This article is all about using a TEFL Employment Agent or Recruiters to find work in a country. Essentially an Agent is an individual or organization which matches up teachers and schools. They approach schools and promise to find them English teachers for a fee....
Uncovering Grammar (book)
Author: Scott G. Thornbury Publisher: Macmillan ELT Details: Paperback; 12 pages; Pub.2005 ISBN: 140508006X As teachers we often talk about "covering" grammar points. Thornbury explains why it is more useful to think about how we "uncover" grammar, to reveal the...
English Speaking Union
The English-Speaking Union (ESU) is an international educational charity that promotes "international understanding and friendship through the use of the English language." It was founded at the end of the First World War by Sir Evelyn Wrench with the aim of promoting...
Games in the English Language Classroom
Using Games in the Classroom is an invaluable method of helping your students to learn English. Although some critics see it negatively and try to suggest that if your students are enjoying themselves they are not really learning, an overwhelming amount of evidence...
Anne Upczak Garcia
A writer and a bilingual teacher in Colorado, she has lived and taught in South America for many years. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and an Master's degree in Multicultural, Bilingual and ESL education from the University of Colorado in Boulder....
Proverb Match
Proverb Match is a nice, simple way of practicing proverbs. It also allows for plenty of speaking practice. Preparation You will need to prepare a list of proverbs; each one needs to be written on two cards. Too many cooks spoil the broth. A stitch in time ...
Teaching English in the Philippines
TEFL/TESOL in the Philippines The Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with...
Opposites Attract
Opposites Attract is an activity you can use to practice opposites (or antonyms) in class. Preparation Prepare a set of flashcards, each of which forms half of a pair of words. big - small always - never cheap - expensive and so on. The words you use should be of the...
Pictionary
Pictionary is a classic game which you can use in the classroom to practice vocabulary. The basic premise is simple: draw a picture to represent a word. This can be very easy to do with basic concrete nouns where students can draw a picture of, for example: a cat a...
Conditional Mood in English Grammar
The Conditional Mood is the form of the verb used in conditional sentences to refer to a hypothetical situation or an uncertain event that is dependent on another set of circumstances. In other words, the conditional mood talks about something which might happen if...