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With St Patrick’s Day on 17 March, we thought it would be nice to focus some attention on Ireland. Many TEFL/ESOL teachers will have Irish heritage, and for those who don’t, we have compiled here a list of fun facts and easy to digest information about the Emerald Isle. ...

In this article, we will present a quick summary of the differences between Phrasal Verbs and other Multi Word Verbs. In the free download at the end of the article, we will provide some practical ideas and activities for covering this subject in the TEFL/ESOL classroom....

This repost of our previous Top 10 EFL Classroom Activities for Valentine’s Day blog also includes some new free resources available to download. Explore the language of love with your students this Valentine's Day.

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 ...

If conditionals were easy, we wouldn’t need to spend hours thinking about how to teach them to our ESOL/TEFL or EAL students! This blog contains some fun classroom activities that can be used at different levels to help learners understand conditional forms ...

In terms of classroom control and management, any TEFL/ESOL teacher will find that knowing a student’s name will give a degree of influence over their behaviour in the classroom. In our line of teaching, we are frequently required to change classes and get to know new gr...

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...

Blogs are an excellent way to get to know a sector and understand people’s experiences. If you’re new to TEFL/ESOL or seeking new insights then check these blogs out.

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...

The start of the lesson sets the tone and context for all that follows. In many ways, the first things we say or do when we walk into a class at the start of the lesson are like an author looking at a blank page at the start of a book. We want to come up with something that...