Learning Chinese
For most western people, Chinese is not really an easy language to learn because of its writing system and pronunciation with different tones. However, there are still plenty of people who would [...]
Your Students are Bored of Drilling
Your Students Are Bored of Drilling and You Should Be Too How do we make drilling exercises more interesting and engaging for our students? This is a question I have found myself [...]
Trip to Wu Yi Mountain
A Perfect Start To The Year After years of various New Year's Eves, I decided to try something different for the change over between 2013 and 2014 - travelling to [...]
The Customer is Always Right
It has been a while since I started teaching at York School of Foreign Languages. The “s” has always been at the end of ‘Language’, but to my [...]
5 Questions You Should Ask Your Future Employer
Congratulations! You have taken some very important steps towards starting a very successful career as an ESL teacher in China. You have found the right recruitment agency which will help you find [...]
Relationships with Parents
As expats, we quickly become adapted to “zoning out” the world around us. It’s very easy to plug in headphones, walk down the street, and ignore the sounds and actions of those [...]
Discipline, Responsibility and Classroom Management
Being a teacher in a foreign country has certain amounts of allure to it, given the fundamental reasons for people participating in this profession are money and travel, [...]
Your First Week in the Middle Kingdom
It's Your First Week in China! Congratulations on becoming one more international talent who will be in charge of an ESL classroom and launching a successful career (if this doesn’t apply to [...]
Teacher, Teacher, Come Here!
As teachers, we spend many hours preparing for our lessons, creating handouts and materials. As we go though the creative process, we are thinking: this is so easy; my students will be [...]
Lost in Translation – Part 2
As previously mentioned in another article about China, there are several differences between living here and where we are used to. There are a few things that you [...]
