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Mar 25, 10, 22:53 #1

Hello.

I am currently looking for a ''Native English Speaker'' in Warsaw - Mokotow, I
can't offer that many hours at the moment only 4 hours a week in fact. But I
can pay you 50zl per hour.

Please call or email me to arrange an informal meeting, if you are successful up on
completion of our meeting you can commence work - 2nd April 2010

Rgs

Christopher Bradbury
Tel - 668001075
Email - chrisbradbury@hotmail.com

AjbThreads: 12 Posts: 340 Joined: Jul 14, 08 ♂	Mar 25, 10, 22:57 #2
I can't believe you would post here, after your posting past on this forum!

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 25, 10, 23:02 #3
Get outta here. 200PLN a week. You probably get more by sucking d*ck laddie. That barely pays half the rent in Warsaw.

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,644 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Edited by: SeanBM Mar 25, 10, 23:11 #4
Ajb: I can't believe you would post here, after your posting past on this forum! Is this the guy who was lying about all sorts of things about his company? Seanus: 200PLN a week. For four hours. If it were for a week at 50 an hour, 40 hour week, it'd be 2000, you'd probably have to suck some serious d*ck for that.

AjbThreads: 12 Posts: 340 Joined: Jul 14, 08 ♂	Edited by: Ajb Mar 25, 10, 23:21 #5
SeanBM: Is this the guy who was lying about all sorts of things about his company? That's the guy, business man, investor, English teacher (with 4000 hours a week) and assistant to a Sheikh in Warsaw.. Edit: and letting agent for is Warsaw mansion

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Mar 26, 10, 01:17 #6

SeanBM:

Is this the guy who was lying about all sorts of things about his company?

Aye, that's him. I'm surprised he's shown his face on here after his lies were discovered last time, but hey. Again, usual disclaimer applies here - Mr Chris Bradbury here has been caught telling quite a few fibs in the past.

Chris, if nothing else - putting "Callan" and "Teacher" in the same sentence is pushing it a bit...

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Mar 26, 10, 01:28 #7

delphiandomine:

Aye, that's him.

I quite enjoyed that thread.

I thought you were being awfully hard on him, until I read more of it.

delphiandomine:

putting "Callan" and "Teacher" in the same sentence is pushing it a bit...

Hahaha, I thought Callan at one stage.
Wasn't the direct method used to get different nationalities to speak the same language in a short time during WWI so they could communicate? or something like that.
It is okay for book one and sucks at book 5/6.

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Edited by: jonni Mar 26, 10, 07:06 #8

SeanBM:

Wasn't the direct method used to get different nationalities to speak the same language in a short time during WWI so they could communicate? or something like that.

Yes. Callan himself developed it to teach soldiers in WWII (other ranks only - the officers got real teachers). It's possible for students to attend the lessons and work through the books but not actually speak English.

I have come across this. The Callan method is known in Poland (but not much elsewhere in Europe) because Robin Callan (who became naturalised British - I forget his original name) had some personal connections here. As he himself allegedly said, a monkey can teach Callan.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 07:57 #9
Callan is ideal as an entry-level position into teaching. Some who do it have their CELTA under their belt. I liked the dynamism in it but grew tired of it after some time. It is a mickey mouse method and is largely designed to make schools money. I'm almost 3 years away from it and I really don't miss it.

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Mar 26, 10, 10:54 #10

jonni:

It's possible for students to attend the lessons and work through the books but not actually speak English.

http://www.callan.co.uk/en/commercial-guide.html

This is worth a read - they themselves admit quite freely that anyone can start a school using Callan. It's also incredibly amusing - they effectively discredit the whole method themselves!

jonni:

It's possible for students to attend the lessons and work through the books but not actually speak English.

Yep, and they'll very often clam up completely when forced to think for themselves. It seems pretty much discredited these days - I know most of the Callan schools in Poznan have closed down, and one quite large franchise chain (Leader School) has dropped it in favour of their own variation.

Then again, it says a lot about the method if Chris Bradbury (an unqualified Brummie chancer) can train someone in it!

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Mar 26, 10, 12:59 #11

delphiandomine:

has dropped it in favour of their own variation

Well Callan are slightly changing the books now, in the students books they will have teaching notes as well as the translations.

So you can get everything you need to teach yourself, the CD's provide a pronunciation guide and you can teach yourself with Callan... well that's the idea

Also they have split each book into two, so one book for each stage and doubled the price of each book, so in theory 100% price increase! so Callan will be dropped by more schools next year i thinks!

NecramancerThreads: 7 Posts: 24 Joined: Oct 14, 08 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 13:27 #12
I shall not even comment on all of this negativity, but if you are interested in earning yourself a little pocket money please contact me. Rgs Chris

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 13:42 #13
Pocket money is for kids, laddie. I suggest you stay away from schools, though.

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Edited by: delphiandomine Mar 26, 10, 13:46 #14

Necramancer:

I shall not even comment on all of this negativity

Why not? You actually started off an interesting discussion on the Callan method in today's Poland.

How's Greenwood doing these days? Still renting that cupboard to you? And are you still teaching children without any pedagogical training whatsoever?

Ajb:

Also they have split each book into two, so one book for each stage and doubled the price of each book, so in theory 100% price increase! so Callan will be dropped by more schools next year i thinks!

They'll be finished in Poland, definitely. It might stay on in small towns where only wild mountain men live, but I can't see people bothering with this when there's quite a few (even worse) Polish alternatives available.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 18:37 #15
I'll give you some pocket money, LOL. That sounds like a narcissist thinking he is a hotshot with cash to splash. 50PLN per full hour or for 40 mins? Also, what about the ZUS side of things? Tying up loose ends sounds like skivvy work. Why don't you do it, Chris?

time meansThreads: 9 Posts: 2,306 Joined: Apr 21, 08 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 18:39 #16
Necramancer: I shall not even comment on all of this negativity Looks like a meeting of sour English teachers.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,160 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 18:46 #17
Or just some realistic ones :)

NecramancerThreads: 7 Posts: 24 Joined: Oct 14, 08 ♂	Mar 26, 10, 23:28 #18
The reason I cannot do these hours is because I currently have hours which over lap. I am looking for a new lecturer because my existing one is moving back to England tomorrow. I do not wish to argue or get into any long winded confrontations, I am just looking for a lecturer who can give me four hours a week. Rgs Chris

delphiandomineThreads: 39 Posts: 9,476 Joined: Nov 25, 08 ♂	Mar 27, 10, 00:06 #19
Necramancer: my existing one I thought you had at least 650 teaching hours a week from that broom cupboard in Kostancin, what changed? Seanus: Also, what about the ZUS side of things? Yes Bradders, are you paying ZUS for your teachers? After all, I'm sure such a caring businessman like yourself wouldn't dream of leaving your teachers without health insurance...

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Apr 30, 10, 12:21 #20

Apr 30, 10, 17:26 - Thread attached on merging:
Looking For A Native English/American Speaker/Teacher.

Opening a new school in Kabaty - Ursynow 800 meters from Kabaty Metro - 1st June 2010. Looking for English and American lecturers with a little experience working with ''The Callan Method'' or ''Direct English Method'' plus it would also be advantages if you posess either a TEFL or TESOL qualification.

I can offer full training if required, but salary would be slightly less during your 2 month probation period.

Hourly rate dependant on expeerience and certification level.

Please contact on both my private and personal email as I have a few problems with my business email at the moment:

Sincerely

Christopher Bradbury
Business Email:angol@angolschool.com Personal Email: christopherbr54@gmail.com
Tel: 0048-668001075
Website: www.angolschool.com
Address: 05-520 Konstancin-Jeziorna, ul Warszawska 24/3

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Edited by: delphiandomine Apr 30, 10, 12:51 #21

Necramancer:

Opening a new school in Kabaty

Another broom cupboard?

Necramancer:

Looking for English and American lecturers with a little experience working with ''The Callan Method'' or ''Direct English Method'' plus it would also be advantages if you posess either a TEFL or TESOL qualification.

"It would also be advantages"? Seriously, are you actually proofreading at all what you post online?

The fact that you're expecting people to have a qualification when you have none yourself is also ridiculously amusing.

Necramancer:

I can offer full training if required

You're not qualified to train people, however. CMO confirmed that!

Necramancer:

dependant on expeerience

Oh my. And you claim to be an English teacher?

I trust Bradbury, that you're complying with the relevant immigration restrictions on employing non-EU citizens?

Oh my - http://www.angolschool.com/content.php?id=11

You've just lifted this content straight from CMO - and I know for a fact that they won't give permission for schools to do this. You've also lifted news articles without citing the source - don't you realise how unprofessional you actually are? And you've done the same with the Direct Method advertising blurb too.

Proof Reading

* 1 Page = 10 zl

Price’s Skype

Please, stop it, you're killing me!

dnzThreads: 25 Posts: 806 Joined: Dec 2, 07 ♂	Apr 30, 10, 13:24 #22
Reminds me of this.... How many schools have you opened now? By problems with your business email do you mean it doesn't exist? I've just emailed it and got a Mailer Daemon back saying that the address is invalid. Your professionalism is astounding.

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Edited by: Necramancer Apr 30, 10, 13:41 #23

Ok. I have to be more careful with my grammar lol, delph might tell me off again.

When I type quickly I tend not to check what I have written and ''I'm Sorry''.

Why can't you just give me constructive criticism. You could have said:

Chris - Have you thought about Immigration problems?
Chris - Be careful posting other peoples news articles.

Tell me, why do you dislike me so much?

I never said or did anything to you.

What just because you believe in traditional teaching methods rather than Direct English Methods.

I mean what is your problem?

What so your some fat old man who sits behind his computer picking on other peoples innovation, personally I think everyone on this site is sick and tired of your smart remarks, I mean a forum is usually used for constructive feedback, but tell me how are your remarks constructive?

I would personally call them slander...

I am not looking to make an enemy, but can you not just try to be constructive?

I am new to business, I am the first one to admit I don't know everything but please if you feel you can offer me any guidance please put it to me in a normal constructive way.

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Edited by: Harry Apr 30, 10, 13:43 #24

Necramancer:

plus it would also be advantages if you posess either a TEFL or TESOL qualification.

Hmm. http://www.angolschool.com/content.php?id=10 "We teach Conversational English, Business English, Young Learners English, Matura Preparation and Professional English, currently we have 5 native English lecturers who all have at least one year of experience teaching the Callan Method, all our lecturers are TEFL qualified, so you don’t have to worry about the fact you might get an unqualified lecturer, our lecturers are also situated throughout various locations around Warsaw, so we like to think we can teach in any home or business around Warsaw."

So, if you want to work for a man you can trust to lie to you, work for
Christopher Bradbury.

Necramancer:

if you feel you can offer me any guidance please put it to me in a normal constructive way.

Rule number one: don't lie to your customers, it is a bad idea.

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Edited by: delphiandomine Apr 30, 10, 15:17 #25

Necramancer:

When I type quickly I tend not to check what I have written and ''I'm Sorry''.

No excuse. Your website is badly written and hasn't been proofread at all - yet you advertise "Proof Reading".

Necramancer:

Tell me, why do you dislike me so much?

The fact that you openly contradict yourself is something to do with it. I don't dislike you personally, I just think you have serious delusions of grandeur. Very common among very small language schools.

Necramancer:

What just because you believe in traditional teaching methods rather than Direct English Methods.

You don't know what I believe in. But the fact that you believe that Callan provides a good grounding in English grammar tells me all I need to know.

Necramancer:

picking on other peoples innovation

Innovation? So far, you're just following the same old language school path - lying to customers and using a method which is largely discredited in Poland. Doesn't it tell you something that in Poznan, there's maybe about three Callan schools left, and one of them has largely moved away from the method?

Necramancer:

I would personally call them slander...

Nothing slanderous about pointing out your mistakes and lies :)

(do you even know the difference between slander and libel, Chris? No? Didn't think so.)

Look what I found -

We are a registered Callan school

From http://www.angolschool.com/content.php?id=10

But CMO in London have never heard of you. Lying again Bradbury?

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Apr 30, 10, 16:42 #26

Necramancer:

What so your some fat old man who sits behind his computer picking on other peoples innovation, personally I think everyone on this site is sick and tired of your smart remarks, I mean a forum is usually used for constructive feedback, but tell me how are your remarks constructive?

How did you guess? I met Delphian last night and he was in fact sat in front of his computer in his parents attic eating microwave chips in an attempt to bulk up his 60 year old 35 stone frame.

No really, He's not 24 years old and about 12 stone at all....

Anyway constructive criticism time.

You are offering language services so you need to make sure that the impression you give out to the public is one of credibility and actual knowledge of the product you are selling.

Badly spelt and written text doesn't really give the desired image does it? Typing quickly isn't an excuse at all especially when you are offering a proof reading service. Attention to detail is where its at.

The Callan method is **** and doesn't work and really isn't a marketable concept. Students hate it as do teachers. Its boring and repetitive and doesn't work in the modern marketplace. If you have a team of cleaning staff to train up so they can communicate at the most basic level then perhaps it works but as a method for training people who can converse at a reasonable level its useless.

On your website you have stated that companies such as Fiat use this method. Is that supposed to be impressive? By telling people that an almost bankrupt company with a long history of building inferior products and then selling the licence to build these ****boxes to poor countries isn't really that impressive is it?

Nothing against you personally but since you started posting on here you have had several business ideas and fair play to you for trying but the amount of times you have been proven to be lying is just beyond a joke. You should probably come clean about your exact situation as potential clients and employees will look upon this far more favourably.

Does you broom cupboard have a window?

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Apr 30, 10, 20:05 #27

Callan is yesterday's news! Even then, precious few got sth out of it. It is a method based on a lie of learning 4 times faster. Avalon took over and left Callan out in the cold.

Trust me, I have people in the loop and I know what I'm talking about. I was voted the 'best teacher' of the method back in Nov 2006 and was also a trainer for a session.

When students get more focussed on what they want, they will see that other methods are tailored for them more suitably.

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May 2, 10, 01:17 #28

Well I think you are wrong about the Callan Method. Yes it's an old method but do you honestly believe it doesn't work?

I currently have many students learning this method and it's not just teaching them the method but adapting the method in such a way that the students can really progress with their English.

I believe 100% in the method I have seen tremendous progress in all my students who are learning this method. And when I teach this method I try to speak with my students as much as possible so as to develop their conversation skills.

Seanus. Took me a while to find this Avalon method, it actually looks quite interesting. I don't suppose you could tell me a little bit more about it could you?

And Seanus you stated ''Callan Is Yesterdays News'' but I agree and disagree with this statement. Many Callan schools are trying to cut costs and they employ ''Polish English Speakers'' and whats happening is that these teachers are actually pulling the pupils back half the time and teaching them the same mistakes over and over again. Another thing is TEO I don't believe in this, Callan needs to be taught by an English Native it cannot be taught by two foreigners teaching each other the method. Yes it's good practise between lessons. But Impossible for complete beginers.

I actually appreciate some of the comments in this post. but there is one question which you asked. The reason I have so many past posts is that when I came to Poland I did not have a clue what I was going to do, I had a very good job in the UK and I had to leave this job because my wife was alone almost all day every day with my baby daughter and I felt sorry for her because she had no friends or family and she was getting very down. So
I decided to move here to Poland.

I struggled for 7 -8 months doing Mortgages for English People in Poland. I honestly just wanted to try and make things work here for me and my family, so then I had the idea of bringing Fish & Chips to Poland but I could not get anyone to invest in this idea. But now I am actually kind of glad, I love teaching, I may not be the best at written grammar but I am constantly working to better myself, I am constantly doing course after course.

But now I am really glad I came to Poland, I really like the Polish people because actually they are very similar to us British, also Poland is a land of opportunity there are so many things that have not been done.

So there's my story, I didn't have to tell you but I kinda got the impression all you guys think I am some stupid tw* who's trying to teach English but actually I am doing everything I can to make mine and my familys lives work here in Poland.

Rgs

Chris

ianausThreads: 8 Posts: 22 Joined: Oct 16, 08 ♂	May 2, 10, 02:10 #29
I too have taught Callan in the past, but now the school I work for have moved over to Avalon. I prefer Avalon but the repetition can send me crazy some days. I felt at times that some students did learn pretty well with Callan, but Avalon does seem to work better. Certainly with books 1 and 2 we are getting some good results, 3 and 4 I am not so convinced about.

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May 2, 10, 02:31 #30

Chris,

Thanks for your honest post and do not get too down hearted by the English teaching snobs that come onto the threads from time to time. I think most of them should take a step back and remember that every teacher has to start from somewhere. As I have stated many times before, we could sit here for years discussing the benefits of this method or that method. At the end of the day teachers should recognise that pupils will pay for whatever works for them. My first job teaching was in Callan, mainly due to the fact I never had any experience before. Callan is a good base to start from, it teaches you the grammatical basics of the language, from there you can work yourself up the ranks.

In every job people have to start somewhere. Try not to think too much about the snobs who forget that learning a language is not about the method, but the end result ;)

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