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51 things I learned this year

Posted by Angelika Davey on Friday, December 30, 2011, In : German teaching

2011

A few weeks ago some friends wrote blog posts about 51 things they learned this year (I could give you the links to their posts, but if I did you would want to buy a house in Spain and use Arrow Same Day Courier Services to get you there - and then you wouldn't want German lessons, so I won't J)

Anyway, I liked the idea, so here are mine:

Having the best son and daughter living abroad is not always fun.
Skype lets me keep in contact with them but also allows me to teach students as far as...

You do WHAT for a Living?

Posted by Angelika Davey on Sunday, September 25, 2011, In : German teaching

I love listening to BBC Wiltshire and I frequently send in text messages or phone in. I have also been interviewed a few times. So when I was asked whether I would like to participate in 'You do what for a living?' I immediately said yes.

Every Friday afternoon, Sue Davies and her listeners have to guess what job a guest does. Sue gets to ask as many questions as she likes and then has to guess before the listeners do. It's a bit like 'What's my line?' (or 'Was bin ich?' as the programm...

What made me become a German tutor?

Posted by Angelika Davey on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, In : German teaching

Ich helfe meinem Papa beim Korrigieren von Hausaufgaben!
I'm helping my dad mark homework!

As a child I always wanted to be a teacher - just like my dad - or an air stewardess, an actress or a dancer. Things didn't quite work out as planned, I suffer terribly from travel sickness, have two left feet and didn't even get the right qualification to train as a teacher. I did study, though, but then I moved to England to get married and start a family.

A few years later I had a phone call from th...

A day in the life of a freelance teacher

Posted by Angelika Davey on Thursday, March 31, 2011, In : German teaching

Last week I did an exercise with a student about daily routine. She asked me (in German, of course) what time my working day started and finished. I told her that I left the house at 7.55am for my first job and came home at 9.55pm from my last job. "A long day", she said!

Today, my 30 day blog challenge is to write about a day in my life, so it's a good way to explain the long day:

Luckily, my day isn't always like last week, but it is very hard to describe a typical day. I used to teach full-...

Interview with whohub

Posted by Angelika Davey on Sunday, October 10, 2010,

Last week I received a tweet on twitter with an invitation to answer some questions about my work. I thought they were interesting questions. What do you think? Read my interview on Whohub
Ask my opinion about something:
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My first blog

Posted by Angelika Davey on Friday, October 1, 2010,

I have started a blog on a different webpage but The fun of being a German Teacher is supposed to be just that: a recount of funny incidents.
I have since found that I'd like to write about other things, too, but still German related.
So, welcome to my ramblings about things in Germany or England, about being German in England, about teaching German or just anything else that I can think of.
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