Here is the list of the basic requirements and qualities which you should develop in you, in order to be a teacher of English.

A. Language skill:

You have to be familiar with all the four skills of English language that is listening, speaking, reading, and writing. You can maintain a list of language functions. These functions must be encouraged in your English class all the time.

B. Fluency:

Your spoken English must be fluent so that you can create an atmosphere of spoken English in classroom. You should see that your voice/tone is not dull. You should vary your tone.

C. Creativity and initiative:

You should develop lot of initiative and should try to use new ideas to stimulate, motivate and involve the students in the use of English language. For example, you should be able to motivate your students before and during the lesson with humour and role playing.

D. Adopt lessons to students experience:

You should be bold enough not to rely entirely on courses book, but be able to adopt the course material and supplement it. You can stimulate your students' previous knowledge and relate it to the lesson of English. For example the topic from Domestic Science, Social Studies, Urdu, or Science which are related to the English lesson can motivate your students to use there own experience and spark discussion among them. Hence they will be using both English and their previous knowledge. You should also encourage your students to draw on the experience in everyday life. You lesson should be student-centred.

E. Lesson plans and record-keeping:

Your lesson plans should incorporate all the four skills of English language. They should be interlinked with each other. For example reading skill should lead to spoken and discussion and listing skill to be reached in written form and vise versa.

You must keep check on each member of the class. A note of each student's activities, mistakes, problems in grammar etc should be kept in a record-book to be consulted while planning your text lesson. You must use record-book as a guide to plan remedial work for your students, who are weak and need help. A good lesson plan is a very important part of Ennlish language teaching.

I am Abdul Majid Khan from Pakistan. I am an Economics graduate. Now a days I am a teacher in a project of National Education Foundation of Pakistan. I teach my students "Character before Career". Here is a link to my blog: http://www.general39.blogspot.com