第1193期:Radio Job

JJ: Annili, have you always been an English teacher?Annili: No. Actually, I started out as a French teacher. That was my first job.JJ: Wow! So tell me about your first job.Annili: My first job. I was working in Central West Queensland in Australia so it was a remote place.JJ: Sure.Annili: For example, the nearest supermarket was about 100 kilometers away from me.JJ: That's amazing.Annili: So of course, the students lived-- some of the students lived a long way away from the schools. They had their lessons by teleconference, actually, school of the air.JJ: Wow. So when you had a teleconference for example, how many students would be on the air at the same time?Annili: I guess around eight, in two different locations. I would be in the third locationJJ: Wow, that's amazing!Annili: Yeah.JJ: Yeah! And how often would you be teaching like this?Annili: Well, the students were aged between 9 and 12 years old. They had two French lessons a week by teleconference.JJ: Wow, and how long was each lesson?Annili: 45 minutesJJ: Great. That's really interesting.

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