VIV'S ENGLISH NEWSLETTER

By Viv Quarry (www.vivquarry.com).                                 Edition Number 67                 The seventeenth of January 2010.

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Welcome!

A warm welcome to Ana Beatriz and Flavia, who have recently started classes with Viv.

Welcome back!

Viv is happy to see Claudia again, who has returned to finish the upper-intermediate level.

Happy birthday!

I would like to wish Nara and Bia a very happy birthday for the 20th and 25th of January.

Best wishes too, go to Claudia (16th Feb.) and Fernanda and Maira (14th & 29th March). In April, two of Viv's students celebrate their birthdays: Luciana (22nd) and Jana (31st).

Holidays

Viv will not be working on the 20th of January (the Patron Saint of Rio).

In February, there will be no classes from the 14th to the 22nd due to the Carnival and a visit from Viv's sister-in-law.

In April he won't be working on the 2nd and 3rd (Easter) or from the 21st to the 24th (Tiradentes). The first of May will be on a Saturday, so this day will also be a holiday from English classes.

Cost of classes

Every year Viv has to evaluate the price he charges for classes based on the previous year's inflation. As a result, from February, Viv will be charging (contact Viv for details) per hour.

Course news

The winners of the English bookmarks for the best book compositions were Juliana Andrade and Viviane. The UK pen winners for the best scores in the vocabulary tests in September last year were: Agatha, Juliana Andrade, Juliana Santos, Lucimar, Marcelle and Marliana.

Viv would like to give special thanks to Fernanda and Nara for bringing back English newspapers from their trips to Europe. These are very useful to my students as an excellent opportunity to work with real modern English. If you're a student and haven't done Viv's newspaper activity yet, you will soon.

In the first few months of 2010, Viv's students will have a vocabulary test in January and another back of notebook test in February.

The number of visitors to Viv's web site has increased by three times in last three years. In March, students will check and update their personal web page profiles, or create them if this hasn't been done  yet (optional activity).

Student of the month

Viv's student of the month for the first edition of the Newsletter year is Tita Barbosa. She started classes with Viv at the intermediate level in January 2008, and since then her English has improved considerably and she is now able to speak and write much more accurately than she could before. Well done Tita!!!!

Features

At the beginning of every year Viv prepares a table with his students' vocabulary and back of notebook test results in the previous year. This allows his students to compare their test results with other students and review their progress through the year. If there are more 'F's than green scores, you need to revise harder!!!

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