CELTA Vlog Diaries: Day 4 – Learning from the Trainers
Welcome back to our CELTA blog series! Day 4 is here – and the course is officially in full swing. Energy levels are high, the schedule is packed, and trainees are fully immersed in the CELTA experience. In today’s vlog series, we take you behind the scenes of a busy and inspiring day, showing what […]
Get Ready for Halloween with Our Mystery-Solving Lesson Plan!
Get Ready for Halloween with Our Mystery-Solving Lesson Plan! This Halloween, we’ve created something exciting to help teachers and students get into the festive spirit – an interactive, mystery-themed lesson plan perfect between A2 and B2 levels. Designed to encourage communication, critical thinking, and teamwork, this lesson helps students solve clues, discuss possibilities, and use […]
CELTA Vlog – Day 2: We’re Just Getting Started!
Welcome back to the International House Budapest blog! We’ve reached Day 2 of our CELTA vlog series, where we share what life is really like on the course. Even after just two days, it’s clear: CELTA is intense, inspiring, and packed with new discoveries – but also plenty of laughter and teamwork. What happened today? Concept […]
How to use AI on the CELTA Course?
(cover picture was AI generated by ChatGPT-5): turn the image of the teacher into a digital persona written in the code style of the movie Matrix. Make it realistic) Like educators everywhere, the teacher trainers at IH Budapest have been thinking about how we can use AI to enhance our instruction and what we […]
CELTA VLOG – Day 1 Recap is here
Let’s dive straight into the recap of Day 1 of the CELTA course at IH Budapest! The first full day of training brought plenty of excitement, new experiences, and a healthy dose of nerves for our trainees. What Day 1 looked like ✔️ Language analysis input – exploring how English works and how to break […]
Behind the Scenes of CELTA at IH Budapest – Daily Trainer Vlog Series
At International House Budapest, we’re always exploring new ways to share the excitement and challenges of becoming an English teacher. Recently, we launched something truly special: A Daily CELTA Trainer Vlog Series – giving you an authentic, day-by-day look into our 4-week intensive CELTA course. Until now, you could follow the series exclusively on Instagram, […]
What colour are you feeling today? A fun task to break the ice!
This post was inspired by the second session of our online How to Teach Young Learners Course which started on 9th May. Trainees really enjoyed the „colour warm-up / ice-breaker” activity and highlighted its features in promoting student interactions and having an activity that generates interest and engagement instead of the usual „good” or „not […]
Why do we throw beach balls in our online YL classes? And how?
Last Friday, we began training another cohort of our most popular short course, our online How to Teach Young Learners Course. Candidates described the session as – in order of number of mentions – fun, playful, informative, and motivating. You can see the full word cloud at the bottom of this post. Breaking the ice […]