TEFL Academy UK

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. The Road, Cormac McCarthy Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, as long as somebody loves you. The Witches, Roald Dahl If you are a bookworm or have spent any time in an English classroom, you’...[Read More]

As we all know by now, there are many different ways to teach English as a Foreign Language. Even if you don’t use all the different teaching methods you have learned about on your TEFL course or in your TEFL career, you will still be aware of them and their principles so you can make use of them if it is appropriate for your learners. So while you might know about Total Physical Response and Sugg...[Read More]

Travelling is undoubtedly one of the major attractions for people to become teachers of English as a Foreign Language. After all, who wouldn’t want to get paid to travel around the world and tick places off your bucket list? But as much as we hate to say it, there are a few downfalls to this nomadic lifestyle, and the biggest one has to be time spent away from family and friends. Of course, we wil...[Read More]

Teaching mixed-ability classes might not be something you expect to have to consider in your English as a Foreign Language class. Surely if you are teaching a Pre-Intermediate class then it’s a Pre-Intermediate class? Isn’t that why we have the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with different levels in the first place? Unfortunately, this is not always the case in our classrooms...[Read More]

Although Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) is becoming more widespread, it is actually a relatively unknown field. There are many ideas which people might have about being a TEFL teacher and about teaching English as a Foreign Language which are believed by and large to be true, but with experience can be proven to be unfounded. Some common misconceptions related to being a TEFL teache...[Read More]

2020 Has certainly not been a year of travelling but that doesn’t mean we’ve lost our sense of wanderlust. On the contrary, spending so much time at home has allowed us to daydream of where we are going to go as soon as we can (safely). What are you dreaming of? Sunning yourself on a Thai beach? Skiing in Switzerland? Celebrating Chinese New Year in Beijing? As a TEFL teacher, the world is your oy...[Read More]

Me: Okay, time for me to do some lesson planning for tomorrow. Also me: *yawn* Lesson planning is one of those unfortunate things that are a necessary evil in the English as a Foreign Language classroom. Lesson planning can be downright boring if we’re honest, but it is something that needs to be done in order to teach the best lessons we can.  The bottom line, you’re stuck with lesson planning (s...[Read More]

Conditionals. Adverbials. The present perfect. Uncountable nouns. Continuous tenses. Does just looking at those terms gives us the shivers?! Grammar is one of those things that can strike fear into the hearts of both students and teachers. Students, as you can imagine, may have had bad experiences with mind-numbingly boring grammar lessons. Teachers, on the other hand, are afraid of teaching those...[Read More]

If you’re thinking of signing up for a TEFL course, you might be feeling a bit nervous. Maybe you haven’t been in a classroom for a few years. Maybe you’ve never really been the academic type. Or it could be that you’ve just graduated and you’ve got study fatigue. Either way, having nerves before starting your TEFL course is normal. What’s more, Teaching English as a Foreign Language is probably a...[Read More]

If you’ve been working from home since the beginning of this pandemic, you’ve probably somewhat adjusted to your “new normal”, you may be missing your work pals or you’re delighted you no longer have to converse with anyone in the mornings. Regardless, even if you are the most proactive, motivated human on earth, the fact is it is near impossible to stay productive 24/7 when working from a home of...[Read More]

There comes a point in all our lives when we have to write an exam. It might be a driving learner’s license, a spelling bee, or a university exam. Our learners have to write these exams too, but they probably also have to write English language exams to show proof of their English proficiency. One very popular such test is the IELTS exam. Why do EFL learners need English exams? There are a few rea...[Read More]

If you’ve ever had to press your snooze button or had to force yourself to put your running shoes on, then you’ll know that motivation is a complex issue. Even though you want to do something and you know it’s really important to you for some reason, that doesn’t always translate easily into action. If you’ve ever tried to learn a language you’ll know this is the same for the language learning cla...[Read More]