TEFL Prague and Abroad

Here's a fun lexis lesson for lower level students. The vocabulary around the lesson deals with hotels. At the end of the lesson, students will create their own type of hotel (in groups) and try to determine which pair/group has the best hotel in the class. Introduction: about 2 minutes Start the class by role-playing checking into a hotel. Play both the guest and the front desk. Elicit from the students what you're doing. Lead in: 5-7 min Demo out these questions and put students in pairs/groups to answer them. 1. Do you like to travel? Where are some interesting places you have been to? 2. Where do you like to stay when you travel? 3. What’s the best/worst place you have ever stayed at? Target Language: under 10 minutes Elicit, CCQ and board these words. a hotel, a bed and breakfast, a resort, a hostel, a guest, a maximum capacity, to be located, a location, a single/double/suite/dormitory, facilities, a quality, staff/the staff, various potential lexis related to...

Check out the short video by Language House graduate, Chris. Chris goes over some helpful tips on how to use Prague's public transportation.

As mentioned earlier, we are creating a bunch of short, fun videos related to life in Prague. Here's a video we just shot an edited for getting an apartment in the city. During the course at The Language House TEFL, the majority of our students stay in our school housing. By the end of the course, students interested in staying in Prague have to find their own place. Here's a video that gives some tips and trips to finding an apartment and showcases what  a typical teacher apartments looks like.

The Language House TEFL is making a series of really cool and informative videos related to living in Prague with the help of our graduates. These videos will all be about living abroad and offer useful tips about living in the city. Some of these videos will be educational, others will just be about fun/interesting things going on in the city. Check out our first video 'Hiking in Prague'.

The largest study abroad/work abroad website goabraod.com did an interview with me last week about teaching in Prague and The Language House TEFL. Check out the article here. snippet  As one of the oldest TEFL training centers in Prague, The Language House TEFL is known for its successful TEFL certification courses that are internationally accredited and externally monitored. To date, the school has graduated about two thousand students, with whom the organization has maintained close contact with. Chris Westergaard founded The Language House TEFL a few years after he began teaching English as a foreign language in Vienna and Prague, and he now serves as the company’s director. Read the whole there here  GoAbroad article with Chris Westergaard

  I'm thinking about going full out in the next few weeks/months and creating a complete series of methodology videos. I'm hoping to create a series of short 2-3 minute videos covering various aspects of ESL/TEFL methodology. I might even create a brand new site focusing primarily on video resources and instruction. I'll post more up here once we get started. Chris

Here's a lesson plan that is suitable for Intermediate and Upper Intermediate language students with past modal verbs being the focus. The lesson requires only about 15 minutes of prep to pull off and has a heavy focus on speaking. I recommend doing this lesson for groups of students who already have a decent understanding of past participles. Take a look! I also have a video demonstration of this lesson plan in action that I've posted below. Intro: 1 minute Come into class asking students how their day is going. Have a glass of water with you that you are drinking. When you they ask you about your day, spill the water all over yourself. Elicit the concept of having a bad day. Lead In: 5-7 minutes Demo out the questions and put students in groups 1. Do you often have bad days? 2. What are three things that can typically happen to make a day go wrong? 3. What are 4 bad, but funny, things that have happened to you this year? Target Language: 10 minutes  Before i...

Here's a video for a lesson I did on Past Modals for Intermediate students. I'll post the lesson in a day or two. In a nutshell, students have to create their worst week ever and use past modals to give each other advice. Check out the video!

Why would you ever study at home when you can train abroad for less price? Thinking of teaching abroad? Are you looking into TEFL certification courses? My advice for new teachers is to skip the online course and ALWAYS take your course abroad. From the money aspect, to your overall experience, a TEFL certification course abroad is the right decision. I recently published an article on Go Abroad (the largest study abroad website in the world) about why taking a course abroad is so important. Take a look at the article and check out my top 10 reasons why you should move abroad 1st and get your training 2nd. Article below! 10 reasons to take your TEFL course abroad.  Cheers, Chris Westergaaard

I was recently sent a message stating that The Language House TEFL  was awarded second place by in excellence and graduate reviews for all TEFL certification programs in 2015. This is worldwide! Go Abroad  Teacher training is a lot of work and it's nice to get the reward. What makes The Language House TEFL successful? I think it's that we offer not just great teacher training, but also a vibrant graduate/teacher community. Our staff is fantastic, being made up of 100% teachers. With a majority of TEFL course organisations,  you only have a few teacher trainers working on the course. The rest of the staff are administration. With The Language House TEFL, all of us our teachers. This creates a much more learner-centred approach to the course and the benefits clearly show. So, thanks to all of the great staff, students and graduates who help make The Language House TEFL exceptional. It's been my pleasure working with you and training you.

The Language House TEFL offers great in-house visa assistance through our cooperation with Visa Guru. Watch the video below. What does this mean and why is it important? Getting your visa to stay in the Czech Republic can be daunting and confusing. With a lot of TEFL certification courses, new teachers have to use the assistance of outside visa service providers. This means that when you are getting legal, you always have to play tag with these providers. The visa providers are offsite and you rarely ever meet them or see them. Getting the right information and your visa questions answered is tricky and often takes a lot more time. Having an actual face to face with anyone is practically out of the question. With The Language House TEFL, we have our visa assistance onsite. The company we use, Visa Guru, operates at The Language House TEFL and is comprised of Language House TEFL staff. Every day there's someone there to answer all of these confusing questions and offer you ass...