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A good day for tedium

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Man, what a week! Don’t know why it always all comes together, but last week had some of the teenagers not answering a single question from an IELTS reading by the end of the time limit, a two man Business English class with mixed levels and only the higher level student doing the preparation work I had set the lower level one to help him catch up, etc. etc. Maybe they are just holding out for Xmas same as me. So, if you came here looking for inspiration, hope to see you again next week…

Luckily, though, it’s been a good weekend for using a little time mangement tip which I picked up while studying languages and which also comes in very useful when I am writing full time (as I will be again soon I hope if I have many more weeks like this- very reasonable rates, if any publishers or TEFL website editors are reading…). The trick is: (more…)

New TEFLy stuff of various varieties

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Sorry there hasn’t been a lot going on the blog page of my blog. It’s all going on elsewhere though: (more…)