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London Language Socials
Practise your Languages for Free Cactus is working with Mundolingo to bring our language learners a great opportunity to practise the language they learn in the classroom into the world outside the classroom! The mission of Mundolingo is to promote...
Have you got what it takes to be a spy?
Do You Have the Potential to be a Spy? Have you ever considered living the life of a spy? Do think you have the skills and the ability to deceive, investigate and work undercover? Channel 4 are currently looking for a group of 20 ordinary men and...
Cactus TEFL Scholarship Finalists
Cactus TEFL Scholarship Finalists Through the Suzanne Furstner Prize Cactus TEFL is giving away a TESOL course in London or a CELTA course in Bogota, Colombia and we have selected our finalists! Our entrants were asked to make a short video...
Teacher Training with Erasmus Plus Funding
Teacher Training with Erasmus Plus Funding If you’re a French, Spanish or German teacher what better way to improve your language teaching skills than to take a fully funded trip abroad? (Preferably somewhere nice and sunny) Erasmus Plus...
Cambridge CELTA or Trinity TESOL: What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between the Cambridge CELTA and Trinity TESOL? If you want to become an English language teacher either in the UK or abroad you generally need a qualification that proves you know what you are doing in the classroom. These...
How to Make £53k a Year Teaching English Abroad
How to Make £53k a Year Teaching English Abroad * No one makes money teaching English abroad right? Wrong. If you want to you can make the equivalent of £53K AND save £15k a year. There are plenty of ways to make money, save money and have an...
Everything You Need to Know about TEFL
Everything you Need to Know about TEFL If you are considering taking a CELTA or Trinity course to teach English, the Cactus TEFL Guide is a handy guide that tells you everything you need to know about these courses and the world of TEFL. Our guide,...
Free Berlin: Top 6 Things to See and Do for Free in Berlin
The Cactus Team pick their top free things to do during a visit to Berlin: Cactus offers German language courses throughout the UK and in Berlin. To book any of our courses please call us on 01273 830 960 or email us. Our multilingual team will be...
“It’s Never Too Late for Anything!”
Having studied Italian with Cactus in Manchester on and off for more than 5 years Helen O’Brien talks to Cactus about why learning a language over the age of 50 keeps her feeling good. Why “It’s Never Too Late for Anything!” Cactus offers a...
Five reasons why you should do an Online TEFL Course
You can take Cactus TEFL’s online English Language Awareness course before or after your face-to-face TEFL training, or even when you are in the first year of your first teaching job. The purpose of this course is to give you a solid understanding...
Basic Grammar Glossary
Basic Grammar Glossary When learning a language it’s important to understand the parts of language and to be able to talk about these different parts. We refer to this as ‘metalanguage’ the words we use to talk about language. Below we have a...
What to Expect on your Cactus Evening Language Course
What to Expect on your Cactus Evening Language Course 1. Student participation Your teacher will plan and organise classroom activities that will require your involvement and participation. Group work, pair work, role plays, dialogues, and games are...
Top 5 Tips for Evening Language Course Success
Our top 5 tips for ultimate success on your evening language course 1. Use a Vocab/Grammar Notebook (online or an old-fashioned paper one) Get yourself a decent notebook in which you can list all new vocabulary, collocations and grammar structures....