My thoughts about teaching and learning Hi everybody. I hope you could help me and correct my mistakes. I can do the same with Russian language for you if you need. As some kind of reflection, I decided to start a new part of my working life. I’ve just rush into it, and took a responsibility to make five free online English lessons. I’ve found three Guinea pigs who are ready to study on skype with me. I’ve scheduled these five lessons and prepared five presentations in PowerPoint. First of all we learn greetings and the verb “to be”. In my opinion these are basics (but may be I'm wrong). For Russian students it’s unusual to use such additional thing as “is” or “are” in sentences, because we don’t have it in Russian. The second important part is the verb “to have”. It sounds strange, but there is a mess with it. It’s not obvious that “have” and “have got” mean the same. Actually there are a lot to do with these lessons, but I suddenly realized that I’ve got a lot of gaps in my own knowledge. And I don’t understand how to raise up my English level, how to wide my vocabulary. I realized, that I haven’t written any essays in English for years. So here I am. It’s time to start doing it. So don’t judge me strict. But please, correct my mistakes. I promise to work hard. I see my goal, but I’m afraid it’s too far. I want to have an advanced level; I believe I can do it. The main thing is to start.