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Taking Learning Outside The EFL Classroom

No, we’re not talking about taking your students on excursions (though that can work really well sometimes). We’re talking about your students learning English not only in the classroom during your lessons but outside the classroom too. Learning a language…

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Idiomatic language can be very difficult for English language learners to get their head around because, by their very definition, their meaning is not the same as their constituent parts.…

Useful English Idioms To Teach Your EFL Learners

16th June 2016

As EFL teachers, it is necessary to be equipped with a toolbox of teaching methods and approaches. These days it is common for teachers not to adopt only one teaching…

The Lexical Approach: What Is It And How You Can Use It

16th June 2016

Because who has time to prep for everything? Because you’re probably too busy river rafting in Chiang Mai or wine tasting in Italy to spend all your free time planning…

5 No-Prep Activities For The EFL Classroom

7th June 2016

Even though you may be an EFL teacher – and maybe even a native speaker – there probably are some aspects of English grammar which you’re still not sure of.…

Brushing Up On English: Grammar Inversion

10th May 2016

Teaching vocabulary can seem like a long road, so it’s helpful to consider the different aspects of teaching vocabulary to break it down into smaller parts for your students. Here…

What Are Compound Nound And How Do We Teach Them?

3rd May 2016

If you ask a native speaker about the different tenses in English, chances are they will name the past, present and future tense. As English teachers we know that this…

An Explanation Of The Present Perfect

27th April 2016

Pronunciation can be tricky for our learners and so it is helpful to point our related rules when they apply. Pronunciation of the regular past simple endings can be problematic…

Past Simple Pronunciation Problems

27th April 2016

Teaching reading in an English as a Foreign Language classroom can be tricky. You are not only asking your students to respond to the text as whole i.e. in terms…

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