Teaching English One to One – Creating Comfort
Teaching English One to One – Creating Comfort In the purely linguistic sense, the notion of creating comfort is pretty much the same in one-to-one and group contexts. It is […]
Activities to Improve English Listening Skills
Activities to Improve English Listening Skills Listening is of course a vital skill to develop to enable our students’ language abilities and course book writers are right to include a […]
Choosing and Using Focus Skills in EFL Teaching
Choosing and Using Focus Skills in EFL Teaching Recently, I wrote about the importance of having a strong learning objective when you plan a lesson. The learning objective that I […]
The Unplanned Lesson by Ian Roth and Paul Wicking
The Unplanned Lesson by Ian Roth and Paul Wicking The Unplanned Lesson was published in late 2023 by University of Michigan Press, which has previously published some brilliant titles for […]
One-to-One Teaching – Managing Time
One-to-One Teaching – Managing Time You often hear from teachers how overwhelmed they are by spending long hours on lesson preparation and not having enough time during classes to do […]
Teach Business English with Mind Maps
Teach Business English with Mind Maps A mind map is an invaluable tool to teach business English. A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. It starts […]
Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning
Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning Firstly, let me explain the thinking behind the teaching phrasal verbs (GA). Over the last forty years, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with conventional […]
Christmas English Games For Beginner to Intermediate Learners
Christmas English Games For Beginner to Intermediate Learners Most english teachers are familiar with the 12 Days of Christmas song, this lesson plan uses that Christmas song to create a […]
Making the Most Out of Your Coursebooks
The role of coursebooks in EFL is a topic of some controversy. For many, language books form the backbone of their curriculums, and some EFL teachers have a strong loyalty […]
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies
Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level ESL […]