So You’re Going to Be an Auxiliar de Conversación in Madrid: What to Really Expect

What to Expect as an Auxiliar de Conversación in Madrid

Before moving to Spain to be an Auxiliar de Conversación, it’s hard to imagine what life will look like in the classroom.  What will the job entail?  What will your relationship be with the students?  And the teacher? What will the day-to-day look like?  Will you be planning lessons?  There are so many questions and […]

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Good Resources for Teaching ESL Classes

good resources for teaching ESL classes

Last year, I spent a lot of time just randomly doing Google searches to find materials for my private lessons-basically, where to find good resources for teaching ESL classes.  This year, I have done a better job of finding websites that continuously have good materials for private lessons.  You know, materials that don’t have random ads all […]

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Say What 3

I did a few of these ¨Say What¨posts in the beginning of the year, when the things that my students would say would shock me. Say What 1 Say What 2 I´m more used to them now, but this one was too good not to write… While teaching the kids about the future tense using […]

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Say What? II

When teaching a group of six 5-year-olds In the middle of a lesson about rooms in the house, one of them says, “What the f*ck!” And then they all repeat, “What the f*ck!” And they are cracking up. I tell them they can’t say that and it’s a bad word and they all look at […]

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