Hi Ian,

Thanks for the info re Linfen IELTS.I had a hunch that a former Chinese employee
of Yuncheng IELTS had some involvement with Linfen IELTS.
As it happens,I know Felix - he used to work for Mr River.His main duties included assessing the teaching of foreign teachers in the field and checking teaching assistants' records of what had been taught by foreign teachers.
I knew that he had left Yuncheng IELTS,but I had no idea he had started up Linfen IELTS.Obviously he is trying to put to good use what he had previously learned from Mr River.
Maybe Linfen IELTS has sent me that e-mail in the hope that I'll apply for a teaching post with them.If they had offered me a position out of the blue,like Yuncheng IELTS recently did,they would have lost face if I turned it down.They had realised this was a possibility,so they took an indirect route of making their existence known to me.But I'll not be applying to them for a job.

Ian said in his last post in this thread:
"p.s. what has this topic have to do with me being an excellent teacher?"

My reply:because you are an excellent teacher,you get job offers out of the blue.That's the connection!