A number of schools in Ho Chi Min City (HCM, the largest city in Vietnam) are struggling to find English teachers. Originally the HCM City municipal Department of Education and Training tried to recruit 100 English teachers from the Philippines to teach at Primary and...
What an excellent idea this is! I came across this blog article the other day on how several teachers in Vermont, USA, spent the day as students in their school. As it says on the tin, they simply went into school as students instead of teachers and spent the day...
Lexical Difference shows how languages are related in terms of vocabulary. As a simple example, the English word bread is very similar to the German word, Brot and both of them derive from the same root. However the Italian for bread is pane which is very...
Elementary schools in Jakarta, Indonesia will be offering English as an extracurricular activity only while elementary schools elsewhere in Indonesia will not have English on the curriculum at all. The announcement, made late last year (December 2013) means that...
This article answers a question we're asked quite a lot: do you have to give up your nationality or citizenship when you go and work in another country? The simple answer which applies 99.9% of the time is: No. The rest of this article explores this topic in more...
Intonation in Practice is a simple exercise which you can do with almost any class to help them understand what intonation is and how it works in English. It's easily adaptable to all learner levels and abilities. Explain that in English you have to give stress (or...
This article looks at different aspects of Norwegian compared to English for TEFL teachers with Norwegian students. It's often said that Norwegian is closely related to English and if you know one language it is easy to pick up the other. However, there are...
When it comes to teaching English in America (or the Americas as it's sometimes known), there are two main groups of countries. This page offers an overview of working in America with links to more specific information on each country where you can read about how best...
Proverbs are simple sayings which are used to show common sense and popular wisdom. They are regarded generally as informal rather than formal language. Thus they're mostly used in common everyday spoken language. There are hundreds and hundreds of proverbs in...
Do you want to travel the world? Experience what other cultures have to offer? Visit the greatest sights on Earth? Well English teachers working abroad get to do that. As a teacher you can work right across the world and experience some incredible places and cultures....
