Welcome to Easy stories in English, the podcast that will take your English from okay to good and from good to great.
I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for pre intermediate learners.
The name of the story is it's a small world.
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This contains the full story, as well as my conversation before it.
So in 2019, I applied to do a PGCE.
PGCE stands for postgraduate certificate in education.
Basically, it's a course you do at a university, kind of similar to a master's degree.
You study part of the time at the university, and then for the other part of the time you work in a school or several schools.
So it is a practical teaching qualification, after which you are allowed to work in public schools.
So state schools in the United Kingdom.
I say state schools because in many countries, public school means schools that the government pays for.
But in the UK, public school is actually what we call some very old fashioned schools that you do have to pay for.
So state school is, is what we say instead.
So, yes, to work in a state school, you have to do a PGCE.
I applied to do this in 2019 to teach modern languages at secondary school, so to teach French, German and Spanish to children between the ages of eleven and 16.
But I decided not to do it in the end because of coronavirus.
And also I was really worried about the stress.
Teaching in the UK is very stressful, at least in state schools.