If you’re considering taking the CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), you’ve probably come across...

Understanding the challenges and intensity of a CELTA course If you’ve Googled “Is CELTA hard?” or heard someone say it’s the most...

So, you’ve been accepted onto a CELTA course. Congratulations! Whether you’re starting next month or next week, it’s natural to feel...

If you’re preparing for teaching practice on your CELTA course , or just starting out as an English language teacher, one of the tools...

What does 'grade your language' mean? On a teacher training course like CELTA , new trainee teachers are often advised to grade their...

Do I have to learn the phonemic symbols to do a CELTA course? The short answer is No. The slightly longer answer is 'No, you don't have...

Some handy tips to help improve your timing when planning and teaching CELTA lessons

Lessons from the Classroom is usually the final written assignment set on a CELTA course . Some people say it's the easiest assignment to...

Language Skills Related Tasks is often set around the mid-point of a CELTA course. Like all CELTA written assignments, it is 750 to 1000...

Language-related tasks is often assigned early in a CELTA course and, like all other assignments on the course, it needs to be completed...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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