Christmas bells! Happy bells!

Hooray! We have won the town competition devoted to Christmas!

 Snowmen 71 - students of the 5 form

"The kids go hap, hap, happy! "

Christmas card exchange

3 weeks ago our box with small souvenirs and cards went to France (a group of boys learning English).

This week we have got their greetings for the coming holidays! At last!

We are happy that Russian Post has done its best and Russian cards are already  in France too.

2013 with Happy English.ru

Новый учебный год. Новый для меня УМК в начальной школе. Новые ученики – у меня снова 2 класс. Внимательно изучают меня, оценивают, присматриваются. Вот уже 20 лет работаю в школе, но всегда волнительна первая встреча с учениками. Какой она будет очень важно. Будут ли для них интересны мои уроки? Станет ли мой предмет любимым у этих ребят? Всегда осознаю, что очень многое зависит от меня. И особую ответственность ощущаю в этом году, зная, что в нашем городе в начальной школе учебник «Happy English.ru» не часто встретишь . А это значит, я не только буду учить английскому языку, но и невольно формировать отношение учеников и родителей к этому УМК. Хочется надеяться, что у меня все получится. Ведь мной уже пройдена линейка «Happy English.ru» в средней и старшей школе. 

В этом учебном году я являюсь апробатором УМК "Happy English.ru" (2 класс) на сайте www.englishteachers.ru, куда еженедельно присылаю отчеты о ходе апробации.

Every day a new package!

Our project with American students is also coming to the end... What a nice surprise they have prepared for us! The box weighs about 6 kg and there are so many interesting things from America. Everybody has found not only a handwritten letter from  the friend but a nice souvenir as well.
Thank you America! We will be waiting  for the next academic year. Our collaboration is TO BE CONTINUED...

The end of the project...

Cultural swap is a great thing!!! Unfortunately our project with Turkish friends is coming to the end. We have  learnt some new interesting facts about that country. Our memories about the wonderful experience we had will  stay with us. The small gifts sent by our epals will remind us that our friendship is something real and  not just a dream.
To see happy Russian students getting their souvenirs from their penpals go to ePals page.

Italian School Day

And again we have got letters from our Italian epals!!! They decided to tell us about their school day and they even sent us a timetable for the last term. They have classes from 8.15 to 16.15  and they attend school 5 days a week. Would you like to have the same here?
Happy Russian students with Italian letters are on Epals page.

When the lessons are over...

 Flowers make my life bright! Do you have a hobby?

It is not a hoax!

On the 1st of April I told my students that their photo was published in the American newspaper. And it was not a hoax!
We did get a letter from our  American friends with the newspaper article about our collaboration. It was a real surprise!
We are thankful to our American friends and their teacher Yettee Girard who shared their impressions with the reporter. And we would like you to visit www.epals.com . This website has given our students a chance to find   pen-friends, to collaborate and learn getting a lot of positive emotions!

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Hot New Year Greeting from Brazil!

It's the middle of March... But we  got  warm New Year Greetings from Brazil two days ago. It is a great surprise for everybody because our Brazilian friends sent  the package in November. It took the parcel 4.5 month to reach Russia at last!!!
If you are curious and would like to look inside the box, welcome to my Country study page.

Exams here, exams there...

Dear colleagues,
Our epals from Turkey and the USA shared their examination materials with us. If you are interested, you can find them visiting my Exam page.
 Let's  compare our and  their exam papers!

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If you want to see the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

If you want to achieve good results in English, you should be
ready to overcome some difficulties while learning it.
                                                                                        Me :)

Dear colleagues!

Everybody studies a foreign language at school. Perhaps it’s better to say that everybody HAS TO study. The teacher tries to motivate his/her students. How? In different ways- singing beautiful songs, watching funny cartoons, playing special language games and so on and so forth. But it’s not a secret that learning a language is hard work. We can’t only entertain students we should teach them grammar and spelling, rules of reading and wordformation. And we can’t do without drilling. Unfortunately, it’s not so exciting! And only few of the students (VERY FEW! I should say) study language on their own, besides classes using all kinds of resourses. How to motivate students? Can you share your experience? Can you give some useful tips for your colleagues? How to start? What sites can be useful? How do you enlarge your students' vocabulary and improve reading skills? Join the conversation!

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