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katieamanda
katieamanda
I'm Katie, 21 years old from Leicestershire! I've just finished a degree...
Member since 11/07/14
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Tips for phone/Skype interviews?!

So I've been invited to a skype interview and a phone interview next week, with schools in Spain and Brazil!!! Very exciting... and a little scary! Any helpful advice anyone can give me, likely questions or general words of wisdom you can offer me would be much appreciated :) Katie
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Please vote for me :)

Hi everyone, you have probably seen plenty of the Come TEFL With Me posts around the chalkboard recently! Just a little appeal for any last minute votes on my post about TEFLing in Italy, as it is the last day of the competition! http://www.onlinetefl.com/tefl-chalkboard/katieamanda/posts/7017-come-tefl-with-me-in-italy To vote, simply comment on the blog 'I vote this one' Any votes are much appreciated as I am currently rather skint :( and would spend the prize of amazon vouchers...
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Come TEFL with me in... Italy!

  I spent the last two summers teaching English at summer camps in Italy, and have been lucky enough to travel around the north of the country, including Milan, Florence, Verona, Pisa, Venice, as well as lots of beautiful little towns that you may never have heard of but will instantly fall in love with. Since returning to the UK things haven’t been the same, so I realised it must be ‘amore’. Now that I have almost...
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Off to Italy in a week!

Last year I taught English to kids at summer camps in Italy and I'm going back this summer :) If I'm still keen which I probably will be, when I come back I'm going to take the full TEFL course and look for jobs abroad! Hope everyone is doing well on their TEFL adventures! Any ideas for good games/songs to teach a bit of English to kids (but mainly just for fun!) Katie 
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Work while taking the course or not?

Hi everyone, this is my first post here although I have been reading the site for several months. I am just about to graduate from uni and so I'm looking for my next adventure and seriously thinking of taking a TEFL course, although have a few other things to apply for before I decide. I wondered how long it takes to complete the course (obviously 140 hours if I go for that one but do you...
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