The TEFL Academy Blog

Young Learners are cute, adorable, precious – until you put them in a classroom! Then they become little firecrackers just waiting to go off! Teaching English as a Foreign Language…

It can be really frustrating for teachers when we hear our learners speaking their own language in the EFL classroom. After all, we know they know how important it is…

As English as Foreign Language teachers, we teach more than English. In our EFL classrooms our students learn English but they also learn a number of different skills. One such…

When you think of being an English as a Foreign Language teacher, you probably imagine yourself standing in front of a class of thirty or so students. This is natural,…

Teaching writing is possibly not on your list of favourite things to do. A lot of students don’t enjoy writing or may even think writing in class is a waste…

In EFL, we often find ourselves teaching topics which we have taught a thousand times before – family, crime, global warming, education and technology, to name a few of the…

What are authentic materials? Menu's. Newspapers. Instruction manuals. Timetables. Blogs. These are all examples of authentic materials.  Why are authentic materials important in teaching? Why should you use authentic materials?…

They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but since we’re in a language classroom why not utilise pictures to help our students speak a thousand words? Pictures are versatile…