Stranger Things has become one of those rare phenomena on television, a universal talking point. The much-anticipated recent series (series 4) has become the most successful streamed series of all… Read More »Stranger Things in the Classroom
What are the things that teachers worry most about? Perhaps we worry most about our workload, whether we can find enough time in the day to do all the things… Read More »The Worried Teacher – A Band Aid For Mental Health
Grammar translation as a method of teaching languages (other than specifically for the purpose of learning to read classical texts) is an outdated and largely discredited methodology. However, just because… Read More »The Art and Value of Translation
This blog will focus on techniques that can be used to teach students how to write emails. I will outline why it is important for students to be familiar with… Read More »Teaching Email Writing in the Classroom
Teaching Refugees While this post was always going to feature in my series, Lessons Learned The Hard Way, recent world events have made this theme more prescient. Across the western… Read More »Lessons Learned The Hard Way – Part Three
As I write the world is starting to open up again. Hopefully, this continues and we can put the last two years behind us. This blog focuses on examples of… Read More »Socially Distanced Classroom Activities
At one point or another, most of us have used songs as a teaching resource. Students generally enjoy listening to music, and songs provide a natural way of exposing our… Read More »Using songs in the TEFL Classroom
At the time of writing, (April 2022) Muslims around the world are observing Ramadan. This post is aimed mainly at non-Muslim teachers of English with limited knowledge of Islam or… Read More »The Impact Of Ramadan on Students and Teachers of English
Spring into action this April. Welcome to our April edition of the Teacher’s Pet. The daffodils have been, and are almost gone, and spring is in full bloom all around us. At times it almost feels like summer has arrived!
We are all familiar with the various challenges that the pandemic has forced us to endure: requiring us to lockdown, forcing us to isolate and keeping us away from our… Read More »How to Stay Connected in a Disconnected World