Philip Allen

I have been taught to teach English as a Foreign Language [TEFL] and so much of this teaching is interactive, in other words, trying to get the student involved in their learning and in that way, to enable an individual to enjoy the experience more.
I must say that I quite enjoyed teaching in that way and I recall a group of French schoolchildren whose favourite class activity was to play 'hangman'. I therefore thought of an English word and then drew lines on the whiteboard to denote each letter and then the class had to guess which word was missing.
Having spoken English fluently for over forty-five years, I would like to think that I could be quite adaptable in the way that I can structure lessons to accommodate students who may want to concentrate on something specific within the English language. I have studied French to Degree level and also Spanish to 'A' Level and Italian to a lesser extent and so I have a general knowledge of how languages are structured, in other words, the grammar.
However I believe that in order to get the most out of learning English, a student has to enjoy the experience and so that is something that I will always bear in mind, when preparing lessons.