Parent-teacher conference season is usually nervewracking for everyone. After all, in these short time slots you’re representing both your school and ...
At the start of a new semester, teachers around the world turn their attention to the very first class. With a new group of students to integrate and ...
What a mouthful! In short, anaphoric and cataphoric references are emphatic styles of sentence structure taught at C1 – C2 level. They are used to ins...
Board games evoke memories of camping trips, power outages spent by candlelight at the kitchen table, and weekends with the grandparents. In short, th...
Have you ever had a wonderful lesson planned using technology and the tech has failed? Maybe you had to sub a class at the last moment and you needed...
There are days where your lesson flops, headaches abound, you miss the bus, fight with a loved one, feel the report cards piling up, or the day unrave...
Ever held a conversation class where students expected you to do the talking? Or tried to get conversation moving past one or two dominant speakers? ...
Just a few short years ago, language teachers would have fallen over backwards at today’s easy access to videos. *Cue applause for the internet*Yet, v...
Pair work is a much-loved, much-used teaching technique—and with good reason. It reduces teacher talk time, lets students working with a variety of cl...
“Mingles” are one of the most popular activities up a language teacher’s sleeve. Educators love them because they’re flexible, get students up on thei...
You know the deal. There are five minutes before class ends and you’re losing your young learners. Maybe there’s a missing link in your vocabulary les...
You probably already have lots of ideas for Christmas activities for your young learners—but what about your older students? Never fear: ’tis not only...
