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News From Nanjing: August 2015
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Back in Blighty - rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow - there and back again - a blog in two parts. I've been back in the good old UK for 14 days now - two weeks. I'll be flying back to China in 5 days. I can't wait. Waiting for a rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow train. Thats what the UK seems to me after living in China for nigh on three years - rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow. Despite China b...
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News From Nanjing: Learning is not a spectator sport – someone please tell my students
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Monday, 22 June 2015. Learning is not a spectator sport – someone please tell my students. I work in a top high school, in the foreign language department, in a big city in China. I have been teaching the senior classes ESL for the past two years. All of these seniors have the expectation that they will be attending a good, if not superior, foreign university next year. Plus giving them all the insights from a book I ...
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News From Nanjing: 15 Days in China before I go home.
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. 15 Days in China before I go home. July Initially I was told the 6. So now it’s 15 days before I go home and gaol fever is starting to set in. I booked my ticket months ago and as I said the dates were negotiated with my school admin. One would think, logically, that as these things happen every year then dates would be fixed, or at least planned for. But no, this is China, every thing is fl...
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News From Nanjing: So you are ready to teach ESL/TEFL in China? Part 1 - The gap year graduate
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Tuesday, 26 May 2015. So you are ready to teach ESL/TEFL in China? Part 1 - The gap year graduate. Part 1 of 4. The Gap Year Graduate. Lets begin at the beginning, why do you actually want to come to China to teach English? The author in a mask. Which one do you belong to? The gap year graduate. You have to have a degree to get most of the bona fide. Once you are in China you will find a glut of this type of ‘te...
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News From Nanjing: Packing for China - the final 20 kilo
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Tuesday, 16 August 2011. Packing for China - the final 20 kilo. My suitcase has been 'packed' for three weeks. BUT I am allowed only 20 kilo in my suitcase and please remember I am going for 10 months! Tonight I have got the weight to just below the 20 kilo mark and this is my definitive list of what I'm taking. In no particular order and with some explanation. Black shoes for work. Running shorts - Lycra. 1 woolly bo...
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News From Nanjing: Packing for China for the TEFL - ESL, English Teacher.
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Sunday, 14 June 2015. Packing for China for the TEFL - ESL, English Teacher. If you are lucky your chosen airline might give you a bigger allowance, once Cathay Pacific gave me 30 kilos, which was a huge bonus. Or you might be rich enough to buy a premium airline ticket which gives you a bigger allowance, or you can afford to pay the extra for extra bags, whatever, you are probably still wondering what to bring. What ...
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News From Nanjing: Back in Blighty - rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow - there and back again - a blog in two parts.
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Back in Blighty - rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow - there and back again - a blog in two parts. I've been back in the good old UK for 14 days now - two weeks. I'll be flying back to China in 5 days. I can't wait. Waiting for a rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow train. Thats what the UK seems to me after living in China for nigh on three years - rattly, decrepit, dirty and slow. Despite China b...
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News From Nanjing: A Bite of IELTS - a primer for the speaking test - a new book by me.
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. A Bite of IELTS - a primer for the speaking test - a new book by me. This year saw an important event in my academic life a book that I co-authored with a Chinese colleague was published on February 1st 2015 in Beijing. The book is entitled (In Chinese) A Bite of IELTS. Amazon.com have it listed a A Tongue of the IELTS. Describe a person who visited your home. Who the person is. My Chinese col...
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News From Nanjing: July 2014
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In Nanjing, China. Teaching English at Dongshan Foreign Language School and having fun. Sunday, 6 July 2014. Hmmmmm. Home in the UK. Ok Since my last post was March and it's now July. I gotta say even I think I've been slack and I will do a catch up post to fill in the 3 month odd gap all though not much of any major note happened except for work. But that's to come. Then I've got to do stuff like my tax return, sort my house out and see friends and relatives. It's a busy old time. Plus my garden is a ju...
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Dr Robs Day: An English Summer
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Monday, July 16, 2012. England in the rain rain rain. Summer gurgles down the drain drain drain. It messing with my brain brain brain. The weather is a pain pain pain. Falling on this nation. And a damp sensation. It’s the constant plip plip plop. Of the rains drop drop drop. Will it ever stop stop stop. The waters slop slop slop. O it's just some little showers. It's just great for the flowers. But it's raining for hours. The clouds have superpowers. It's the splish splish splosh. I don't josh josh josh.
