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[caption id="attachment_29654" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Source: Pxhere[/caption] ⋯ By Dr. Rob Burton ⋯ I’m 67 and have a lifetime of teaching and experience behind me.  For nearly fifty years of my life, I have travelled, worked various jobs, been educated to PhD level and had a career teaching and researching in British universities. In the last decade alone, I have moved to China, taught iGCSE for six of those years in a good Chinese High School, taught IELTS both online and face-to-face, and for the past two years, I have been teaching English at a respected university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.  I have written three IELTS books, one published in China, plus three novels. I also write for the local newspaper and expat magazine. On an ad hoc basis I proofread…

⋯ By Dr. Rob Burton ⋯ A close encounter of the nasty sort 19th January 2020, and I had just finished three days teaching and judging in the heats of a national speaking competition, the winners of which would travel to Beijing for the final. There had been 300 students competing, many of whom were staying with their families in the same hotel as us on the campus of Zhejiang University. During the Friday and the Saturday, I and a number of colleagues had given classes to packed rooms of over 80+ students giving them insights and help for their public speaking. The speaking test was on the Sunday. It was during Sunday that the news of the virus in Wuhan had become more concerning, but worse than that was…