CELTA stands for “Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults”. It is the original certificate course in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) or teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), and it has been running for four decades. It is highly respected and recognized globally, with 7 out of 10 employers worldwide asking applicants to have it.
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Authors: Matt Adams and Ethan Mansur. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. A very frequent (and often inconvenient) situation: you have to cover a lesson for a fellow teacher. It’s usually a last-minute request which leaves you little time to prepare...
Author: Luke Armstrong. Article originally published in issue no. 46 of the IH Journal. So your students are advanced. What’s left to teach them? What English-language novelty can you still share with them? And are they still interested? Do they feel they still have something to...
Author: Anastasia Nefedova. Article originally published in issue no. 47 of the IH Journal. Do you teach large classes? Can you remember all of the students’ names? Can you always keep them motivated and on track? This article gives you 7 practical ideas about how to...
Author: Rory Duncan. Article originally published in issue no. 47 of the IH Journal. What makes us fail or suceeed as teachers? What are the positive and negative emotions we have to deal with and manage? How can they make a difference in our performance? This...
“Teaching should be done using only the resources that teachers and students bring to the classroom – i.e. themselves – and whatever happens to be in the classroom.” (Scott Thornbury) Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Coursebooks, student’s books, workbooks, teacher’s handbooks, resource packs, class CDs, student’s...
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest What’s the ultimate goal of language teaching? The standard description for C2, the highest CEFR level of linguistic competence, says it all: a learner who has reached the C2 level is an expert user of the language, having “fully operational...
"Language is grammaticalised lexis, not lexicalised grammar." (Michael Lewis, 1993) Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Teaching view 1: “one masters a language when they can use it to communicate accurately. For that point to be reached, one must learn the grammatical rules and a large enough...
Author: Ilinca Stroe, International House Bucharest Teachers who had worked online as a rule before the covid-19 crisis struck and forced us all into digital immigration will probably snigger at the title. Rightly so. Full-time online teachers had already gained solid experience teaching English online, so...
Article originally poublished on the International House World Organisation (IHWO) blog on 9 April 2020. Are you short of ideas about how to keep your students motivated and engaged during the Easter holiday? Professionals from several International House schools in Spain have come up with lots...
Article originally published in the IH Journal, issue 47. Authors: Miguel Talag and Ethan Mansur Isn’t PowerPoint an almost indispensable tool now that we’ve transited to teaching online because of the coronavirus pandemic? How good are you at making the best of it? Are your slides...
