take with five 'stop and reflect' sections.
M1 Introduction to TESOL
What is ELT? Introduction to English language teaching, the ELT industry and qualities of a good teacher.
M2 Reasons for learning English
Wants and needs of adult, young learners, classroom and online students.
M3 Classroom Management 1
Traditional vs. communicative classrooms, classroom layouts, basic class planning, online classrooms, needs analysis and managing student expectations.
M4 Classroom Management 2
Getting lessons started with engagement activities, group work and pair work, student motivation and discipline in the classroom.
M5 Classroom Management 3
Classroom sensitivity and the importance of learning consolidation through homework.
M6 Classroom Management 4
Spoken and written correction - how to correct students and encourage them to learn from their mistakes, how to make corrections effectively when teaching online.
Essay on Classroom Management
Write a summary essay of the main features of classroom management covered so far.
CR1 - Classroom Management
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on classroom management.
M7 Levels
Teaching at different levels and how to judge the level of your learners
M8 Materials
Selecting materials for classroom-based teaching and online teaching, the major ELT publishers and best free or subscription-based online teaching websites.
M9 Lesson Planning
Creating effective classroom and online lesson plans that help learners develop their English ability. A sample lesson plan for a classroom-based lesson.
M10 Skills Lessons – Reading
Language acquisition and planning reading-focused lessons, with pre-teaching, concept and comprehension questions, controlled and free practice activities, aims and objectives.
M11 – Skills Lessons – Writing
Different ideas for helping learners develop their written English ability, semi-controlled and free writing, project or topic-based lessons.
M12 – Skills Lessons – Listening
The different stages of a listening lesson, ideas and materials for listening lessons, including songs and activities for both adults and young learners.
M13 – Skills Lessons – Speaking
How to give effective speaking lessons, including fluency, themed conversation-based lessons, and pronunciation, including consonant clusters and similar vowel sounds.
LP1 – Skills Lesson Plan
Create a lesson plan for either a reading or speaking lesson.
CR2 - Skills Lessons
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on teaching the basic skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
M14 – Language Awareness
Develop your knowledge of how the English language works. Examine the structure and components of English in order to be able to teach more effectively.
M15 – Getting Started with Grammar
Discover how to teach basic English grammar, including verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and other basic building blocks of our language.
M16 – Present Tense
How to teach the verb ‘to be’, the present simple and continuous forms, with easy teaching lesson ideas.
M17 – Past Tense
How to teach the past simple and continuous, regular and irregular forms with a sample past tense grammar lesson.
M18 – Auxiliary Verbs
Using Do, Does and Did as auxiliary verbs in sentences and questions.
M19 – Future Forms
Using different future forms to make predictions, talk about plans and instant decisions, making arrangements and speaking about timetabled events in English.
M20 – Passive Voice
Difference between active and passive voice, how passive voice is used and ideas for teaching it.
M21 – Perfect Tense
Present perfect simple and continuous form and uses, past perfect and future perfect with examples, exercises and tips for teaching.
LP2 - Grammar Lesson Plan
Create a lesson plan for the revision of the past simple and present perfect simple.
M22 – Conditional Forms
Teaching the first, second, third and zero conditional, lesson plan guidance and samples.
CR3 - English Grammar
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on teaching grammar.
M23 – Teaching Vocabulary
Lexis and storage, learning new language semantically, antonyms and synonyms, sample lesson plan for teaching vocabulary.
M24 – Functional English and Modal Verbs
Teaching function lessons, including requests, offers, permission, suggestions, obligation and advice.
M25 – Language Structure and Acquisition
How do we learn languages? Second language acquisition theory, morphology and syntax, semantics, lexis and etymology.
CR4 - Functions, Vocab and Learning Languages
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on teaching functions, vocabulary lessons and how we learn languages.
M26 – Assessment and Testing
Performance-based assessment tools, assessment theory and practice, and teaching English for exams.
M27 – Classroom confidence
Getting ready to teach, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), building confidence and feeling comfortable in the classroom environment.
M28 – The World of EFL
Teaching around the world, a brief history of EFL, finding work and TESOL contracts, CV/resume help and suggestions, passing TESOL interviews, advantages and disadvantages of working online, mission and service opportunities.
CR5 - Assessment, Testing and Getting Started in TESOL
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on assessment and testing theory, the world of EFL and confidence in the classroom.
CC – Course conclusion
Course review and steps towards certification
in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
A Global English PDF certificate is awarded upon successful completion. A printed, embossed version is also available for an extra fee from our TEFL shop page.
An additional Christian TEFL 120 hour printed certificate is also available for an extra fee.
An optional ACTDEC Level 3 certificate is also available. Click on a certificate image below to view a sample (note that the samples don't show student certificate numbers).
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Who delivers this course
TEFL Global is a trading name of Edventure Abroad Limited, launched in 2026 by Jonathan Siddall. Your course is delivered by our partner Global English, a UK online TESOL school in Exeter, established in 1997.
- Delivered: you study on the Global English platform, using Global English course content.
- Marked: a Global English tutor marks your assignments and writes feedback on them, and you can message your tutor with questions. Some short questions inside the modules are checked automatically.
- Certified: your certificate is issued by Global English and carries a code anyone can check at global-english.com/verify/.
- Accredited: ACTDEC-accredited | actdec.org.uk
What Global English’s students say
These are reviews of Global English, not of TEFL Global, which is new and has few reviews of its own yet.
- TEFL Course Review: Global English TESOL, 4.79/5 from 123 reviews (checked 7 Oct 2026).
- Trustpilot: Global English TESOL/TEFL, TrustScore 4.5 from 72 reviews (checked 7 Oct 2026).
Why some sites list us separately
Review sites list Global English TESOL under its own name, and TEFL Global is not listed there as a separate school. That is correct: they are two brands. TEFL Global sells the courses and Global English delivers, marks and certifies them.