As a new English teacher, one of the most valuable skills you need to develop is the ability to ask the right questions. Eliciting, the...

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

Starting with a new group as a teacher should be fun, but it's very understandable that new teachers are nervous when thinking about a...

What is student engagement? When we teach, we need to make sure students are engaged. Some people think that this means that we need to...

Can you really teach English without knowing students' first language? When I tell people that I've taught English in ten different...

Should I be scared of teaching one-to-one? When a new teacher starts teaching, they sometimes get asked to teach English one-to-one and...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...