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How To Teach Grammar In The EFL Classroom

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 the hearts of both students and teachers. Students, as you…

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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…

7 Amazing (Free!) Apps For TEFL Teachers

13th November 2020

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…

How To Engage Young Learners Online

7th October 2020

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 –…

5 Ways To Make Language Learning Meaningful

6th October 2020

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…

An A – Z Of The English Language

1st September 2020

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…

What Is English For Specific Purposes And How Do I Teach It?

21st July 2020

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…

9 Ways To Make Your Online English Lessons Interesting

24th June 2020

Recent events have seen people all over the world considering issues which, to be honest, we should’ve been dealing with for a long, long time already. As we should all…

Representation In ELT Materials And EFL Classrooms

16th June 2020

If you are teaching English as a Foreign Language, no matter the circumstances, you need a bunch of activities up your sleeve. This will help you plan lessons that you…

Top Activities For Teaching English Online

4th June 2020

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