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I'm really interested to know - but what do you teach Andy - especially at Real Madrid!!! Is it English or football?

This is a fantastic sunset picture - even with the traffic around, because their lights just add to the picture.

OK, Jenny!!!! I'm pleased you like it!!
This confuses you, just as it confuses my family in England, my friends in England and so on and so forth!
You need to understand that TEACHING ENGLISH TO ADULTS IS A MASSIVE BUSINESS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT IN ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES!!!!!!!
My family and friends still don't get it. They think I teach English to schoolchildren in schools because that is their only reference point: teaching: children: schools!
I was the same until I understood it was a definite career path opportunity. They appreciate teachers who have a practical understanding of the business world. So that is what I can bring to the party: 30 years in financial services in London!!
I go into companies such as KPMG, Santander Bank, Real Madrid - of course it is a company, etc etc and teach them the "business" English they need in a fiercely competitive ENGLISH speaking commercial world! We are in demand!
I am freelance and get work from a dozen or so English training academies and directly from private students through online advertising.
That was the long answer.
The short answer: At Real Madrid I teach ENGLISH to the marketing people ....
....although Gareth Bale could really do with some English classes!

Superbe Andy
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beautifully coloured sky.

Fine night shot with beautiful colored sky !

I'm very partial to a pink sky! Beautiful.

The colours in this shot are really wonderful. Beautifully captured Andy!

PS: I really enjoyed the explanation of your work you gave to Jenny! I took a Diploma in TEFL just before I left the RN hoping to use it part time while I looked for a "proper" job. In the end I didn't need it, but I can tell you it was one of the most difficult courses I've ever taken!

I agree, Keith.
There were 12 of us on this intensive course and I was the only one who went on to use it. I remember the difficulties of the course.
There were two main problems. 1) Our generation had never been taught grammar. Half the intensive training course was a crash course in fundamental English grammar. 2) Could I actually teach??? The practical tests we had to do in front of real classes was nerve racking to say the least but I realised I could do it when I reminded myself that I had been giving advice to 200 members of a company pension scheme in a power point seminar presentation and one-to-one advice clinics on staff benefits packages and explaining compicated financial services products to the public, so that they were understandable, for years so, yes, I could teach!
I now wish I had made the change at least ten years earlier!

I wasn't too worried about the teaching................I'd done some RN courses and had been the Senior Instructor at our trade school for several years.....but the grammar!! I was 45 years old when I did the course........and everyone else was in their late teens/early twenties! I had forgotten what little "proper" English grammar I knew!! I had to sit up very late most nights just to keep up!

Superb colors in a terrific image Andy
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