Hal And Steve English Podcast

What should you do during the first 5 minutes of class? It may be more crucial than you realize! Those first five minutes can really set your ESL class culture and set the expectations of the stude…

In this episode, we get a little personal and candid and take a look at our new years resolutions and our subsequent successes

and failures. Happy Lunar New Year!!!! Will Steve tackle his mountains? I…

In this episode, Hal & Steve take a look at the hardest parts of teaching ESL - in this case South Korea. For instance, how is the concept of teaching different from the U.S. in South Korea? You'd b…

In this episode, Hal & Steve draw from there experience to talk about the best ways to have an excellent ESL Christmas classes or events. They also take a closer look at the cultural aspects you may …

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In this episode, Hal & Steve explore games in the classroom and gamifcation with Dustin Staats. Why or how should we use games in the classroom? Let's talk with an expert and follow his journe…

In this episode Hal & Steve take a look at kindy market and how it gets mixed up into the elementary hakwon market.

Where did it all go wrong and why? What should we do about it?

Steve and I take a c…

In this episode Hal & Steve take a look at the hardest part of running an English Academy (a hagwon as it's known in South Korea) with a promise to return on the following episode to offer solutions …

Running an English Academy (a hagwon as it's known in South Korea) is super stressful.

You're a foreigner, in a foreign land, with a government that probably doesn't have the most scrupulous legal tra…

How did you know you wanted to teach abroad?

We talked about that and more with an awesome and experienced ESL teacher and writer, Jennifer Helfand. She has had a myriad of teaching experiences aroun…

What's better? Teaching ESL in South Korea or in America?

We talked to an awesome ESL teacher with experience in both. Megan Kelly spent a few years teaching in a competitive English Kinergarten Ac…

We had a great time chatting with Jennifer Waddell. She's currently an online ESL teacher with Palfish, but spent years abroad in Thailand and China teaching English. Check out her unique story and p…

Keith Tacey is an American living in Vietnam as the owner and operator of a 200+ student English academy. He runs the facility with his wife and a team of great teachers. In this episode of our pod…

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.

We got a chance to talk to Madeleine Grace, an ESL teacher from Washington D.C. She was a teacher in the United States who decided to take the trip a…

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.

Kat Sten. She's a really awesome Hagwon/Academy owner in Mokpo, South Korea. Before her journey into the expat ESL teacher life, she was a member of …

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.

This week we talked to Aaron R. He's been an eSL teacher in South Korea since 2008 and he's taken a really unique journey. He was first brought here …

Welcome back to another episode of Hal And Steve English.

This week we talked to Shawn Smith. He's been an ESL teacher for over 10 years in South Korea and has worked at nearly every type of school yo…

The world can feel a bit limited when you're an ESL teacher. As an employee, your income ranges from 'Barely Able To Payoff Student Debt' to 'Barely Able to Payoff Student Debt and Go Out Once A Week…

What do you do when an ESL student is too shy to speak in class? What can you do to break them out of their shell? We dive into that topic, and more, in this episode of the Hal And Steve English po…

Welcome back to another awesome episode of our podcast. This week, we're talking about Class Killers. You know, the kids who are so bad in class, either through breaking classroom rules or not partic…

Welcome back to the podcast. We decided to take it easy this week and just chat. It's the tail end of summer and the weather's heating up, the kids are out of school, and the busy 'sool roads', aka t…