02 January 2015 / by Radmila Gurkova

Always look ahead, look at the future of English teaching education! Happy 2015!

A new year has just begun, bringing us 365 possibilities for our brand new resolutions to come true! New wishes, new dreams!

Looking back at what we’ve achieved in our “teenage” organization (12 years now from our foundations!), we cannot feel more mature, more certain about the route we’ve chosen. We started with a few but firm convictions to change education in English in Spain and these beliefs are sill the fuel that keeps our engines moving to more global goals and achievements. We started as a small group of like-minded teachers, but we are now more than 800 professionals all over the world and growing! Building together the future of English teaching education has been exciting and rewarding. A challenge that we’ve decided to take hand in hand with those who care about English learning, with those who believe in quality education as a sum of everyone’s experiences.

Our wishes and dreams, which are also our resolutions for the New Year, are to go beyond the boundaries of any country and condition and make English learning and teaching a profession that everyone, who believes has a teacher inside, can develop successfully from any part of the planet.

Our list is short but generous, and it is our present for those who love English. Here are our three resolutions for the 2015.

For creative souls, teachers to have a voice and see how their ideas make English teaching education evolve. If you think you have a voice because you participate in forums, wait to see what we can do with your ideas and opinions. We have created a community of teachers who gather together regularly to share their experiences and express their concerns about English teaching education. After hearing their ideas, we implement them through our activities and we next analyse the outcome. We keep what we like and we keep improving what still needs developing until we reach consensus. What was yesterday a single idea of a single teacher can be today a shared practice by hundreds of teachers worldwide.

For vocational teachers, we’ve created a platform with ready to go classes designed for their students. If you think you have good materials at hand only because there are thousands of pages in the Internet you can choose from, wait to see our platform, which has always the right class selection for your students. More than a data base for activities that you have to browse, read, evaluate, select and adapt, we offer you ready to go classes based on carefully prepared syllabi with aims, objectives and activities that you can prepare with one glance only and that contain all the visuals that you need for class usage. If you have a tablet, a laptop or a smart phone, you will have all you need for your classes without wasting a minute of your time to look for it. Simply because it will be there for you.

For globetrotters and adventurers, we have developed a teachers’ mobility and job creation initiative using a system that works. Getting a job and being successful in the English teaching profession is the best wish we can have for all our teachers. Don’t wait to be called for a job, create a job and become your own boss in English teaching education. Hand in hand with OxbridgeTEFL, you can take this profession with you wherever your adventured soul takes you and start working with no initial investment but your own time.

What do you need to become successful in the English teaching education area? A nice cosy place to gather with students and our system to provide you with classes and an app for student management. If you think you are your best manager, we believe we can offer you the best educational project and the best student management system ever created for English teachers.

Three wishes, three objectives that will become a reality in 2015! Your voice to matter wherever you go, whoever you teach, whatever your aims are. If you have a mobile device with you, you’ll have OxbridgeTEFL as a travel mate in your journey in English teaching education.

We can’t wait to share our world with you! Happy 2015!

 

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March 2012
The use of one and one's - Easter
by Radmila Gurkova
Do you know how to use one or ones? As a determiner, the word one is sometimes used before a proper noun to designate, particularly, this person: ''He delivered the package to one Ronald Pepin of Colchester.'' The article ''a'' will also function in that position for the same purpose. Sometimes we use the word one as an adjective, as in ''I'...

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March 2012
adverbs of degree - very, extremely
by Radmila Gurkova
Do you know how to use adverbs of degree? We use Adverbs of degree express the intensity or degree of an action. Common adverbs of degree: ALMOST NEARLY QUITE JUST TOO ENOUGH HARDLY SCARCELY COMPLETELY VERY EXTREMELY Adverbs of degree are usually placed: Before the adjective or adverb they are modifying: The cup of tea w...

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March 2012
Present Perfect Tense - He has been to Paris
by Radmila Gurkova
PRESENT PERFECT TENSE Subject + has/have + Past Participle  ...

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March 2012
ed-ing endings
by Radmila Gurkova
ED-ING endings There are many adjectives that we have in English that end in -ED or -ING. Usage: We use -ING to describe the characteristic of a person or a thing. We use -ED to describe a feeling. Compare...

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March 2012
The Easter Story
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQgXgS5G3c Do you know the Easter story? There have been many film interpretations of it including controversial ones such as Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' and funnier versions including Monty Python's '...

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March 2012
Kawasaki
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEP...

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March 2012
Who, which or that?
by Radmila Gurkova
Do you know how to use who, that and which? Who is a relative pronoun and it is used with people The relative pronouns That and Which refe...

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March 2012
Numbers in English......is it five thousand or five thousands?
by Radmila Gurkova
In British English AND is used between hundred (and)......whereas in American English it is omitted Hundreds American English 450 f...

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March 2012
What time is it?
by Radmila Gurkova
Do you know how to tell the time in English? am before noon (ante meridiem) pm after noon (post meridiem) W...

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March 2012
How to log on to......? verbs with fixed prepositions
by Radmila Gurkova
Do you know how to use verbs with fixed prepositions? Prepositional verbs are transitive and require an object. This object is normally stated but sometimes implied. Log on to P...