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Hi, I'm an American who's been teaching esl in Europe going on 6 years now and I'm considering a move. I've only met one other teacher who taught in China (Shanghai, I think) and she didn't have many positive things to say about it. I'd like to hear about positive experiences and perhaps how to avoi...

This is a bit of a weird problem, so I should give you a little background: I teach an FCE course that uses "First Certificate Gold" (Longman Press) as the course book. One of my more eager students went out and got herself a supplementary coursebook called "Mission: FCE" (Express Publishing). Last ...

Why is it that as soon as I start writing on a white board I can't spell to save my life? Sometimes I'll re-write a word 2 or 3 times because it just doesn't "look right", only to figure out that I had it right the first time! Wait, it gets worse. Once I even made up a word. A student asked me what ...