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[shin12]

Hi there peeps,

I am now in Rome i arrived yday for 4 days , i am here to see if i can make some contacts with schools /people working here . i would really like to get a teaching job getting something starting soon would be great but i understand most schools recurit starting sept. Is there anyone working in a school at the moment that could ask for me i could meet up with you i would really really appreciate it. At this very moment i have a list of schools in rome so i am either thinking of pooping in with my cv or calling 1st to see if there are any vacancies. The only prob is finding them as they look so far apart. Can anyone help or give me some advice where to start , i would be so so thankful as only got today tommorow and sat if any schools open then. Thanks in advance

[SueH]

I'd imagine that some of them are chains - you should be able to tell from your perusal of the yellow pages, so hit the central ones using shoe leather and public transport, and they will probably have contacts with some of the other more dispersed branches.

That's just common sense, maybe somebody with local knowledge will come along very soon, but not many post here. Or go to a local uni, look at the bulletin boards advertising native speaker lessons, and somebody might be nice enough to give a competitor some leads to schools with jobs (on the basis that they prefer the better paid private work ).

Or keep an eye out for down-at-heel Anglophones, they may well be teachers.

[shin12]

thanks for that i will do have a list from the tefl course so may hit some of them . sorry but can you explian down-at-heel Anglophones. Isthat a place . thanks again

[Glenlivet]

Poor people who speak English. Your first language is English

[shin12]

When i write on here i write in slang OK . THERE IS NO NEED TO BE SO RUDE.

[Glenlivet]

{sigh}

Down at heel - idiom meaning poor people - i.e. no money.

Anglophones - people who speak English.

Touchy aren't we?

[Teacher in Rome]

There's a place for slang / textspeak, but probably not on an English teachers' forum. If you don't know someone personally, but you want to ask them for advice, it makes sense to use standard English. It might not be fair, but to a certain extent you're going to be judged on your ability to teach English by your ability to write it correctly spelled and punctuated.

[spiral78]

I agree that this forum isn't really the place for slang, for several reasons...

[SueH]

[shin12]

why are you guys are all serious ? I dont get it

[SueH]

[Tainan]

Here's why some of us are being "serious"--because when you write the way you do what you are saying is this: This isn't important to me. You aren't important to me; the English language isn't important to me. I do not take it or you seriously enough to capitalize the first person singular pronoun, use a comma or a period once in a while, or stop to make sure my sentences make sense. But it goes beyond that. An educated speaker of English doesn't need to make an effort to put periods at the end of sentences; that sort of thing comes naturally to him. The fact that the way you write (presumably) comes naturally to you suggests that you regard real English as being somehow artificial, that if you were speaking proper English in class it would be by making an effort to do so, the way a non-native speaker would, and that whenever you relaxed a bit and let your guard down--say, in having casual conversation with students--you would relapse into slang. I'm really sorry to sound cross; you may be a wonderful person in many ways and perhaps on some levels you might be a good teacher; but a teacher of English should first be someone who actually loves and respects English, and someone who loved and respected English wouldn't write it the way you do.

[napoleonspidgin]

[Teacher in Rome]

[Sheikh Inal Ovar]

I'm surprised that anyone was kind enough in the first place to answer the questions of a person who began by saying 'Hi there peeps' ..

Had it been a staff room, the place would have emptied like a shot ..