I’ve been following my own tips and writing lots of articles. I’ve somehow managed to write over 2000 words each on just teaching “What’s your name?”, “How old are you?” and “How are you?”, which shows how tricky even the simplest-looking parts of teaching can be. And to show how many such points we teachers have to think about, my new to do list of absolutely vital points which I’ve never written about has over 100 things on it. That is quite an impressive gap given that I’ve just wasted some of that precious coronavirus time calculating that I’ve published 628 articles on what I’d previously claimed were all things TEFL.

Let those past and future 1.5 million words be an answer to all those who think TEFLers are dossing off while they are doing the real jobs!