Despite large level differences between people in this group we managed to learn a lot, keep the speed and have fun together at the same time. Working with this group first seemed to be quite hard, but became a nice lesson in flexibility, finding more effective ways of organisation of the group and practise in managing skills of “multi-level” groups.
Eventhough some of students were genuine beginners, the group finally worked very homogene and the differences were evened out. The speed of the group was from the beginning quite high but secured by lots of home assesments and controlled by tests.
We managed to follow the standard syllabus of the school and at the same time enrich the lessons with things for which typically the evening class does not always reserved enough time (such as working with a lots of text, doing communicative games and even a little bit of theatre).
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March 30, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Michael Halewood
Tenhle kurz byl výborný. Naučjl jsem se moc. Lekci byli zajimavé a příjemné. Jestli pracujete, se naučíte rychle. Doporučím tenhle kurz.
This course was excellent. I learned a lot. The lessons were interesting and enjoyable. If you work hard you will learn quickly. I recommend this course.
The lessons are made up of a range of different activities which are aimed at making you really get involved with the practicalities of the language as well as developing your knowledge of grammar. The group worked really well together and Kristýna is extremely supportive and able to identify the different levels and needs of individual students. She encourages each learner to develop as best they can and is aware of the different approaches and problems that we all have! The 2 and a half hours always went very quickly.