The TEFL Academy Blog

The one thing that many people are surprised by when they do their TEFL course and when they experience an English as a Foreign Language classroom for real, is how…

Conditionals. Adverbials. The present perfect. Uncountable nouns. Continuous tenses. Does just looking at those terms gives us the shivers?! Grammar is one of those things that can strike fear into…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is a full-time job, but that doesn’t mean you need to let it take over your life. Planning EFL lessons which are appropriate, interactive…

Teaching English online is a whole new world for most of us. For sure, TEFL teachers have been doing it for many years, but it has only been in the…

There is a lot going on when it comes to learning a language. A language learner needs to get to grips with vocabulary, grammar, natural language, linguistic inconsistencies, pronunciation –…

Not to be confused with The A-Z of English Language Teaching by Scott Thornbury, we thought we’d put together an A – Z of the English language. If you’ve done…

TEFL. TOEFL. TOEIC. IELTS. EFL. ESL. EAP. No, this is not a code to decipher or another language! In the field of English Language education, there are more acronyms and…

If you’ve ever learnt anything – French, calligraphy, karate – you’ll know that a big part of learning is repetition. Repetition, repetition, repetition. (See what we did there?). And, if…