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I have been working like crazy on my CV/resumé. I made it into a site with a blog area where I plan to talk about current professional development I am undergoing or just things to improve professionally that I am doing. It has an English and a French version, the French version might need some [...]

My interview went well this morning. It was all in French and Rimbaud did not come up. All that late night cramming for nothing. It was a at company called cDiscount. They have a large discount electronics website and a chain of stores. I would be working as an integrateur d’html. The position involves taking [...]

On Tuesday morning I have a job interview in Bordeaux for a web design job in a company called cDiscount. It will mark my first interview all in French and not for an English teaching job. Of course I am ready but I am getting nervous. I find myself doing silly things like reviewing the [...]

As many of you know I teach English at an Engineering Graduate School in France called the ENAC, École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile. It is a Grande École which means it is very competitive to get into and the students are very motivated and work hard. I taught a General English class that was an [...]

Of course jokes work best when you don’t have to explain them, but for non-native speakers learning humor and understanding it presents big challenges. We did a short exercise where they had to think of a joke, translate it into English, practice telling it, and then tell it to the class and try to explain [...]

Image via WikipediaI had a wonderful week with my English students in the little town of Le Mourtis. I was teaching a week-long intensive English course. We had formal lessons, games and activities, and general English interactions. The students tried hard to speak mostly in English. One of the highlights of the week was the [...]