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Alternative Ways To Incorporate Art Into The TEFL Classroom

Most TEFL classrooms make use of a coursebook – New English File, Total English, Horizons – but sometimes the coursebook is not always suitable for our EFL classes. The topics can be outdated, the units can be irrelevant to our…

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Teaching Beginner learners is challenging in many ways, but it’s actually easier than other levels in a number of different ways too. A Beginner learner has so much to learn…

Ways To Motivate Advanced Learners

3rd March 2017

If you spend a lot of time with the same EFL class, you may find yourself recycling the same topics over and over again. Family, occupations, free time, sports, technology,…

Dealing With Controversial Topics In The Classroom

3rd March 2017

When teaching lower level EFL learners, the grammar and vocabulary that we teach them is quite obvious. Because they have so much to learn, we have so much to teach…

5 Structures To Challenge Your Advanced EFL Students

3rd March 2017

If you’re a TEFL teacher you may have a passion for the language and enjoy a bit of reading – a lot of us do; maybe you are even a…

Bringing Literature Into The EFL Classroom

13th January 2017

When you are training to be a TEFL teacher, worrying about your boardwork is probably the last thing on your mind. After all, surely your teaching manner, your language and…

3 Tips For Perfecting The Art Of Boardwork

13th January 2017

Using music in the English as a Foreign Language classroom can seem like a bit of a cop-out. We all know everyone loves music, but how does listening to a…

5 Reasons You Should Use Music For ELT

12th January 2017

No doubt about it, there is a huge difference between learning a language when you are young and learning a language when you are old. Even in non-scientific terms, from…

Why Is It Hard For Adults To Learn A Foreign Language?

12th January 2017

If we’ve said it once we’ve said it a hundred times: learning a language is hard. We know this – some of us even from our own experience. But there…

3 Important Considerations For EFL Learners And Teachers

9th January 2017

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