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Exams - who enjoys them? Not a person, surely.  Exams are stressful, anxiety-inducing and boring. Exams are serious business - for both students and teachers. Students have the pressure of…

In an ideal teaching environment, all your students are the same. They produce the same English. They need the same language. They make the same mistakes. In other words, it…

Parsnips. Those interesting little root vegetables, delicious when roasted with honey. Oh wait, that’s not what we mean. We’re talking about PARSNIPS in the EFL classroom. Does that make sense…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language involves many different aspects: teaching vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking. For most of us, we have lessons dedicated to each of these…

Part and parcel of being an English as a Foreign Language teacher is lesson planning, which, unfortunately, is a necessary evil. In the EFL classroom, there are a lot of…

The traditional idea of teaching usually involves the teacher standing at the front of the classroom and the students sitting in rows, quietly listening to the teacher. This is a…

There is more than one way to skin a cat. While we’re not sure if this saying is actually true when it comes to cats, we do know that it’s…

Rapport is defined as the relationship between the teacher and learners and between the learners themselves. Why is developing rapport important Creating rapport is important in the English as a…