It’s a pleasure to introduce this guest post from Phil Wade. He shares some useful advice for teachers thinking of undertaking distance study. I did my first TEFL course with i-to-i about 18 years ago and as a follow-up, I… Read More ›
General
Some thoughts on authentic listening materials
I’ve been a materials writer for 2 months now. It’s about time I started reflecting on it. I haven’t had time to do so as it’s a very busy role – hence the lack of blog activity. I’m currently writing… Read More ›
Writing for ELT magazines
I’ve been published in a few industry magazines over the past year. Some of you might like to do the same. If so, here are a few tips. I’m no expert, but you might find them useful. What do you… Read More ›
How to survive a CELTA course
In her second guest post, Nicky Salmon offers some useful tips for surviving an intensive 4-week CELTA training course. The title might sound a bit dramatic, but a typical course is very intensive, especially if you have chosen the 4-week option…. Read More ›
How to become an English teacher
In this great guest post, Nicky Salmon offers some really useful tips for how to get into English language teaching. Nicky is a CELTA trainer, and will be happy to answer any of your questions or comments on this post…. Read More ›
Tips for managing young learners
We set up a ‘Quality Circle’ here at the British Council Bangkok last term. Ours is basically like a reflective practice group set up for teachers, by teachers. We meet twice a term. Every 5 weeks we choose a topic… Read More ›
Course review: Dyslexia and foreign language teaching
I finished this FutureLearn course a few weeks ago. It was offered by Lancaster University, and was the second course I’ve done through them – the other one was an introduction to corpus linguistics. The course was 4 weeks long…. Read More ›
11 things challenge
Acknowledge the nominating blogger Sandy Millin nominated me to do this 11 things blog challenge the other day, so here it is! Share 11 random facts about yourself…
12 tips for writing TEFL lesson plans
I recently took a CELTA extension course for teaching young learners. The course went well and I quite enjoyed writing formal lesson plans again. Tutors said that planning was my strength, which probably meant my teaching wasn’t that good! I’ve… Read More ›
10 useful websites for ELT
A self-development task during my diploma last year asked me to list all the websites I found useful in my ELT practice. The document I created spanned about 6 pages – it could easily have been longer. I’m sure there’s… Read More ›
ELT Planning 