The TEFL Academy Blog

For the majority of us, being in the classroom is the reason we love our jobs. Being with our students, working together on language issues, helping our students learn: we…

Krashen. Thornbury. Harmer. If there are three names you need to get to know in this industry, it should be these three. While there are loads of influential names in…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language means that you can find yourself teaching all sorts of learners, from kindergarten to senior citizens. There is a lot of information and advice…

Conversation classes can seem like a dream; you can just let your students talk for an hour, right? Wrong. There is a time and a place for frivolous chat with…

The beginning of a new class or a new term is an exciting time. The problem is, sometimes you just don’t know whether your students know each other or not.…

Writing in English can be tricky for your students to learn and for you to teach. Often teachers are presented with a piece of writing from a student and do…

No matter how much we prepare or how experienced we are, sometimes things just don’t go according to plan. Maybe your 20-minute activity only lasted 5 minutes, maybe you left…

Big, beautiful, boring. You probably think you know everything there is to know about adjectives. Adjectives seem to be a relatively simple aspect of English because they don’t change like…