Greek protester

Greek protester, a photo by Teacher Dude's BBQ on Flickr.

Greek students protest against Project Athena which will see 100's of higher education departments closed or moved to other cities

Interview day

I was in school today as many of my students were doing the interview part of their language exams. As you can imagine many of them were nervous at the prospect but I think they'll do well. I've spent most of the past eight months preparing them for this moment so there was little I could do except reassure them and just remind them of a the stuff we've been doing.

Sometimes it's small things like keeping eye contact with the person you're speaking with (as opposed to staring off into the middle distance), asking for the questions to be repeated and not getting hung up on an unknown word that make the difference at this stage. Basically, just chatting away in English so that when they go to be interviews they do not suddenly have to switch language. 

So now I've almost finished as my students are now done with their PET /FCE/ ECCE/ CAE/ ECPE/ CPE exams.  Now It's time to think about what I'm going to do in summer and how I'm going to earn a living for the next four months.

End of term

This weekend most of my students are taking their exams so it means that the school year has effectively finished. I'll be doing lessons until the end of the month but the with fewer hours. Anyway, today was the last regular lesson with my FCE class and as you can see they were in high spirits.

Today's lessons

I bugged my students in order to take their photograph. Thankfully they didn't complain too much.

First day back at work

I started back today, at least with my private lessons. So here is a taste of my world. My two - minute photo shoot.

Testing times

Taken today while the kids were taking their mock tests.

Last night's wine and cheese party at the school

Well, I don't know about the rest of you but I had a great time. For more photos check out my Flickr page here.