Hi everybody!
New year new life. This year I'm working on an unprecedented project in my school, the Pen Pal. That will work as a cultural awareness tweak in my classroom activities. I'm making contacts with schools in English speaking coutries in order to have our students communicate through letters and e-mails. I strongly believe this activity will act as a motivational engine the will help me overcome the problems we face here when teaching English as a foreign language. The biggest complaint my students have is that they will never need to effectively use English in a social interaction. In fact, most of them are right due to the dimensions of our country and to their personal aspirations regarding carrer and life in general. Anyway, my goal is to provide them with a real need to use the English language, so that they will value the classes and start to understand that learning a foreign language at school is not just a matter of obligation.
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