EFL Curriculum for Daniel Fermor-Smith
Date of birth: October 1971
Nationality: British (English)
Formal Qualifications:
Feb–July 2002: NCTJ Pre-entry in Journalism; Lambeth College, London
Jan 1999: Passed the SFA Securities Representative Examination
April-July 1997: RSA/Cambridge Certificate in Information Technology
May 1994: RSA/Cambridge Certificate in TEFL; Geos English Academy, Hove, England
1990–1993: BSc. Business Economics (Hons.)
from Queen Mary College, London University
Employment history:
English teacher: THE ENGLISH ASCENT, Granada; October 2012 - present day*.
Cambridge Advanced Certifcate (C1) courses and First Certificate (B2) courses taught.
*Marzo 2020 - hoy, clases online
Summer school English teacher:
August 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012; The English Language Centre, Bristol, England.
21 contact hours per week.
All levels taught.
English teacher: January 2007 – July 2012; CL Academy, Granada.
15 contact hours per week.
Cambridge Advanced (C1), First Certificate (B2), and Pet (B1) exam preparation classes taught.
General English of all levels taught.
Wide range or resources used, including: Ready for First Certificate, Complete First (and Advanced) Certificate, New First Certificate Gold, Framework, Cutting Edge, New English File, Outlook.
English Teacher: September 2003 – December 2006; Vaughan Systems, Málaga/Granada.
July 2004 – Dec. 2006: I specialised in giving one-week residential intensive courses to business people in rural hotels in Cordoba and Ronda (approx. 25 – 30 taught in total). The courses comprised 6 hours classes a day plus a two hour evening business activity, classes being given in rotation along with one or two other teachers and students.
Sept. 2003 – July 2004: I used the unique Vaughan Systems methodology giving classes to business people in companies such as Vodafone and Elcan Industries in the Technology Park of Andalucia, Màlaga.
All levels taught from beginner to advanced.
Resources used included: Vaughan Systems methodology and materials, Market Leader intermediate and advanced, newspapers, general magazines (incl. Time and Newsweek), and business journals such as the Economist.
Chief Reporter: July 2002 – July 2003; South Hams Newspapers Ltd., Totnes, England.
Primary responsibility was to research and write the content for a designated weekly newspaper.
Titles included: The Totnes Times and The Plympton, Plymstock and Ivybridge News.
Customer Service Executive: Oct 31 2002 – Jan 31 2003; Prestige International Ltd., London.
I was employed on a 3-month contract to help establish a customer service call centre for the jeweller, Cartier.
English teacher: November 2000 – July 2001: Various English teaching organisations, Buenos Aires.
I gave general English and business English classes one-to-one, and in groups.
Clients included: Accenture, HSBC, Siembra, Tagsa.
Resources used included: Insight into Business, Headway (various levels), videos, and newspapers (e.g. The Financial Times, Buenos Aires Herald)/magazines (e.g. The Economist, Time Magazine).
Product specialist/Account Manager: July 1997 – October 2000; Financial Times Information/Thomson Financial, London.
Principal responsibility was to provide specialist financial data support, and coordinate technical support and product training for a list of clients which the company provided financial information to.
I took part in two major migration projects in which the objective was to move clients from old to new technology as seamlessly as possible.
Participated in contract negotiation for these migrations.
English teacher: September 1994 - April 1996: Madrid.
English Business Institute, Sept 1995 to March 1996. I worked as a business English teacher giving classes one-to-one and in small groups to professional people in leading Spanish and multinational companies, including: Sanitas, ABN Amro Bank, Asnef Aquifax.
Union Pacific, Sept 1994 to July 1995. I worked as an English teacher in a secretarial college giving classes to groups of 20-30 aspiring secretaries.
Summer school English teacher: July 1994 and 1995; International Language Centres, Lancing College (1994), Bath (1995)
English Teacher: August 1994; Chichester College of Arts, Science and Technology, England.
I taught 15 hours a week to students ranging from elementary to upper-intermediate.