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28 janvier 2013

Training the Future

Training the Future

Just before the Christmas holidays, the company I work for outside school asked me to teach English to a group of students training to become computer technicians. A group of ten to fifteen people aged anywhere between 16 and 40, whom I would be teaching...

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Tags: pupils, teacher, saturday, students, computer, group, daesa, infrared, keyboard, morning, printer, vocabulary

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21 janvier 2013

Right. Where do I start?

Right. Where do I start?

I am frequently asked what my students' level of English is like. It is, after all, their third language after Shimaorese and French... and it's not as though they speak the first two properly. English is very difficult for most of the kids. Their fluency...

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14 janvier 2013

Food Shopping

P went back to France at the beginning of December. At one point, he had to go to the local supermarket to forage for food. He went round the supermarket with his mouth hanging open, so many products were there. So many products, and so many varieties...

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Tags: mayotte, food, expensive, shop, tesco, christmas, money, camembert, cheese, england

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7 janvier 2013

Out of Place

Mayotte is a strange place to live in. On one hand, the country is a French department and has belonged to France for over a hundred years. You can find La Poste and the Conseil Général, every village has a Mairie (town hall) and often a boulangerie (baker's)....

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Tags: mayotte, car, shop, television, amazon, bakery, customer, land, mainland, post office, product, salespeople, technology

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