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Some free samples are on the site, but otherwise it is by subscription for 79 cents (USD) per twelve-question exercise:

http://www.englishtoolbox.com/difference.html

Prizes include free training exercises:

http://www.englishtoolbox.com/blog.asp

Search for "FAA transcripts" in Google, and you can find printed and MP3 versions of conversations between air traffic controllers and pilots. This might be useful for your students.

The University of Central Lancashire used to offer a graduate program in Business English, but I don't see it on their current calendar. You may want to contact them to see if/when it is available:

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/courses/factshee ... CH1270.pdf

There are plenty of EFL teacher job sites (e.g., www.tefl.com), but since the job would probably require an advanced degree you should use the placement notices service from TESOL.org. However, they only send out announcements every few weeks, so if you are trying to find someone quickly this may no...

I agree with Kootvela, you should provide more specific examples. In the meantime, however, you may want to train them more in conjunctions, articles, prepositions and pronouns, since Korean doesn't use them in the same way English does. They may be dropping them because they're trying to do a liter...

To "trust your heart" simply means to do what you feel is correct, or what your instincts tell you to do... in other words, don't use the brain too much! Of course it is figurative, because the heart doesn't really give advice, it just pumps blood. [I think the poetry verse you quoted ended in a per...

I agree that the language in the host country doesn't really matter, since you'll learn enough of it to survive (ordering in restaurants, shopping, asking directions, etc.) very quickly no matter what language it is. But if you want to learn or improve your non-English language skills, you may want ...

You might want to try a site located in and/or catering to Asian students in order to cope with the time zone differences. Here's one:

http://www.teacherjames.com/

If you look at the Common European Framework, it has very specific definitions of what each fluency level entails in speaking, writing, listening and reading. So this might give you a detailed set of measurements, at least, to evaluate whether they are at, e.g., level C2 or level B1. The complete de...

I don't think there's anything wrong with using the word "summary" in the title. However, it should be "A Summary," not "The Summary," since the latter implies there is only one way to summarize the material.

Yes, Sally, that seems to be general idea. Again, it was sent in by one of our site's visitors, but I think that's what she had in mind for the test.

One of our readers sent this to us to show how she quickly tests the speaking ability of prospective students in order to place them into the correct class:

http://www.englishtoolbox.com/blog/2007 ... -with.html

If you have a multi-national class, they could sing their national anthems as a forfeit. Or you could tell them they have to go to the toilet and put their heads under the tap until they're quite soaked. Or make them speak to someone outside the class in English (e.g., the school secretary, administ...

My experience teaching in Europe indicates that non-English students want to learn English to do business with other people whose native language is not English: i.e., Germans want to do business with Chinese, and are using English as a lingua franca . As far as holidays, Europeans will often use En...