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Following on from our previous blog article about useful activities for teaching conditionals, we thought it would be useful to provide an actual lesson plan which utilises variations of the ideas from the original article to show how they can be adapted to ...

Spring has sprung… Time to practice adjectives and descriptive writing again! For those in the TEFL/ESOL world, and teachers of all descriptions, the season of rebirth is a huge resource and inspiration. The dawn of spring may seem to come mainly within the province of b...

Observations are part of the TEFL/ESOL Teacher’s life. They can take many forms and few of us really enjoy them. I have been observed more times than I can remember but in recent years I have also don...

There are two types of extension activities you can use in the TEFL/ESOL classroom, activities that are planned as part of the lesson to extend and underline the language point you are teaching and spontaneous, seemingly off-the-cuf...

Lesson observations are an integral part of every teacher’s professional development. They are usually carried out by a peer who will sit in on a class and observe how a lesson is conducted and then later provide useful feedback. Read more

With a couple of teaching days left until Halloween, here are a few quick and easy resource free/light teaching ideas for EFL students.

The beginning of a new term can be a bit daunting for learners, even at the best of times - and this year, with so much disruption and time spent away from school and regular school routines, even more so. In this blog, we’re going to share some fun ice-brea...

I’ve been asked about some recommendations for some teen and young adult fiction to freshen up the classroom-taught titles. I always recommend extensive reading for EFL students as well as students in mainstream education, as it is a great way of extending their vocabula...

Lesson planning is an important part of teaching, but there are so many options when writing one that it can become overwhelming. In this blog we discuss why we write lesson plans, who we might write them for and what they should include. There is also a FREE lesson plan templ...

When we are looking at the effectiveness of our teaching, we often get tied up in the minutiae of classroom practice. However, sometimes it’s useful to take a bit of a step back and examine what we are doing more broadly. Here we take a lo...