Welcome back!

Let's pretend it's February and you have just returned to CALEM.

My dear students,

I'm very happy to see you again and I hope we have a wonderful semester!
Below are the photos of my three groups:


English 3
This photo was taken on April 9. Four students were absent.

English 4
This photo was taken on April 9. Two students were absent.

English 8
This photo was taken on April 17. Two students were absent.

I'm back!

First I want to apologize. I'm sorry I haven't updated our blog for so long. You know I was really busy, but, I should have done it anyway. Now let 's begin with the news from December.

On December 8, 2007, Marcelle's baby was born. His name is Valentin and he has already attended our English 8 classes! Below is his photo.

Then Christmas came a new year began and everybody was on vacation.

In February and March some students sent me some suggestions of sites that they like. Take a look and give me your opinion:

Sandra's suggestion (English 8): http://www.aprendendoingles.com.br/shtml/2007344.shtml It's a list that if you sign in you receive a story in English every day. It's good to improve your vocabulary.

Luis (English 8) also sent the following site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ He also mentions http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish and for children he suggests http://bbcle.bsysmail.com/go.asp?/.pages.resgistration/bBBE001

Other suggestions from Luis are http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/ and http://www.spotlightradio.net/script.php?id=1982

To test your knowledge you can check http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/bgp/ebgp/

A suggestion from Misael (English 8) is http://www.languageguide.org/ It's to improve your vocabulary.

Ju's suggestion

Take a look at this blog that Ju has sent http://www.inglesonline.com.br/category/ingles-em-video. It has a lot of suggestions of sites, podcasts, videos, etc. It's very nice and you can check it and do an activity and talk about it next class, I mean, after the test. Don't forget you have tests this week!

Let's read!

Here is an exercise for all of you. It's an action maze: a situation is presented and you have to make a choice. Your choice results in another sitution and again you have a set of options. Let's see who can solve the problem! Go to this address http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/quandary/version_2/examples/ and choose the first exercise, The Evil Landlady. Have fun!

Help!

My dear students, please help me update and make this blog interesting. Send me ideas of links, news, anything you want to write or read about and I'll post for everybody to see. This will be a kind of rehearsal for next semester. But I'll talk about it only in February. And by the way, take a look at the Twitter Updates and tell me what you're doing. This is a good way to practice your English.

Graduation - Photos (12/2006)

After a year, here are the photos from your graduation. Finally!!! As you can see I'd never survive as a photographer. But I took only the first photo the others are not my fault.