Lessons from the Classroom is usually the final written assignment set on a CELTA course . Some people say it's the easiest assignment to...

Language Skills Related Tasks is often set around the mid-point of a CELTA course. Like all CELTA written assignments, it is 750 to 1000...

Language-related tasks is often assigned early in a CELTA course and, like all other assignments on the course, it needs to be completed...

By the end of a CELTA course, you should be very good at planning an individual lesson, but you might feel intimidated at the idea of...

New teachers can be intimidated by advanced students - "What if they know more about grammar than I do?" "What if they correct my...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Some parts of writing a lesson plan are easier than others, and many CELTA trainees complain that they just don't know where to start...

The EFL world is littered with acronyms (there’s one in this sentence already). These can sometimes get confusing. This blog hopes to...

Drilling simply means repeating things aloud. It's one of the simplest language teaching tools we have and it's one of the ones we've...

As you progress through a CELTA course, you will start to get comfortable with all the things you need to do when you're teaching new...

One of the questions prospective CELTA trainees ask most often is which books they should buy. We've already written about which grammar...

There is no right or wrong time to qualify with a CELTA certificate. The qualification is life-long – it doesn’t expire and you won’t...