Welcome
It's school time again.
Here's a letter this year I've written for my students.

Dear Students of  XXXXXXXXXXXXX

It’s school time again!

I hope that your summer was happy, filled with many positive experiences and special memories.

My name is  XXXXXX and I’m looking forward to working with you this school year. I live in XXXXXXX and I ‘ve been teaching English in this Liceo for more than ten years.

I like teaching English very much and every day it’s a challenge for me. I think that a teacher can learn lots of things from his/her students and every school year, when it finishes, I realize I’ve learnt  so much together with my students. I know you matter to your family and to your friends. You also matter to me!

The most important thing for me is to help you improve English, so that you can speak more fluently, you can understand English better and better, you can write expressing your opinions and ideas more and more correctly using the right words and expressions.

I know we will have a successful and productive school year.

I’m sure you’ll learn a lot this year.

Now please note the following information and rules.
Homework will be given every lesson. Some of the activities will be completed on loose-leaf paper, because I’ll take them home so that I can check them.  So a “homework folder” will be used. Homework is expected to be completed and handed it on time. My policy is to mark any homework handed in after the due date as late ( that is “impreparato” on the register-on line). I’ll check homework almost every lesson. Some of the activities done as homework could be published on my blog https://englishmajorana.blogspot.it/

You will have two written tests in the first “quadrimestre” and three written tests in the second “ quadrimestre”.  Every activity or exercise gets a score. All the scores will be added together so that they may get the maximum total sum that is 100, which is equal to mark 10.

You will have two or three oral tests per “quadrimestre”. The evaluation will be given on the basis of an evaluation grid, which is common to all first classes. Of course, pronunciation, accuracy in grammar and in the choice of words, fluency and text organization will be highly regarded when giving the final mark

One of my aims is to make classroom instruction as interesting as possible and look for new and different ways of presenting materials. In my classroom, I will incorporate many different and varied tools to maximize your learning potential, including songs, pairwork, role-plays, videos on youtube, power point presentations, mind maps created on the LIM, webquests  and even your mobiles  may be useful as well as the traditional books and paper (of course!)

In addition, I’ll try to devote enough class time to speaking, listening and pronunciation work.

I expect you not to use mobile phones during English classes, not to lose the photocopies I give them, not to take school rules and English lightly, not to cheat during written class tests

I promise I’ll try to involve you all, to be fair, to take the same action with those who misbehave, to see things from your perspective….I’ll try to teach you as well as I can

Best of luck

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