Category: Teaching & Learning

An English teacher must also be part performer, part artist, and part comedian. Why? Because you have to win your audience. Once in a blue moon you’ll have a …

YOU SHOULDN’T TEACH ENGLISH IN BRAZIL IF… 1. You want to make a lot of money. Some ESL teaching jobs – particularly in Korea – offer a very comfortable …

Currently, I split my schedule between individual classes and small group classes (from 2-8 students) and people often ask me which one I prefer. Here are three advantages of …

Two words: phrasal verbs.  Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb plus one or more prepositions, and they are nightmares for my students because the meaning of the same …

Ever had that terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad feeling when it’s 15 minutes before class and you have absolutely no material or lesson plan or idea what you’re going to …

My Difficult Student was absent on the date the midterm test was administered. The following week, I had the corrected exams ready to hand back to the other students, …

Most group classes have what I like to call the Difficult Student. It’s the one who’s always playing with their cell phone in class, or who is chronically 30 …

I currently spend about 6 hours per week preparing and planning my English classes. This is time for which I am not paid, and it’s not strictly necessary, since …

For a long time, I would get annoyed at the way people walk on the streets of Salvador: 1) Slowly 2) Illogically – sometimes people seem to change their …

I wrote this article for the website of Teaching House New York, where I got my CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults). I teach in Salvador, capital …