Twenty Years in EFL-Part 4

The next step in my EFL journey was as a Director of Studies (DoS) in a small language school beginning in June 2014. This would involve being responsible for all the teaching staff, teaching both young learners and adults. My responsibilities also included implementing British Council recommendations (which had not been acted on before IContinue reading “Twenty Years in EFL-Part 4”

Twenty Years in EFL-Part 3

I began the third part of my EFL career in the first full week of July 2005. The week London was granted the 2012 Olympics. Tragically, the following day London was subject to a bombing campaign that injured and killed many people. People I’d worked with previously were trying to contact me to see ifContinue reading “Twenty Years in EFL-Part 3”

Twenty Years in EFL-Part 2

September 2001 is probably best remembered for a tragic world event. In that same September I started a new job teaching English to adults in a London language school. It had two branches, one near the BBC and the other branch about twenty minutes walk away and not far from the river. Apparently Gustav HolstContinue reading “Twenty Years in EFL-Part 2”

Twenty Years in EFL-Part 1

I have a Twitter account @lennetenglish, an Instagram account (the QR code at the end of this post will take you there), I made some podcasts for my Japanese students (https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-nf85r-bcade0) and a blog (which hopefully you are reading at the moment). I decided I wasn’t using them to their full potential, so last monthContinue reading “Twenty Years in EFL-Part 1”