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Where are you now? Students of English from eastern Europe
I wonder if this post might unearth some former students of mine: Aliya, Kazakhstan; Daily, Estonia; Diana, Belarus; Jozef, Slovakia; Kaisa, Estonia; Pavlina, Czech Republic; Ruslan, Ukraine More about...
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How – thanks to the ‘mafia’– I became an English teacher and was talked into...
“What’s with the ‘mafia’ in that factory?”, I asked my companion. Or, rather, what I actually said was “Ce este cu ‘mafia’ la fabrica asta?”, necessarily exercising my newly-acquired broken Romanian in...
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Teaching English using internet on obsolete computers in 1993/94, without...
Sunday 3 Feb 2013. Another multi-tasking day, I’m starting to write this while I cook the obligatory Sunday ‘traditional full English’ breakfast and scanning a film to put some pictures here; I felt I...
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English teaching with ‘A 21st century fairy tale’ and a rambunctious class
The ‘structure of a fairy tale’ as drawn in my notebook and copied from that to blackbosrd. Looking for misplaced documents for our forthcoming drive to Romania (mostly proof I had paid a speeding fine...
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‘Gems’ in the attic: 3 VHS tapes about email projects in English teaching...
Romanians are wonderful people but as far as the authorities are concerned if there’s the most difficult solution to a simple problem you can be pretty sure they will apply it. Being in the European...
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More gems from the ‘attic’ – English teaching in Romania
Finding 3 VHS tapes featuring aspects of my teaching of English in Romania a quarter of a century ago (post on 8th August), together with meeting two of my former pupils, were definitely the highlights...
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Writing for the Ilkley Literature Festival; more ‘gems’ but not from my attic
From Rocky Valley, Ilkley Moor, with Brocken Spectre (tap/click the pic to see it large). Photo by Bob Hamilton Although I have ‘performed’ at an event as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival...
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