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Why do we say There weren’t many people at the party but There wasn’t much wine? When you look at these sentences carefully, you’ll notice that it all depends on…

Okay, let’s talk grammar for a minute. Grammar is one aspect of English which can be quite tricky for our English language learners – and for English as a foreign language…

Being the new TEFL teacher can be a bit overwhelming. Not only do you have to get used to living in a new city or even country, but you have…

Let’s face it: our students want to talk! They come to our classes because they want to be able to spend time practising their spoken English. Most students are not…

Teaching English online is the new big thing in TEFL. TEFL teachers are discovering that teaching online has a lot of the perks of teaching but a lot less of…

Most EFL teachers have a complicated relationship with course books. If we have them, we complain about them and don’t want to use them, but if we don’t have them…

For the most part, TEFL teachers are well-prepared creatures. We put time and effort into needs analyses, sourcing resourcing and lesson planning in order to ensure that we carry out…

Sometimes we all need a little inspiration. Sometimes we need to connect with other teachers who are in the classrooms every day, like us. We need to share thoughts, ideas…