TEACHERS!!! Would you like to spend a year working in the States or Canada?

Thanks to Quique Rodríguez over at Expansion.com for this link - apparently the Ministry of Culture, Education and Sport is offering the chance for 236 teachers from Spain to travel to the US and Canada for a year to work as teachers.

I know nothing about this beyond what is on the website, but I'll get in touch with some ex-students I have at the Ministry and see if anybody knows anything.

Heading to Canada? Avoid M.T.V....

....Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, that is. The New York Times has an article today about how smaller Canadian cities are welcoming immigrants from all over the world:

http://tinyurl.com/36ptrsn

Another FREE TOEFL resource

Here's one for you students who will be doing the TOEFL this year - a free online practice page, courtesy of The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper:

http://toefl.testprep.globecampus.ca/

...and while we're on the topic of English and immigration...

...I had a chance to talk to my friend Nancy over the weekend. Nancy is a program officer with Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and she confirmed that yes, indeed, people who want to immigrate to Canada should do the IELTS exam, just as before.

There is some talk about introducing a new exam, but that's not for another year, and candidates who want to apply now should and can do the IELTS to show how well they can speak and work with English.