The TEFL Academy Blog

English as a Foreign Language students come to our classrooms to learn English. They expect to be taught grammar and vocabulary, practise using the four skills of the language, and…

The majority of our English as a Foreign Language lessons revolve around a text. Sure we teach a grammatical item, a vocabulary set or a skill, but we always teach…

If you asked your students why they are learning English, some will say “to study”, some will say “for my job”, others will say “to travel”, but at the crux…

Whether we want to admit it or not, every English as a foreign language teacher has their favourite class – be it kindergarten, teen exam classes, one-to-ones or adults. This…

The field of English language teaching may be as old as the hills, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not changing. Teaching methods and techniques are continuously being developed, and…

On 30th March, from 8.30 to 9.30 pm local time, people around the world will be celebrating Earth Hour. What started out as a lights out event in Sydney in…

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…

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,…