Voices
Chia Suan Chong is the author of Successful International Communication, and a regular columnist and award-winning resident blogger for monthly magazine English Teaching Professional.
For UN Chinese Language Day, we asked British Council colleagues and programme participants in China what they find most surprising about learning Mandarin.
How can teachers of English create learning material with streaming services? Melissa Thomson, a British Council teacher and trainer based in Bilbao, describes her top six approaches.
Don Merritt, an English language coordinator and former British Council teacher, uses these low-preparation activities to understand what his class have learned.
How does teaching English to refugees differ from teaching other groups of learners, and how might you change your approach in the classroom?
How do you manage your teaching schedule and lesson planning, with the added challenge of unsocial working hours? British Council teacher Melissa Thomson describes her top four approaches.
Substitute teaching can be demanding. We asked Daniel Vincent, a teacher of English at the British Council in Madrid, how to plan and deliver these lessons with confidence.
Ste Sharpe mentors newly-qualified teachers of English. This is his advice for building rapport with adult and teenage learners, for teachers who are new to the classroom.
Is teaching in a small town more rewarding? Emily Torr explains what surprised her about living in rural Spain and how sharing traditions allowed her to integrate into the community.
These are the top five issues that one observer sees in the English language classroom, with practical steps for teachers who want to fix them.