The train now leaving Kings Cross Station Platform 6.5...
So, ladies, have you got what it takes?
This is the ninth IELTS class that I have taught at the BC in 2005. It has not been the worst and certainly has NOT been the best - kind of 'middle of the road' / 'average', I suppose is a fair assessment.
Regarding weblog participation the 'cream' has gone very sour. When my next course kicks off on 14 Jan 2006 my memories will start fading very quickly. By then you'll be panicking over your upcoming IELTS and the day before the exam is NOT the time to revise the priceless notes that I have given you.
Tuesday's 'absent eight' let themselves down and I was not happy, but it was your immature, irresponsible, irrational decision, despite the undertaking that you ALL agreed to at the beginning of the course...
Moving on, I have marked your writing tests from Tuesday and am pleased to see improvement and adherence, for the most part, to what I have been preaching IELTS-wise, well done the 'present eight'!
TOMORROW, Saturday, we enter the final week with:
Rashid and Vivek, thank you gentlemen for your interest.
Bye for now
Your disappointed, but not surprised
IELTS Tutor Tony
This is the ninth IELTS class that I have taught at the BC in 2005. It has not been the worst and certainly has NOT been the best - kind of 'middle of the road' / 'average', I suppose is a fair assessment.
Regarding weblog participation the 'cream' has gone very sour. When my next course kicks off on 14 Jan 2006 my memories will start fading very quickly. By then you'll be panicking over your upcoming IELTS and the day before the exam is NOT the time to revise the priceless notes that I have given you.
Tuesday's 'absent eight' let themselves down and I was not happy, but it was your immature, irresponsible, irrational decision, despite the undertaking that you ALL agreed to at the beginning of the course...
Moving on, I have marked your writing tests from Tuesday and am pleased to see improvement and adherence, for the most part, to what I have been preaching IELTS-wise, well done the 'present eight'!
TOMORROW, Saturday, we enter the final week with:
- the third debate - keep your minds open - the conspiracy theorists must prove murder with facts and not Internet gossip
- feedback on your writing + 2 excellent handouts and some model answers
- grammar workshop on using/not using 'a' or 'the' - you make far, far too many mistakes here
- a final old weblog student IELTS exam feedback report - the inimitable Mohammed Saeed Mahfouz - the well known TV journalist
- a sheet on how to organise your VOCABULARY learning
- a final handout on speaking, maybe some practice too
- interviews for Cica and Laila
- a full scale WRITING test - task 1 and task 2
- bring your INSIGHT into IELTS coursebooks every day this week
- miss this lesson at your peril!
- NO CLASS on Sunday, 1 January 2006
- Listening, Reading and Writing tests on Monday 2 January 2006
- Final class + certificates / feedback / future planning / Listening test # 6 on Tuesday 3 January 2006
Rashid and Vivek, thank you gentlemen for your interest.
Bye for now
Your disappointed, but not surprised
IELTS Tutor Tony
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