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Why Do an Online CELTA? Benefits and Considerations
If you're considering taking a CELTA course to become a qualified English language teacher, you might wonder if doing it online is as...

Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 63 min read
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What is CELTA? Your Complete Guide to the Cambridge English Teaching Qualification
Are you curious about teaching English abroad or online? Wondering what CELTA is, and whether it’s right for you? You’re in the right...

Connor O'Donoghue
Jul 203 min read
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Online CELTA courses in 2025
DC Teacher Training are pleased to announce our online CELTA course dates for 2025. We have scheduled eighteen courses for next year,...

Connor O'Donoghue
May 30, 20243 min read
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David's story: Where did CELTA take him?
This week, we have a guest post from one of our CELTA tutors, David Tipple. Read on to find out more about his life teaching English both...

Connor O'Donoghue
Feb 15, 20243 min read
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Deciding when to deviate from a lesson plan
New teachers can sometimes cling to a plan, and there are good reasons for this. A lesson plan is your roadmap. The final stage of a...

Connor O'Donoghue
Jan 9, 20243 min read
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Am I too old (or too young) to teach English abroad?
Some people worry that moving abroad and teaching English is a young person's game and that they might have missed their chance by...

Connor O'Donoghue
Jan 4, 20245 min read
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Top Countries In 2024 To Teach English & Save Money
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Nov 9, 20236 min read
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Teacher Talking Time: How can we reduce it?
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 24, 20233 min read
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Teaching English in Taiwan: What it's really like
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 19, 20235 min read
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What is controlled practice?
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 17, 20233 min read
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The Five Best Places to Teach English With a Family
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 12, 20238 min read
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Focus on the Learner - help with CELTA Assignment One
On a CELTA course, you'll have to complete four written assignments. Each assignment is between 750-1000 words. The assignments can be...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 10, 20233 min read
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Five top tips for writing a CELTA lesson plan
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 3, 20233 min read
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Why CELTA is worth doing for non-native speakers
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Oct 1, 20233 min read
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Receptive skills tasks for the English language classroom
Reading and listening are known as the 'receptive skills' because we receive language while reading and listening. The other language...

Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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Where can British people teach English abroad after Brexit?
Until Brexit, European countries like Spain and Italy were among the most popular options for teaching abroad for British citizens after...

Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 22, 20233 min read
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Correcting students' spoken errors in your CELTA lessons
Students all make mistakes, and it's important we respond to these. When students are speaking in class, and a teacher hears a mistake,...

Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 19, 20232 min read
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Checking students' understanding of meaning
One of the most important skills to learn as a new teacher is the skill of checking students' understanding. We might think we're...

Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 12, 20233 min read
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Test-teach-test: A framework for CELTA grammar and vocabulary lessons
Most grammar or vocabulary lessons on an English teaching course, be it an online CELTA course or a classroom CELTA, will start with some...

Connor O'Donoghue
Sep 5, 20232 min read
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Giving feedback to students in CELTA teaching practice
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...

Connor O'Donoghue
Aug 30, 20233 min read
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