Get Your Students Reading (and Writing)
As I’m sure we all know, students seem to speak more naturally in class than they do work in a book or read a passage. I shall try and set out a [...]
How to Teach Reading
Reading and Other Skills At York English we have an emphasis on multi-skilled learning. This means that even though we want students to practice lots of speaking and [...]
I want to be an EF English Teacher
As foreigners wanting to move abroad and teach English, we are faced with a variety of different options. One is bombarded by numerous offers making you feel special and overwhelmed at the [...]
Five Uses For the Present Tense
Tenses can be confusing for students just learning a language, and English tenses can be especially tricky as the language has countless irregular verbs. The word “tense” means “time:” time shown by [...]
Behaviour Management in an ESL Class
For new teachers one of the more intimidating aspects of teaching can be the thought of controlling a group of young learners. What if they cry, scream, [...]
Day Trip: 18 Springs
18 Teachers to 18 Streams The summer months in Fuzhou can get extremely warm. Temperatures reach 30oC + (86F) regularly and even get closer to 40oC (104F) at [...]
English Language Teaching Methodologies Part 2
Total Physical Response (TPR) (James Asher) This was developed by Asher who observed children learning their first language from their parents. He noticed some general patterns; children learnt language often as a [...]
Keep Calm and Manage Behaviour
Raise your hand if you have a student who always tattletales on their peers? Keep it up if your aggressive student disrupts your class. What about those smart students that are boisterous [...]
Handling Disrespectful Kids: Is it that tough a task?
The world is buzzing with talks of kids and especially teenagers, growing rowdier day by day. With schools and institutes shifting their focus to moral and ethical sciences as the [...]
English Language Teaching Methodologies Part 1
How do people learn a language? This is a question that will impact any existing or prospective teacher whether they be teaching English or any other language. Over two articles I shall [...]
