My English lessons Last time I had English lessons at courses at my work. We have got a Canadian teacher named Bruce. He came to Russia to marry a woman and he also wanted to have some cultural experience. I really enjoyed his lessons, because all of them had a clear structure, Usually he choose one topic for one lesson, prepared some set of idioms which were closed to the topic, and then we tried to guess the meaning of each idiom. It was funny, not of them were obvious, we also have some tricky ones. After that we read an article and discuss it to make sure we understood it completely, And the next step was watching a video from Ted Talks about the topic. Sometimes Bruce choose videos from speakers with various accents (e. g. Chinese or Portuguese) to make our job harder. The last but not very least step was debates. We were split into two groups, one prepared arguments for a point and one against it. Usually we choose the topic on spot, without considering it as a homework or something like that. Each speaker make their argument, and their opponent tries to decrease that statement and only then suggest their own. I like a straregy that Bruce offered to us - use only one word for your statement and than expand it to a whole sentence. It's really worked, because if you are learning some foreign language usually you are not able to express your thoughts without an effort, unless you have a very high level at it, I myself still have difficulties with grammar and speaking. I do hope I will go through it in a several months. Thanks for the reading.