a day in the life: teaching english in china (with GoToCo) 

Your teaching skills touched my heart! Especially trying to get the quieter kids to participate, giving them the confidence to pick up their hands and answer is class. Dude. Wow you'd be an amazing foundation phase teacher! ❤️

I love your way of teaching ! It's really fresh and student-friendly. Language teachers should all take example

Bruh you seem more qualified to teach English than my 85 year old witch of a teacher

you genuinely look like you teach so so well omg

I was literally shaking when I clicked into this video... I live in Shenzhen and personally know some of the people in 大朋友 (printed on your shirt). No way! What are the odds! We even have the same juice box choice lol. I could have showed you around.

You talking through how you teach the students made me smile ridiculously throughout - dude you’d make such a good teacher

Jack you honestly are one of the most likeable RU-vidrs ever, you seem like such a lovely person! I just want to be your friend 😂😂

This seems like such an interesting and fun experience! (Your personality is so captivating, I always look forward to your videos)

we stan an english teacher

How do you communicate with the students, you don't speak mandarin right? What english level were the students?

he protecc he attacc but most importantly... he comes bacc

I cant believe how much extracurricular stuff you take on, honestly an inspiration

Suprised you even went to Shenzhen, a modern city with a large number of IT companies where I grew up as well. Hope you have a good summer experience!

Genuinely you are so useful to me, you are just living my life for me before I do it and feeding back. I am considering an English degree so you help me see what it's actually like in your videos and I'm planning on taking a gap year to go and teach English in another country (probably China!). I find it absolutely hilarious that everything you do is so relevant to my life and look forward to you creating more content specifically tailored to me. Thanks lol :)

I love watching these videos, it just makes me excited for uni !!

You’re the best teacher ever oh my gosh, please please go onto teach English full time! You’d be amazing at it, your teaching style is exactly what we need more of in British schools at the moment. If any of my teachers had been a bit more like you I’d have done so much better in school ❤️

It looks like such a great experience, and so much fun as well!!

You have such great ideas to support all the children. You seem to be such a great teacher so this is such an interesting and nice thing to watch.

This is amazing, it is such a honour to watch this video. I love all your videos, congratulations on this🍀📙

I'm always really looking forward to your videos :) They're informational yet funny and interesting. I feel like you're talking to your friends instead of a camera. Also kind of amazing how much you're doing and achieving - Very inspirational :)

Jack, you are the best! Not many people would go so out of their way to make everyone feel welcome! I'd love to hear about the interview process for being picked to go to China - as I'm thinking I may do this sort of thing as part of my gap year 🙌🏼 x

lol ok if anyone is wondering what he ate for the second day: the very right looks like pork with carrots and cucumbers flavoured with thick soy sauce & other sauces, red chill. The centre dish is som esort of meat slices (its hard to tell) with these vegetables named “white water snowflake”??? i can’t find a better translation but I’ll put the mandarin characters 水蓮菜 if anyone wants to google it. The white stuff on the very left is lotus roots with cliantro and more carrots i believe?

Doing great things jack .. Such a proud moment this is.

Best start to the weekend possible! Thanks Jack!!!

Aw this is bringing back memories of my China trip, can’t wait to see more of the vlogs!!

i must say we are all impressed to see you teaching Jack!

love this video! it seems like an amazing opportunity and looks so cool😱🤩🤩 x

Such an interesting video. Can't wait to see more travel vlogs :) Have fun at SitC!

EXCUSE MEEE!!!!!!!! I just did that!!! I got back 2 days ago!!! I was teaching English in Anshun! I’m also a college student! My major is Teaching English as a Second Language and I used it for my internship! wow this is amazing love u!🌸💞

Oh my god, I saw that you were in China teaching on the scamming video and wondered if you have made a vlog, so I went all the way back to here to find this, and knowing that you were in Shenzhen, my hometown, I am so happy! I hope you have enjoyed my city although this may be too late coming from 2021. I wish I had followed you during that time! 🥰

Hi Jack, I've lived in China (more specifically Shanghai) for over 15 years before moving back to the UK. If you need any help getting used to Chinese customs and culture (especially in Chinese schools which I had attended since I was a child) definitely contact me.

Amazingggg video and experience jack!

I signed up to do this about 3 years ago at my uni through the mandarin class I was taking, I got a Skype interview but ended up turning it down because I just felt I was not confident enough to do it! Although it looks like you had an amazing time, watching your video confirmed that it wasn’t for me and I made the right choice at the time - no regrets!!

The school you’re at is doing a choral course for the kids w some of my conductors in Shenzhen teaching it it seems like such a nice place & the kids are so cuteeee 💕

I leave in two weeks to go and teach in Hangzhou for almost a year and you have just made me so calm about the experience. Thank you so much. Will definitely be stealing some ideas if the school will let me put them into practice

OMG Jack!!! Can’t believe you just secretly came to SHENZHEN!! My hometown!! Hope you enjoy your summer in Shenzhen teaching!!! Please do more vlogs of this lovely city! BTW try VITA lemon tea it’s legit!

You’re just a cute ray of sunshine💛🌞 the kids are lucky to have you, I’m sure you must be an amazing teacher ! Oh btw, the weird food that you’ve never seen anything like it before is lotus root😉

Honestly you seem like you’d make such a good primary school teacher! You remind me of my year 6 teacher, he was amazing because when I was in year 6 he was in his first year of teaching so he was young, and you actually look a lot like him 😂 Love the idea of telling children that you’re going to choose them, I also have a fear to being picked on and that would have genuinely made my life so much better 😂

look at the planner thriving can’t wait to finally get one

I love how you helped the kids that were quiet. The thought of maybe getting picked when you dont know the answer was always so stressful for me, so I love how you helped those kids feel less stressed and scared :)

You would seem like an absolute amazing teacher! That bit about hating being picked on is so creative and just, nice! Also... You are soooo aDOORable ahaha

you're such a great teacher!

yo the editing in this is so slick and what you're doing sounds so cool! great experience for you and also for them!!

You seem to be such a good teacher, Jack! 👏🏻

I’m doing something like this Next Summer and I cannot wait!!🤩

I’m currently in China on holiday!!

HHAHAH, You are such a lovely person and it is an amazing experience!!! and I am from China, doing PhD in the UK. I feel so familiar with these things, the food packages, classroom, canteen, and accommodation ( we usually four share one room considering it is a populated country). Feel sorry for you about the door, but I would say this accommodation is still not bad in China. It is so funny the Chinese characters on these kids' T-shirt is "Study Monster" if it is translated literally. I really have lots of thoughts about this programme. These kids are so lucky or even privileged to get in the camp and learn English in an immersing environment, while some kids may just waste their time on computer games simply because they come from different family background. All in all, I hope you have a wonderful time in China.

YES ! A good day by Jack & So British to China < SUMMER 2019 >

That’s so cool I’ve always wanted to teach abroad !! 💖

Yes share your experience afterward !

this is was so cool!! i think i want to do something like this when i go to uni

I was supposed to be doing this project in Hangzhou but decided to travel around China by myself instead! Currently in Nanjing and I plan to do the project next summer.

I am from China and I’ve been to Shenzhen before. I am really excited that I will be studying in Durham this October 😛

Loved the video!! Can you upload your overall experience? I'm actually thinking of going after the whole Covid situation gets better. Will love to hear your experience!!(:

OMG🙀 welcome to China! And that thing with holes are the stem of lotus.

Yes omg beds in China are so hard. I went for 10 days and when I got home, my back was hurting so much. I love China so much though. 我非常喜欢中国！

5:26 this is so relatable haha

I love ur videos ..worth watching Jack u r great.

Whats it like working with students when you dont also speak their language?

you went to china for the summer and i went to england for the summer 😂 it's weird that you're so close to where i live!

This reminds me of tefl which is something ive always wanted to do

Looks like you had a great time 😊 ✌

WOAH! THAT WAS DOPE!!!!!!

hope you had a wonderful time teaching in Shenzhen.

Did the same kind of thing in Beijing for 6 months. Was pretty sweet!!

Hi Jack ^_^, nice seeing you in Hong Kong, I hope the journey back wasn't too long. Martin

OMG this looks so cool, did you take a TEFL at all?

So adorable 😍😍😍

what a cool experience!

my literal god i literally live in Shenzhen and i am obsessed with you right now and im dying because i literally could have seen you on the street and didn't recognise you 😭😭

The white food you had was lotus root which they boil and then cook like anyother veg kindof xx

I was gonna sign up for this because I also saw the stall at freshers, but I didn’t realise you’d teach an entire class to yourself?! Thats mad!

god i wish u were my teacher 😂😂 ur lessons sound so productive! r u considering going into teaching after uni??

welcome to China! love from Shanghai❤️

WOW You really sounded like a good teacher :)

Lunch looks good.

*Jack realising he isn’t qualified for 10 minutes straight*

The white vegetable thing is lotus root. I love it

ideal teacher for quiet kids haha nice work jack!

I could wish that next you come to India for teaching the children. And also thanks for all tips and tricks you shared for university students

LOL. I am so familiar with your background, 100% the dormitory in China. We live in this type of room at the university.

Mango mangoing mangone.so good at this

OMG U ARE IN CHINA!!!! OMG WELCOME QwQ

Please come to Hong Kong again ! We love you!

omg I could really use a teacher like you

It is whats traditional Chinese students’ dorm like hahaha,anyway enjoy ur time in Shenzhen!!!

Much love from Hong Kong xxxx

good work

omg me in Shenzhen too, hope you enjoy China!

I desperately need an English teacher like you because I've just started studying English lit.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍😢omg you're the best ❤❤❤❤

Cool English Teacher 😀

Respect from a small youtuber 🥰

This is so cool I am thinking about going to China this summer to teach with Gotoco. Did you have to know Mandarin?

Why do teacher never understand how uncomfortable it is to be put on the spot, especially when you dont know the answer. Good on you for getting the struggle.

Interesting video but you didn't mention how you got around the language barrier. did it make it difficult to interact?

Look how cute they are🤗🤗

Students who know more should teach the ones who need help because teacher don't really relate to the students in the present. When they talk about their student experience it's usually 2 3 decades ago and there's this big gap that makes teaching and learning ineffective

i did gotoco too!

love u

Wooden bunk bed in student dorms is a thing for literally ALL Chinese schools lol. Not my personal favorite but i can still sleep pretty well on it :)