VIV'S ENGLISH NEWSLETTER
By Viv Quarry. Edition Number 62 The twenty-eighth of August 2008.
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Welcome!
Viv would like to welcome Agatha, Anne, Joana Granato, Lucimar, Marcia and Renata.
Congratulations!
Juliana Santos has passed the elementary level of English with a score of 90% in the end of course test. Well done!
Good luck!
Viv wishes good luck and congratulations to Flavia Campbell and Michelle Sa, who both passed the difficult upper-intermediate level and have suspended their classes - Flavia to enjoy married life and Michelle to emigrate to Canada.
The best of luck also to Carolina, Cristiane and Clara, who have terminated or suspended their language courses.
Happy birthday!
A very happy birthday to Anne (28 Aug.), Luciana (4 Sept.) and Lucia Rocha and Joana Canalonga, whose birthdays are on the 9th and 18th of October respectively.
Course news
In September, Viv's students will be doing a back of notebook test and then there will be another vocabulary test.
Homework
If you can't complete the homework Viv has set you in one week, the exercise will be written in red on your homework page. This means that if it isn't completed by next class, the class will be cancelled and you will have to pay for this class.
Viv doesn't usually charge anything for classes cancelled with 24 hours advance warning or if the student is ill, but from now on, if you have outstanding homework marked in red in your notebook, your class will be charged even if cancelled in advance. As I've mentioned in previous newsletters, homework is essential to effective language learning and if you can't do it regularly, you are unlikely to be successful in improving your English. Viv's homework rules are on his web site at: http://vivquarry.com/teacher/admin/homework.html
What's new on the web?
Viv joined Orkut in February so if you do a search for his name you'll find his profile.
Student of the month
Viv's student of the month for this edition of the Newsletter is Luciana dos Santos Lima, who is a systems analyst working at the Catholic University of Rio. She started classes at the pre-intermediate level in March 2008 and since then she has worked exceptionally hard on improving her English, especially her pronunciation. Viv has seen very few students make such considerable progress in so short a time. Well done!
Features
The feature on page two of this edition is an article in Portuguese from the Globo 'Boa Chance' supplement. It's about doing exchange programmes abroad. Only page 1 of the article is attached to this Edition. If you want to read the rest of the article, you can find it on Viv's web site - the internet address is at the top of this page.