Today's blog is all about e-readers and how Apple are trying to corner the market on the lucrative textbook industry.

As a school in Sheffield has recently banned slang, I take a look at UK slang and give definitions in standard English with example sentences.

As romance is in the air this week for Valentine's Day, I thought you might like to utilise this lesson plan that I made recently.

This might be a bit late, but I've made a complete Valentine's Day Lesson that are you are free to use.

http://www.tesoltraining.co.uk/blog/free-tefl-lesson-plan-valentines-day/

I had quite a bit of spare time today (don't say, "Lucky you", because I have 12 lessons tomorrow!) and I was watching some of Jeremy Harmer's conference speeches to try and pick up some tips from

I have just listened to an interesting podcast (you don't have to download, sign up to anything etc, you can just listen without any commitment or passwords!) from Steve Kaufmann who is the king of LingQ.com (an excellent language learning site btw).

I came across a language site (sorry if it's old news for you!) that is superb!

When we encounter new vocabulary in class, I get the students to make sentences about themselves that contain the new words.

Further to my post yesterday re semantic clusters hindering learning, I found an interesting bit of research from the ELTJ March 2

OK, so I've only just started studying the TESOL Diploma and maybe I should already know this, but I have just watched a lecture, where the speaker said that there is extensive research that shows