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Congratulations Lois, our May 2021 mentor of the month! Lois is currently studying for an MA in Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and plans to become a secondary history teacher. She also has an MA in History from the University of Glasgow. Since joining us in January 2021, Lois has already taught over 50
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We are delighted to be finalists in the Go Abroad Innovation awards for the Star Mentor program
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Let’s give a huge congratulations to Cici for winning the Star Student award!
Aged just six years old, Cici has been taking classes with us since May 2020, having developed a passion for English learning from an early age.
Today, Cici’s mother shares with you their experiences and highlights from the Star Mentor program so far.
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One of the most effective ways to really boost your PalFish bookings is to be featured officially by PalFish. I was featured on PalFish’s official WeChat (Chinese WhatsApp/ Instagram equivalent) channel shortly after being accepted onto the platform, and went from having around 30% of my open slots booked to over 95% consistently ever since.
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In this lesson, we will walk you through the slides for the PalFish demo class as well as share my own demo class recording. Slides walkthrough Click through this presentation to see an overview of all the slides from the PalFish Hello Monkey demo class, as well as top tips and recommended actions for each:
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The final assessment category for the PalFish demo class is “verbal expression”. As with the previous sections, this is scored out of five. Speak clearly Firstly, you must speak slowly and clearly – making sure your words are clearly enunciated in order that they may be understood. Avoid shortening words, ‘mushing’ words together or mumbling,
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PalFish also assess your demo class based on your behaviour in the lesson – this doesn’t mean how “well behaved” you were, but instead on how you encouraged and engaged with the student. Correcting pronunciation It is important to show that you are gently correcting students’ pronunciation during the class – and even though there
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The fourth set of criteria relate to completion of the class content. Although this sounds relatively simple to do, there is a LOT of content in the Hello Monkey trial class (over 30 slides) and so you will need to keep a close eye on the time and maintain good pace. Content The first criterion
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