Alex Case reviews the year over on the ever excellent TEFLTastic blog:
2007 was yet another year in which the world of TEFL made its way into the consciousness of the general public for all the wrong reasons (a crack down on teachers in Korea, English teaching sex offenders etc. etc), and Japan did its fair [...]
Alex Case has been busy as usual, this time finding some great clips on youtube:
If you search “English lesson” on youtube, there are a couple of British Council lessons and stuff you could look at. Quite frankly though, televisual English lessons are something much better left to the Japanese:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS2GY8C_2sY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySvfJ-SZBE
Reprinted with permission of the author. I [...]
Japanese cost of living
Many of us like to think about the cost of living when deciding to up and move to a foreign country. As we tend to do this a lot more than most of the human race, it’s an issue close to our hearts. However, as Alex Case notes on his TEFLTastic blog, [...]
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 [...]
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