Sometimes as teachers, we think we have these wonderful lessons planned and at the end of the class we walk out thinking ‘What just happened?’. The class hasn’t responded in the manner we thought they would and all those great speaking activities we had planned have produced very little speaking. This is a topic I…
Grammar Teaching 101 – Language Analysis Teaching grammar is one of the things that trainees and newly qualified teachers fear the most and generally, this stems from a lack of in depth knowledge about how English grammar works. In a previous post, we discussed grammar books to help you throughout your teaching career. In this…
So you have decided to take your TESOL course. You’re excited – this is the first step in your new career after all, but you’re also a little nervous – people say it is really intense and the workload is huge. But, never fear! After training teachers for various teaching awards over the years, I…
For the majority of English language teachers starting out in the TESOL industry, there is one aspect of the job that scares the pants off us – teaching grammar. I’m not sure about you, but when I went through primary and secondary school, we weren’t taught English grammar, so when I first became an English…
As a teacher, there are a couple of things we should never say or do to our students. For example, pointing at them and laughing at their mistakes is often frowned upon and will most likely result in an upset student, poor classroom atmosphere, and a newly unemployed teacher. But this, in my opinion, isn’t…