The TEFL Academy Blog

As English as Foreign Language teachers, we teach more than English. In our EFL classrooms our students learn English but they also learn a number of different skills. One such…

Teaching writing is possibly not on your list of favourite things to do. A lot of students don’t enjoy writing or may even think writing in class is a waste…

In EFL, we often find ourselves teaching topics which we have taught a thousand times before – family, crime, global warming, education and technology, to name a few of the…

What are authentic materials? Menu's. Newspapers. Instruction manuals. Timetables. Blogs. These are all examples of authentic materials.  Why are authentic materials important in teaching? Why should you use authentic materials?…

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but since we’re in a language classroom why not utilise pictures to help our students speak a thousand words? Pictures are versatile…

Fluency when speaking is the ability to speak smoothly without effort and without any loss of coherence. In other words, when you speak fluently you speak as if you don’t…

Just as there are many ways to skin a cat, so there are many ways to approach a text in Teaching EFL in the classroom – and it doesn’t have…

Speaking is one of the reasons our students come to our lessons and keep returning to our classrooms, so we need to utilise a range of activities which fosters speaking…