TEFL Articles
A selection of articles and essays related to the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. Many of these were first published in the TEFL.net Inspire! magazine. If you wish, you can submit an article for possible publication.
How To Teach Want/Want To
How to present and practise a much neglected and badly taught verb for expressing desires.
Strategies And Best Practices For Teaching English To Students With Learning Difficulties
Between five and ten per cent of any given population are estimated to have some degree of learning difficulty. This article suggests what to watch out for and ways to make learning easier and less of a challenge for your LD students.
How To Teach Requests
Presentation and practice of polite requests in communication inside and outside the classroom, including typical student problems.
Movement In Adult Classes
When and how to use TPR-like activities with adult learners.
EFL lessons on gardens and gardening
All kinds of lessons on a pleasant and surprisingly popular topic, also suitable for ESP students such as landscape architects.
TPR Games – Can/Can’t For Ability
Games with miming and other movement for the pronunciation and meaning of can and can’t.
9 Fun Activities for Can/Can’t for Ability
Ways of adding fun and loads of other useful language to what is usually your students’ introduction to modal verbs.
How To Teach Prepositions Of Position To Young Learners
A quick summary of what prepositions to teach kids and how to do so.
The Importance of Good Teacher-Student Relations
One of the main factors in achieving student satisfaction and getting the most out of your lessons is positive teacher-student relations.
Video tasks for prepositions of position
The unusual but suprisingly fun and effective combination of televisual images and words like “above” and “between”.
Drawing and crafts activities for prepositions of position
The great combination of artistic activities and words like “on”, “in” and “under”.
TPR Activities For Prepositions Of Position
Total Physical Response activities to practise on, under, next to etc with young learners.
Realia And Flashcard Activities For Prepositions Of Position
Ways of revising vocabulary as you present prepositions like “on” and “above”, or revising prepositions like these as you present new vocabulary.
How To Teach The Language Of Opinions
Teaching the language that students need in order to give and ask for opinions, rather than just asking them to do so.
Classroom Activities For The Language Of Opinions
Much more intensive language of agreeing and disagreeing etc than just the usual discussion questions.
Adding Language To Crafts
Ways to make sure craft activities develop students’ English ability as much as their artistic skills.
How To Teach Shapes To Young Learners
How to teach the CLILtastic topic of shapes, also vital for cutting down on L1 in classroom instructions.
Teaching English ~ Why It’s Easier Than You Think To Create Your Own Job
Connor Davies offers suggestions for TEFL teachers who dream of self-employment.
How To Deal With Difficult Questions From One-To-One Students
Students often use the freedom of one-to-one classes to ask too many unimportant questions or questions the teacher can’t answer off the top of their head. This article offers some solutions.
How To Teach Kids Numbers 1 to 10
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