So, you’vegot a fresh, ink-still-wet, CELTA? Feel likeyou’re ready to Take a giant leap into the Word of TEFL and find your firstproper Job and teach your first proper class? Well, I’ve got news for you…YOUKNOW FUCK ALL!!That CELTAwill be more useful to use if you used it to filter your coffee before yourfirst class. Fuck knows how the ramblings of a crazed CELTA trainer, whoprobably last taught an actual class in the early 90’s, will help you.And don’texpect the school to train you either… no, they’ll force you to adopt somecrazed mish mash of teaching methods they scraped from Wikipedia, or the backof leaflets distributed by other schools no doubt.No, theonly sure fire way of delivering a good class and becoming a decent teacher isthrough experience. Honest hard work and learning from your mistakes.‘Hard work?’‘Experience’ – all sounds a bit long winded doesn’t it? Well then relax becauseI can heartily recommend the newest book by ETX – ‘Speaking Activities That Don’tSuck’ – which will shave years from the time it takes to progress from ‘shitty,school hopping, TEFL teacher’ to ‘barely employable TEFL teacher’.It’s a HUGEbook – 177 pages or so of advice and tips on how to teach – each facet ofinformation derived from hours of classroom toil and learning by doing – and yoursto take and freely integrate into your lessons.Everythingis there – a breakdown of what a modern English class should look like throughto the most important bits, like private classes and sure fire ways to getpeople to talk – that’s why students pay the money after all.I think formost, this book will be good toilet fodder (and I mean that in a good way,scientists have proven time on the toilet is where we come up with our bestideas) – Something to read progressively, every day, whilst trying to take whatyou’ve just read and implement it into your next lesson.I think thetrue advantage of this book, or guide, is that fact that the situation is verymuch presented ‘as is’, without all that hippy bollocks your teacher trainerfed you. Plus it’s entertaining enough to keep you reading, not like thehorrible ‘How to teach English’ tomes you’ll find in a British Council library.For ‘experienced’Teflers, there is still something to be gained from reading ‘Speaking ActivitiesThat Don’t Suck’ – if only to absorb the different perspective of the everydaysituations we all endure as TEFL teachers – and perhaps to laugh, and cry atcomedic (yet sadly true) observations made by ETX through his book.SUMMARY –USEFUL, FUNNY, CHEAPGOSMASHWORDS BUY NOW!or buy for Kindle here

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