English for Advanced Level and Teachers (C1)

Discover international scholarships for U.S. universities, including guaranteed 50% tuition offers, ESL options, and SAT/TOEFL prerequisites, plus campus life and sports opportunities.

Explore how staff training, especially for customer service and admin roles, shapes the customer experience and the customer journey, with practical insights on processes, participation, and quality standards.

Explore governance and board-level strategic decision making for language schools, using risk assessment, continuity planning, and external advisors to align teaching, marketing, and operations.

Explore core financial issues for language schools, including gross margins by product group, deferred income, currency risk, and cash flow forecasting, with practical information technology and contract considerations.

Explore how English Corner online creates a free, global speaking platform by linking learners through profiles, messaging, and live practice, plus writing projects and resources.

Learn to use technology as a classroom tool for English teaching, balancing techno fear with techno joy. Explore online homework, digital literacy, e-safety, and policy considerations to keep pedagogy central.

Explore how the modern language teacher harnesses technology—blogs, video, and audio tools like vocaroo and photo bubble—and online platforms to make homework useful, with speaking tasks and listening practice.

Episode 8 examines how to help intermediate learners break through the plateau by prioritizing lexis and collocations, then shaping lessons to boost lexical fluency through targeted activities.

Explore how to raise advanced learners' fluency by focusing on lexis and pronunciation through reactive language feedback, mining tasks, and an output feedback approach to lesson design.

Explore the professional development framework for international English teachers, covering induction week, assisted lesson planning, observations, and personal development plans in a multinational school context.

Episode 11 introduces demand high teaching, challenging learners at the right level to maximize learning, not just deliver polished activities; move from covering to meaningful learning through small, doable steps.

Empower learners by active teaching, intervening to boost learning at the moment. Emphasize language upgrading, inclusive facilitation, and the 'nudge' approach to engage every student.

Learn practical strategies for dealing with difficult people and preventing the cycle of conflict through active listening, reflection, and direct, no-padding conversations.

Learn to navigate difficult conversations using the broken record technique and core phrase, Kilmann conflict styles, transactional analysis, and adult-to-adult communication for effective management.

The lecture explores how teachers shape learning moves, modeling, and playful practice in English instruction, contrasting three modeling methods and a structured five-step finger correction approach to build accuracy.

Explore how to raise high-demand language learning by moving beyond spindly grammar to fat grammar. Build a word pool, encourage alternatives, and reveal learners' learning moves through intervention.

Explore how English teaching acts as corporate social responsibility for International House San Isidro, Buenos Aires, through an Etis partnership to teach in the visa de miseria area.

Explore practical teaching for diverse learners in a small community, balancing ages and intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, using authentic materials and charity partnerships to sustain English classes.

Discover how a small Palermo language school builds community through the personalized study program, daily one-hour PSP speaking slots, and film nights to boost speaking skills.

Episode 20 shows how learners practice English in informal groups, through language games and film nights with subtitles, while staff foster a lively online and in-person community.

Explore how humor unlocks speaking and listening in advanced language teaching, using jokes, quotes, and headlines, and guide teachers through engaging, repeatable classroom activities.

Explore the professional life cycles of teachers using Huberman’s years-in-the-job model, alongside aging and career-stage theories, to guide personal development and mentoring.

Explore how teachers across different career stages navigate experimentation and activism, reassessment and burnout, and practice pedagogical tinkering to sustain growth.

Examine how dogma and textbooks shape emergent language, professional accountability in ELT, and how ministry curriculum documents tie learning strategies and cultural attitudes to development in China and Palestine.

This lecture examines the complexity of designing English language textbooks, detailing multi-syllabus course design, grammar and lexical syllabuses, and a pragmatic, learner-centered, communicative approach.

Deliberate, focused practice solves musical problems through slow, monitored repetition, building automatic performance. The talk connects this to language learning via comprehensible input and debate between acquisition and learnt language.

Explore how repetition is effective when made worthwhile via concentration drills and dialogue practice, and use pursuit questions and small corrections to foster focused learning.