Bondage as a common TEFL advertising theme from Gaba in Japan and EF in China, from More on Weirdo Language School Ads– The Atlantic

“Spaced learning” (nothing to do with drugs, despite the name) and other new teaching methods that are “producing dramatic results“ according to the Telegraph

More failed pop stars hitting TEFL, to join my mate’s possibly true story of training (and failing) the ex lead singer from The Christians?

“Teaching abroad was the right decision for Paul McCartney. Following a part-time 10-month TESOL course, McCartney left his “soul-destroying” job… to move to Shanghai”

Come on Paul, I know you’ve never had a decent solo record, but you were in the Beatles! (from TEFL: A World of Teaching Opportunities in The Telegraph, bizarrely home to less capitalistic stories on our fair profession than The Guardian)

Maybe he wants to join:

“teachers I knew [who] often came to work with visible lesions and sores because they frequented brothels”

from Sex, Drugs and ESL, a piece of journalism as serious as you would expect with such a title, from In These Times

Moving onto other bodily fluids:

The Elements of Bile- 50 years and the 500th attack on The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (also of Charlotte’s Web fame, which is something I’ve just found out 50 years after everyone else, it seems)

Also:

EFL publisher Pearson buys Wall Street English China

And if that ain’t enough for you, Karenne over at Kalinago English has her own links to 8 great articles on the ELT blogosphere this week.