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Last Thursday I gave a presentation at one of the TEFL schools in Prague.

This is a school that trains English teachers.

I was there to talk to them about teaching private students, and one of them asked me an interesting question, “Do all students want grammar?” Read More >

Saturday was hot.

So I decided to escape the burning cobblestones of the center and go to a secret pool in the woods.

Well, about a thousand other people had the same idea, and my “secret” pool didn’t feel so secret. Read More >

The answer…

2.5

This is according to the site testyourvocab.com/blog

Next question: Read More >

Let’s talk about exams.

FCE…CAE…IELTS…

All a bad idea.

Here’s why: Read More >

Maybe you grew up in a city and never had this problem.

But if you grew up in a suburb, or in the country like me, then you know what it feels like to be a kid trapped at home.

Any time you want to go somewhere – to a friend’s house, to the store, to the playgroun – you have to ask, and sometimes beg, one of your parents to take you. Read More >

Café Grand Orient, Prague.

A few years ago.

I sat down with a new student and asked her about her English. Read More >

“Should I use his technique?”

My student was talking about A.J. Hoge.

A.J. is an online teacher, but unlike the sea of other English teachers on the internet, he’s the only one I recommend to students. Read More >

You know those big, yellow school busses in American movies?

Well, I used to take one of those to school every day.

And every morning, I had to walk from my house to the bus stop down the street. Read More >

#1 The Over-Teacher

Have you ever had a bad golf or tennis lesson?

A bad golf/tennis lesson is when the coach says: Read More >

“Can you issue an invoice so my company can pay?”

This is a question I get a lot.

My reply is, “Sure, but that’s not what you want.” Read More >