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Interaction Patterns in the English Language Classroom

Teaching English is different from teaching maths or teaching geography because English is a language and this means that practising...

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...

Teaching Mixed-level English Classes: Five Top Tips

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...

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...

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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,...

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...

The 3 tools you need to master classroom management

Every lesson is essentially a sequence of activities. Activities come in all shapes and sizes, but ideally, they are student-centred, and...

How to create rapport with your students when teaching English

I once worked with a Director of Studies who said that when she was hiring someone for a teaching job, the first thing she always checked...