Thirty years ago, almost everyone who did a CELTA course was a native speaker. The idea was that young British people often went to Spain...

Reading and listening are known as the 'receptive skills' because we receive language while reading and listening. The other language...

Until Brexit, European countries like Spain and Italy were among the most popular options for teaching abroad for British citizens after...

Students all make mistakes, and it's important we respond to these. When students are speaking in class, and a teacher hears a mistake,...

One of the most important skills to learn as a new teacher is the skill of checking students' understanding. We might think we're...

Most grammar or vocabulary lessons on an English teaching course, be it an online CELTA course or a classroom CELTA, will start with some...

On a CELTA course, you'll be encouraged to get students to do most tasks by themselves, maybe working alone or in pairs or groups, and...

All CELTA courses share many features in common. Every course has the same basic elements: At least 120 contact hours At least 80 hours...

New teachers sometimes think that 'controlled practice' means 'boring practice'. It's true that controlled practice activities include...

DELTA is an in-service qualification in teaching English – this means that it’s aimed at experienced teachers. The standard...

Some CELTA tutors will avoid giving trainees writing lessons to teach, even though it is part of the syllabus. It is true that it's...

When I was 21, I didn't really know what I was doing with my life. I'd finished a degree in law and I knew I wanted to go on an adventure...

Some parts of writing a lesson plan are easier than others, and many CELTA trainees complain that they just don't know where to start...

The EFL world is littered with acronyms (there’s one in this sentence already). These can sometimes get confusing. This blog hopes to...

Drilling simply means repeating things aloud. It's one of the simplest language teaching tools we have and it's one of the ones we've...

There has never been a better time to get CELTA qualified in the UK. Demand for teachers of English as a foreign language have been at...

As you progress through a CELTA course, you will start to get comfortable with all the things you need to do when you're teaching new...

Do I need a degree to do a CELTA? The short answer is ‘No’ – you don’t need a bachelor’s degree to be accepted onto a CELTA course and in...

One of the questions prospective CELTA trainees ask most often is which books they should buy. We've already written about which grammar...

There is no right or wrong time to qualify with a CELTA certificate. The qualification is life-long – it doesn’t expire and you won’t...