Category Archives: TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains

How’s your ultimate job and/ or life going?

Posted on 04/06/2009 by alexcase

Not got either, you say? Well, maybe you should try a job with is “the most exciting employment opportunity of your life” which is “not hard” and “pays well”. Apparently you can “forget the commute, over-time …missed lunches… jammed photocopiers and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruce Veldhuisen, Dodgy TEFL courses, finding good TEFL jobs, first TEFL job, links, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL certificate, TEFL International, TEFL qualifications, TEFL scams, TEFL working conditions, TESOL | Tagged | 2 Comments

New ELT articles May 2009

Posted on 30/05/2009 by alexcase

15 ways of making writing interactive – LINK FIXED 15 countable and uncountable noun games – LINK FIXED 15 fun activities for prepositions of time (and boy do we need ways of making this fun!) – LINK FIXED As a brief aside, … Continue reading →

Posted in countable and uncountable nouns, Grammar, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, links, Prepositions, prepositions of time, Skills, TEFL, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL games, TEFL heroes- David Crystal, TESOL, Writing | Leave a comment

A bit of TEFL justice

Posted on 08/05/2009 by alexcase

Paul Lowe and his former sidekick Ashley Arnold have been given fines, community service and (for Paul) a suspended sentence for the notorious time when Windsor Schools took money off students for a Trinity TESOL course knowing full well that … Continue reading →

Posted in British Council accreditation, Cambridge ESOL, CELTA, Dodgy TEFL courses, Dodgy TEFL school owners, Teacher training, TEFL, TEFL certificate, TEFL in the UK, TEFL qualifications, TEFL scams, TEFL villains- Paul Lowe, Trinity, Trinity CertTESOL, Windsor Schools, Windsor TEFL | 7 Comments

An interview with Bruce V of TEFL International Part 5

Posted on 14/04/2009 by alexcase

This is pretty old now as it was part of the same interview that eventually became Parts One, Two, Three and Four. Unlike them, I couldn’t be bothered updating or sending the third set of follow up questions this time, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruce Veldhuisen, Cambridge ESOL, CELTA, Dave Sperling's ESL Cafe, Dodgy TEFL courses, Dodgy TEFL school owners, Teacher forums, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL certificate, TEFL chains, TEFL forums, TEFL International, TEFL qualifications, TEFL scams, TEFL School Reviews, TEFLwatch, Trinity, Trinity CertTESOL | Tagged | 9 Comments

Why are EFL classes so cheap?

Posted on 24/03/2009 by alexcase

Not something I’d ever thought about, so instead of giving my usual instant opinions I am going to yet again break copyright law to quote the fabulous Melanie Butler, editor of EL Gazette, at length: “David Graddol argues that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Accreditation UK, British Council accreditation, EL Gazette, links, Oxford Street schools, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL heroes- Melanie Butler, TEFL in the UK | 16 Comments

7 things you probably didn’t know about me

Posted on 01/02/2009 by alexcase

1. Dave Sperling still owes me ten Euros he borrowed off me at the TESOL Spain conference 2. The EF school in Eastbourne had the alternative word for the “F” part of its sign that me and my friends graffitied … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge Delta, EF, EFL geek, IATEFL, Teacher forums, TEFL blogs, TEFL chains, TEFL heroes- Jeremy Harmer, TEFL heroes- Michael Swan, TEFL heroes- Sandy McManus, TEFL heroes- Scott Thornbury, TEFL Tradesman, TEFL villains- Jennifer Jenkins | Tagged | 23 Comments

TEFL book reviews reach a new low

Posted on 26/01/2009 by alexcase

No, most certainly not my fellow TEFL.net Book Review pages enthusiastic amateurs, who have written some great recent reviews on Creative Poetry Writing, New Insight into IELTS and Vocabulary . The guilty parties are people who really should know better and in fact … Continue reading →

Posted in ELT publishing, General English textbooks, Materials, Teaching methods and methodologies, TEFL, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, textbooks | 10 Comments

Bruce Veldhuisen of TEFL International Interview Part 4

Posted on 17/01/2009 by alexcase

Or do I mean part 40? Anyhow, this was basically completed months ago, but did nag Bruce into answering a couple of extra questions that had occured to me since and got his reply last week. I still think there are … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruce Veldhuisen, Cambridge ESOL, Dodgy TEFL courses, Dodgy TEFL school owners, IATQUO, Teacher training, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Thailand, TEFL, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL certificate, TEFL International, TEFL qualifications, TEFL scams | Tagged | 108 Comments

Interview- Jason West Dishes on Guardian Languages and Sets the TEFL World to Rights!

Posted on 04/01/2009 by alexcase

It’s a great interview, stimulating, controversial, and full of TEFL insider tidbits. So many ideas did the CEO of English Out There have, in fact, that it takes a good 10 minutes to read. Please feel free to leave questions … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, British Council, British Council accreditation, Distance learning, EFL exams, ELT publishing, Guardian TEFL, Job security, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, links, Materials, self employed TEFL teachers, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching methods and methodologies, teaching online, Technology, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL chains, TEFL in the UK, TEFL scams, TEFL working conditions, textbooks | Tagged | 9 Comments

Clash of the TEFL heavyweight bloggers

Posted on 31/12/2008 by alexcase

No, I am not talking about my meeting with EFL Geek, as despite being exactly the same age and so perhaps sharing some kind of middle-aged-crisis-makes-you-blog, we are neither of us heavyweight in the midriff (yet) nor in the real TEFL world. No, we … Continue reading →

Posted in EFL geek, links, TEFL, TEFL blogs, TEFL celebs/ TEFL heroes and villains, TEFL heroes- David Crystal, TEFL heroes- Mario Rinvolucri | 11 Comments