In response to re: first time teaching in China (Dole Dosser)

I am China's last emperor and want to reply to your input as follows:

Hello lads,

Hi lad, I am not a lad but nevertheless you might like to read my input below.

I am hoping you can help me out here. I'm looking for a job teaching in China, I downloaded a book off the internet called the communicative method, and bought myself a dictionary and am trying to improve my english before I go out there.

I see. What do you think must be an ESL teacher's academic profile to teach in China or anywhere else? Your e-book on the communicative method won'r get you very far. As an experienced teacher educator (not "trainer") I can tell you that the communicative method is only one of the teaching approaches in Language Pedagogy among others. And it does not tell you how to write a lesson plan, structure your lesson in class and explain grammar points that you may be asked to explain by your students. Yeah, and practical experience in teaching is not included either.

But I don't have a degree and have only just got myself

The lack of a degree that is normally required will give you the shittiest job with the shittiest employers, if at all. And expect hell.

got myself a flat from the housing association like and what is a TEFL, sounds like a brand of kettle to me?

In China, there is no housing association to help you if you were homeless.
TEFL = Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
BTW, do you know what "UK" means? Perhaps "utter kings"?

I also only have 19 quid to my name and don't want to go out there empty handed, is part time work possible, like even working in a bar or as a pot washer.

Certainly a lot of money - more than enough for dying. To live on?....No. Before you go to China, you may perhaps rob a bank to have enough cash to pay for a flight ticket and to have some more cash to survive on your own in the first two months.

Thanks for these boards lads, very encouraging, and hope you can help me, the economy in england is bad now, and that mr cameron has cut my benefits right down.

Mr Cameron himself is very poor and almost on the dole...after the next elections that he will have lost. And he will become the most famous squatter in a run-down, empty house in London. Willie The Moron will then come, buy that rotten house for 4 quids and send a gang of pimps he has hired to make him leave the house by force. You will be most likely in China by then, drive a Rolls Royce with three wheels, with a bunch of happy Chinese kids running behind your car and shouting: "Teacher, teacher, teacher".

Yes, indeed China is for you!

***Irony turned off***