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Being an English teacher abroad offers a lot of employment flexibility. It is possible to teach online, overseas, or in your hometown. For a month, a year, or the rest of your life, you may teach. Tens of thousands of Americans choose to teach English to foreigners each year. Simultaneously, millions, if not hundreds of thousands, decide to study English. For this reason, on your TEFL trip, you never know who you'll run to meet. These well-known figures may have experimented with teaching English to foreigners.
8 Famous Personalities As TEFL Teachers And Learners
Here are a few renowned personalities who might have dabbled into TEFL as a part of their journey:
1. Prince William
Ten weeks were devoted to Prince William, Prince of Wales, serving as a volunteer English instructor in southern Chile. In 2000, Prince William and King Charles III decided that he should use his gap year for safety, education, and employment.
Prince William would travel to other nations, work on a dairy farm, and instruct young people in English while taking part in British Army training exercises in Belize. William stayed in residence with a few other volunteers when he was a part of the Raleigh International Program.
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2. J.K Rowling
J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, taught English in Portugal before penning a book about a child who lived beneath the stairs and had a scar from a lightning bolt. Following her 1986 University of Exeter graduation, she responded to an ad seeking English teachers for a position in Portugal.
Rowling spent her days writing and her nights teaching. There was more than just magic in the air when Rowling got to know and wed Jorge Arantes. After giving birth to her daughter Jessica in 1993, Rowling quickly got divorced from her husband and relocated to Edinburgh.
3. Sting
Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, is a British singer-songwriter most renowned for his popular songs and musical prowess more than his ability to instruct. Following his graduation from Northern Counties College of Education in 1974, Sting was hired as a Cramlington teacher at St. Paul's First School.
Before going back to music, he spent two years teaching soccer, music, and English. Since then, Sting has been honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has won several Grammy awards.
4. Jesse Williams
Before assuming the role of a dashing doctor on the Primetime Emmy-winning series Grey's Anatomy, Jesse Williams worked as an English teacher in the public education system of Philadelphia. He continued his father's career as a history teacher in northern Maine.
For six years, Williams worked as a teacher, instructing students in English, American studies, and African studies. We are fortunate that he chose to abandon his teaching career and appear in scrubs on TV!
5. J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragons, hobbits, and priceless rings, oh my! J.R.R. Tolkien, the best-selling author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was an Oxford University English language and literature professor.
From 1945 until his retirement in 1959, Tolkien taught. He authored some of the most well-known books ever written, including The Lord of the Rings and its sequel, The Hobbit, while he was a teacher.
6. Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch, the Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Strange star of Marvel, spent his gap year teaching English in Darjeeling, India, before coming back to England to pursue a degree in drama. "I was teaching English to Tibetan Buddhist monks in a Nepali home near Darjeeling," Cumberbatch told a journalist.
He talks about how they gave him a lot of knowledge and calls them "amazingly warm, intelligent, humorous people." He became cool, collected, and collected in his personal life as a result of his stay in Darjeeling. According to Cumberbatch, he can now concentrate on the here and now without getting sidetracked by other influences.
7. John Krasinski
The American filmmaker of A Quiet Place and actor in The Office (US) originally intended to teach English in college. He worked as a student teacher for six months in Costa Rica, where he taught English. Studying English at Brown University was his major.
According to an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Krasinski remarked, “I was in college, and I was going to be a teacher up until the end… My life was altered when I enrolled in a theater program.
8. Stephen King
Best-selling writer Formerly, Stephen King taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy. At first, King had trouble finding a teaching job after earning his degree from the University of Maine. Shortly after he began his teaching job, King would spend his nights and weekends penning short tales and working on novels. His novel Carrie would be written and published shortly.
The novel's success led King to give up the order to focus full-time on his writing career. Of the at least eighty-one books that Stephen King has authored, most have been made into films and television series.
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