New teachers can sometimes cling to a plan, and there are good reasons for this. A lesson plan is your roadmap. The final stage of a...

Some people worry that moving abroad and teaching English is a young person's game and that they might have missed their chance by...

In a dream world, every student in a class is exactly the same level - they all know the same words as each other, they are all equally...

We all have two sides - a logical brain telling us that we need to set money aside for a rainy day, that we need to save for a mortgage...

For many new trainee teachers on their first CELTA course, one of the first and most frequent action points that they get told to work on...

Why Taiwan? When someone is thinking about where they could live abroad, one of the things they worry about is whether or not they will...

Part of learning anything is to practise it. When I was a teenager and I learned to drive in Ireland in the 1990s, my father took me to...

Some people believe that adventures are only for the young and once you get a little older and have a family, you have no choice but to...

On a CELTA course, you'll have to complete four written assignments. Each assignment is between 750-1000 words. The assignments can be...

When we meet people at the end of their CELTA courses, one of the comments they often make is that they didn't realise just how much time...

Thirty years ago, almost everyone who did a CELTA course was a native speaker. The idea was that young British people often went to Spain...

Reading and listening are known as the 'receptive skills' because we receive language while reading and listening. The other language...

Until Brexit, European countries like Spain and Italy were among the most popular options for teaching abroad for British citizens after...

Students all make mistakes, and it's important we respond to these. When students are speaking in class, and a teacher hears a mistake,...

One of the most important skills to learn as a new teacher is the skill of checking students' understanding. We might think we're...

Most grammar or vocabulary lessons on an English teaching course, be it an online CELTA course or a classroom CELTA, will start with some...

On a CELTA course, you'll be encouraged to get students to do most tasks by themselves, maybe working alone or in pairs or groups, and...

All CELTA courses share many features in common. Every course has the same basic elements: At least 120 contact hours At least 80 hours...

New teachers sometimes think that 'controlled practice' means 'boring practice'. It's true that controlled practice activities include...

Some CELTA tutors will avoid giving trainees writing lessons to teach, even though it is part of the syllabus. It is true that it's...