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Please I have looked at every point and angle. I doent know what to do. (Where to change/ add/ delete.) I am going bald from pulling out mu hair Please tell me what to do and what to change      Now write a lesson plan for a 45-minute-long lesson on the chosen topic in the space provided below. Click her? Please see if any one can assist me asap. I really am struggling. All...

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Feel like your lessons are a little monochrome? Here are five ideas from Kenneth Beare (editor of esl.about.com) to inject some color into your classes with pens, chalk, and crayons. It won't just make your lessons livelier, it'll also help the teaching process, as many students find visual aids help them better understand tricky concepts: Using Color to Teach Tenses One of the most common instructional topics you'll face in the classroom is the use...

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I'm a licenced radio operator my call sign is ve3rrq. I can bring in an amatuer radio to class and have students converse world wide with other ham radio operators... using my call sign... is that cool or what? 90% of all ham radio operators speak english and most operators outside of english speaking countries get their licence to learn to speak english more fluently... this could be a break through for our entire community?...

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So, I've done my 60hr Online Course, and recently started the 20hr Grammar Awareness Course. I thought I was doing okay, because I seemed to be breezing through the exercises sooo quickly. I thought I would be finished with it all very quickly, but boy am I wrong. Just when I think I'll be done with all 4 modules in a couple of hours, I realise that there are more exercises still to be done...

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I've been a bit slow on the journalling lately, but I've been TEFL-ing harder than ever. After my triumph over checkpoint two, I pushed on into modules four, five, six and seven. All was going well. Christmas came, Christmas went. And then... Checkpoint three. (Insert dramatic music of your choice here.) According to the statistics on my checkpoint 3 page, I spent 26 days and 2 hours on checkpoint 3. Strictly speaking, I didn't actually...

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So- I have just over a week till I head off to India to do some volunteer teaching. I got my visa and my itinerary just yesterday and suddenly it feels real. I hadn't allowed myself to count on going  - twice in the past six months I've been all ready to head out and the job fell through. Which actually was cool, in a way, because I know that if I had had those...

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Hi there!! I am a Turkish citizen and I am an English teacher in Turkey. I have been teaching English for 8 years now. I started taking the online tefl course in late November and I am about to finish it; actually I am doing the last bit the video courses at the moment. I have been checking the job adverts as well but I could not find anything for non-native speakers or non-EU citizens....

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Well, last night it got down to minus 44 degrees. My good old Volvo started with no problem, albeit a bit of a groan.  The scenery is beautiful with hoarfrost on the trees and the snow crackles under your feet when you walk.

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I had my heart set on Ecuador, until I read on several different websites that a "University Degree" was a requirement to get a work visa to teach in Ecuador. I have an Associates Degree, and while I could maybe get my BA its not something I want to have to focus on. Besides the student loan people are already hunting me anyway!  So I started looking at Peru. Now I have my heart set...

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Do you want to start using stories in the preschool ESL classroom but don't know where to start?  There are many great pre-k activities for ESL classrooms, including games, but it's also very important to not discount the power of stories.  Whether you're reading a classic book, making up a story as you go along or designing a story specifically for a particular lesson, you'll want to be sure to include stories in the preschool...

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