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Today is Teacher’s Tuesday and we have another video up on YouTube. It is about the CELTA interview and common questions, with some tips about preparing for the course. You can watch it here.
In this video, I share my advice with the CELTA interview and what I experienced during the interview. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas for the interview and what to expect.
In my previous post, I recommended one book for online teachers which really helped me gain the confidence for online English teaching. In this post, I look at another book which will provide an opportunity for students to interact online via a platform which has been developed to coincide with either their digital online or face-to-face lessons. This book has been co-authored by Lindsay Clandfield and Jill Hadfield and is published with the support of Cambridge University Press, under the series of the Cambridge Handbook for Language Teachers.
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.
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.
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.
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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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:
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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.
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.
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.