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Most of us spend our lives chasing a job, trying to find a way to make a living so we can hopefully retire at 60 and live the life we’ve…

When you want to go out to a restaurant for a meal, or perhaps to the cinema to see a film, the logical thing to do before you go is…

We all love a special offer. 50% off, buy one get one free, for today only – it doesn’t matter what the deal is, we love to fall for it.…

No, we’re not talking about taking your students on excursions (though that can work really well sometimes). We’re talking about your students learning English not only in the classroom during…

Though it is also known as backwash, washback has nothing to do with spitting in someone’s drink or cleaning your swimming pool! Washback is the effect that a test or…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language and a love of travelling go hand in hand. No doubt a major reason many people decide to uproot their lives and embark on…

Idiomatic language can be very difficult for English language learners to get their head around because, by their very definition, their meaning is not the same as their constituent parts.…

As EFL teachers, it is necessary to be equipped with a toolbox of teaching methods and approaches. These days it is common for teachers not to adopt only one teaching…

We can all dream of our perfect EFL classroom but sadly it’s not often in life that we get what we wish for. In the teaching environment there can be…