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6 great ways to use video in the TEFL classroom

The use of video in the TEFL classroom has become super mainstream in the last couple of years, with more and more schools offering tech like TVs and smart whiteboards. If you’ve got the power of the audio-visual in your teaching domain, why not consider using the following methods to enhance your lessons… Students | © Jeff Peterson/Flickr What happens next scenarios We’ve all heard the famous…

5 TEFL Classroom Exercises for Teaching English Tenses

Tenses are time and time again noted as one of the most difficult aspects of English learning. Whether it’s the perfect or the continuous, students often get caught up in a mire of uncertainty and errors when it comes to reproducing this target language. To help you navigate the problem, we’ve put together this list of five TEFL classroom exercises that will help sort your future from your past……

7 questions NOT to ask in a TEFL interview

A smart shirt, a swish tie, a nice balance between businessperson and adventurous traveller, an arsenal of incisive queries about the job at hand, a smile, and a passion for teaching: all these things are obvious and indispensable when it’s time to finally head for that TEFL interview. But what are the things you shouldn’t take along with you? And more specifically what are the questions that…

5 things TEFL learners find really hard

Confused faces and perplexed expressions are the currency of the English classroom. Whether it’s intricate interplays between the past tenses or the nuances of your own vernacular, there’s bound to be something that throws a spanner in the works of linguistic mastery. That said, there are a few things that most all TEFL learners will find hard, going from the dreaded phrasal verbs to…

7 Tips to Own that TEFL Cover Lesson

In an ideal world there would be no such thing as the TEFL cover lesson. Not many teachers enjoy being thrown head first (figuratively, of course) into a class with a bunch of students they don’t know mid-term. It’s bad enough getting to grips with your own students at the start of the year, only to have to break the ice all over again to cover a measly 50 minutes or single two-hour lesson.…

9 Different Types of Children in Every Class

The 9 different types of children in every class

Every veteran teacher knows that TEFL students come in all shapes and sizes. Some love the classroom, while others can’t wait to leave when the clock turns and that bell goes. Some fidget, others are team players, and there’s always that daydreamer in the corner, staring wistfully out the window! In this blog post we’ll take a look at nine of the most common types of child student you’re likely…