Reflecting on the experience

Yesterday it was my last day in the summer course.
As for the teachers, it was good to have the experience of team work, especially with Alan. If he had more experience with ELT he would be superb teacher.And he also helped and supported me a lot. The bad times with my junior teacher didn’t stop with [...]

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Horror stories

I suppose that if you are an NNS EFL teacher you have already heard a lot about these horror stories of schools employing NS’s for summer courses and delivering really poor quality lessons. We all talk about these horror stories but it is the first time I can see it unfolding before my very eyes. [...]

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Discipline vs. Motivation

The school I’m working for has a very interesting system to work with the groups: for the first two lessons of the day we keep our main groups and them we take over each others’ groups for the third period in order to develop what the call ‘a project’. We started swaping groups yesterday and [...]

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Creative presentations

Overcoming teenagers’ self-consciousness, shyness and defensiveness is not an easy task. We have had three lessons so far but I suppose I have already broken the ice with most of them. I do like them –  to start with – they are nice kids, some a bit lost, some fed up with our marvellous summer [...]

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Back into teaching

In the summer Britain is literally invaded by thousands of foreign students coming for short English language courses. They range from teenagers to adults and EFL teachers coming from all over Europe.
As I’m on dissertation time, without a fixed timetable, and in need of some extra cash, I decided to get a summer job in [...]

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