Do You Speak English (TEFAL)

Do You Speak English? is a sketch from the BBC television comedy series, Big Train. It plays upon Quintin Crisp’s aphorism, “I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.”    


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Acronyms (TEFAL)

The following are a list of TEFAL acronyms. Further acronyms will be added when we can think of them. CELTA – Can Easily Lose Teaching Ability CELTA – Creepy English Losers Teaching Abroad DELTA – Dumb Educators Lack Teaching Ability DELTA – Dumb English Language Teachers Abroad DoS – Doddery […]


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You know you’re a TEFL teacher when… (TEFAL)

You know you’re a TEFL teacher when… …you watch Eastenders and want to correct their pronunciation and grammar. …you think it’s perfectly fine to say close the light. …you meet the parents and understand immediately why the child is the way it is. …you want to correct the apostrophes outside […]


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What Teachers Say (TEFAL)

Teachers mess up as well. Many of us have spent time teaching in a foreign country and grappling with the problems of the local language. Here are a few problems which arise:     A class were playing a word game where they had to explain a word to the […]


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