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• How to become an English teacher

  By Pete on June 30, 2016 • ( 12 )

  

  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

  By Pete on June 15, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  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

  By Pete on June 14, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  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

  By Pete on June 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  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

  By Pete on May 25, 2016 • ( 20 )

  

  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

  By Pete on May 20, 2016 • ( 13 )

  

  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 ›

• Lesson idea: retelling a story in groups

  By Pete on May 9, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Here’s a great group task for retelling a story. I came across it during the British Council summer school here in Bangkok. My teen group were doing activities based on the movie ‘Jumanji’, but this can work for any movie, fairytale,… Read More ›

• Top Tips: Teaching at UK summer schools

  By Pete on April 24, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Summer school season is nearly upon us! This is my favourite time of year – you get to work in some great locations around the UK, visit famous attractions and generally have a lot of fun! I’ll be missing out… Read More ›

• CELTA Lesson Frameworks

  By Pete on April 8, 2016 • ( 16 )

  

  I had a request last week from a reader who wanted to know more about lesson frameworks. I wrote about how useful they are a while back, but only gave one example. So, I’ve dug out my excellent CELTA handbook… Read More ›

• Perceptions of the DipTESOL

  By Pete on March 31, 2016 • ( 22 )

  

  If you’re about to finish the Trinity DipTESOL, prepare yourself. You’ll soon have one of the most poorly understood qualifications in ELT. I finished mine in late 2014. Since then, I’ve had 3 different DELTA-qualified teachers suggest that my next… Read More ›

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