Upgrade to TESOL Professional Course 100 hours
Upgrade your 150-hour ACTDEC Level 4 qualification to a 250-hour Level 5 and enhance your TESOL resume.
100-hour booster course, ideal if you want a prestigious ACTDEC Level 5 qualification and better worldwide job opportunities.
This course is for you if you want to:
- impress with our most advanced TESOL qualification
- improve your CV and job prospects
- develop a broader and deeper TESOL knowledge with full tutor support
Enjoy 24/7 course access: work at your own pace with personal tutor support for feedback, marking and guidance.
Top quality training
If you’ve already obtained an accredited Level 4 150-hour TESOL from any ACTDEC training provider, this is for you.
The teacher’s choice, this course is for serious professionals, keen to extend their knowledge across areas that few other TESOL course cover.
Enjoy more depth on topics like online English teaching, with tips for using Zoom and managing the online class environment. To prepare you for today’s classroom, we look at inclusion in TESOL, understanding how to help learners with various special needs or disabilities (SEND). You’ll dive into linguistics to see where our language comes from, the power that influences it and phonetics and phonology to understand the fundamentals of our sound and speech system. In our advanced assessment modules, you’ll develop the skills to properly assess your learners and write your own tests. Then, ensure you keep growing as a teacher through our extended professional development modules. Finally, take your pick from a variety of exciting topics for an extended essay.
See the course content tab for the specifics of what you'll cover on this course.
Quality teacher training guaranteed with revised and updated content in line with new ACTDEC Level 5 requirements for 2022. Reflect on the material that’s pertinent to you in our new ‘notes’ feature. Qualify with the confidence that can bring you more expertise to the classroom. Enjoy tutor feedback, support and regular course time reminders to help keep you on track.
''The course was brilliantly thorough and informative without overloading me with unnecessary information. The website is always being updated with news of careers and improvements. Everything was absolutely balanced to perfection and I wouldn't change a thing.''
Tatiana Parshina, 100 hour upgrade course graduate
Eligibility
Open to anyone who hold an ACTDEC accredited 150-hour TESOL from either Global English TESOL or another ACTDEC accredited course provider. To check non-native English speaker eligibility requirements, please see our FAQ page. Remember you can always ask us if you are not sure about your level of English.
A reliable internet connection is required since this course operates over an interactive platform. PC/Mac/Tablet compatible.
Duration
Typically, this course can take between 1-4 weeks to complete, but we go at your pace and you'll have 180 days access to this course for maximum flexibility.
Everything you need to complete your course and gain your certificate is included in the one 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
- optional ACTDEC Level 5 PDF certificate available upon successful completion
This course blends perfectly with any other specialist TESOL courses, for an additional 10% discount.
Upgrade to TESOL Professional Course 100 hrs - course content
This bridging course will take you from the ACTDEC Level 4 (150 hr) course to the ACTDEC Level 5 course, across in 17 interactive modules.
On the course you will answer a range of tutor-assessed and computer-assessed questions, write two lesson plans, one extended essay and take three 'stop and reflect' sections.
Module numbers start at M36, which is the start of the Level 5 content in our main 250 hour TESOL Professional Course.
M36 – Introduction to Phonetics
Introduction to speech production mechanisms, 26 letters and 45 sounds.
M37 – How we Articulate Sounds
Voiced and unvoiced consonants, minimal pairs, voicing, plosives and continuants fortis and lenis. Points of articulation, plosives, fricatives and approximants, phonology.
M38 – Vowels
Vowel mapping, vowel variation, short and long vowels, variations and quality.
M39 – Diphthongs
Three categories of diphthongs, closing and centring diphthongs.
M40 – Sentence Stress 1
Elision, Strong and weak forms, rules and help for learners.
M41 – Intonation
Why intonation is important, different functions of intonation, pitch and tone.
M42 – Sentence Stress 2
Stress and rhythm, assimilation and liaison, teaching a stress-timed language.
LP3 – Phonetics Lesson Plan
Create a lesson plan to help learners improve their pronunciation.
CR7 – Phonetics Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on phonetics and pronunciation.
M43 – Introduction to linguistics
Definition of linguistics, differ types of linguistics.
M44 – History of linguistics
Language teaching history and development, from generative theory to the communicative approach.
M45 – Sociolinguistics
Multilingual speech communities, language variation and domination, register and diglossia, code switching, language and power, gender and taboo.
M46 – Applied Linguistics
Introduction to AL, definition, pragmatics, classroom vs. real world learning, social medial and online learning, digital residents and visitors.
CR8 – Linguistics Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on aspects of linguistics.
M47 – Inclusion in TESOL
Helping learners who struggle or who have a SEND (e.g. ASD, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia), how these present in the classroom, tips, tools and practical guidance for guidance for support.
M48 – Advanced Assessment 1
Why assessment is important, summative and formative assessment, washback and ‘teaching for the test’, assessment for learning and assessment of learning, designing tests and peer and self-assessment
M49 – Advanced Assessment 2
IELTS in depth – what it is and how we teach it effectively.
M50 – Professional Online Teaching
Zoom tips and suggestions to enhance online teaching, the chat function, breakout rooms, sharing screens and using images and video creatively. Create an online lesson plan.
M51 – Professional Development 2
Reflective teaching, understanding some of the current issues around ethics in ELT.
CR9 – Level 5 Review
Opportunity to engage in reflective learning on professional development, professional online teaching, advanced assessment and inclusion in ELT.
Final Assignment
Write a 1500-word summary essay on one of the areas from the Level 5 course.
CC – Course conclusion
Course review and steps towards certification
Theory and Methodology of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The Global English TESOL PDF certificate is awarded upon successful completion (included in the course fee).
All GE TESOL PDF certificates include a student certificate number, as well as the logo of our accrediting body, ACTDEC.
A printed, embossed version is also available for an extra fee from our TEFL shop page.
An optional ACTDEC Level 4 certificate is also available upon successful course completion.
Click on a certificate image below to view a sample certificate (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.