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Life as a Foreign Trainer in China with Disney English

Posted by | May 10, 2013 | Teaching English Overseas
Life as a Foreign Trainer in China with Disney English

By Pyzhou (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Why did you become a foreign trainer?

My first experience of being in another country when I wasn’t on holiday was studying in Argentina while at graduate school. Even though it was only for a week or two, I really liked that feeling of being a part of a country, as opposed to just visiting it. That was one of the reasons I came to Shanghai. I wanted to learn the language and the culture, so working as a foreign trainer at a Disney English school was a unique way to do that.

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Put Some Fun Into Your English Classes and Help Your Students

Posted by | May 7, 2013 | General Teaching Advice

Put Some Fun Into Your English Classes and Help Your Students

There are so many different ways of adding some fun to the English classes you run that it seems a shame not to take advantage of at least one of them. You might teach them some jokes or some interesting proverbs or maybe listen to some music or watch a film together. Let’s see how this could help.

Help Them Relax

Most students need to relax in order to learn as well as they want to. This can be tough for some people to do, and not doing it well often results in students getting too nervous and stumbling over their words or not listening to you properly. One of your priorities as an English teacher should be help them to relax at the start of each lesson. Sometimes this might just take the form of some fun introductions but at other times you might want to get everyone to settle down and relax with a long game or some other sort of interesting learning method.

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Summer School Residential Teachers needed in 6 UK locations with LAL

Posted by | March 11, 2013 | Featured TEFL Jobs

Summer School Jobs with LAL

LAL have 6 residential summer schools across England and are looking for dynamic and passionate staff to help our students have a great summer.

Last year all of our British Council accredited summer schools proved highly successful. The feedback was very positive and this was all down to our passionate and dedicated team. This summer we are fortunate enough to have a high number of returning staff, however, as we continue to grow there is always a need for additional positive and reliable staff to join our team.

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