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Teaching English as a Foreign Language and a love of travelling go hand in hand. No doubt a major reason many people decide to uproot their lives and embark on…

Idiomatic language can be very difficult for English language learners to get their head around because, by their very definition, their meaning is not the same as their constituent parts.…

As EFL teachers, it is necessary to be equipped with a toolbox of teaching methods and approaches. These days it is common for teachers not to adopt only one teaching…

We can all dream of our perfect EFL classroom but sadly it’s not often in life that we get what we wish for. In the teaching environment there can be…

Because who has time to prep for everything? Because you’re probably too busy river rafting in Chiang Mai or wine tasting in Italy to spend all your free time planning…

Can you imagine waking up every day whenever you want to, working whatever hours you choose, loving your job and earning the salary you’ve always dreamed of? No, neither can…

We know how it goes: you’re sitting in the staffroom having your umpteenth cup of tea and your colleague asks you, “So what are you doing in the next lesson?”…

The more experience you get teaching English as a Foreign Language, the more you realise that students are not the blank states they were originally thought to be and the…

Possibly one of the biggest apprehensions people have about moving to another country and being a TEFL teacher is not being able to speak the language – or, even worse,…