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Catherine Regan Catherine Regan, our TEFL tutor in Sydney, New South Wales, has taught English in Japan, Turkey and the Czech Republic. Catherine spent many years in Tokyo teaching English to children and adults, she also taught business and medical English. Catherine traveled to Prague and Istanbul where in both places taught general English to Adults. Since returning from her job placements overseas, Catherine has been working as an English teacher and for the last...

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Just a quick update, I can’t believe what today is, the final day of my degree, all that stands between me and that piece of paper is one client presentation, oh and a whole lot of admin by the uni. Its seriously surreal I feel like I haven't stopped studying since I was in prep and the truth is I really haven't. While people begin to talk about next year, what they are doing, their...

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Hi! Just wondering if anybody has had any TEFL experience in Prague and if so, what did you think of it? Prague really attracts me for when i hopefully start to start my TEFL course in January, just wondering if anybody could offer me any kind of advice about Prague, etc, and share some of their experiences? Many thanks, Mick!

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I passed moduel 3 but the brain has once again died! I find the questions so converluted. I'm sure I actually know the answer but the question has me flumexed!   How you all getting on?

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Looks like my wish to teach English in China is on hold for the foreseeable future.  I've managed to contract Dengue fever, a not uncommon ailment in these parts.  While it's not life threatening for most, it really takes a lot out of you. On the other hand, I'm moving forward on plans to teach conversational English in my apartment to some select individuals here in Cali.

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Hey all, Just wondering if anyone here is due to do this weekend's (i.e. Nov 13th and 14th) Galway course.  I've completed two modules of the Online part of the course and so far I'm really excited about TEFL.  As I was doing the course I had to stop and take a breather for all the ideas of how I would teach, and the activities I would do were so distracting and I couldn't help but get ridiculously excited :-D I've...

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October’s gone, and we’re halfway through November. The weather here is still a glorious 20 degrees, and it’s sunny! Coming from the UK, this is an unexpected but very welcome turn up for the books! As was the plan, my flatmate and I have been sightseeing every weekend. We would have done this even if it was raining but it’s lovely to be able to take pictures with mid-summer blue skies.   So far, we...

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So your students understand what adjectives, adverbs and nouns are, but struggle to fit them all together…. not anymore! Here are a few activities you can use in your lessons to get your students making sentences confidently. Activity 1 Elicit: The dog ran for the ball. How can you turn this sentence of six words into a longer sentence without changing the meaning? Is it possible to create a sentence of 50 words? Put your...

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Ok, half way mark has been hit so it’s time to start thinking seriously about what to do once January 15th hits and this internship is over. Here are the options that I’m running over in my head: 1.       Go straight home. 2.       Travel around China until my visa runs out (5th Feb) then travel home. 3.       Travel around China until my visa runs out then explore South East Asia until my money runs out...

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