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How do you teach English through English?
Can you really teach English without knowing students' first language? When I tell people that I've taught English in ten different...
Connor O'Donoghue
Apr 83 min read
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Six tips for improving your timing in your CELTA lessons
Some handy tips to help improve your timing when planning and teaching CELTA lessons
Connor O'Donoghue
Apr 13 min read
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How to Teach English One-to-One
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...
Connor O'Donoghue
Mar 253 min read
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Helping students to record vocabulary
On a CELTA course, we spend a long time looking at what happens in the lesson itself. How do we get the meaning of a word across to our...
Connor O'Donoghue
Mar 17, 20243 min read
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Planning a series of lessons
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...
Connor O'Donoghue
Nov 28, 20233 min read
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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...
Connor O'Donoghue
May 30, 20233 min read
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