TEACHER TRAINING

“All of our teachers are native speakers”. It’s highly likely that you’ve seen or heard this phrase in many an advert for language schools or academies in the past. In actual fact, whether the [...]

We’ve made it to the end of the school year, and what a year it’s been! Last April, we wrote a blog post about what we’d learnt from online teaching and now we find ourselves thinking about what [...]

What comes to mind when someone mentions teaching Young Learners? Perhaps it’s children running around the classroom? Or teenagers sitting in silence with faces like thunder? Whatever it is, it’s [...]

Being a teacher is one of those jobs in which you never know what you’re going to encounter in class on any given day. There are so many variables that make teaching both exciting and [...]

Exam speaking can be a frightening prospect for a number of reasons and is one which makes students sweaty and nervous just at the thought of it. We’ve all been there; at school, at university or [...]

In an increasingly globalised world, being able to speak English in an international context has become an essential skill. English is the language of international business and teachers need to [...]

As the learning of English around the world has become more and more prevalent, the age of our learners is becoming younger and younger. There are more language opportunities for VYLs than ever [...]

Well, fellow teachers, we’ve finally made it to the end of 2020, and we hope that you are all feeling suitably pleased with yourselves for making it this far. When we first wrote about our online [...]

When we do listening activities in the classroom it is often little more than listening practice. While this is certainly of benefit to the students, it is not the most effective way of helping [...]

On Saturday 14th November, we held our first Saturday Session of this academic year and over the course of the three hours we spoke about our favourite topic, grammar! We had attendees from [...]