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We know how it goes: you’re sitting in the staffroom having your umpteenth cup of tea and your colleague asks you, “So what are you doing in the next lesson?”…

The more experience you get teaching English as a Foreign Language, the more you realise that students are not the blank states they were originally thought to be and the…

Possibly one of the biggest apprehensions people have about moving to another country and being a TEFL teacher is not being able to speak the language – or, even worse,…

Even though you may be an EFL teacher – and maybe even a native speaker – there probably are some aspects of English grammar which you’re still not sure of.…

Teaching vocabulary can seem like a long road, so it’s helpful to consider the different aspects of teaching vocabulary to break it down into smaller parts for your students. Here…

If you ask a native speaker about the different tenses in English, chances are they will name the past, present and future tense. As English teachers we know that this…

Pronunciation can be tricky for our learners and so it is helpful to point our related rules when they apply. Pronunciation of the regular past simple endings can be problematic…

Teaching reading in an English as a Foreign Language classroom can be tricky. You are not only asking your students to respond to the text as whole i.e. in terms…

There is so much information out there about the world of Teaching English as a Foreign Language that it can be difficult to know what to believe. But there are…