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Som Tum!
The Monthly EFL/ESL Work 'n' Play
Interactive Newsletter

Issue #30-04-06
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INTRODUCTION: This Newsletter is intended to be not only educational, but fun!

Though our Academy is based in Thailand, our e-mail Newsletter is prepared especially for EFL and ESL teachers – as well as those thinking about teaching English abroad – who are working or planning on working anywhere in the world. Of course, if you are already here, or are thinking of coming here to be trained or work, we believe you will find much of the newly-updated information about life in Thailand to be essential.
And, if you like the format of this Newsletter and are a trained and experienced teacher, we and the entire academic community need your own cutting edge teaching tips, techniques and information to showcase here, and hope that you will share these with us, just as you yourself may share in those of others. All writings will be archived for the benefit of future readers, and, needless to say, the copyright remains yours at all times.

Finally, if you are not yet a trained or practicing teacher, we hope you will obtain valuable information here and would like you also to contribute to both the fun and the wisdom this Newsletter is intended to provide, even though that is outside the realm of EFL/ESL teaching!
NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
(Click to go to the section of interest to you,
but check out every one!)

*THE WORK SECTION* 
Information about jobs, visas, working in Thailand and other countries,
teaching tips, lesson plans, activities, and more

*THE PLAY SECTION* 
Fun things to do in various countries, funny teaching experiences,
personal contributions by teachers, hot jokes, and more

*THE GETTING ACQUAINTED SECTION*
Is teaching overseas for you?
Everything you need to know, right from the "horse's mouth"!!

*THE GETTING RE-ACQUAINTED SECTION*
  (For all alumnae, of course!)
Get back in touch with your friends and classmates!
 
THE WORK SECTION:



... no, teaching is not really this rough!
  1. Fixing Cambodia: The Three-Year Itch: When Exotic Cambodia goes wrong, and How to Fix it by Peter Hogan.
  2. Our Training Class Schedule – Four really beautiful training locations!
  3. GUARANTEED JOB! – Right here in Thailand
  4. I Train the Pattaya Teachers! – Our outstanding "people person" trainer, Mr David Solomon, tells how he produces so many successful and well-employed teachers!
  5. What I do and How I Help with Training in Pattaya From the T'n'T, Pattaya TEFL Course Director, Mr Corey McKenzie
  6. Keith Jackaman's Training Story: Why my TEFL Trainees Make Good Teachers! Our mild- mannered Bangkok trainer, Mr Keith Jackaman, tells why he is so popular and successful 
  7. TEFL Training in Phuket by our T'n'T, Phuket TEFL Course Director, Mr Paul Camilleri
  8. The Job of your Choice  (Thailand and everywhere else): Where it is, what it pays, what it requires and how to get it. Hundreds of choices!
  10. Teaching EFL/ESL in Taiwan or Japan  Great new jobs in May!
Tips and Aids:
  1. Tools to Dispel Confusion by James Parmelee. From Module 5 of our TEFL Course – crucial word-building and vocabulary instruction for EFL and ESL learners
  2. Solving the Tag Question Dilemma – once and for all! by James Parmelee. From Module 3 of our TEFL Course
  3. The Teacher's Checklist! by James Parmelee. From Module 4 of our TEFL Course – How to know when you've taught a great lesson. April, 2006
  6. Our TEFL Course Contents: What makes our training – and teacher confidence – the industry best!
  7. EXTRA MONEY you can earn during May!!!!  (Don't miss out!)
Special Recognitions and Announcements:
  1. Trainer of the Month: Pattaya's David Solomon
  2. Top Job obtained this month by one of our graduates: Mr Bryan Charles Potts. Pattaya's "Mr Bean" has himself progressed from problem student when he was young to a  life as a DJ and writer, and is now settled in as an accomplished and happy EFL teacher! Our course Certificate No. 001596
  3. April Graduate of the Month: Mr Tony Fielding, Pass A from our T'n'T Bangkok Academy
  5. NEW!!! Our Upgrade and Refresher TEFL Course! Up to 50% off our regular TEFL Course fee! Rusty? Jaded? This is a great chance to do an affordable TEFL Refresher Course. Want to learn everything that was missing in the course you did? Then upgrade now, affordably!
THE PLAY SECTION:


  1. Literature: Your own original article, essay, poem or story (Keep it clean, entertaining and reasonably short, please). This issue: Mystery of the Disappearing DOS, Part II. A fun and exciting serial account of teaching life in Thailand by Ignatius Filchworthy – and he says if you believe that name, you'll believe anything!
  2. The latest right-on joke! This issue: "Subject: New Stud Rooster", a real rooster chase, as passed along to us by Bob Brooks ...Never underestimate the competitor!
  3. Weird is what it was: My First Day on the Job! by our TEFL Course graduate, John Spragg.
  4. The weirdest teaching experience of my career! This issue "He Taught me to Play Golf" by Clyde Haumann. April, 2006
  5. Where to go crazy in ....! Find our where to go. We are all dedicated teachers, but we have to have fun in our free time, too! This issue: Crazy Fun TEFL Training in Phuket! by Mr Paul Camilleri
  6. Too good to miss... Something beautiful! Have a look...
THE GETTING-ACQUAINTED SECTION:
  1. Teaching Asian students? Why our course is best for you!
  2. We'll Help you Get your Visa – Fast! Get long-term legal before you arrive! – by Mr Leigh Richards
  3. Thailand: All you need to know – To make a living and be happy here!
  5. What one graduate said about our TEFL Course An unsolicited endorsement from Mr Ian Miller, trained at our Chiangmai Academy
  6. Living abroad is no big deal! Here's a lot of help and advice
  7. Make an important difference in the world! Get properly trained, help your students really learn, and enjoy the fun!
  8. Learning grammar: Why is knowing a bit of grammar important to you as a teacher? Well, no sane person wants to teach grammar, right? The funny thing is you've got to know grammar pretty darn well in order to avoid doing so! (This means you need to explain grammatical things very quickly, very efficiently and very well.) Let's find out if we can help you learn what you still need to bone up on. How high can you score? Take The TEXT-AND-TALK Academy Grammar Quiz now! Did you do well? If not, we can help you in a very short time to learn all of that and much more, when you take our TEFL Course!
THE GETTING RE-ACQUAINTED SECTION:



GRADUATES! Send us an e-mail and tell us where you're working, if you have the time. All of us want to share in your happiness and successes!
Let us help!
If you are a graduate of our TEFL for Target Learner Groups Course and are out of contact with one or more of your classmates, just send an e-mail to Mr Leigh Richards (leigh@langserv.com), and we will post your message right here! (And... if we know his or her e-mail address, we will also put the two of you in touch again!)

Friends for life, right?
And why not!
NEXT ISSUE!

Find out why our other Bangkok trainer, Mr Ted Tucker, makes learning to be an English teacher so much fun!
Plus... enjoy reading Mystery of the Disappearing DOS, Part III! (It'll keep you riveted, or an least in suspense!)
And... See how our EXTRA Newsletter MONEY can be made in June!
 
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