Sometimes living in a foreign country can be lonely but one way to keep in touch with home and get a little light relief is to watch On Demand Television (or Catch Up Television) on your computer. It’s the perfect way to keep up with current affairs back home as […]
Continue ReadingTEFL Jokes (TEFAL)
Although there are jokes we can use in the class to drive home a language point and make the lesson more engaging, these are jokes about teachers and students in general and especially about the English language and the way we use it. Some of them are terrible and will […]
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In this video, Katherine Tate states confidently that she can help out in an awkward situation because, “I did TEFL in my Gap Year.”
Continue ReadingTeaching Anecdotes (TEFAL)
TEFL Teaching isn’t all fun and games. There’re cockups, too. In Greece and the subject of the lesson was cults and we were discussing it with the class. I happened to mention a notorious cult in England at the time, the Moonies. Dead silence and a shocked look on […]
Continue ReadingStripes – Basic English (TEFAL)
Can we teach like this? Of course not because we’re mere mortals. But Harold Ramis in the 1981 film classic, Stripes, can. Stripes – Basic English The film opens with Russell Ziskey (played by Harold Ramis) teaching a brand new class to speak English when he himself has never taught […]
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