Squeezed between the good mornings and start dates, my Korean hagwon telephone interview was concluded, successfully, in the opening two questions:
Do you have a university degree? Yes.
Can you speak with an American accent? Erm, maybe, I think so.
Things are understandably more rigorous in France, where trainee English teachers are tested on the history of devolution in Scotland and Wales (luckily only post-1966), stress patterns in the word pornography, the meaning of time and the time of meaning.
I think I might have failed that one. In truth, I never even managed the American accent, though I did drop the 't' in often once or twice.
2 comments:
wow, it sounds like ESL teaching in France is a lot different than it is over here in Korea. Yet, I'll still be visiting France the first week in July, so I just hope they treat English speaking tourists better than the teachers.
If they want American English, does that mean they don't expect you to teach the Perfect?
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