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Two very different candidates for my most successful piece
Yet another reason to write about TEFL
Whatever happened to Online IELTS?
TEFLtastic ways of teaching grammar
Computer-based speaking tests
Big changes to BULATS
EFL exams articles and tips for students and teachers
Want to help a cyberbegger get on a TEFL course?
Practising consonant clusters with minimal pairs
New ELT articles and classroom handouts January 2012
Filtering out the TEFL riff-raff
PC in EFL
Random facts about Murphy’s Grammar in Use
My new favourite GTKY for one to one classes
Teaching ideas and worksheets for “used to”
TEFL course where you are locked in a room and brainwashed
Graded readers in the classroom
Business English functional language worksheets pages polished up
Conflicts of interest and disclosure in the age of TEFL online
Me vs Vicki Hollett on functional language and ELF
Influencing TEFL
Relabel your teaching
20 articles you won’t see in TEFL publications this year
The Economist calling for ELT ideas
Is a TEFL diploma worth more than a relevant MA?
Can performance-related pay work in TEFL?
Questions about teaching functional language
Functional language – the solution to everything?
New fun (?) EFL worksheets and teaching ideas December 2011
The language of requests teaching ideas
Teaching English for travel
Well, I thought it was funny anyway – TEFLtastic attempts at humour in 2011
Xmas and New Year future forms worksheets
Why TEFLtastic with ALEX CASE??
IELTS Reading worksheets and teaching ideas
Unreal past (I wish/ If only) worksheets and teaching ideas
Time management for TEFLers and TEFL bloggers
Can a worksheet elicit?
Applications to EF up 30%
Should the CELTA have more about technology in it?
A “classic’ future tenses explanation
Bookwork is fun!
A great review of Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics
Stretching the definition and use of minimal pairs
New TEFL articles and worksheets November 2011
Minimal pairs for Japanese learners of English
Variations on classic YL games 5 – flashcard reveal
CELTA Course Online now offered by 40 centres
Teaching teleconferencing
Pearson buys 450-branch test preparation school chain in China
The Ghost of Textbooks Past
Tips and useful phrases (TEFLtastic idea of the year!)
UniTEFL Thailand – now spammers too
Maria Rainier of onlinedegrees.org – Spammer!
Teaching IELTS Reading
The first self-published Business English book for teachers?
Teaching aspect (rather than tenses)
Teaching dealing with enquiries
Free download of Mario’s Humanising Your Coursebook
Another kind of appropriate language
The single worst textbook exercise ever?
Substandard TEFL tied to another international sporting event
TEFL course amongst Ireland’s most popular online vouchers
New ELT worksheets and articles October 2011
Getting an A in the CELTA
The language of thanking Worksheets and articles
Pingu PDFs
Are exam textbooks more suitable for non-exam students?
Do accuracy and communication actually go together?
More TEFL stats
Teaching Chunks of Language review
Should TEFL chains and teachers leave in protest?
Variations on classic YL games Part Four – target practice
Highlights from October’s EL Gazette
Mr Bean worksheets now PDF
250,000 TEFL jobs posted annually?
The well-balanced TEFL series
The anti-social TEFL(blogg)er
Berlitz stats
Guest posts from people outside TEFL
Putting a number on language learning
English functions PDF worksheets
Reading between the lines of the British Council corporate plan
Vocab worksheets much improved
New articles and worksheets Sept 2011
Gender in the the classroom
Writing worksheets polished up
Problems with the CELTA and YL extension
Travel/ Tourism printables now properly so
IELTS PDF classroom handouts
Technical English handouts now 100% PDF
Huffington Post article on falling for a TEFL scam
Telephoning printables now properly printable!
The checklist revolution
Business worksheets fully PDFed
Another original way of slagging off schools
An even quicker way of marking student writing
Teaching tenses games and tips
Q&A Lying Games
400 broken links!
Business meetings first class lesson plan
Looking for some TEFL course rap/ R&B?
First lesson ideas
Articles and worksheets on needs analysis
Teaching numbers in English articles and worksheets
What we really should ask in level checks and needs analysis
English for architecture and the construction industry materials
A nice free collection of articles, especially for the DELTA
Cambridge Young Learner English tests – Making learning fun???
BULATS Writing worksheets
No staff injured in British Council Kabul attack
Two students with one stone?
New ELT articles and worksheets August 2011
Three million page views!
TEFLtastic classics – Answer me
Variations on classic young learner games 2 – Catch
TEFLtastic classics – The sentence completion guessing game
Variations on classic YL games 1 – Stations
Another way of getting away with games
because teaching conversational English does not require much work
Can emailing really be fun? Part Two
Lots of lovely new articles and worksheets
400 Things to do with an Interactive Whiteboard
The most sickmaking video in TEFL?
Can emailing really be fun? Part One
What your favourite seating plan says about you
Finding variations on Find Someone Who
The dream dictionary for teachers
Articles on teaching Business/ ESP
EL Gazette closed after hacking of TEFL bloggers and authors
More new worksheets
University applications in English worksheets
Everybody’s at it
Market Leader Intermediate New Edition worksheets
Almost everything about names in the EFL classroom
Anyone who can speak English can teach English
The TEFLer
Variations on Suggestopedia
Drawing on Drawing Games Part Three
Mario Rinvolucri Handed Over to English UK
Cambridge to change the Delta Experimental Lesson
Not mentioned in Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching
Business English Grammar games and other worksheets
Four years
Taking an interest in Business English and ESP
TEFLdo – Self defence for TEFL teachers
When a student finally snaps and stabs me with the scissors
When I finally snap and stab a student with the scissors
Drawing on Drawing Games Part Two – Picture Dictation
The previous generation of whiteboard technology
Conditionals games/ practice activities
A great new way of disciplining students
TEFL news roundup 9 Jun 2011
Fun Present Simple and Continuous practice activities
Fun adverbs of frequency classroom handouts
New English teaching worksheets June 2011
www.TEFLlife.com – Still full of rubbish
Another reason why Business English textbooks are so Eurocentric?
The customer-centred classroom
Teaching pronunciation
Bringing pronunciation work into the Business English classroom
TEFL International and universities
New ELTarticles May 2011
TEFL International Guaranteed Job Placement – Treat with caution
My TEFLtastic life
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Course Providers Try to Rip You Off Part 5 – Slippery Accreditation, Multiple Websites
The best slogans for crappy English schools
How I became irrelevant
RealTEFLCourseReviews.com
Becoming a CELTA centre
All my TEFL.net articles
The Complete Alternative Dictionary of ELT and Linguistics
Collocations and pronunciation
Drawing on Drawing Games Part One – Pictionary
Minimal pairs and what to do with them
Should my English teaching school be a pre-school school?
How I became Sandy McManus
The many layers of TEFL accreditation
Not really blogging
Flurry of trademark cases hits TEFL
New ELT photocopiables April 2011
Ranking TEFL courses like universities
Iron TEFLer
Ranking TEFL courses
An odd way of breaking native speaker hegemony
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous communication games
The EF English Proficiency Index rankings
New Headway Pre-Intermediate worksheets
The crossed out equals mark
The next generation of interactive whiteboards
Experience of teaching English and degree but no (international) TEFL qualifications
New photocopiable worksheets March 2011 Part Two
Non-TEFL teaching qualifications and/ or experience
Holding our students back
Abuse of the IATEFL name and logo – An action plan
10 typical meaningless/ misleading statements by TEFL course providers
ELT Publishing Trendspotter – The Mega-Series
A new life resolution
Accredited by IATEFL
Homophones bonanza!
TEFL accreditation Part One – ODLQC
University degree but no teaching qualifications or experience
EFL exam materials
Want to be paid to sit around and wait?
No degree, TEFL qualifications or experience
British Council versus Pixar to go to appeal
New UsingEnglish worksheets Mar 2011
Libyan sovereign wealth fund fourth largest shareholder in Pearson
Born to TEFL Part Two – The phonemic script
Another way of doing ESP syllabus design?
Why I was destined to be a TEFL teacher Part One – Board games
Business English handouts for Present Simple/ Present Continuous
New TEFL articles Feb 2011
New Macmillan titles in 2011
10 Things You’ll Learn By Doing The CELTA
BULATS Materials
Using and abusing the IATEFL logo
New Cambridge English titles in 2011
Future tenses worksheets and game ideas
Good place to train/ Bad place to teach
Don’t give anything to TEFL recruiters or employers
Should IATEFL and TESOL do more to stop abuse of their names?
New ELT articles Jan 2011
Frequently asked questions about TEFL certs
Typical TEFL mix-ups, solved
Classic TEFLtastic worksheets Part One
Scrap the marking code
15 easy ways to spot a TEFL course to avoid
New Pearson Longman ELT titles in 2011
How different should intensive and extensive classes be?
What can you judge from TEFL course trainee feedback?
An Alternative A to Zed of ELTed Part 28
TEFLspain.org – Even more b.s. than usual!
The 100 most influential organisations in TEFL
Past Continuous games and worksheets
An interview with Andrew Wright
academicjournals.org scam
TEFLlife.com – Doubts, contradictions and downright lies
My Christmas wish list
Is the free independent TEFL site dying?
New TEFL articles and worksheets December 2010
Loving and hating the Cambridge CELTA
Do not study with UniTEFL Thailand
Using your TEFL skills over Xmas
Useful transferable skills from TEFL
Cambridge ICFE description and links
Teaching English abroad FAQs
15 reasons why an OHP is better than an IWB
Giving everyone what they least need
Is student-centred always a good thing?
The TEFL History/ Your TEFL History survey
British Council accredited schools
Typical TEFL confusions
New EFL articles November 2010
An online teachers’ room?
New EFL worksheets November 2010
The 100 publications that most changed TEFL
Guest piece – What’s the future of ELT publishing? by Vicki Hollett
Welcome to England
The least pointless of my 1000 posts
The CELTA failure rate
An example of how far we still have to go
The big list of big lists of teacher talk
Language learning materials as sociological phenomena
Free functional language worksheets
Dogme vs CLIL
More Grammar Games articles and worksheets
Teaching tenses Grammar games
What I really learnt from the DELTA
English for preschool/ kindergarten/ very young learners
You could care less about my blogging language peeves
Pronunciation in Business English Classes
Getting away with games in Business English classes
Getting away with little error correction
Business English grammar games
Market Leader supplementary materials
Is there no place for controlled speaking activities?
Free Medical English classroom handouts
Kaizen TEFL
Do no harm? Part Two
The dreaded last unit
Why we really do what we do Part 4- Worksheets
Aiming at 1000 pages
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Course Providers Try to Rip You Off Part 4 – The University Language Institute
The kind of teaching technology I could go for
The latest TEFL blog spam
New PDF worksheets October 2010 Part One
Japlish dictionary Part 8 – T to Z
New TEFL articles September 2010
Do you change personality when you are teaching?
TEFL book burning
Advantages of being a late adopter
Beyond the pale in the Cambridge DELTA
Guides to Cambridge Delta Module 2
British Council to be scrapped?
Using videos to practise future tenses
Games and activities for a “meet the foreigner” class
Being a Bell Regional DELTA Tutor
Needs analysis TEFLtastic style(s)
Eikaiwa continues to shrink
Some refreshing honesty from a TEFL course provider
Getting to Know You games and activities
Chunking in the New York Times
Are we excluding anyone?
The best original songs on LearnEnglishKids
What’s the difference between a large pizza and an ESL teacher?
Dumbing Down in EFL?
Do you need to be able to discuss globalisation to be Advanced?
New New Cutting Edge Intermediate worksheets
Why are Advanced level textbooks so crap?
Bloggers who do and don’t carry on
The best LearnEnglishKids songs for very little kids
New Meetings and Negotiations page
Is the TEFL blogging boom over?
New meeting, greeting and introductions in English page
TEFLing is like parenting because…
An A to Z of Engrish Part 4 – H to L
New Cutting Edge Intermediate supplementary stuff
New ELT worksheets August 2010 Part One
English Droid is back!
Guest piece- Doing the YL Extension to the CELTA
Cambridge DELTA questions- answers please!
Even celebrities hate TEFLers
Guest piece- 2000 Sri Lankan English Teachers Coming to Korea??
A 21st century skimming and scanning activity
This month’s supply of TEFL articles and reviews
Differences between Japanese and Korean students
New Advanced EFL worksheets (almost all communicative, mainly fun)
The TEFL Why Oh Why series
The Good Enough Teacher?
New Incredible English and phonics worksheets and flashcards
EL Gazette campaign to save UK TEFL
Some provocative quotes on elicitation from the latest ETP
TEFL jargon from this month’s ETP
Give us a job!
No qualifications or experience needed to just teach conversation
TEFL fever
Request for advice- A mixed everything trial class!
L1 in the very young learner classroom
Body vocabulary for kids
Not just your average TEFL prisoner
TEFL, stress and me
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Courses Try to Rip You Off – Part 3
The number one most important thing you need to know about teaching very young learners
New games and other worksheets July 2010 Part One
Man on a mission?
My favourite blog of the moment
Do you love your job?
I don’t believe it!
Beyond standardisation
Online CELTA on the way
Email games and other worksheets
The motivation conundrum
Teaching with no energy
Is teacher training just common sense?
Three years!
My football and World Cup teaching ideas
New Intermediate worksheets June 2010
That’s the way to do it!
(T)EFL football links
The CELTA Ten Commandments
New UsingEnglish.com stuff
TEFL on stage
My philosophy of teeth cleaning
New Advanced level worksheets
CELTA graduates to go through 24 teaching hour ordeal
World Cup bonanza on UsingEnglish.com
Guest piece-Hubpages for TEFLers
Why we really do what we do Part Three- Culture
New TEFL.net articles and reviews May 2010
My problems with improvisation Part Two
New TEFL links May 2010
What do beginners need most?
Do no harm?
My problems with improvisation Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets May 2010 Part Two
An interview with Katie of TEFLlogue (History of TEFL blogging Part Three)
Macmillan admits to offering bribes to get textbook contract
The internet can still surprise me…
The only remaining bits of the English Droid
New fun classroom handouts May 2010 Part One
Keeping YLs on Task – Part Two
The Best of Chasing TEFL Ladies
Ten blogs that are dead (to TEFL) but are still worth reading
Oh, those halcyon days when . . .
New TEFL articles and ideas April 2010
An interview with EFL Geek, the real grandfather of TEFL blogging
A history of TEFL blogging Part One
Keeping YLs on Task Part One
‘Shane English School (NZ) faces liquidation’?
Telegraph TEFL
New TEFL PDFs April 2010 Part One
That lightbulb moment
How should TEFL reviews change?
Malware problems solved
Why we really do what we do Part Two- Games
New TEFLtastic communication games March 2010 Part Three
Something chewy from Jeremy Harmer
Why we really do what we do Part One- Error correction
Writing and reading
The Benefits of Exams for Young Learners
The Diving Bell and the Lesson Plan
The Joy of Photocopying
The importance of noses in Eikaiwa
Losing your students in the blink of an eye
Next time a publisher tries to sell you a new textbook
Random ideas 3- English at Home, English Away
Writing and workshopping
New game-like worksheets March 2010 Part Two
Random TEFL ideas Part Two- TEFLstats.com
New Technical and Medical English worksheets
Live Listening quotes and links
Speed mentoring
Experimental lessons
EFL and ESOL: worlds apart?
Things I feel unambiguous about in TEFL
(Proper) writing and blogging
Writing and teaching
How do we know if what we say is “right”?
New body vocabulary for kids page
When needs analysis goes wrong
TEFL economics
Free copy of English Teaching Professional
New EFL handouts Feb 2010 Part Two
Language teaching, teenagers, evaluation and certification
TEFL book reviews online
When elicitation goes wrong
Another TEFL conspiracy theory proved
New TEFLtastic worksheets Feb 2010 Part One
Michael J Wallace on science, theory and practice
New discussion questions page
New classroom language worksheets and phrase lists
How much change do you really want?
Rod Ellis on theory and practice
Reviewing graded readers
PPPP and TPTPT
Designing an extended speaking task
New classroom handouts, flashcards and games Jan 2010 Part Three
Evidence-based teaching?
Is science welcome in TEFL?
Scientific language teaching finally arrives!
Guest piece- Why I Mentor
New PDF handouts Jan 2010 Part Two
Something for post-weekend
Interview with a Marxist TEFLer/ TEFLing Marxist
My personal motto
A new motto for TEFL
A new motto for TEFLtastic
New TEFLtastic worksheets etc January 2010
Development, blogs, books and Japan- An interview with Darren Elliott of Lives of Teachers blog
The best ever IELTS humour?
ELT News Think Tank
Your DoS’s RMCITE (aka Nick’s Scale of Awesomeness)
A typical TEFL biography (and one big difference)
Become (more of) a Webhead with free online training
The new(ish) owner of MET and ETP magazines
Weekend TEFL courses- better than nothing or bringing us all down?
Interview- TEFL Hero Jon Marks on the life of a full-time TEFL writer
The most TEFLtastic attempts at humour in 2009
Using L1 in class (or not)
What was the biggest change in TEFL in the Noughties?
A short diversion in which we advert to ancient Chinese wisdom
Netiquette and TEFLers
How to cope with methodology books
The great teaching abroad CPD dilemma
ELT Publishing Trendspotter 2010 Part One
A big change at the BC
Guest post- The Homework Conundrum
From the latest book on technology in education
New games and other photocopiables November 09 Part Three
English Today for free
New ESL handouts November 2009 Part Two
“Save UK ELT” Number 10 petition
On the CELTA, Japan, and very small learners
Technology and CPD
The complete guide to ELT Jargon Part 26
How I nearly learnt Japanese
What I just learnt on YouTube
Real teaching with technology by numbers
A way to do away with ALTs?
If your students hate classes based on the textbook
Teaching preschool English links
Completely meaningless TEFL research results Part One
New photocopiable handouts November 2009 Part One
The CLT robot
More ELT publishing bad news?
Losing my best students
H1N1 as a reason for cancelling classes
The most overrated things in TEFL Part Two
Four ways to get your worksheets on the Net in less than ten minutes
Golly gosh, not Geos too??!
The TEFLbs detective Part One – Brain Gym and ELT
ELTJ in defence of textbooks Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets October 2009 Part Two
New TEFL articles etc October 2009
Proof of a TEFL oligarchy??
Karenne on The Industry- Interview Part Three
From Inside Inside Teaching Part One- On Observations
Best of Mastertalker Interactive Games and Activities
Karenne on teaching- interview Part Two
New TEFLtastic worksheets October 2009 Part One
TEFL as often private education- often good or often bad?
Karenne on blogging- Interview Part One
Who do you feel solidarity with?
Another money saving tip for TEFLers
New TEFL articles etc September 2009
Money saving tips for TEFLers
Last week’s new worksheets September 09 Part One
A fireside chat with Sandy McManus
Breasts in ELT
How can we increase TEFL pay?
Does better pay really lead to better teaching?
What I just learnt about American English
Two more nearly been there moments
Determiners (articles etc) games, songs and worksheets
SLA error correction
My TEFL blog stalker experience
Free books for teachers in Korea and Japan
Why you don’t know where I work
ELT publishing trendspotter
Why I’m not annoyed by the TEFL dossers
Prepositions and directions worksheets etc
Is a bad one to one teacher more useful than pairwork?
Guardian TEFL fades away
Tense review games and worksheets
New TEFL articles and reviews August 2009
My greatest TEFL creation
Comparative and superlative adjectives worksheets and games
My PLN (personal learning network)
An alternative to Twitter for TEFLers
TEFL reality
15 reasons to TEFL on Twitter
Saving the world’s dialects through technology
New TEFLtastic worksheets August 2009 Part Two
Rules, patterns, words and conclusions
The best of Teaching English Guest Writer Articles
You know you spend too much time on the internet when
An apology
Some nice quotes from the last ELTJ
When student-centred goes too far
Alternative TEFL jargon August 2009
Rules, Patterns, Words and Doubts
Has the TEFL blogging zeitgeist changed?
Guest piece- If I Was a TEFL Billionaire…
New TEFLtastic worksheets August 2009 Part One
2000 comments!
The best of English Teacher X Part Two
How much are you like your house party self online?
Guest pieces wanted, guest pieces supplied
New TEFL/ TESOL/ TESL/ TEFAL/ TEFLON articles etc July 2009
Host family horror stories
The secret to writing EFL textbooks
All the worksheets are here! (July 2009 Part 3)
Where are all the worksheets?
TEFLtastic on Twitter
Some new ideas about CPD in ELT
How not to teach pronunciation
New TEFLtastic worksheets July 2009 Part Two
What I learnt about Rules Patterns and Words
Time management tips for TEFL bloggers
How to learn from my mistakes
How you could make your blog popular
101 easy TEFL blog posts
TOEIC- the Test of English for International What??
New TEFLtastic worksheets July 2009 Part One
Can teacher development make you happy?
What is the point of TEFLtastic blog?
The most unusual reason to TEFL abroad?
New TEFL articles etc June 2009
Are there too few TEFL blogs?
Some nice quotes about Rules Patterns and Words
IELTS Academic Writing tips for students
Rumours about TOEIC
New YL, business and uncountable noun worksheets
How to choose a good summer school
Two ways of livening up textbook dialogues
The other side of Oxford Street
New TEFLtastic worksheets June 2009 Part Three
Another reason not to jump on the CLIL bandwagon?
ELT Jargon June 2009
New TEFLtastic worksheets June 2009 Part Two
Live a TEFL dream
Two years, one million clicks- Is it time for you to exploit me?
What to do with morphases.com
How’s your ultimate job and/ or life going?
Last week’s new worksheets Part One
You live and learn
New ELT articles May 2009
Psychology for English teachers May 09 Part Two
New photocopiable worksheets May 2009
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 22
Psychology for teachers May 2009
Games to practice relative clauses
Maybe British host families aren’t the worst
Guest piece- 4 more stupid decisions your TEFL colleagues make and why they make them
The new Cambridge SELTA
ETS to introduce new exam for teachers
Letter from a reader- DoSs as a sociological curiosity
Prices of EFL textbooks to drop?
A bit of TEFL justice
Academic word list useful links
How to spot a bad TEFL job Part One
How to really improve the standard of TEFL courses
Youtube for TEFLers May 2009
Guest piece- Blogging for teacher development
Medical and pharmaceutical worksheets
The TEFL mentoring experiment has begun
New TEFL articles etc April 2009
Letter from a mate’s ex-girlfriend- The definite article
Market Leader Lesson plans and worksheets
Letter from a reader- TEFL for oldsters
The most overrated things in TEFL Part One
TEFL links of the month April 09
An interview with Bruce V of TEFL International Part 5
Don’t do the CELTA
History for ESL students
The secrets to being happy as a TEFL teacher
TEFL jobs glossary
Copyright and the TEFL teacher
Why do the Japanese not speak better English?
Want to improve the professional image of TEFL courses?
Writing a novel as a metaphor for TEFLing
Listenings – why bother?
If you were still resisting technology in TEFL
Letter from a reader- Resistance to games
Why are EFL classes so cheap?
Is TEFL recession proof?
TEFL links of the month March 2009
New TEFL articles etc March 2009
Guest worksheet of the month
What to Do If You’ve Been Had by Your TEFL Course
TEFL tip of the day- Prepositions of time
Two new ways of blacklisting schools
It’s all down to us, guys
New month, new TEFL soundbites
Controlling under fives
Really an interview with Alex Case of TEFLtastic
TEFL soundbite of the month
TEFL.net is twittering
TEFL book of the decade?
25 things I have done that have less value than TEFL
Six things to think about before deciding to teach in Asia
Big Brother is teacher training you
TEFL mentors needed!
An interview with Alex Case of TEFLtastic blog
Clueless about TEFL quote of the day
TEFLing and writing- how to fit them together
Honeymoons for TEFLers
New TEFL articles Feb 09
Six things to do as soon as you finish your TEFL course
TEFL by numbers Feb 2008
Five more reasons to hate ETS
7 things you probably didn’t know about me
Craptus TEFL and the Guardian are up to their tricks again
New TEFL articles etc Jan 2009
Cambridge ESOL pops up in the strangest places
TEFL book reviews reach a new low
We now know what everyone needs to do to learn a language
Exclusive- Interview with Juan Pablo Falomir of Laughing Coyote School of English
Do your duty when you are living abroad
Guest piece- Start using technology in your classes, or just go ahead and retire!
TEFL joins the North South divide
Bruce Veldhuisen of TEFL International Interview Part 4
The Alternative TEFL jargon dictionary Part 21
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Course Providers Try to Rip You Off – Part 2
teach in China,look for a girl/boy friend and enjoy your life here
Letter from a reader- Getting started with teacher training
The voice of the “free TEFL course” speaks
My top 10 books for/ about EFL for young learners
TED.com for TEFLers and linguists Part One
Interview- Jason West Dishes on Guardian Languages and Sets the TEFL World to Rights!
The TEFLtasticest attempts at humour 2008
New Teaching English Reviews and Articles Dec 08 Part Two
Clash of the TEFL heavyweight bloggers
The CELTA- what you’re letting yourself in for
The alternative ELT jargon dictionary Part 20
TEFL quotes of the year 2008
Free online TEFL training???
A few more Xmas and New Year worksheets
New TEFL articles and teaching ideas Dec 08
Maybe we should riot too
CLIL is no longer a punishment
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Courses Try to Rip You Off – Part 1
TEFLtastic reaches half a million
TEFL as extended adventure holiday Quote of the day
Guardian TEFL wises up
The best end of term revision games
Christmas and New Year teaching ideas 2008
An A to Z of Korean English (Konglish) expressions
New articles and worksheets Nov 08 Part Two
Natural English Intermediate
Applied Linguistics dictionary Part 19
TEFL according to that famous user-generated encyclopedia
TEFL teachers rock!
The Alternative Dictionary of TEFL acronyms etc Part 18
The truth about TOEFL
23 Experiences of Language Teaching
Bruce Veldhuisen interview Part Three- TEFL and TI update
New stuff November 08
TEFL conspiracy theory of the day
Being a professional without a profession Quote of the Day
An Alternative Dictionary of ELT jargon Part 17
Nutty TEFL idea of the day
A little bit more reality in TEFL theory
Stolen teaching idea of the day
Similarities between Japanese and Korean Part Two
20 ways to stop your students translating
An alternative way of boosting your teaching confidence
An unusual way of preparing for your CELTA
TEFL Stat of the Day 22 Oct 08
And the Certificate in Money for Nothing Teacher Training goes to…
Metaphor for language learning number 431 of 1073
New anti-TEFL scam Facebook group
Live by tepid spirit*
TEFL stat of the day 14 October 2008
New TEFL articles October 2008
Dr Johnson plays Call My Bluff
Dr Johnson does TEFL
Korean euphemisms?
TEFL scabs
The greatest TEFL soap opera?
Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook for Pervs
New TEFL articles September 08 Part Two
Slogans for crappy English schools Part Three
Dream dictionary for TEFL teachers Part Two
Korean colour vocabulary learning aid
The CELTA as seen by an outsider
Do you want the temporary buzz of moving on and/ or up too?
Another 25 quotes from advertising for schools with a quality disability
My Lonely Planet is full of eels
Grappling with teaching abroad Quote of the Day
The dream dictionary for TEFL teachers
An alternative A to Z of ELT Part 15
Telephoning in English worksheets, games, lesson plans and reviews
Korean body parts vocabulary memory game
Another 25 extracts from the brochures of crappy English schools
IELTS, TOEIC, TOEFL, FCE, CAE and CPE worksheets, articles and tips
An amusing vocabulary memory trick
Last chance for free books for teachers in Japan
Slogans for crap English schools
How to spot a TEFL advertorial
Anyone can learn a language in just three months
Teaching English in Spain Links
25 ways to be the best TEFLer you can be
New TEFL articles etc August 08
TEFL Presidential Elections update
25 motivational messages for TESOL teachers
An alternative way of planning your lessons
Random facts about Yiddish and Hebrew
25 ways to get away with being a crap English teacher
Confucius’s lessons for English teachers
Tired of typical ELT dialogues?
Teaching English in Japan- Sources Part One
TEFLtastic is moving on
New stuff July 2008 Part Two
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 14
Surprises about English spelling
The British government learns what any TEFLer could have told them
All CELTA courses are not the same
Quotes from and about the Chairman Mao of Linguistics
Deep TEFL quote of the day
TEFL International’s Bruce Velhuisen- Interview Part Two
TEFL makes the technology news
Prince Harry takes i-to-i TEFL course
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