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I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Visit to IH Coimbra

Some years after our first visit to IH Coimbra, once again in the morning of June 1st the doors were opened for us / our students and as always we were warmly welcomed by all - teachers and staff.
Dave, Jenny and Ben had planned three different activities for our students and they were split into 3 groups that swapped every half an hour. Dave had planned an activity on movies I found awesome (both the film and the activities), Ben had planned a very interesting activity on music and Jenny on computers. Wow! I can assure you that all were FUNtastic and students loved every single bit - check for yourselves in the pics they are about to share here.
There are no words to express my gratitude as a teacher to IH for always being there for my / Soure students no matter their ages. I've already lost track to the number of times that IH and Dave Tucker have been welcoming "kids from Soure" and last year (as published here ) there was even a most generous offer of a summer course to an adult learner of mine. As for the school, both colleagues and students were amazingly helpful: Helena helped with the bunches of flowers, Isabel and students baked the cakes we were to offer in the morning before leaving, Isidoro and students built a "Metal Dave" (Dave's words) as well as a "Metal Jenny", Filipe brought all the flowers and Marco two bottles of home-distilled aguardente from 2010.
Many, many thanks to all!

8 comments:

sharing ideas said...

Another great activity!

Sonia said...

a nice account of your friutful experience at IH Coimbra. I wish I were with you!

Teacher Alex said...

Indeed! The students loved it as much as I did and it was a perfect day: in the morning 3 different activities at IH with native speakers and in the afternoon a surprise movie :D

Anonymous said...

I loved these activities ,teacher Alex is great with all of us.
Next time Dave , Jenny and Ben could come visit us and we would prepare something for them. Think about that teacher :)

Daniel said...

it was a funny day at IH and later, in the cinema.
all the activities that were prepared for us were nice, but the one I liked most was the one about cinema with Dave. It was really nice to talk and interact with native speakers.

Filipe said...

hello budy!!!!
I love the vist to IH!
it was very nice!!
I loved all the activities, specialy the animeted filme.

Ana Paula Amaro said...

Motivated teachers make motivated leaners.

Teacher Alex said...

Dear students,
I'm glad you liked it;
Dear Ana,
yep, you're right...

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