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How Covid-19 will Affect ESL and IELTS

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past four months, you will certainly be aware that the world…

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10 Tips for Being an Amazing Online IELTS Tutor

The past decade has seen a massive surge in the number of people teaching online and, with the recent outbreak…

6 years ago

Do You Need Excellent Grammar Skills to Teach English?

I started teaching in 2008 and for three years I basically taught young children the absolute basics of the English…

6 years ago

Phones in the ESL Classroom: Good or Bad?

Unless you’re teaching kindergarten, you’re probably more than aware of the difficulties of dealing with phones in the ESL classroom.…

6 years ago

Teaching ESL in 2020

Good lord, look at the date – January 7th, 2020… It hardly seems real, does it? It is not only…

6 years ago

Is There a Future in Teaching ESL and IELTS?

Will there be robot teachers in future? Robot teachers in the classroom: It may sound like science fiction, but science…

6 years ago

How to Teach IELTS Speaking Skills

Teaching speaking skills for English, or for IELTS in general, is one of the most fun and rewarding parts of…

6 years ago

How to Find the Best ESL and IELTS Jobs

I was travelling in the United States this summer and wherever I went, people would ask me where I come…

7 years ago

How to Create Good Reading Lessons [for ESL and IELTS]

Let’s face it: creating interesting reading lessons for ESL or IELTS classes can be boring… really boring. And it’s not…

7 years ago

How to Help Advanced ESL and IELTS Students

Me teaching elementary students in South Korea. When I first started teaching, long ago, I was working with kindergarteners, teaching…

7 years ago