The TEFL Academy Blog

Collocations are tricky little members of the English language. There seems to be no logical explanation for their relationship. Consequently, they can be difficult to learn and learn how to…

You might think that a box is a box but then you’d be mistaken. The humble box has the potential to be so much more than a piece of cardboard…

As EFL teachers, one of our responsibilities is to ensure our students have fun in the classroom. We can all agree that our students need to enjoy our lessons in…

As EFL teachers, it’s part of our job to try to help our students not make mistakes. Yet, no matter how hard we try, our students seem to make the…

We’ve no doubt that as a TEFL teacher you have a million different games up your sleeve. Games to interest, entertain, educate and revise. You probably have a few props…

Technology in the classroom can be a double-edged sword. It can be useful for our lessons and a great resource for materials. At the same time, it can be a…

Personalised learning is a big thing in the EFL classroom. As EFL teachers, we can have students from all over the world and from many different backgrounds and social situations…

Being an EFL teacher we are often expected (by our students) to know everything about the English language and its grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. While of course that’s not possible,…