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Family Fortunes In The EFL Classroom

Games, quizzes and competitions are a sure-fire way to introduce fun, competition and motivation into the EFL classroom. There are loads of games available which have been specifically invented for the EFL classroom but there are also many games which…

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Homework. Nobody likes it, but it’s a necessary part of any learning journey. The question is, how do we convince our students that homework is a necessary evil? Quite simply,…

3 Alternative Homework Ideas For The EFL Classroom

15th May 2017

As teachers, we are always under pressure to maintain the quality of our teaching. In theory, on a regular basis this may mean we are observed by teacher trainers or…

Using Video For Teacher Training

3rd May 2017

Planning our lessons may not be the best part of our jobs as EFL teachers, but it is still necessary and something that we do pretty much every day. As…

Our 5 Favourite Resource Books For The EFL Classroom

3rd May 2017

We all love games. Our students love them because they feel like they are not doing work and we love them, well, because it feels like we are not doing…

4 EFL Games To Encourage Fluency

28th April 2017

New English File. Cutting Edge. Total English. SpeakOut. Touchstone. Inside Out. Outcomes. These are just a few of the popular coursebooks in English language training. In our English as a…

The Case For And Against Coursebooks

27th April 2017

Co-operative learning is a technique which has been around since the 1930s but has recently seen an upsurge in popularity. It came about as a response to the fact that…

Co-Operative Learning: A Not-So-New Teachnique For The EFL Classroom

27th April 2017

We’re English teachers and we’re expected to know our stuff when it comes to the language. Of course, there may be finer points of grammar which we are not totally…

Words Even Teachers Get Wrong

26th April 2017

The TEFL world is full of acronyms. You’ve probably heard about EAP (English for Academic Purposes), CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), and CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), but you…

English For Specific Purposes

25th April 2017

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