Teaching English to Teenagers

There are 3 approximate (and overlapping) groups when it comes to TEFL: adults, teenagers, and young learners. This article is all about teaching English to Teenagers, possibly the most likely scenario for new teachers and arguably the most difficult… but also quite possibly the most rewarding! Who Are Teenagers? Teenagers […]


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Teaching English to Beginners

When you Teach English to Beginners you should work on the basic principle that everything should be given in short, simple, steps. Then everything should be totally relevant and interesting to your students. This is likely their first time learning English so you want to make it a positive, interesting, […]


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Teaching English to Adults

Teaching adults (or mature students) offers different challenges and rewards to teaching teenagers and young learners. This article looks at some of the issues and considerations involved. Needs With many teenagers and young learners the needs of the students are fairly standard. Often teenagers are in class in order to […]


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Teaching EFL Exam Classes

Exams are big business and a great number of students work towards one of the major English exams; many more work towards local exams. This means that preparing students for exams is also big business and many teachers either take this on with classes approaching and exam or specialize entirely […]


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Teaching Beginners in TEFL

Let’s suppose you are in your beginner level TEFL class and – for the purposes of this explanation – it’s time to introduce them to adjectives‏‎. You could simply say: “An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun. To modify a word is to describe the […]


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