TEACHER TRAINING

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 [...]

Grammar, when it appears in a coursebook, can sometimes be presented in a somewhat dry and uninspiring manner. It therefore often falls to the teacher to make the grammar lesson engaging for the [...]

As we mentioned in our previous blog post, the current pandemic has altered the way we deliver our classes forever and we predict that things are never going to go back to the way they were. But [...]

After what seems like a lifetime out of the classroom, we are finally back in and have to adapt to teaching with new restrictions in place. Online teaching was eye-opening for us all and has [...]

If you had done a survey a few months ago amongst English teachers about whether they had heard of an online meeting platform called Zoom, I’m certain that you would have got very few people [...]

We’re back with four new teacher training mornings at our centre in San Sebastián, Spain. Each 4-hour training has two different sessions and a coffee break. Both sessions will be based on the [...]

On the 22nd September 2019, I was lucky enough to be able to give the plenary talk in Bilbao for the British Council’s annual Teaching for Success conference. For this event, I thought long and [...]

A routine is a set of tasks or procedures which are regularly implemented in class to promote positive behaviour and good classroom management. If done consistently in classes of Young Learners, [...]

We have already extolled the virtues of the CELTA course and what skills you take away from this internationally recognised teaching qualification. So, you get the qualification and you start [...]