Want to teach your young learners about pets? I have some flashcards which I use (from www.theenglishexpress.co.uk) and have printed these out on card to make them durable... Here goes my lesson from last week: New Vocabulary - Showing the pet flashcard and telling students the name- Students repeat the name - I've used all the flashcards today as they already know the easy ones like cat, dog, fish and hamster. Activity - Low Energy...

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On this website you'll find an interesting article regarding teaching. Questions have been asked to TEFL teacher from Italy on their thoughts on different things. It's worth a quick read if you have 2 minutes: http://www.theenglishexpress.co.uk/en/tefl-teachers   Susan  

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If you are looking for resources to help you in your lessons with young learners, you'll find hunderds of flashcards available at www.theenglishexpress.co.uk in their online English shop at low, low prices. There are already flashcards for: Pets Countryside Animals Wild Animals Farm Animals Fruit Vegetables Emotions/Feelings Colours Numbers Jobs/Professions Use them for: learning new vocabulary Practising new vocabulary playing SLAM Round the room picture hunt Copy and draw themselves There are also 2 new...

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I have created a website aimed at people learning English. I have finished but I am now working on extra ideas to spin off it especially for TEFL teachers and what I can do for them. The website is www.theenglishexpress.co.uk - If you'd like to give me feedback, ideas, needs, suggestsions please let me know and I shall see what I can do. Everything and anyone welcome. Susan  

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For any of you teaching children, as I do, and need constant information, activites and games to play. Have a look here at Learn English Kids - you can subscribe (free) to their newsletter which will arrive with bundles of information for you to choose from to help you with your lessons. There stuff online, downloadable pdf with grammar and actitivites. It's great for a chill out time for games at the end of any...

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Yesterday was a fun lesson, for my pre-intermediates my warm up was new verbs on the board....I listed: To placeTo set asideTo stirTo drizzleTo removeTo siftTo mix (different actions from stirring)To sprayTo pourTo tiltTo flipTo foldTo drizzle. After lots of fun and actions for the above verbs I then handed them the recipe for pancakes (Pancake Day) It brightened up their lesson. I then advised that if anyone wanted to 'write' a recipe for me...

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I've just finished my evening class of 15 students at pre-intermediate level. It's great the things you learn about your own language and where you conversations and explanations lead you... We learnt and discussed music, bands, popstars and did a music quiz activity to boost interest whilst learning and using the past simple and past continuous grammar points.  

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