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3 Activities To Help Your Students With Pronunciation

When speaking, pronunciation matters, no matter the language. Pronunciation can be the difference between comprehension and confusion on the part of the listener, so it is obviously something we want to work on in our classroom to ensure our students…

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Learning vocabulary is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for learners of any language. Even if you have a good grasp of grammar, you always need vocabulary to be able…

How To Maximise Vocabulary Learning In The EFL Classroom

7th March 2018

Are you feeling bored in your own lessons? Stuck for fun and exciting ideas? In a lesson planning rut? Well then, you’ve come to the right place! We understand that…

Using The News In The EFL Classroom

6th March 2018

Your TEFL course will prepare you for many things – teaching English to Young Learners, teaching English to adults, teaching English grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and speaking. It will…

5 Mistakes You’re Making In 1-To-1 Classes

26th February 2018

Learning a language is all about learning to communicate. Communicating is all about interacting with people using the language in the real-world. Learning from books is all well and good…

Where To Go On EFL Excursions

23rd February 2018

Cast your mind back to when you were at school. Which classes do you remember? Probably a few classes which were interesting and some that were mind-numbingly boring. Hopefully you…

Tips For Being Creative In The Classroom

15th February 2018

February. The month of love, romance and expensive gifts. The month which has a day which seems to have been invented by the chocolate, jewellery and gift card companies to…

EFL Classroom Activities For Valentine’s Day

14th February 2018

Why do we say There weren’t many people at the party but There wasn’t much wine? When you look at these sentences carefully, you’ll notice that it all depends on…

Grammar Revision: Countable And Uncountable Nouns

12th February 2018

Okay, let’s talk grammar for a minute. Grammar is one aspect of English which can be quite tricky for our English language learners – and for English as a foreign language…

Grammar Revision: Gerunds And Infinitives

12th February 2018

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