You may have noticed a new addition to the moderator team over at the forums: Guy Courchesne. Guy also has a very interesting blog in which he chronicles the many experiences he’s had teaching English in Mexico. In fact, the blog goes far beyond detailing get togethers such as the one in the picture below, [...]
Another blogger who’s linked to David’s English Teaching World is Dave, the ‘Saint’ in Malaysia, whose blog describes his adventures teaching English in this South East Asian country.
Photo from Dave’s blog
Saint looks to be having a lot of fun, from attending proms to doing the touristy sightseeing things, he even seems to spend some time in the classroom.
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One of the most popular and destinations for new TEFL teachers from the UK is Australia, for obvious reasons. In an article over on the Australia & New Zealand blog, originally published in the OneStopEnglish online magazine, Steve White describes his experiences:
I really enjoyed teaching English in Australia and found it a great [...]
South America is the one continent that has so far eluded me. I’m full of admiration for anyone who choses to go and teach English there. In this description of her teaching experiences, originally published in full at the OneStopEnglish Magazine, Eugenia Pozo explains, in a way that was a real eye-opener for me, what it’s like to teach in an Argentinian school:
The Republic of [...]
Over at the teaching English in Spain section of the blog, Jayne Dingley, in an article originally published in the Guardian in 2005, explains how she was surprised by how much she had to learn on a month-long Tefl course in southern Spain:
Teaching English to speakers of other languages? Where is the difficulty [...]
Living in foreign countries for extended periods of time, we’re bound to come up against aspects of other cultures which go beyond merely irritating us. For example, I’m constantly baffled as to how no one out of the estimated 15 million people living in Istanbul ever shows the slightest inclination towards driving properly. Alex Case [...]
The first of my free downlaodable classroom resources is now available: The Vocab Stress Game is a great kinesthetic activity you can use to practice the correct placement of stress on multi-syllable words.
More on vocab at David’s Vocabulary Resources.
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South America remains an enigma to me, a place I’d long to visit, even more so after reading this. In a fabulous account of teaching in the continent, Jacqueline McEwan shares the secret of undiscovered Bolivia, but, she says, don’t forget your oxygen mask:
If I’m unlucky my day starts with the electronic beep-beep I loathe. [...]
I had the privilege of taking a long six-week vacation in Vietnam in the mid-nineties, and got to explore almost all of this beautiful and fascinating country. This was many years before I got involved with English teaching, although very few foreigners were their at that time for anything other than sightseeing and ‘backpacking’. The [...]
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