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TOEIC Lesson Plan: Leverage English Skills to Achieve Goals

Leverage gives us more power. It was the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Archimedes who calculated just how much it helps. Why not encourage your business English students to leverage their English skills to reach their goals? Celebrities, professional athletes, and rock stars have learned English to reach the top....

TOEIC lesson plan goals and success

TOEIC Lesson Plan: Discussing Goals and Success

Give your ESL students the vocabulary to discuss their life goals and what success looks like to them. Brainstorm the difference in meaning between goals and success. The aim of this lesson is to start students thinking about setting goals in English or in TOEIC exam preparation. Start off by...

What is the TOEIC test? All your questions answered

Over 6 million people take the TOEIC L&R test every year. Have you thought about suggesting it to your business English students? Learn about the different TOEIC tests offered by ETS with these nine FAQs answered for you. Watch this short YouTube video that you can show in class, then...

What’s language coaching? Is it for me?

What’s the difference between language teaching and language coaching? A trainer transfers knowledge and skills to learners. It’s as if the learner were a passive passenger in her language acquisition journey. A coach puts the learner directly in the driver’s seat by pushing her to accept responsibility for learning. A...

Uma Tadema a TEFL expert shares her tips for breakout rooms

Use Breakout Rooms to Engage EFL Learners

Have you been hearing about breakout rooms? Maybe you don’t even know what they are? Or why they’re important for online EFL teachers? We’ve asked an expert EFL teacher, Uma Tadema, to answer our questions about Zoom breakout rooms. Watch the interview with Uma or read the accompanying article with...

TOEIC Lesson Plan: “Jobs and Businesses”

Find the list of 80 words you’ll need for this lesson on one of the top TOEIC topics “Kinds of Jobs and Kinds of businesses” including five suggestions for making your own vocabulary games that are proven to engage students and increase retention of new words. To round out the...

BusinessEnglishAllure blog post "Focus on Top TOEIC Topics"

Focus on Top TOEIC Topics in class

Every TOEIC teacher wrestles with choosing the content to include in a preparation course. What TOEIC topics should I cover? What are the most common vocabulary themes found in the exam? I struggled too. So I did some research and drew up a list of the most important topics. Stick...

TOEIC Experts Agree Vocabulary is Vital

As a TOEIC teacher, what do you think is more important teaching TOEIC grammar or teaching TOEIC vocabulary? I’m sure you have an opinion on this. This question has been troubling me for quite some time especially when I was planning content for larger classes. One-on-one TOEIC training was easy...