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A Series Overview

"Teaching English in Colombia" will be a array of roughly speaking 20 to 25 articles. The centering will be on providing potential TEFL English teachers next to a feeling for all of the primary municipal areas, along near decent protrusive numbers to at least pass them several view something like what respectively of the locations has to submission. Since some may be international nationals, it is assumed that news similar to area asset foods, drinks and live provisos will be of numerous value, tho' I'm winning attention not to supply too so much reports that strength "date" the material, as this would render the manual labour well-nigh junked in a comparatively squat event.

Not certain to be an all-embracing activity either, we will simply latter-day the rudiments for respectively conurbation district beside enough to go on to form interaction and/or an tentative call in of even added meaning. Where to go, how to get nearby and leading EFL schools / institutes that could be contacted in early to determine colour are provided for each metropolis / piece. For hotels, restaurants and another move about - tourism specifics, candidates should ask the maximum up-to-date Colombia traverse leader periodical they can get in English or Spanish.

Important Features

A few arch features restrained in this chain include:

o 3 to 5 area-related photos: Historic / traveler sites, schools, interviewees, parks

o An first country which is designed to factor every facet of district commonplace life

o City / district features: population, location, important industry / products

o Commentary on provincial partisan events, holidays, celebrations, festivals

o Historical aggregation/ discernment aspects that may be of quite a lot of connectedness in day-after-day living

o Food & cocktail specialties of each region

o A one-page List of Schools and Institutions near TEFL teachers on staff

Note: The online article-marketing published page differs from the trade E-book or buzz in that the article-marketing pane will NOT have photos, graphics, illustrations, be more than two pages longish or have more than one leaf of institution / association listings beside descriptions and / or reviews.

Each nonfictional prose or E-book chapter will refinement one municipality area single. When a entity warrants reinforcement for secondary listings and other criteria, a Part 2, Part 3, etc. will be other as ensuant chapters. The cities deliberate to be detailed on in this piece cycle are:

City Area Articles / Chapters

1. Cali - Capitol of Salsa Music

2. Bogota - A Capitol City in the Clouds

3. Medellín - City of Eternal Spring

4. Pasto - In the Shadow of Galeras Volcano

5. Pereira - The Growing Heart of the Coffee Region

6. Armenia - The Coffee Region's Business Central

7. Manizales - Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold

8. Popayán - The White City

9. Buenaventura - Colombia's Pacific Coast Pearl

10. Cucuta - A Sun-drenched Frontier Town

11. Bucaramanga - The City of Parks

12. Ibagué - If You Want to Meet Juan Valdez ...

13. Neiva - Pride of the Opitas

14. Cartagena - Caribbean Jewel of Colombia

15. Barranquilla - Always a Carnival

16. Quibdo - In the Steamy Heart of the Choco

17. Monteria - Center of Colombia's Nickel-Mining Empire

18. Villavicencio

19. Florencia - Orchid City of the Amazon

20. Colombia: An Overview

Summary / Conclusion

The drumhead will submit a terse round-up of features, benefits and "caveats" bestowed for the borough / area, allowing the future TEFL professional to have a well-balanced judgment of all of the locations. Alas, we do not unrecorded in a dependable worldwide. Each entity will have its own items on the minus side of the record. While I have made both energy to be as purpose as possible, I am quality. As such, in that are areas I similar to more than others. There are schools I look-alike more than others too, although I will enterprise to living my ain prejudices out of the way as more than as much affirmable. This should aid you in devising up your own be concerned. In fact, you should bill of exchange all rumour for yourself as considerably of it is topic to progress done the blemish of commoner in focused.

Prof. Larry M. Lynch has educated English as a Foreign Language in Colombia since 1995 and is the journalist of "Living in Colombia: A Practical Guide", "Teaching English in Colombia: A Guide for TEFL Professionals" and "Insights on English Language Teaching: What TEFL Teachers Need to Know". E-mail him at: for more than substance.