About this episode

Gav and Em discuss creative and spontaneous approaches to teaching English, including practical tips and resources for teachers.

How can you make your English lessons more creative, spontaneous and engaging? And what should you actually do in the first five minutes of a class? In this episode of How to English TEFL Podcast with Gav & Em, we share practical TEFL ideas for English teachers and learners, including how we start our lessons, how to avoid classroom monotony, and why teaching English gives us so much freedom to experiment. We also look at what happens when you ditch the lesson plan and improvise! Gav shares a spontaneous business English email lesson where students write, analyse and reply to real emails, while Em explains how a student's upcoming meeting led to an unplanned listening lesson using a Jackie Chan interview. Plus, we discuss some of the websites and online resources we use while teaching English, including YouTube, Wikipedia, news sites, Google Images, Test-English, BBC resources, TED-Ed, Spotify and Google Translate. In this episode: 🎓 How do you start the first five minutes of an English lesson? 💬 Is asking students “How are you?” every week too repetitive? 🎨 How can TEFL teachers be more creative and spontaneous? 📧 How can you turn real emails into a Business English…

People in this episode

Hosts: Gav, Em

Topics covered

• creative English lessons
• spontaneous teaching
• TEFL ideas
• classroom engagement
• business English
• listening confidence
• online teaching resources

Keywords

• TEFL
• English lessons
• classroom tips
• business English
• listening activities
• teaching resources
• improvisation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Images, Test-English, BBC, TED-Ed, Spotify, Google Translate

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