First days can be challenging. The first day of school (if you can remember it!), the first day of college or university. The first day of a new job. With so many things to remember, new people to meet, new processes to become familiar with, it can be a long and stressful day. Taking this into consideration, at Trinity TESOL Thailand we have carefully structured the first day of our courses in order to allow trainees to not feel overwhelmed or lost. Once trainees are acce

Of course it never is only perfect. It is sometimes simple, progressive or continuous. And before long it is past, or even past perfect. And as a teacher, particularly in Asia, you may need to know just how perfect today is.. or has been, or was going to be….. Both knowing and being able to teach grammar is often something that worries new teachers. Many native English speakers may not be familiar with why they say sentences in a certain way. We just know what sounds correct

A wise man (well an older teacher) once told me that the time spent on planning an English lesson should never be longer than the length of the actual lesson. Maybe so, but in your first introductions to lesson planning on the Trinity CertTESOL course you can certainly expect to be spending quite a bit longer on your lesson planning. A lesson plan detailing each stage of your class may run to quite a few pages. Where every part of the lesson has an objective, with exotic

This might not seem to be an ideal marketing strategy for attracting potential trainees to Trinity CertTESOL courses such as ours. However, the fact that success is not automatically guaranteed is by itself a powerful statement of the quality of these courses. Why should turning up for a TESOL course and teaching a few hours, learning a bit of grammar and knowing a few classroom tricks automatically result in a teaching certificate? Of course nowadays there are plenty of T

Our Trinity certTESOL course from October 20th - November 14th 2014 is now underway. Our eight trainees for this course are from the U.K, U.S.A and Korea. Our trainers, Terry Goose and Liz Hunt have conducted the first input sessions that have included; lesson planning, classroom management and form and function. The trainees have also had their first unknown language session in Thai to better understand the pitfalls of learning a new language. The trainees have now all com