Teaching EFL to children vs adults: what are the differences?

Let’s say you are a recently certified TEFL teacher. After completing your TEFL course, you feel motivated and ready to take on the world. The teaching profession entails a lot of responsibilities that have far reaching effects on our society. EFL teachers need to be perfectly bilingual in the language they are teaching, and they…

Multi-Lingual Classrooms: How to Teach English to Students from Different Backgrounds

You made it! You are now an EFL/ESL teacher with the Trinity College CertTESOL certificate! Well done. Calls, emails are coming in, interviews are being lined up but there is this nagging doubt about a certain group – the multi-lingual class. I have good news for you. You are certified and trained to teach English…

What’s a great way to break ice on your first day of teaching English?

What’s a great way to break ice on your first day of teaching English? Have fun with animals! Learning techniques to motivate students is one of the many things a TEFL course can do for English teachers who choose EBC. Animals can be useful creatures, they provide us with milk, wool, meat etc, but they…

English teaching resources: The conditionals

English teaching resources: The conditionals English Level: Advanced (B2-C1) Objective: Practice using conditional sentences in imaginary or real situations Intro Traditionally grammar practising has been done in writing and gives the students time to think about what is right or wrong. The problem is that when you speak, you must come up with the proper…

Music in Foreign Language Learning

Music in Foreign Language Learning I remember from secondary school that some of my classmates who weren´t any good at school, and in addition quite lazy, would score high grades in English, especially in communicative and oral English. How come? It showed that they all either listened to a lot of English/American pop or rock…

Improve your English conversation classes

Improve your English conversation classes There is an ongoing flow vibrating in the air. People talking, expressing themselves, their needs, their ideas, their world. The marvelous world of communication is taking place among English learners and English native speakers. The communicative competence The ability to communicate through the use of language is natural to humankind.…

Free Writes from Personal Experiences

Free Writes from Personal Experiences Continuing our series of articles on improving conversation in ESL classes through writing, in this article we present a way to encourage students to exercise their creativity from a more personal point of view: ‘free writing’ from personal experiences. This can be used with students at all levels, and can…

From Writing to Speaking: Enhancing Conversation

In the natural process of learning a language, speaking usually precedes writing. However, this approach can allow you to gain greater confidence in passing on your knowledge to students.

Why should we be motivated to learn? Two “I”s for teaching

Why should we be motivated to learn? If you want to do something you have not done before, why do it? The “what is in it for me” question always comes up.

Krashen the ESL classroom, effective English language teaching

Krashen the ESL classroom, effective English language teaching. A mold-breaking concept about how we learn languages. How to include it in your ESL class.

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