Saturday, 26 November 2016

Tea time! - Introduction

Wales with the International 16
Oh, the Erasmus days...

Oh hello!

My name's Pablo and I am a teacher of both Spanish and English as a Second Language. At the moment I am living in my hometown, Petrer, a place around 30 kilometers away from Alicante, in the south east of Spain.

Some years ago I did a BA (Hons) in English Studies at the University of Alicante, graduating in 2013. After that, I lived in Manchester (United Kingdom) for three wonderful years, where I had the chance of doing my Erasmus Exchange Programe, working as a Spanish Language Assistant or even doing my Postgraduate Certificate in Education for teaching Modern Foreign Languages in secondary schools.

When the right time came, I left the UK for good and I went to work to Ankara, Turkey. There I taught English to primary school kids, and I loved it! The kids were so enthusiastic and curious about anything around them that it was a pleasure for me to be in that school. However, the political situation of the country got worse in a couple of months, and then...

I decided to come back home! So here I am, safe and sound doing this Master's Programme for being able to teach languages in secondary schools in Spain. Maybe it doesn't sound that exciting, but hey! This is just another stop in the journey.

As I always said, I ended up teaching languages not because they were my passion, but because they somehow found me. I am a teacher more than I am anything else, and I absolutely love this profession at the end of the day. I am really keen on international and multicultural education, and I will hopefully keep travelling and working around the globe in the next few years, learning from marvellous professionals, pupils and parents.

So, if you wanna know more about ESL or ELE, please stay tuned! If you are a trainee teacher, a languages student or just a professional who likes to grow professionally, on this blog you will find resources, materials, games, worksheets, videos and much more for doing your lessons interesting and enganging, I promise! And do not forget to check my Twitter or Youtube accounts too, please!

For the Master's Programme purpose, we will also dedicate some entries of this blog to write about activities and ideas for teaching the First, Second and Third Conditional in English for a group of students of 4th grade of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain).

Feel free to comment, give constructive feedback or just suggest new topics to be discussed.

Thank you for passing by,

Pablo

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