Teaching online is becoming more and more popular, with many English adult and young learner students from around the world taking lessons from their laptop, tablet or smartphone. In this post/video post, I look at the best book for online English teachers.
Downloadable Activities: ESL Games World
If you are anything like me, I really am a sucker for free things. You might catch me at the supermarket trying out those free tasters and returning after five minutes or you might see me getting those “Buy One, Get One Free” offers. Fortunately, my thirst for free gifts was quenched with ESL Games World.
Teaching Tips Episode 10: Ten Reading Tips
One thing that can trouble teachers is how to teach reading skills in an engaging and interesting way. When I was learning French or German at school, my teachers would give us a block of text – not all that I could understand – some comprehension questions and let us get on with it. Fast forward 25 years, and I have created some techniques to ensure that reading is dynamic and exciting.
English Bites Episode 6: Ten Food Phrases
What English food phrases do you know? How would you describe something as easy in English? Watch the following video to learn ten phrases related to food.
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Teaching Tips Episode 9: Nine Ways To Teach Vocabulary
In this Teaching Tips Episode, I look at Nine Ways To Teach Vocabulary for the English classroom. In this video, I attempt to share nine ways (not ten ways) to teach vocabulary in the classroom. The nine ideas include:
- Using Flashcards
- Drawing Pictures on the Whiteboard
- Using Word Families
- Matching Definitions
- Highlighting Wordstress
- Removing Vowels
- Teaching Common Collocations
- Matching Opposite and Related Words
- Playing Language Games
- THERE IS NO TEN!!! (my mistake)
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Previous Teaching Tips Episode: The Phonemic Chart.
New Update for Teachers, Students & Online Educators
Hello all. It’s been a slow few months with much happening behind the scenes, despite very little being shared on the website. In fact, I have been working over the past few months on developing videos and content for teachers, students and online educators.
Top Ten Tips For Working In Turkey
One of the benefits of being an English language teacher or involved in TEFL is the opportunity to travel around the world. Not many other jobs offer the opportunity for people to travel, learn about a culture or learn more about the language. One country which is very popular for many EFL teachers is Turkey with its rich and immersive culture. In this post, Emre gives his top ten tips for working in Turkey.
Top Ten Tips For Observing Teachers
Observing teachers can be quite a challenge, especially if you have limited observation experience. However, it shouldn’t be too stressful and you can also help teachers with the whole process. There are of course different observations which are considered: pop-in observations (where a senior member of staff pops their head through the door to get a general idea of the class), formal observation (which is arranged by the Director of Studies or a senior teacher) and a peer-observation. Each have different objectives and this will be looked at in a future article. In this article, we shall look at ten tips for observing teachers and things to consider.
Five Ways to be an Online English Teacher
Online education is becoming more popular and common throughout the world as technology and educational institutions invest in the possible future of English language teaching. Furthermore, English teachers are now supplementing their income with online English teaching in the evenings or after a summer school has closed their doors for another year. In this blog post, which also supplements a YouTube video, looks at five ways to an online English teacher.
Five Ways to Use Newspapers in the EFL Classroom
One way to incorporate authentic text in the EFL classroom is to use Newspapers with students. Furthermore, should teachers be located in a country where English newspapers are limited, then the internet is also available to access newspaper articles. However, the issue for many teachers is how they should use newspaper articles in the classroom so that it is accessible and comprehensible for learners. In this post, we look at Five Ways to Use Newspapers in the EFL Classroom.