This is an Example TEFL Lesson Plan which illustrates some of the ideas presented in the article on TEFL Lesson Planning. It will give you a good idea of how to approach the subject and lay out your plan. Obviously what we show here will need to be tweaked and...
Strange English is a collection of statements about English which deserve more thinking about. If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called...
AntConc is a freeware concordancer and is very useful for searching through large swathes of texts to look for patterns of usage and so on. As an example, the screenshot on the right shows a concordance search for the word, word. The program has searched through a...
The following is a basic chatroom lesson you can use with your CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) class. Ideally this is best with a class who all know each other fairly well. Preparation First off, prepare a list with all the names of the students in the...
We can group verbs in different ways. One method is to divide them into Stative Verbs and Dynamic Verbs. Briefly, verbs which refer to a static or unchanging state or condition are called stative and verbs which talk about a moving or changeable condition are known as...
TextSTAT is a simple text analysis program. The first step is to make a corpus. This can be done by adding files from a PC in HTML, TXT and WORD format, etc. In addition, there is also the ability to add in web pages using a spider to collect them from a particular...
While it is not one of the most commonly used verb forms, the future perfect continuous does occur quite often in conversations between advanced English speakers, and in classes and exams it shows knowledge of the language that is above average for most students....
Dropbox is a simple - and free - method of keeping your files up to date between your computer, laptop and smartphone. It's incredibly useful for English teachers (amongst others) in many ways, not least because it means you can work on materials at home and have them...
Talking Pictures is an activity for your TEFL class which involves the students from the outset and is guaranteed to interest them as they provide the impetus for the class. This is important. Often students can feel left out of the class; in this activity they are...
Mind Your Language was a British sitcom about an EFL teacher to a stereotypical collection of students. It was made in 1977 and ran for two years averaging huge audiences (over 18 million per episode) but because of the offensive stereotyping, it was cancelled. Let's...
