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Teacher Training Programme at Hyland April to June 2008:

Attendance at Hyland seminars costs 12 euros per session, and your fourth session is FREE. To reserve a place or ask for more information contact Rachel by calling 91 431 9757 or by e-mail at training@hylandmadrid.com. See more info at: Hyland Teacher Training.

Video Book Review

Practical English Usage - A book review of Michael Swan's "Practical English Usage" (OUP, 1980).

Eurolanguage Consultants

EuroLanguage Consultants - an agency profile
Offers first class language solutions to companies, groups and individuals in Madrid, Spain and abroad.

First Language Consulting

First Language Consulting school profile
An agency which provides a variety of in-company English classes in Madrid and surrounding areas.

Pueblo Inglés

Pueblo Inglés School Profile
A school seeking experienced teachers to start immediately with in-company classes, Masters courses and intensive residential courses.

Baxter Business Services

Baxter Business Services is a fast growing language school with impressive client list and more than 30 teachers who usually work with them because of the top rates and excellent conditions.

New personalized service for English teachers seeking work

Personalized Help Service
Get more personal help finding work. i.e. Receive SMS messages of recent job posts.

Video-chat

Top 10 List - What academies want from an English teacher - Personality, social skills, experience, committment, good judgment, etc.

Video-chat

Materials I use in my classes - A 15 minute video-chat on how I organize myself materials-wise - besides text books, which I don't talk about in this chat, I use Hot English Magazine's Teachers' Pack and the internet.

Teaching Private Classes in Madrid and Spain

Working Madrid - updated - A 35-minute commentary on a Spainexpat.com article.

Hot English Language Service's Video

Hot English Video - Leigh Dante talks about Hot English's employment offer.

An Autobiographical Article

A Bit of Guff about Teaching English on the hoof in Madrid - Or the ramblings of a traumatized English teacher. Tom Cunningham talks about his experience as an English teacher in Madrid.

Astex Video

Astex Video - Emerson Mafra and Niamh O'Brien talk about ASTEX's employment offer.

Video-Article

This is a video-article by David Overton about Carefully Controlled Teacher Talking Time. David Overton teaches general and company classes in the center and north of Madrid (he lives in Sanchinarro). More info:In Company Classes.

"How can we get away from the “tyranny of the textbook”? It’s not easy. Most of them are carefully thought out and tightly knit. So busy teachers are mainly limited to adapting them a bit, taking the activity out of the book, for example by dictating the discussion questions or having students brainstorm vocabulary. " Read more: Talking Teachers.

Book Review Video

This is a book review by David Overton of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers.

David Overton teaches general and company classes in the center and north of Madrid (he lives in Sanchinarro). More info:In Company Classes. See the video and read the review: Approaches and Methods.

Book Review Video

This is a book review by David Overton of "The Lexical Approach" by Michael Lewis (1993), Hove: Language Teaching Publications.

David Overton teaches general and company classes in the center and north of Madrid (he lives in Sanchinarro). More info on David: In Company Classes. See the video and read the review: Lexical Approach.

Windsor Idiomas Video

Windsor Idiomas Video - Janice Haywood talks about Windsor Idiomas' employment offer.

Vaughan Systems Video

Vaughan Systems Video - Aindrias Fitzgerald talks about Vaughan Systems' employment offer.

EF Corporate Language Training

EF started 46 years ago as a Swedish company, but has become one of the world's largest language-related multi-nationals. It is based in Stockholm, but has headquarters in Boston, Hong Kong and Cambridge, where it has its R&D division located. EF just landed in Spain in September of 2006 and has offices in both Madrid and Barcelona and currently employs around 50 teachers in Spain.
Read more: EF Corporate Language Training

Book Review Video

How to Teach English - A book review of Jeremy Harmer's "How to Teach English" (Longman - Pearson Education), 2005 (First published in 1998).

New site for teachers with cell phones

New for teachers. The information in the employement section is mirrored in this site for cell phones:

Interlang Executive Centre

Interlang Executive Centre Video - Sean O'Malley of Interlang talks about Interlang's employment offer.

Teaching Listening

Video-chat on Listening - Video of me talking about teaching listening.

An autobiographical article

How I Became an English Teacher in Madrid - Freelance editor Sarah E. Rogers writes about teaching English in Madrid.

English Teaching Abroad / Overseas

English Teaching Abroad Overseas - Video of me chatting in general about teaching English abroad.

Chalmore Language Solutions

Chalmore Language Solutions was founded in 2004 and is a fast growing language training company based in Madrid. The years of experience of its founders in the Language Teaching Industry in various countries throughout Europe have led it to an eclectic teaching style, based on a fundamental respect for the learner as an individual, vast knowledge of the various teaching styles, methods and materials; and continuous training of its teaching staff.
More: Chalmore Language Solutions.

Video Chat

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