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Learn to Teach English in Italy

To teach in Italy you need: to have a degree (a BA/BSc in almost any subject is fine) to have a TEFL certificate to be a native English speaker The ICAL online TEFL Certificate Course will give you a thorough grounding in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)....

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Learn to Teach English in Spain

Teach English in Spainwith the ICAL TEFL Certificate Course In the past couple of years the economy in Spain has begun to pick up after suffering badly. The demand for English teachers is increasing and more people are taking an ICAL TEFL Course and becoming qualified...

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South Korea – TALK

TaLK or Teach and Learn in Korea is an opportunity for undergraduates who are seeking a personal, professional and educational experience in South Korea. It allows students to spend time in rural locations teaching English. Approximately 500 people take part in the...

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Contact Hours for English Teachers

A contact hour is an hour actually spent in the classroom teaching and working with students. (It is also sometimes ironically referred to as an hour at the chalkface.) Many schools will employ TEFL teachers for, say, between 20 - 30 contact hours per week (this is...

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Learn English

We get many people asking to learn English with ICAL. Please note that we mainly run courses for teachers wanting to teach English. We also run the ICAL Grammar Foundation Course for those wishing to learn English grammar. However, if you would like to learn general...

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Got a TEFL or Language Question?

Er... What's a past participle? What on earth is the third conditional? How can I find work in Thailand? Do I need a degree to be a teacher? Er... Do you have a question about teaching English or even English itself? Then ask us and we'll let you know the answer....

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Emoticons

Emoticons are a modern form of English punctuation. Essentially they are a pictorial representation of a human face which are used to give nuance to a text. For example, I could write: See you on Thursday. In itself, this seems fairly innocuous. However, if next...

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Dashes or Hyphens

Although they look similar, dashes and hyphens are used very differently. In traditional typography, a hyphen is half the length of a dash although in handwriting and often on computer keyboards they are the same size. Hyphens are used in two ways: to split a word or...

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Brackets and Parentheses

Brackets and Parentheses are punctuation marks in English which everyone knows, but many people get wrong. Even native speakers. But before getting on to how to use them, we'll begin by explaining exactly what the difference between them are. Types of Bracket There...

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