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Here to share some of Twinkl's Halloween teaching games and activities for young ESL learners! 🎃

Trick or Treat *free* Vocab Game: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/zxrji

35 Halloween Activities for ESL students https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/11n6jz

You can find 100 Olympics themed ESL teaching resources from Twinkl here: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/emc5t :)

If you are teaching a summer camp this year, check out these teaching packs. You can download everything you need to plan your summer camp on each topic; worksheets, interactive games, board games, flashcards, crafts, teaching ppts, role play materials etc. Body https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1cqmxr Foo...

I want to share this blog post, which has some fantastic tips for transitioning from EFL to long term career in teaching

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1f1owc

There was an error yesterday but I can promise this is now free! :)

This ppt has 11 different ESL games for young learners. They cover different topics such as colors, shapes and basic phonics. This game is available for free for 1 week only! https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/q5t1z

Often for ESL roles I am asked things like "How would you deal with the following situation" usualy the situations are things like students who are falling behind, misbehaving or not listening in class. Another quewstion I often asked as an interviewer is regarding experience in other feil...

I would download a digital copy of any books they are studying, but since online learning can get boring quickly, I suggest adding games and quizes where possible. These should help: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/12r46r
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1n7sw5
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1f8lhf

If you are teaching in young learners or kidnergarteners and want to focus on their reading skills, this Twinkl pack of 16 free phonics resoruces might be useful for you! 😍 https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/11houx The pack includes worksheets, psotes, flashcards and games🎉 If you want to know more about ho...

....this could be helpful for anyone who wants to play games/celebrate the end of semester/do warm up activites :D

https://www.twinkl.com/l/l1572

I really reccomend Twinkl; Over 750,000 resoruces (games, worksheets, flashcards etc). Even if you sign up for a free account you will get access to free resources & be able to pick a free resource each week. Here are a free few sample resources: Free phonics pack: https://www.twinkl.com/resourc...

The last thing I would want to do is be mediocre when engaging with or teaching kids so I thought having some sort of training/gaining knowledge via a TEFL course would be beneficial. Totally understandable. I had similar concerns before I started! I don't think the TEFL really gives you that thoug...

For context: I have taught EFL in Korea for 5 years :) For Korea, tbh, if you want to work in a hagwon, you don't even really need a TEFL cert. You might be turned down for some jobs but I never actually finshed mine!! No school ever asked me about it. If you want one, do a cheap one. If you want to...

Teaching is really mastered by doing, not by studying. I mean to say: you won't learn how to be a teacher or overcome those language barriers until you try! There is a reason most teaching degrees/qualifications require some practical experience. I never did a TEFL when I started and I don't think i...