The TEFL Academy Blog

You’ve heard of pedagogy, right? We often speak about pedagogy as relating to teaching in general and so, by extension, teaching English as a Foreign Language. But you might not…

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. The Road, Cormac McCarthy Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of…

As we all know by now, there are many different ways to teach English as a Foreign Language. Even if you don’t use all the different teaching methods you have…

Teaching mixed-ability classes might not be something you expect to have to consider in your English as a Foreign Language class. Surely if you are teaching a Pre-Intermediate class then…

Me: Okay, time for me to do some lesson planning for tomorrow. Also me: *yawn* Lesson planning is one of those unfortunate things that are a necessary evil in the…

The one thing that many people are surprised by when they do their TEFL course and when they experience an English as a Foreign Language classroom for real, is how…

Conditionals. Adverbials. The present perfect. Uncountable nouns. Continuous tenses. Does just looking at those terms gives us the shivers?! Grammar is one of those things that can strike fear into…

Teaching English as a Foreign Language is a full-time job, but that doesn’t mean you need to let it take over your life. Planning EFL lessons which are appropriate, interactive…