After the “igh” story last time (and the great feedback!)  today we have a brand new phonics story for the “oa” grapheme. As usual we have the poster version for use by the teacher at the front of the class and the landscape workbook version where the kids can write the story so you can check…

In the last post I talked about why it’s probably a good idea to not hire any extra teachers. But if you do want to make the leap of faith,   how to hire great teachers – and not end up with nightmare scenarios – is probably the most popular question I’m getting now. And,…

Thank you to everyone who took up the special offer last week – welcome on board! If you’re lucky enough to see your class everyday you have lots of skills to teach, not just English and confidence. And of course it makes sense to try and Genki those up too! 🙂 So Amye has come…

How to motivate students who just aren’t into learning English? For younger kids …. With younger kids, if you’ve got their attention then sometimes just bringing in the computer to class is all you need. When you add in the songs & games the biggest problem is often how to get them *out* of the classroom! For…

If you’ve picked up your Teacher’s Set   then this is how you can use them to get some awesome ESL (English as a Second Language) or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) lessons!   1.  Warm Up & Review The very first lesson is easy with the Disco Warm Up to set up the expectations and the all important first…