I just started this year, at the half of the language program for adults. During the first semester of the year, I attended two levels, one with Professor Catherine, and one with Professor Paula.
Catherine has an interesting style of teaching. We reviewed the entire book, but we played a lot, and sang Beatles songs. The class was small (just five students), and we always had time to review the workbook and doing additional material.
After that, the study began to be more difficult, and we started with Paula. She is very sweet, just as Catherine, but she is always late in the schedule. We learned with Maria Elena, that if you want to be on date, you need to be fast (extremely fast. If you were five minutes later with her, you missed half of the class, really). But Paula is more relaxed. I had some classmates from previous level, so it was very easy to fit with the new scheme. The bad aspect of this level? The number of students. We were around ten, and the level of each one was very irregular. But we did presentations and compositions, to improve our written and spoken skills. That was absolutely in line with my objectives, because I plan to take an International Exam.
The remaining two levels experiences on a new post soon. Have a nice day.
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I think this is a great idea! Blogging in english really improves your grammar, at least the commonly used tenses.
ReplyDeleteRemember when I used to write on my LJ in English? It was fun, because my friend Niz did the same and we commented on each other's journals. You could try writing in English there, too.
Anyways, have fun. I'll be cheering you from here.
(nada mal, no estoy tan oxidada como creia)
Hi Lia,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog. You have to teach me how to have such a cool layout.
On the other hand, I don´t know how to take your comments. I agree with you that number of students in the class doesn´t help. My aim is to go faster but also that you learn.
Sill, we are not going to follow the book to the letter because you will have a lot of writing to do, we have the debate and also oral tests in our agenda.
But keep me posted.
Best.
Paula
Hi Xime! I tried to link everything to my LJ account, and guess what? the page is blocked at the Institute, so I had to create a blog here. But is a good idea to cross-post the posts there, to have them always with me. Maybe we can comment on each other journal to keep writing in English. Is a very good exercise.
ReplyDeleteI loved to see you here.
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ReplyDeleteLia i just post something to you, but it was on my blog :-S I'm not as good as you posting!...I'm a bad blogger!!!!!!!!!
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