The TEFL Academy Blog

The Middle East is a sticky topic in the TEFL world. On the one hand teaching in the Middle East is known to offer amazing salaries with incredible perks. On…

Being a TEFL teacher generally means you suffer from itchy feet. If all we wanted to do was teach English we could do that in our hometown. Instead we do…

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Six words, one story. Legend has it that this six-word story was written by Ernest Hemingway. Apparently he bet his friends he could write an…

If we’re honest, we know that EFL writing is not our students’ favourite part of learning English as a foreign language. Writing even in your own language is not enjoyable…

Being an English as a foreign language teacher is not like other jobs. We have staff meetings and resource libraries in the staff room but often everyone in our schools…

The first activity for your English as a foreign language lessons is surprisingly important. Your lesson might be the first time that day that your students are speaking English, or…

These days English as a Foreign Language teachers regularly use authentic materials from popular culture in the EFL classroom. Movies, songs, magazines, novels and newspapers can all be found in…

Teaching skills in the English as a Foreign Language classroom can be tricky. Teaching vocabulary and grammar, in contrast, is pretty straightforward if somewhat challenging at times, but teaching listening,…