Since writing my previous post on this topic, I have been asked questions about a couple of matters I did not touch on in that article. So, here are more of my opinions on doing TEFL work in Spain.
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Poll question: U.S. Citizens: Are you registered to vote?
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I always thought it was odd that on American calendars Sunday marked the first day of the week, when to me the day felt more like the end of the week. In Spain calendars are consistent with my perception: Sunday is the week's end, as well as the end of the weekend.
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This Friday is unusual, in that it is a public holiday in the city of Barcelona, so I have no classes -- not even a tele-class. Normally I would have done my phone classes in the morning, and right now would be at one of the businesses where I teach employees.
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Here I am at home again between morning tele-classes and my face-to-face lessons this afternoon and evening. Tomorrow is a public holiday here in Barcelona (click here to learn which one), and so as usual for the day before a holiday, I have had a lot of lesson cancellations.
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Tuesday was another good day. Especially fun was the “An Englishman in New York” lesson, which I used as a warm-up/introduction to a reading lesson on the lives of immigrants around the world.
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Good morning from Barcelona! Well, Monday’s lessons went pretty well, even for the intermediate student who found Reported Speech a little difficult to grapple with.
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My situation is probably similar in some ways to many other teachers of English as a foreign language in Spain and rather unusual in other ways.
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Because I have been living in Spain since 2000, mostly working as a teacher of English as a foreign language, people often ask me about how to become a 'maestro de inglés' here.
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Newsvice got me here with the promise of intelligence.
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