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The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the teaching and learning landscape from traditional classrooms to online educational environments. In many cases, teachers have lost their jobs or have found it difficult to adapt to the new world of online teaching with their current school. As a result, many teachers wonder if there is a future for them in the language-teaching profession. In response to this dilemma, Randall interviews Elaine Oliveira, a private teacher in Brazil, on how to get started teaching privately online and finding ways to thrive at it.

What are the steps to becoming a private online language teacher? How do you find students? What technologies can you use? Where can you find materials to use in your classes? Think about these questions as you watch this video program.

Watch the video and answer the questions. In this video, the information for the questions starts at nine minutes into the video. Look for the closed-captions option ( CC ) at the bottom of the video to watch the transcript. [The captions are automatically generated, so they are not perfect.]