Teaching English in France can be daunting if you don’t know where to start – as was my case as an Australian – and it’s impossible to exaggerate the benefits of the TEFL course, not only in the teaching techniques I learnt, but in all the practical advice they provide you when setting off in the big, wide world. After getting TEFL certified with TEFL Toulouse, the first place I found a job, like a lot of new trainers, was with a training centre (centre de formation). French companies are becoming more and more demanding with their employees’ level of English, and I find that although most students have a reasonable understanding of grammatical rules (which gets drilled in to them at school), they’ve really lacked the opportunity to speak English throughout their schooling.