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When teaching English as a foreign language, it’s a given that you’re going to land up teaching abroad so maintaining basic cultural awareness is important. TEFL Teachers teaching English to foreign students in their own country can  easily forget to be culturally considerate. While your students will need to be aware of their surrounding...[Read More]

In our previous post we looked at six commonly confused words for both English teachers and learners. Hopefully you learnt a few things! There are loads more examples, but we’ve chosen another six for you. Do you get confused with any of these words? More commonly confused words for English Teachers and Learners Desert vs dessert … Contin...[Read More]

Its or it’s?     To, two or too?     They’re, there or their?     You might think these are silly examples but you’d be surprised how many people get them confused. In fact, English is so complicated that even native speakers can get confused using the language. Even English teachers! Of course, as teachers we … Continue reading “6 ...[Read More]

TEFL teachers constantly need to keep up to date with teaching methods and theories of learning and keeping an eye out for helpful articles is a great way to keep abreast of industry news and developments. Blogs and articles written by high-profile TEFL names such as Harmer, Thornbury and Krashen will help teachers stay up … Continue read...[Read More]

Let’s be honest here for a second: even if you enjoy spending time with children, even if you are a parent, teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners is not easy. Children throw tantrums, get distracted, need help to go to the bathroom, fight with each other, need to go to the bathroom … Continue reading “TOP TIPS FOR...[Read More]

If you’re an English as a Foreign Language teacher, you’ve probably considered teaching online at some point in your career. Teaching in your pyjamas, at home on your couch, cuddling your puppy – what’s not to love? But there is actually more than one way you can teach English online. So what’s the best option? Let’s … Continue reading &#...[Read More]

As teachers of English as a Foreign Language, it is our goal to help our students learn English. By now you probably realise that we can’t force our students to learn, and that teaching is not the same as learning. No matter how hard we try in the classroom, whether or not our students learn … Continue reading “TOP TIPS FOR LEARNING...[Read More]

By their very nature, English as a Foreign Language teachers are passionate about teaching and learning. We will slave away for hours planning awesome lessons, sourcing amazing materials and then executing kick-ass lessons for our students. We do all of this with the intention that our students will take what they have learnt in class … C...[Read More]

English as a Foreign Language students come to our classrooms to learn English. They expect to be taught grammar and vocabulary, practise using the four skills of the language, and walk out of the classroom with a higher level of English than when they came in. Thankfully, this can happen and, for the most part, … Continue reading “...[Read More]

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is an umbrella term which can actually manifest itself in a number of different forms. EFL teachers can teach different ages, different lessons, different levels and, of course, different nationalities. Though the majority of EFL jobs are teaching young learners in a monolingual class, there is every...[Read More]

The majority of our English as a Foreign Language lessons revolve around a text. Sure we teach a grammatical item, a vocabulary set or a skill, but we always teach in context and that context usually comes from  texts. There is nothing wrong with this and, in fact, a lot right with this. The problem … Continue reading “HOW TO MAKE T...[Read More]

If you asked your students why they are learning English, some will say “to study”, some will say “for my job”, others will say “to travel”, but at the crux of all of these answers is communication. Our students want to learn English in order to be able to communicate with English-speakers in their particular … Continue reading “5 W...[Read More]