Every classroom needs a few basic props and equipment. EFL ESL classroom equipment can be used as teaching aids to make lessons more visually fun, interesting and effective. If you go into lots of different schools as I do, you’ll find that unfortunately not every classroom or teaching area has that equipment readily available. I’ve …
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C’est la rentrée! The first day back to school in France is an important day for a lot of people. Culturally, it is a huge part of the French year. It’s not just teachers and students though who have to prepare for “la rentrée”. Many other people are affected too. Preparations start in July at …
We all know the feeling, even if we’ve been teaching for many years. The holidays are coming to an end and even the most experienced of us are feeling a twinge of back to school worries. We’ve spent the last couple of months relaxing. Maybe we’ve been teaching a few weeks of summer school or …
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A normal day for me starts about 8 o’clock in the morning when my personal butler wakes me with a coffee. He then prepares breakfast on the terrace before my chauffeur comes to collect me. Drrriiingggg! Errr, no. It’s not quite like that actually. My very non-glamorous life might not really be that much different …
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Are you thinking of teaching English to children? Have you seen an opportunity to go and teach English abroad? Do you want to do a TEFL course? We all get into this job for different reasons. Some become English teachers by chance, others after long and careful planning. I fell into it when my children …
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I was on a discussion group on Facebook the other day when a teacher came on and asked for ideas of ESL songs for children to use in her English class. This seemed like quite a normal question to me. I feel that using songs in class is something I do often and I find …
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It can be quite daunting the first time you are asked to write a lesson plan for a real class. If you are new to the job, you may not be quite sure where to start. Don’t panic though. I’m going to give you a few ways to show you the different steps to write …
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One of your most important tasks as a teacher is to get children to speak English in your EFL class. This is the reason their parents send them to English classes, this is why you are employed to teach them. It is the reason that your English classes exist. They do not come just to …
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I think it is very important, as a teacher of English as a foreign language, to teach polite English to my students, however old they are. One of the many things I’ve learned over the years is that I want them to be confident that they can use their English in a useful and practical …
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Even the most experienced teacher has a bad teaching day sometimes. Everything seems to go wrong and you feel like the worst teacher in the world. Even though I love my job 99% of the time, ever so often I have a day that makes me feel like I never want to see any child …
