Detective Reading is a simple reading exercise to give your students practice in intensive reading. The students will check for details and clues in the text to answer several questions. Preparation Find a text which is of suitable length and level for your class. It...
The following commercial was apparently banned for the taboo language it used: Banned Commercials - Learn English Don't listen if you're easily shocked. The commercial was made for the Soesman Language Institute and entitled, A Day Trip. It features a middle aged...
Sometimes living in a foreign country can be lonely but one way to keep in touch with home and get a little light relief is to watch On Demand Television (or Catch Up Television) on your computer. It's the perfect way to keep up with current affairs back home as well...
This clip comes from the British Comic Relief show (a yearly show designed to raise money for charity) where Katherine Tate as a surly teenager cross examines her new Scottish English teacher and then moves on to Shakespeare.
Since and Ago are often confused and used wrongly by learners of English in the TEFL class. But there are some simple rules which show how they should be used. Since The usage is quite simple: since is followed by a specific time. since + specific time I've been...
ACTDEC stands for the Accreditation Council for TESOL Distance Education Courses. It is a limited company which accredits TEFL certificate courses. As of July 2012 they accredit 7 schools with a further 3 schools holding applicant status. Status On its website, ACTDEC...
Qualifications for Students indicate how well a person knows English. NB For qualifications in order to teach, see Essential Qualifications to Teach English. There is no single, standardized qualification system showing how well a person can use English, however over...
Do You Speak English? is a sketch from the BBC television comedy series, Big Train. It plays upon Quintin Crisp's aphorism, "I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned."
Vowels and Consonants are the sounds which go to make up the English language. If air passes straight through the mouth without being stopped or constricted anywhere, this forms a vowel sound. If the air is stopped at any point or the mouth is constricted somehow,...
Dogme language teaching is a methodology (and also sometimes thought of as a movement) for teaching English which encourages teaching through conversation and without textbooks in a naturalistic fashion. It aims to take language teaching back to its roots and was...
