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How To Reduce TTT

As a teacher, there are a few cardinal sins which we commit, often unknowingly or on a regular basis. Not grading your language is one, not showing interest in your students is another and abusing teacher talk time is the…

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When it comes to finding the optimal way to learn a language, TEFL teachers need to know what's what. After all, we want to make the learning process as effortless…

3 EFL Terms Every Teacher Should Know: Comprehensible Input, Immersion, And Acquisition.

18th July 2017

You’ve probably heard about Content and Language Integrated Learning and you might even do a few CLIL lessons in your job, but there is a new abbreviation which is taking…

EMI: CLIL Revamped

18th July 2017

As teachers we always strive to plan lessons which are fun and entertaining. Sometimes we find activities and materials which work every single time we use them, no matter the…

How To Use New Activities In The EFL Classroom

6th July 2017

As much as we would love to be able to be around our students all day long speaking English with them (or maybe not, depending on your students!), the fact…

5 Online Language Resources For Your Learners

5th July 2017

Coming up with ways to keep our TEFL lessons fun and interesting can be a tough challenge sometimes, so it’s helpful when the community around us can give us a…

Activities For Holiday Lessons

4th July 2017

Teaching the future in English sounds like it should be quite simple. To talk about the present you use the present simple, so when you talk about the future you…

Teaching The Future

3rd July 2017

Scott Thornbury coined the term “grammar McNuggets” in 2000 to refer to grammar being packaged into bite-sized chunks of language in preparation for teaching. Considering that fast food is generally…

Grammar McNuggets – Friend Or Foe?

28th June 2017

Do you spend a lot of time looking for resources to suit your class? Do you sometimes find the perfect lesson online, but then realise you need to pay for…

How To Get Awesome EFL Teaching Materials On A Budget

26th June 2017

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