Monday 31 October 2016

Bangkok Features Insatiable Demand for Skilled EFL Teachers

Bangkok has massively grown as one of the most important and popular destination for TEFL jobs. The demand for learning English has grown a lot in Bangkok in this modern time scenario. As the salary structure is pretty modest in Bangkok hence the aspiring EFL teachers are very much interested to select Bangkok as the TEFL job destination. Only the salary structure is not the primary attraction for the selection of Bangkok as TEFL destination but Bangkok features excellent job satisfaction for the EFL teachers. Teaching experience in Bangkok is absolute fun as the country features amazing lifestyle, great travelling experience and delicious Thai food. You can shape a successful EFL teaching career in Bangkok with TEFL certificate. There are a number of institutions offering intense TEFL course as a guideline about teaching methodologies and strategies. On successful completion of the course, the candidate will be awarded with globally recognized certificate that will open up huge TEFL job opportunities in near future. It is not mandatory to produce a TEFL certificate to find EFL teaching job but it produces advantage over other applicants.


Thai food has a special place in the heart of food lovers. It is extremely delicious and mouthwatering. While living in Bangkok as EFL teacher, you will have an open invitation to try all different kinds of cuisines available there. The experience with Thai food will be awesome as the taste richly exotic and the food culture is completely different. Thai foods are being prepared with different kind of ingredients which is not so common in other countries. Hence the taste is different but heartwarming. If you follow the cuisine pattern closely, you may find a Chinese influence in the food but the taste will be different completely. Thai food has a wide variety all over the country. Hence no matter where you are working in the country, you can always explore Thai food. Thai food is unique in its own way starting from typical Thai cuisine to road side Thai food. Road side Thai foods are spicy but extremely mouthwatering, delicious and cheap.

Bangkok is often considered as the fashion hub of South East Asia. The country can be the ultimate shopping destination. The fashion in Bangkok is different and attractive as well. You will enjoy being a part of Thai fashion culture. Bangkok is known as a fashionable city. A number of big shopping malls are out there to shop trendy clothes. The street side shopping of clothes is equally attractive as the quality of the clothes is good and attractive too. While shopping clothes in Bangkok, you may find a number of local brands as well.
The Thai lifestyle has a grand attraction all across the globe. It is easy going and fun loving. You may spend an interesting lifestyle in Bangkok while working as an EFL teacher. The night life and party scene are exciting which hold a great attraction and boost finest possible experience during the stay in Bangkok. Taking part in the traditional activity can be an enticing experience as well. Both teaching in Bangkok and pursuing teacher training course in the city can be enriched with some great experiences that the Thai capital offers. While living in Bangkok, taking part in the cultural activity and practice within the city can enhance the skill required for career. It helps in understanding the local ambience and to understand the target people you need to teach.

Wednesday 19 October 2016

TEFL Training Experience in Chiang Mai

Situated in the north of Thailand, 300m above sea level, the picturesque city of Chiang Mai is all temples, culture and people. Nestled among the high mountains, around 700 kilometres north of Bangkok, Chiang Mai is the largest and one of the most cultural significant cities in Northern Thailand. The city has almost three hundred Buddhist temples and shrines and is regarded with reverence by many Thais because of its spiritual heritage and retention of many of its ancient traditions and is known as “Rose of the North” among the Thais. To the untrained eyes, it is a modern city for trade and business, yet with a touch of its traditions and culture.


With a much cooler climate, it is the most preferred travel destination for all those tourists looking for a quiet time, away from busy rush of a typical modern city. People looking to take a break from their monotonous life can enrol for a 3 week TEFL training course here in Chiang Mai. This way a TEFL certificate will be earned will exploring the city and its culture. It will be like making the most of the leisure time spent in the holiday destination of Chiang Mai. The TEFL course focuses on learning the modern and innovative techniques to teach English to learners of varied age groups, especially to non-English speaking natives.

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The course includes learning the modern ESL teaching methodologies, lesson planning that includes fun activities,basic grammar brush up, teacher roles and levels of students, class organization, conflict management, communication/interaction and presentation skills with and among the learners, and many more new age teaching approaches. Along with in-class teaching classes, the candidates also get to be part of a teaching programme where the candidates receive hands on teaching experience in real classrooms in nearby schools where they get a hang of the real classes and how to conduct them while handling students of various age groups.
The course costs an affordable $1000; and the food is another $200. And after the completion of the course, the aspiring teachers find employment in schools and other educational institutions, and corporate sectors as English language teachers/experts. The pay being quite handsome, hence living a comfortable life anywhere around the globe will never be an issue.
Chiang Mai is one of those popular travel destinations of Thailand, which is away from the sea beaches. Called “the old city” by the natives, the city is the cultural and spiritual epicentre. The night life here in Chiang Mai is quieter than other popular cities of Thailand; it is separate from the hustle-bustle of a busy city. One of the fascinating places to visit is DoiSuthep Temple that overlooks the sprawling city of Chiang Mai. It is the most important Buddhist Temple of the Thais and offers a beautiful view of the city below.The visitors are blinded by the golden splendour of the splendid temple.  A quick tour to its natural resources like nature parks, museums, waterfalls and mountains will rejuvenate your mind and soul.The Chiang Mai zoo, one of the many popular places to visit there, is the largest and the finest in Thailand, which is inhabited by both Asian and African birds and mammals.The Annual flower parade is another very important festival in Thailand with wagons decorated with beautiful flowers and girls holding flowers that are mostly presented to the spectators.

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It is a friendly, hospitable city with full of contradictions, surprises and culture, where modernity embraces the ancient traditions of the Thais.Chiang Mai always amazes us with its markets and street food, the night bazar being quite famous with various stuffs found there.The markets are full of fresh fruits and vegetables. The local delicacies are equally tasty and quite affordable like in other cities of Thailand. Mouth-watering, delicious and some fiery food found in the night markets include noodle, chicken, pork and many other dishes; the fine dining restaurants also serve fairly palatable dishes, providing their best services to their guests.