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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Presenting Real Language

Language teaching by its very nature demands striking a balance between work on skills and systems and within that there is obviously vocabulary to cover, yet how do we know what language should be taught?...

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Using Images and Flashcards

For many years, there has been some debate within the world of education as to whether students have unique learning styles and therefore are more receptive to a certain style of instruction. It has proven...

Monday, September 30, 2024

Creating an Engaging Classroom Environment

Think back to when you were a child, and you’d walk into your classroom on a Monday morning. What caught your attention and what made you feel excited to be back at school after the weekend? I have...

Saturday, August 31, 2024

CELTA From a Trainee's Perspective

We often hear teacher training centres telling us what the CELTA course is like, what to expect from it and what we will learn on the course. Centres also tell us why we should do the course at their centre....

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Level Up Your Teaching

How can you take your teaching to the next level? What can you do to become a better, more competent and more confident teacher? In this blog post we will look...

Friday, May 31, 2024

How to Increase Your Language Awareness

As most teachers well know, learning never stops, be it in the classroom or out of it. You could say that it comes with the territory, yet so much time seems to be focussed...

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Exam Revision Tips and Activities

The academic year is coming to a close, and for many students there is no escaping the fact that a language exam awaits them at the end, typically acting like some kind of gateway to the future. So, whether...

Friday, March 29, 2024

Why We Love Grammar

‘I feel bad telling students that we’re going to learn grammar’, a teacher once told me. Sorry, what? I politely thought to myself. This idea of having to apologise for teaching grammar...

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Working with Emergent Language

Emergent language is the language that comes up during our lessons which we had not planned for, but have to deal with, nevertheless. This can be tricky, as it is language that we have not included in...

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Lessons on the Fly

A recently conducted unofficial survey about stressful teaching situations turned up the perhaps unsurprising result that one of the most common fears was having to teach a lesson on the fly....

Friday, December 29, 2023

Reading at Starters, Movers & Flyers

Have you noticed, like we have at London School of Languages, that when young learners sit the Pre-A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers exams they generally perform less well in the reading tasks than...

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Activities for 1-1 Classes

In the world of language learning, 1-1 English classes are sometime an invaluable option for students seeking a tailored or personalised educational experience. While group classes are...

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

From Student to Teacher

A mere 10 years after starting her English learning journey with London School of Languages, Nerea Rodriguez became one of our newest and youngest teaching recruits this past September. Her achievements...

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Using VYL Material

VYLs, or Very Young Learners are classified as children who are in pre-primary education. In terms of English learning, this can refer to children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years, however published...

Friday, September 15, 2023

Before the Coursebook Arrives

A big warm welcome back to another academic year – be you teacher, student, or simply interested in the online musings of this teacher trainer/part-time blog writer. For those of you about to get...

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Are You Ready For DELTA?

Have you been teaching for a little while? Are you thinking about how you can continue to develop professionally as an English teacher? Then perhaps it’s time to start thinking about...

Thursday, July 27, 2023

How to Be a Reflective Teacher

If we want to develop as teachers, it is important to be able to reflect on our teaching and analyse what we are doing well and areas in which we can improve. But what can we do as teachers...

Friday, June 2, 2023

Preparing for CELTA

Are you planning on doing the intensive 4-week CELTA course this summer? Or have you already signed up? In any case, we’re sure your excited about getting started! In this blog post...

Friday, May 19, 2023

Using Stories with Primary Learners

The Hook Once upon a time… and there you have it, you’ve immediately entered a world where dragons soar above the clouds, kings and queens reign over rival kingdoms and dastardly...

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Memory and Language Learning

“You can’t remember how to say Toldo in English? But, we saw it yesterday!”. Raise your hand if you have ever said something like that. Sometimes not being aware of how memory works might...

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Conference Takeaways 2023

It’s been quite the month. After what has felt like the longest term of our lives (erm, where were the bank holidays when we needed them?), we are reflecting on what we can take away from the conferences...

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