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[philbags]

Dont sweat the grammar too much at this point, that comes later when you'll be told exactly which function you'll be expected to present at each stage of your observed teaching.
Pretty much every British, Australian, Canadarian, or citizen of the United States of the U.S.A. I ever met felt out of depth at the beginning of a TEFL training course.
Some points to bear in mind might be:

your demand as a prospective EFL teacher hinges on you being a native speaker,native speakers( of many languages) often dont learn the grammatical form of their own language at school. You'll get it once you've taught it a couple of times and that means learning on the job.

what you do have is an innate understanding of pronunciation,sentence stress and lexis: what we DO say rather than what we COULD say.

Only a part of what takes place in a language class is about 'grammar', there is a lot of class time devoted to skills work; listening , speaking reading, writing.

hopefully you also have a lot of energy and enthusiasm to put into a job that is physically and emotionally quite demanding.

Have fun and you'll be fine.
all the best
P.

[Stephen Jones]

Expect the interview to last about forty-five minutes and be fairly grilling. They deliberately put you through hoops so only people who are keen apply.

[eek]

ow hell..really?

ive confirmed to make the call this friday.

Grilling eh?

Oh well..guess ill see what happens when I make the call. I definately want to do it so if they need to grill me to work that out, c'est la vie

p.s. thank you so much for the encouraging words philbags.