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Project Work in the Young Learner Classroom
Projects on jobs and occupations Teaching Young Learners Teaching English to young learners can be considered more challenging and rewarding than any other form of language teaching. However, a lot of...
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words: An ELTPics Introduction
What Is ELTPics? ELTPics was created in 2010 as an image resource bank for teachers to use within their classroom. Since then, it has expanded exponentially. As their website highlights: The...
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Teaching Abroad: Tips and Techniques
This is my 201st blog post and as a special thank you I thought I would write up a special post detailing tips and techniques for teachers deciding to move abroad for their career aspirations. A big...
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“Where’s the CD?”– Ideas for Missing Audio
What do you do when you can’t find an accompanying CD for your coursebook or a listening lesson? Scream? Shout? Point fingers? Don’t worry, there are a few things you can do in replacement of the...
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Surviving The Summer School
You have completed your CELTA course and you are now on a mission to start teaching. In all likeliness, most trainees from the CELTA will start their career as a young learner teacher – whether in the...
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20 Ways To Be A Better English Language Teacher (Part 1)
English language teaching can be a challenging and difficult process, especially if you are seeking for new ideas and thoughts on improving your day-to-day teaching. Much of the challenge is learning...
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20 More Ways To Be A Better English Language Teacher (Part 2)
In the first part of these blog postings, we looked at various ways to develop and enhance your career as a language teacher with 20 ideas which could be incorporated within your personal CPD goals or...
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10 Websites for English Language Teachers
All teachers enjoy reading and gaining access to more resources for lesson ideas or developing material for classes and I thought I would share the ten websites that I like to refer to when I am...
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10 Recommended Books for the CELTA Course
It has been a number years since I took the CELTA Course, at least seven years since I actually completed the course at the British Council Seoul. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet other Native...
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10 Tips for Lesson Observations
My previous post, 10 recommended books for the CELTA course, was somewhat well received and I have been thinking about a suitable follow-up for this post. Anyhow, after observing teachers during the...
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10 Ways to Use QR Codes in the Classroom
It has been a while since I have posted any practical ideas for the classroom, and for this I am sorry. However, yesterday I found inspiration, yet again, while preparing for a workshop for my teachers...
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Preparing for the CELTA in Nine Easy Steps
A previous blog post looked at 10 books recommended for the CELTA course but I also received a number of questions on Twitter, Facebook and this blog from readers wondering about how to prepare for the...
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Ten Ways to Introduce Target Language
It has been a while since my last post, about two months actually. Apologies it has taken so long for this post but it has been a very busy period for us at LTC Eastbourne with a lot of young learners...
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Popular Posts of 2015
It has been an incredibly busy year at work and home. Unfortunately, the biggest problem this has created is the lack of opportunity to blog more consistently. The flip side is that what I have written...
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5 Ways To Spice Up Reading
Reading can be such a passive and monotonous activity in the classroom: you walk in the classroom, tell students that they are going to read about a particular topic, brainstorm vocabulary related to...
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5 Fantastic Ways to Pair Students
You know what it’s like, the students are sitting down in their predictable places and you say “Right! We are going to move you around. Listen to your number!”. You give a number to each student and...
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10 Websites for English Language Students
A few years ago I wrote a blog post about 10 Websites for English Language Teachers. At the time it seemed to be quite popular with readers but it suddenly dawned that I did not write about any...
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Five Practical Ideas to Incorporate Pronunciation During Lessons
On 8 October 2016, I gave a workshop at the University of Brighton as part of the IATEFL PronSIG event. It was a great event and there were some wonderful talks. Unfortunately, I had to leave at 3pm....
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Real English Lesson: Functional Language
I recorded this lesson at my work of a fellow teacher preparing learners with functional language for debates and expressing points of view. It was a great lesson and I was so grateful being able to...
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Teaching Ideas for Word Stress
So the past few months, I have been focusing more and more on pronunciation for all levels of learners, no matter whether they are young learners or adult learners of English. Anyhow, I tried out a new...
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