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Encouraging Students To Speak English

Considering that they spend their time and money to be in our classrooms to learn English, you would think our students would want to allocate much of their time to speak English. But when you’re actually in the classroom you…

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You may not realise it, but listening is a skill. Even in our native language it can be difficult to understand what someone is saying if they have a cold,…

Listening Advice For EFL Students

25th March 2019

Most of us have whiteboards in the classroom. They’re usually big and take up the majority of a wall. We use them to write down vocabulary, explain language or even…

3 Fun Ways To Use Mini Whiteboards

22nd March 2019

Applying for a job is not an easy process, regardless of whether you’re a waitress or a CFO. For a job teaching English as a foreign language, the process can…

5 Questions To Ask Before Accepting A TEFL Job

21st March 2019

It’s no secret that many of our English words are in fact not English at all. English has been around for thousands of years, but there are many languages that…

15 Words You May Not Realise Aren’t English

20th March 2019

Teaching Unplugged is just one of the many teaching techniques that you can see being used in English as a Foreign Language classrooms all around the world. It is quite…

Teaching Unplugged In The EFL Classroom

19th March 2019

The English as a Foreign Language classroom is a very special space. It is often the only place our English language learners will be exposed to the language. Sure we…

A Language-rich Classroom Environment

15th March 2019

We get it, you’re busy. As an English as a Foreign Language teacher (actually any kind of teacher!) you don’t really have a lot of time to spare. When you’re…

5 Books Every TEFL Teacher Should Read

14th March 2019

We know how easy it is to make mistakes when speaking English and to use the wrong word. Many of these mistakes are mistakes our learners make even though they…

11 Common Mistakes With Word Pairs

12th March 2019

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