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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Challenges of Teaching YLs

What comes to mind when someone mentions teaching Young Learners? Perhaps it’s children running around the classroom? Or teenagers sitting in silence with faces like thunder? Whatever it is, it’s...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Continuing Professional Development

Being a teacher is one of those jobs in which you never know what you’re going to encounter in class on any given day. There are so many variables that make teaching both exciting and nerve-wracking...

Monday, March 8, 2021

Preparing Students for Exam Speaking

Exam speaking can be a frightening prospect for a number of reasons and is one which makes students sweaty and nervous just at the thought of it. We’ve all been there; at school, at university or...

Friday, February 26, 2021

Teaching Business English

In an increasingly globalised world, being able to speak English in an international context has become an essential skill. English is the language of international business and teachers need to be ready...

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Teaching VYLs

As the learning of English around the world has become more and more prevalent, the age of our learners is becoming younger and younger. There are more language opportunities for VYLs than ever before...

Friday, December 18, 2020

New Year’s Resolutions

Well, fellow teachers, we’ve finally made it to the end of 2020, and we hope that you are all feeling suitably pleased with yourselves for making it this far. When we first wrote about our online...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Learning to Listen

When we do listening activities in the classroom it is often little more than listening practice. While this is certainly of benefit to the students, it is not the most effective way of helping them to...

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Great Grammar

In our last post, we gave you some ideas on how to make grammar more engaging for YLs, and we hope that you have been able to put some of this into practice in your classes when teaching grammar. In order...

Monday, October 26, 2020

Making Grammar Engaging for YLs

Grammar, when it appears in a coursebook, can sometimes be presented in a somewhat dry and uninspiring manner. It therefore often falls to the teacher to make the grammar lesson engaging for the learners....

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The Ever-Changing Classroom: Planning for Every Eventuality

As we mentioned in our previous blog post, the current pandemic has altered the way we deliver our classes forever and we predict that things are never going to go back to the way they were. But has this...

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Challenges and Benefits of Being Back in the Classroom

After what seems like a lifetime out of the classroom, we are finally back in and have to adapt to teaching with new restrictions in place. Online teaching was eye-opening for us all and has given us teaching...

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

What We’ve Learnt from Online Teaching

If you had done a survey a few months ago amongst English teachers about whether they had heard of an online meeting platform called Zoom, I’m certain that you would have got very few people saying...

Monday, October 28, 2019

Setting Class Routines for YLs

A routine is a set of tasks or procedures which are regularly implemented in class to promote positive behaviour and good classroom management. If done consistently in classes of Young Learners, a good...

Monday, October 28, 2019

Practising Pronunciation

On the 22nd September 2019, I was lucky enough to be able to give the plenary talk in Bilbao for the British Council’s annual Teaching for Success conference. For this event, I thought...

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Preparing Students for Exam Season

It’s getting to that time of year again when many of our learners are getting ready to take their English exams. This is when they find themselves under a great deal of pressure to succeed and many...

Friday, April 12, 2019

Top 10 Things you Learn on a CELTA Course

As I am sure most of you are aware, when you study on a CELTA course, you learn how to teach English. But what does that actually involve and what other skills do you learn on the CELTA course. The answer...

Friday, April 12, 2019

Highlights- Conferences March 2019

March is always a super exciting month for us as not only do we have the opportunity to travel to different cities in Spain for the annual TESOLSpain conference, but we also get to host everyone on home...

Friday, April 12, 2019

To CELTA and Beyond!

We have already extolled the virtues of the CELTA course and what skills you take away from this internationally recognised teaching qualification. So, you get the qualification and you start your teaching...

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

To Translate or Not to Translate: That is the Question

‘Teacher, he’s molesting me!’ Imagine my reaction when, as a newly qualified English teacher in Spain with very little knowledge of Spanish, I was confronted by this comment from a 10-year-old...

Monday, February 4, 2019

Top 10 Classroom Management for YLs

Young Learners can be both the highest highs and the lowest lows of your day; all depending on your mood, their mood, what they/you had for lunch, the weather, the list of possible variables is endless....

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