Teaching English in the Kitchen
The Traditional Classroom Setting EF provides students with state of the art classrooms. Comfortable chairs, big windows, heating, air conditioning, interactive whiteboards, cupboards, everything you need to create a fun and relaxing [...]
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year Not long after the start of the new Gregorian year, the Chinese New Year is in hot pursuit. And quite fittingly this year it is [...]
The Curious Case of “The Invisible Teacher”
Imagine you have just given instructions to your learners, and instead of sticking around to monitor behavior and conduct, you decide to simply leave them to it. What would you imagine to [...]
Creating a Positive Classroom Atmosphere
Off to a Good Start It’s really important for teachers to create a positive and engaging classroom atmosphere. Research has indicated that if a positive classroom atmosphere is created, students will learn [...]
Christmas in China
I find it amazing that Christmas has already come and gone. When I first arrived in China 11 months ago, I remember having the impression that a year is a really long [...]
The Challenges of Learning Mandarin
Greetings from Hangzhou My name is Gentile and I’m a Mandarin teacher currently living in Hangzhou. My husband is also a teacher and it was out of this passion for languages and [...]
Christmas Away – Round Two
Here We Go Again It’s been almost twenty months since I tasted homemade gravy, a Yorkshire pudding (Google it and try it!), pulled a cracker or caroled merrily down my hometown high [...]
Practice Makes Perfect
Every now and then comes a time when you are learning new games week and week out. At other points during your TEFL career you become dry on [...]
New and Old China
Caught between two worlds China features massive amounts of diversity. From the rocky peaks of the Himalayas in the West, to the desert crossings of the Silk Road in the North, to [...]
Learning From Past Mistakes
The attitude of the TEFL teacher is to always be learning. You need to keep improving and a lot of this comes down to your experience. Things that [...]
