alphabet soup

Over the last decade the English language teaching market has got a lot more complicated and tougher. Along with stagnant wages we’ve seen a lot more exams come on to the market. In the old days most of my work was preparing students for the Cambridge FCE and CPE exams and the university of Michigan ECPE. I was just thinking about what I have been teaching over the last two years and came up with the following list;

KET
PET
FCE
CAE
CPE
ECCE
ALCE
ECPE
TOEFL
IELTS
German state school English curriculum k10-12
United Nations entry test
conversational English for adults
adult false beginners
preparation for the model United Nations debates
Beginner, lower and intermediate general English for teenagers

Talk about jack of all trades. Still it keeps the wolf and the credit card companies from the door.