ESL Speaking Exam Tips for Busy Teachers

ESL Speaking Exam Tips for Busy Teachers Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d […]

Lesson Planning for ESL – A Quick Primer

Lesson plan for teaching English

Lesson Planning for ESL – A Quick Primer Making a lesson plan for teaching English is a major part of the job of teaching. Sometimes, it’s creative joy, and sometimes, […]

How to Teach English as a Foreign Language

How to teach English as a foreign language

How to teach English as a foreign language Are you looking Advice on how to teach English as a foreign language? EFL Magazine recently posed a challenge of writing ’10 […]

Multi-Level ESL Classes: Teaching Strategies

Multi-Level ESL

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 […]

One-to-One Teaching – Managing Time

one-to-one teaching

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 […]

Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning

teaching phrasal verbs

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 […]

Making the Most Out of Your Coursebooks

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 […]