Tag: teaching
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Swimming against a sea of immigration lies
It makes me happy to see that others enjoy what I enjoy… Vicente Molina Foix once wrote about riding in the Madrid Metro: “I like to see the juxtaposition of various skin colors, and hear the melody of incomprehensible languages, as the train of the future approaches on the rails of life.” Here is a man at…
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The loneliness of the long-distance teacher
March 2020 was just the start… At least the badly-exploited Glovo guys on their bikes get together in the public square. They can have a chat or a moan with each other between deliveries. Unlike them, the average Business English teacher here in Spain is now more than likely to be sitting solo at a…
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Post PowerPoint Trauma Syndrome
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, July, 2010] Have you ever sat through and silently suffered during a PowerPoint presentation? Most likely, you have more than a few times. Together with ten other teachers, I have been asked (or is it told?) to do a PowerPoint presentation about my History elective subject for…
Brett Hetherington 