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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...

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...

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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...

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...

Five games for vocabulary practice on CELTA

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

What is guided discovery?

As you progress through a CELTA course, you will start to get comfortable with all the things you need to do when you're teaching new...

Vocabulary: conveying meaning to students

Learning new words is one of the most important parts of learning a new language. You may be able to get your meaning across with poor...