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• The first class with a private student

  The first lesson with a private student is different to the first lesson with a student at my Business English school. The main reason is that you don’t know the student’s level, so you can’t...

• The first class with a Business English school

  After confirming my travel route on RATP, I take the metro to the company of the day (I don’t take buses in Paris for two reasons: first, because I have a tendency to drift off...

• Teaching Uniform

  At BTL (my Business English school), my uniform is always the same – a brown or grey Portman’s suit (purchased on sale in a previous life) with decent, but comfortable, shoes and a knit top...

• Finding a TEFL job in Paris

  A quick Google search will give you thousands of TEFL job sites. Finding one for jobs in France is much more difficult. These are the sites that I used: TEFL.com Craigslist Fusac   TEFL.com has...

• 10 August - A Day in the Life of a Business English Teacher in Paris

  I wake up at 7:30 – strangely, always one minute before my alarm goes off – and get ready for my day. At the moment breakfast is a bowl of cereal, but when I’m a...

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