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How to deal with mixed level classes

By TEFL Exchange10th February 201910th February 2019UncategorisedEFL, English Language Teaching, Mixed ability, Mixed level classesWith 0 comments

Sooner or later, you’ll definitely come into contact with one of the biggest challenges of teaching English – mixed level classes. In reality, this is something that will always happen….

What is teaching English for young learners and why is it popular?

By TEFL Exchange22nd January 201922nd January 2019UncategorisedEFL, TEACHING ENGLISH, Teaching Young LearnersWith 0 comments

Teaching English for young learners usually just refers to classes for people who are under approximately thirteen years old, i.e. they are children. There is also a classification of very…

Why You Shouldn’t Write Off Teaching Kindergarten

By TEFL Exchange20th July 20173rd January 2019TeachingEFL, TEACHING ENGLISH, TEFL, YL, Young LearnersWith 0 comments

If you’re about to start teaching, or if you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ll probably have met those few people who are in what I call the ‘never kids’ camp. That means that the last group of learners they want to teach is kids. Adults or nothing. Maybe students, but probably not.

How To Handle Homesickness While Abroad

By TEFL Exchange12th July 20173rd January 2019TEFLEFL, ELT, Homesickness, Living abroad, Loneliness, TEACHING ENGLISH, TEFLWith 0 comments

It’s quite hard to admit that even as an adult, you still get homesick. But it certainly happens, and after a year of living abroad I found myself in that exact situation. It was tricky because I knew that if I went home, then after a while I’d be back in the same routine and itching to get away again, but at the time it seemed like going home was the only thing that would satisfy me. I got stuck in a cycle of telling myself ‘I need to go back home, at least for a bit’. Have you felt the same? I bet that if you’ve been abroad for more than a few months you’ll have had this to varying degrees.

Don’t Make These Mistakes In Your TEFL Job Interview

By TEFL Exchange16th May 20173rd January 2019TEFLEFL, ELT, Teaching English Job Interview, TEFL Interview Mistakes, TEFL Interview Stories, TEFL Interviews, TESOLWith 0 comments

Teachers, please listen. If you’re an old hand, I’d hope you don’t do any of these. If you’re a new recruit, well take this advice. If you’ve got a bit of common sense, most of these should seem obvious. Unfortunately, experience proves that some people don’t seem to think so.

ESL Games For Every New Teacher

By Scott Pocock8th May 20173rd January 2019TeachingEFL, ESL Games, ESOL, New English Teachers, TEFL GamesWith 0 comments

You’ve landed your 1st job at a Primary School! Congrats, but now it’s time to get serious and sort out a lesson plan. Hopefully you’ve had a little experience with this in your TEFL Course. Your employer won’t be expecting something as detailed and in-depth as that (unless they have requested it) so simply writing a few notes will often sufficient.

ESL Life: How to Choose Your Dream Destination

By TEFL Exchange28th April 20173rd January 2019Destinations, TEFLChoose where to teach English, EFL, TEFL, TEFL DestinationsWith 0 comments

So you’ve decided to embark on an ESL journey. Working in media sales just isn’t doing it for you anymore. You’re sick of spending twenty hours a week looking at memes, and the other twenty hours sweating over Excel spreadsheets. Great stuff.

A Day in the Life of a Teacher in Cambodia

By Olivia Hart11th March 20173rd January 2019Cambodia, Destinations, Guest Post, Teaching, TEFLCambodia, destinations, EFL, ESL, TEACHING ENGLISH, TEFLComments are off

A day in a life of an ESL teacher in Cambodia has been quite conventional, excluding the longest lunch breaks you’ll ever have. I was teaching in one of the biggest International schools in Phnom Penh and that meant around 12 campuses, each teaching around 500 students of all ages. The native speakers are teaching English, the Filipinos, Science and Maths and Khmer were obviously teaching Khmer. Up to grade 5 we also had local T.A.’s to help us with translations and classroom management.

3 of the Edgiest Places to Teach English

By TEFL Exchange3rd February 201723rd April 2017Featured, Teaching, TEFLcolombia, destinations, EFL, north korea, somalia, TEACHING ENGLISH, TEFLComments are off

Okay, so teachers of English as a foreign language are often the adventurous type – otherwise why would we spend our life going and living in new, unfamiliar and exotic places? It’s fair to say that most of us have a wanderlust and enjoy the thrill of a new environment.

But for some of us, we like to push it to extremes. So if you’re looking for somewhere totally, totally off the beaten track, with a little more risk than most, then here are three of the ‘edgiest’ TEFL destinations in the world. Note that we’re not including countries currently experiencing civil wars or conflicts, out of respect for the seriousness of the situation.

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