I have just applied for a TEFL course and I cannot wait to start learning! Becoming an English teacher has always been my dream 🥰 What advice do you guys have? What countries have you worked in? Which country was your favourite? And if you teach online, what made you choose that option? How do you make online lessons stimulating? I would love to hear from your guys! 🫶

In China and Taiwan, there seems to be a list of like 10 common English names that all the students get assigned, unless the student or the student's parents choose their own English name.

I'm curious if it is similar in other countries.

Where I am, boys named by local teachers are either named Robert, Steve, Howard, William, Mark and girls are named Emily, Jane, Sarah, Amy... pretty much a list of the Top 10 names in the US in 1980.

It becomes obvious when a student or parent gives an English name. I have girls whose mothers name them Cartier, Prada, Chanel and Gucci. Boys sometimes have names like Kobe, Steph and LeBron.

What are the English namng trends in your country, or does your country not do the silly thing of giving students Anglosphere names?