By the end of a CELTA course, you should be very good at planning an individual lesson, but you might feel intimidated at the idea of...

Why Choose Costa Rica? Costa Rica is one of the most attractive destinations for those looking for opportunities to teach English in...

Bournemouth is most famous for its beaches, boasting some of the warmest waters in the UK. While many of the holiday towns on the south...

In a dream world, every student in a class is exactly the same level - they all know the same words as each other, they are all equally...

We all have two sides - a logical brain telling us that we need to set money aside for a rainy day, that we need to save for a mortgage...

Brighton is one of the most popular destinations for tourists visiting the UK, and it's easy to see why. Brighton is a young, fun...

New teachers can be intimidated by advanced students - "What if they know more about grammar than I do?" "What if they correct my...

For many new trainee teachers on their first CELTA course, one of the first and most frequent action points that they get told to work on...

Head to Taiwan if you want something a bit more of the beaten EFL track Why Taiwan? When someone is thinking about where they could live abroad, one of the things they worry about is whether or not they will always be made to feel like a foreigner. In Taiwan, this isn't something you need to worry about. Taiwan is very welcoming of people of all races and religions and the metropolitan capital, Taipei, is very diverse. It's a country where you don't need to speak Chinese to s

Part of learning anything is to practise it. When I was a teenager and I learned to drive in Ireland in the 1990s, my father took me to...

Some people believe that adventures are only for the young and once you get a little older and have a family, you have no choice but to...

On a CELTA course, you'll have to complete four written assignments. Each assignment is between 750-1000 words. The assignments can be...

Students have many different reasons for learning English, but one of the most significant motivations is the doors that English can...

When we meet people at the end of their CELTA courses, one of the comments they often make is that they didn't realise just how much time...

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...