The next entry So I continue my experiment with writing entries every day. My student is late today, so I have some extra time for writing. My student is on the elementary English level, and we study the verb "to be" and possessive pronouns, as well as demonstrative pronouns. These topics are bacic. I don't know where she is today, but she is still unavailable on Skype. My student live in South Korea and her Koreian is good, but neither her English. I'm not sure about my previous sentence by the way. I'm not good in using "neither". And if I start discussing my students, one of them has recently failed his end-of-school English exam. I have to say he didn't work hard, so it was predictable. In spite of all this I am still sad about it. Today we are studying again with him because he is taking this exam again in a few days. Not too much writing today , and may be nobody will read all this mess, and yesterday nobody corrected me either. Actually I do it for myself. And after all we can analyze this with my language partners. Have a good day, everybody.

dot the i’s and cross the t’s So, as I decided to write an entry every day (ok maybe not every day, but quite often), here I am. Today is rainy day, but it's warm enough. I'm not going anywhere today, so it doesn't bother me. I'm going to learn a new portion of English words, prepare for the lesson with my student and make some tests. It looks like my ordinary day. I read yesterday about CAE and its requirements, and I'm choked, the first thought was "I'll never do it". But I made a decision not to give up, so I start learning new vocabulary. I can’t except that it will be difficult, but if we didn’t risk we would never win. And more about grammar, I know there are such structures as passive present continuous and passive past continuous, but I couldn’t even imagine the situation, where I can use it and how. This entry is just self encourages thing. I hope it will help me to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

My thoughts about teaching and learning Hi everybody. I hope you could help me and correct my mistakes. I can do the same with Russian language for you if you need. As some kind of reflection, I decided to start a new part of my working life. I’ve just rush into it, and took a responsibility to make five free online English lessons. I’ve found three Guinea pigs who are ready to study on skype with me. I’ve scheduled these five lessons and prepared five presentations in PowerPoint. First of all we learn greetings and the verb “to be”. In my opinion these are basics (but may be I'm wrong). For Russian students it’s unusual to use such additional thing as “is” or “are” in sentences, because we don’t have it in Russian. The second important part is the verb “to have”. It sounds strange, but there is a mess with it. It’s not obvious that “have” and “have got” mean the same. Actually there are a lot to do with these lessons, but I suddenly realized that I’ve got a lot of gaps in my own knowledge. And I don’t understand how to raise up my English level, how to wide my vocabulary. I realized, that I haven’t written any essays in English for years. So here I am. It’s time to start doing it. So don’t judge me strict. But please, correct my mistakes. I promise to work hard. I see my goal, but I’m afraid it’s too far. I want to have an advanced level; I believe I can do it. The main thing is to start.