Classroom Language
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Useful classroom language for ESL teachers for starting lessons
Preparing to teach your first EFL exam class
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Exam Traps and Tricks
What you should do before teaching an EFL exam class for the first time.
A well balanced use of L1 in class
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Using students' first languages in the classroom
A well balanced use of error correction
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Error correction in the EFL classroom
Why your students overuse their dictionaries
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
A look at dictionaries in the classroom
Why your students don't want to do pairwork
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Students are often less keen on pairwork than their teachers
Why your students still make mistakes with grammar they know well
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A look at a common and frustrating issue
Things to put in a Self Access Centre or Student Library
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some suggestions for organising and equipping a Learning Resource Centre
Why do my students question me?
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Who's in charge in the classroom?
Why your students have problems with listening comprehension
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A look at why learners may find listening difficult
Why your students speak L1 in class
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some reasons why students speak their own language in English classes
Why your students don't do their homework
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Reasons for students not doing their homework, with suggestions to deal with the problem
Setting up workshops for teachers
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Some tips on how you can make workshops work well
Setting up a TEFL certificate course- Advantages & Disadvantages
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
The pros and cons of setting-up a TEFL certificate course from personal experience
Making textbook listenings manageable and fun
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Tips for handling listening activities
Combining Christmas with a Young Learners' Syllabus
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
How to combine Christmas with a Kindergarten/ Pre-school/ Very Young Learners English Syllabus
Christmas vocabulary you can mime
Category: Teaching English
Topic: General
Ideas on miming vocab associated with Xmas
Getting published in TEFL Part One- Choosing a route
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
A look at the options available to people wanting to publish in ESL
Testing and reviewing new EFL materials
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
This article is based on a workshop entitled "Testing and Reviewing New Materials" given by Alex Case at the Tokyo Expo/ Tokyo ELT Book Fair
Tips for the automated teacher
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Keeping your self-motivation up and the experience new as the years go by
Teaching Abroad
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Are you thinking about teaching abroad? If you are, then this article might just help you out.
Using poetry to help with pronunciation
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Pronunciation
How poetry can help young learners with pronunciation
Using songs with young learners
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Learning and Teaching
Why and how to use songs with young children
Lesson Plan: What does s/he do? S/he's a (occupation)
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Vocabulary
A lesson plan to teach young learners how to answer the question "What does s/he do?" with "S/he's a (occupation)".
Irregular plural noun forms: A handout
Category: Teaching English
Topic: Nouns
A handout on nouns which can be used to help students understand irregular plural noun forms.