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November 22, 2015
by: Guest
So what happens at a Chinese wedding today? It is certainly very different to how we traditionally conduct weddings in the west! Here are my experiences: 2 days to go: A traditional Chinese meal for lunch is served at the bride’s parent’s home, including dumplings, pork dishes, eggplant, cabbage, and noodle dishes. The parents of [...]
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November 12, 2015
by: Guest
My Chinese experience was in the Southern city of Guangzhou, capital of the Guangdong province. It created so many memories I still regularly think back to all the highlights. China was never actually a country I had thought much about visiting when I was growing up. Other countries had seemed more exotic, other cultures held [...]
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October 22, 2015
by: Guest
Often quicker than flying to get from A to B, and a symbol of China’s modernisation and investment in recent years, I was excited to experience trips aboard the famous bullet trains linking China’s urban areas, this time I visited in September 2015. The rail network cuts across China in extraordinarily straight lines, with the [...]
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September 15, 2015
by: Guest
Like me, you may have enjoyed the recent BBC series “Chinese School”, where Year 9 students at the Bohunt school in Liphook, Hampshire, underwent 4 weeks of Chinese style education, in an experiment to see if they could outperform their peers attending normal British Curriculum classes at the school. You can catch up on the [...]
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September 8, 2015
by: Guest
1. Spend a few days travelling around your local area Knowing your geography and getting your bearings is key, especially considering the size of the urban area in most of China’s big cities! Travel around on the bus networks, and the metro networks, when you have time on the weekends so you are adept at [...]
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August 25, 2015
by: Guest
In a recent blog I wrote about how to make a great impression in the classroom in China as soon as you arrive, and one of the key points was to start using some of the language in the classroom as soon as you can, to make an immediate impact and impress the children and [...]
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July 30, 2015
by: Guest
What makes a great teacher? The most commonly asked question in teaching interviews; google this and you will find an abundance of opinions and articles; is there one answer, one set of parameters, or can great teachers take on many different forms and styles? Talking with some of our experienced teachers in China, who have [...]
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July 23, 2015
by: Guest
As a teacher with years of experience of teaching English in KS1 and KS2 in England, and moving on now to teach English in secondary schools, it was interesting to review some of the similarities and differences, sometimes surprising, between my experiences and those of an English teacher teaching a similar age group out in [...]
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July 14, 2015
by: Guest
My name is Hattie and I am a Chengdu veteran and enthusiast, having lived there from 2013-2014. When I was first given the opportunity to go, I’m slightly ashamed to say that I had never heard of it. I was however quickly convinced by a Google search where I learnt it to be the home [...]
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July 2, 2015
by: Guest
When I was living and working in Foshan, Guangdong province in the South of China, a visit to Hong Kong at Christmas time was the highlight of my stay. And with many foreign teachers located near the Island metropolis in South China, there really is no excuse not to travel down for a weekend and see what [...]
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