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Five key ways to engage everyone when you have differing levels within the same English class If you are teaching groups, it’s likely you’ve faced the conundrum of teaching mixed abilities within the same group. How to select material at right level for everyone, stretching the more able while supporting the weaker class members?  There’s a risk...

Christian English teacher Colette shares her experiences of in-class and zoom English teaching After qualifying in TESOL and with her experience of teaching English to asylum seekers in her church, Colette Harding and her husband relocated to a town near Chester.  From here, Colette started leading English classes again. These have drawn a...

New Year, new focus? January can be a good time to check in with students about their learning aims and set goals in order to help them stay motivated and keep on improving their English level. Here we have a simple outline of a New Year lesson plan you could use with elementary level learners or higher to talk about Near Year traditions, which...

It’s certainly been a bit of a year… With churches uncertain about what services will look like for the rest of this year, how can we minister to each other and the world while we are in various states of lockdown? How we answer this question will depend on many factors. The impact the pandemic has had on ourselves, our families and churches will...

Would you like to: Meet other Christians involved in English teaching? Learn or improve in key areas, like teaching beginners? Practice some teaching, under the guidance of an expert trainer? If the answer is yes, then our Zoom training courses could be for you - whether you are a new or experienced teacher. We’ve got a range of these short, live...

We caught up with Christian Tonja Taylor, after completion of our 250 hour online TESOL course to find out about the course, her teaching life and her future plans. Thanks for your time, Tonja. What made you think of teaching English? I have had a heart for missions since I was a teen.  Also, when I was in my early 20s, I met a woman who'd just...

How one Christian TEFL graduate is planning on using their Christian TEFL qualification. We met JB at Big Church Day Out in 2019. He decided to sign up for a course with us and here he shares some of his thoughts on how he is going to use it in the future, along with what he is doing currently in Belgium.  Over to you JB I recently completed my...

We have recently been having enormous fun training 3 churches full of budding new ESOL teachers. One of the things we have been doing is helping them answer that age-old question: How do I get my students warmed up and ready for English class in an interesting and engaging way? In other words, what are a good series of interesting and interactive...

The results of the Christian TEFL 2019 audit report are here, and it's super news for our staff and trainees... The accreditation body ACTDEC which is one of the most established UK online TESOL accrediting organisations, has just completed a comprehensive audit of Christian TEFL and its sister site, Global English TESOL, through which its online...