by Ruth Marin | Feb 20, 2017 | Professional Development TESOL
How long do you wait for your students to give you an answer? It’s interesting to observe how often we turn up in class on a Monday and try to start an informal conversation with our students by asking: So… What did you do at the weekend? Right after the question, our...
by Ruth Marin | Jan 27, 2017 | Teaching Exams
Exam classes, CEFR Levels, certificates and coursebooks in Spain B1, B2, C7, R2D2??? What’s going on with certificates in Spain? We could argue that the financial crisis has certainly benefited the ELT industry in Spain and there’s high demand for English classes for...
by Ruth Marin | Jan 9, 2017 | TEFL jobs
Here are some tips to help you find work as an English Teacher in Granada By Ruth Marin. When In Spain most students need to get a certificate. There are English exams nearly every month and a huge demand for exam classes. This means teaching jobs available all...
by Ruth Marin | Jan 9, 2017 | English Teaching Spain, Teaching Young Learners
Since this post is about teaching teenagers in Spain, I’d like to start it by complaining: Why are teenager classes so exhausting and typically scheduled at siesta time in this country??? In Spain, teenagers generally start school at 8.30am and finish sometime between...
by Ruth Marin | Oct 20, 2016 | English Teaching Spain, Teaching Exams
Life in Spain is fantastic. I live and teach English in Granada: it’s sunny, one hour away from the beach and ski slopes, everything’s within walking distance, it’s cosmopolitan and it has a great social life, not to mention the food and its affordability. I have...