Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord
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Survival Guide: EFL exams
Here is a quick guide to EFL exams to help you choose the right ones for your students.
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Survival Guide: Effective teacher body language
Do you come across as relaxed and at ease in the classroom? Or do you give off signals of nervousness and discomfort? Like it or not, your body language speaks volumes about how you feel in class.
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Survival Guide: Surviving grammar
How’s your grammar knowledge? Before you read about surviving grammar, take this short test to find out how much you know and how much grammar you are comfortable with!
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Survival Guide: Troubleshooting
Oh no! The photocopier isn’t working again … and it’s not just the photocopier! Teachers come up against all sorts of minor and major frustrations every day. Relax and take a deep breath. Our troubleshooting guide will sort everything out for you.
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Survival Guide: Using L1 in the classroom
Every language teacher has, at some point, felt guilty, puzzled and frustrated about their students’ overuse of their mother tongue in the classroom. In a monolingual context this can become quite a problem.
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Survival Guide: Surviving acronyms
The world of English language teaching (ELT) is awash with acronyms! Here’s a collection of the most common ones.
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Survival Guide: Surviving technology
We have put together a list of ten things you need to know to get the most out of technology such as the internet, computers, phones, tablets, email, apps, social networks, blogs and so on, followed by a few ideas on how to use technology inside and outside the classroom. ...
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Survival Guide: Surviving teaching in companies
Teaching English in companies can involve teachers working in an unfamiliar environment with restricted resources and a range of cultures, customs and constraints they are not accustomed to.
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Survival Guide: Professional development
Keeping yourself interested in your work and becoming a better teacher is important for you and important for your students – but it takes a bit of effort.
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Survival Guide: The emergency activity file
Some of our favourite activities requiring little or no preparation - designed to be used in a minor or major emergency!
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Survival Guide: Culture shock
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord highlight signs of culture shock and give us tried and tested tips on how to deal with it.
ArticleSurvival Guide: First classes
Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.
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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview
Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!
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Survival Guide: Teaching under the influence
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord ask you to consider what impact different teaching methods have had on your teaching and learning and present a brief history of EFL.
ArticleSurvival Guide: Teacher’s survival kit
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord give a run-down of the ten most important tools in a teacher’s locker, plus five survival tools for mobile devices.
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Classroom management: The role of correction in English teaching
Lindsay Clandfield and Duncan Foord discuss error correction and offer practical advice and suggestions on using correction slots in class.
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Teaching materials: using newspapers in the classroom 1
This article comes from the onestopenglish archive but ties in with our ongoing Guardian stories. Here is some advice and suggestions on using newspapers in the English classroom.