Date: 29/07/99 No. of words: 150
Started at: 19.45 Finished at: 20.20
Studying English
By Rafeal Faria
I first started learning English at school when I was 8. It wasn't a formal class, the teacher showed us a piece of paper with a drawing, then she said what the drawing was about in English and forced us to repeat it.
When I was 12, I joined Cultura Inglesa. My first teacher was Mrs. Smith, who was a very good British teacher. She was strict, especially with the pronunciation of her students.
I left Cultura to study at IBEU when I was 16. Actually, I liked the classes I had at Cultura more than the one's I had at IBEU, because at Cultura we used to learn about culture, too, but the school was so far away from my house, that I changed.
I finished studying at IBEU when I was 19. As the years went by, I felt that my English, which was never fluent, was becoming poor, so I started to learn English again with Viv.