So you’re done teaching English overseas (at least for now) and you’re ready to head back to your home base. It should be easy to transition back into your own culture, right?

Photo by Tim Caynes

Well, not necessarily. After living abroad for a number of years, or even coming home for summer vacations, I always found that
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Here’s an activity that doesn’t involve as much repetition as those described in my previous blog about speaking activities in the TEFL classroom, but utilizes a lot more student interaction instead.

Start by giving each student a card with a different number on it. If you’ve got ten students, number the cards one through ten. On
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Language is social. My colleague Joshua Yardley (look for all his great blog posts) recently recommended a brief lecture to me on Ted Talks, called “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” by Patricia Kuhl. Her research quantifies how infants develop their language abilities through hearing and selecting the sounds of the language spoken around them. When
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We get a lot of questions from people interested in teaching English abroad. While these questions can be about a range of topics, such as the intensive nature of the CELTA or TEFL programs, the schedule of our online TEFL certification courses, our accreditation, and more, they all boil down to just one thing: people
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Who doesn’t love a good TEFL speaking activity?

Here are a few more I hope you love.

Time Trials: This is an activity which has apparently been around for a while, but I didn’t hear about until recently. Here’s how it works: Give your EFL students a prompt and perhaps a few minutes to collect their thoughts.
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When you return from teaching abroad, sometimes it’s the little things about your former host country that you miss most. For me, it’s the Italian café. There is just something about those memories of sitting at a table outside of a coffee shop at the edge of an enormous plaza in Venice, sipping a cappuccino,
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Is your dream job in Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil or another Latin American location? The appeal is understandable:  high demand for teachers, great weather, fabulous culture, and the chance to learn Spanish and/or Portuguese along the way. Perfect! Now how can you land a teaching job there? The good news is, Central and South America
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So you have decided that you want to find a TEFL job in South America, but you are not quite sure which certification course to take to make this happen. Here is an interview with Thomas Stertz, explaining how the Bridge IDELT course helped him reach his goal of teaching English as a foreign language
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Teaching English in South America is really a no-brainer. Surround myself with a beautiful country with a long and interesting history that’s full of friendly people who almost all want to learn English? Yes please! But the benefits of teaching English in South America extend beyond the magical experience itself, even if you don’t go
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I’m sure plenty of you in the TEFL field have spent hours combing the Internet looking for exercises, only to find yourself amazed at how many TESOL websites there are with lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes, and games for the EFL/ESL classroom.

My problem with a lot of what I find online is that many of the
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