Why TELEGRAM?
In our classes with Telegram, your cellphone becomes your notebook through which you can learn English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, or Danish by reading & recording, doing exercises, and sending videos being in contact with each other 24/7. You will receive the respective corrections of your homework every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Telegram can be downloaded on smartphones, tablets, and PCs, with iOS, Android, macOS, and desktop apps available. You can also log in online with Telegram Web.
This means that in our virtual classes, you can use all your devices simultaneously. For example, your cellphone for the video and sound exchange with me and your tablet, laptop, or PC for the following of the teacher's class notes and also the lesson's material (web texts, internet audios, YouTube videos, webpage exercises, etc...) presented that day.
How to work a language by TELEGRAM with Prof Renato?
1) Send one or more audios to the Prof :), which will be answered (&corrected) every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
To you, I will send, regularly, a GREETING that will be more or less like this: "Hi (+name of the student) here is my greeting from September 16th, 2023. It is Saturday, 11 hours and 48 minutes. Yesterday it was Friday and tomorrow will be Sunday. The temperature is around 25 degrees with a nice weather. Today something interesting happened: (here you talk about sth. that happened in your routine).
IMPORTANT: When you receive my audio the best you can do, to learn quickly to speak, is to re-record it using your cellphone as a recorder and another device (like your PC, tablet, or even another cell phone to play it. The device that is recording will do that until the end and the device that plays will be controlled to allow the repetitions of MY VOICE - YOUR VOICE alternatively)
2) I call the corrected audio: "Feedback"
And what can you do with it?
a) Listen to it several times and note (in TELEGRAM or in your notebook) the observations made by the Prof (if you have noted it in your notebook, take a vertical photo and send it back to me by TELEGRAM).
b) Re-record it repeating what the teacher observed and even adding any kind of additional comments and questions.
3) You can also send any type of additional work on material found on the Internet. For example:
a) Exercises you do on the Internet that you want me to correct.
b) Long or short compositions in the language studied.
c) Photos that are used to comment etc...etc...
d) If you have a book &/or workbook you asked me to follow, use TELEGRAM as your digital notebook for communication between you and the Prof.
4) For those who wish to complete their language learning with applications, I advise you:
a) DUOLINGO
b) DROPS
Take a minimum of 5 minutes a day taking snapshots of your screen (of all the words and phrases taught) and take the opportunity to send it all to me so I can produce an audio review to listen to again.
EVENTUALLY:)
If at some point you no longer feel inspired or too tired to study the language, feel free to comment on it and also use the greeting audio by creating Refeedbacks (audio on which you will record your repetitions while retaining the Master's audio). See you :)
WHY 30-minute classes?
I believe that the total of hours studied in a week is more important than the duration of the classes. If you study 1 hour per week, divided into 2 classes/days of 30 min is an intelligent way of keeping in touch with the language almost every day of the week, considering that besides the classes you will have the possibility to send all kinds of audios and exercises along the week In my experience, this is as productive as 2 classes of 1 hour each per week.
In my experience, 30-minute sessions are also quite effective, especially if you still feel stressed while speaking a foreign language. The brain gets tired, and by the end of the hour, it ceases to adequately perceive information. But if you consume "bite-sized" information, it is easier for you to process and remember it.
Considering our busy daily life I recommend following a rhythm of 2 classes, of 30 minutes each, a week, in cycles of 4 weeks each time.
ENGLISH REFRESH in 4 WEEKS
Plan for the cycle of English Refresh,2023,
with Prof.Renato (for better speaking and more)
Lesson 1: The 4 fundamental
expressions to survive all
conversations
The 4 musketeers (3+1)
BeDoHa+Ge
(The 1st 30 minutes)
Conversation training
(The 2nd 30 minutes)
Lesson 2: The 6 Modals
CaMaWiShaMuOu
(The 1st 30 minutes)
THE PAST TENSES
Conversation training
(The 2nd 30 minutes)
Lesson 3: The 3 "Bandidos"
In-At-On (in Space-Time)
(The 1st 30 minutes)
Conversation training
(The 2nd 30 minutes)
Lesson 4: The King of Phrasal Verbs
Get + In-At-On
(The 1st 30 minutes)
Conversation training
(The 2nd 30 minutes)
I recommend that you book (minimum) 1 class of 30 minutes or 2 classes of 30 minutes during the week. Practice as much as you can with me by TELEGRAM (all the week), and you will receive my feedback on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
All you need to do is to be regular for 4 weeks and you will get and feel better for every step you take.
Thank you for studying together and see you soon :)))
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-renato-pinheiro-de-aguiar/
SCHEDULES
My current Teaching schedule is as follows (LONDON TIME):
Mondays
from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and
from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.
Tuesdays.
from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and
from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.
Wednesdays
from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
from 16:00 p.m to 20:00 p.m.
Thursday
from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and
from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.
Friday
from 7:00 am to 13:00 pm
(LONDON TIME)
Conversational English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese PT&Br or Danish.
Speaking practice to help you learn a useful language for everyday communication:
A1 Situations include meeting new people, checking to understand, and making suggestions.
A2 Situations include showing interest, talking about where you're from, and talking about your job.
B1 Situations include responding to the news, meeting face-to-face, and asking a favor.
B2 Situations include giving advice, dealing with a problem, and challenging someone's ideas.
Learn to speak a foreign language with confidence
Our online foreign language classes feature lots of useful learning materials and activities to help you develop your speaking skills with confidence in a safe and inclusive virtual learning environment.
Practice speaking with your teacher, directly in one-to-one lessons, or through recorded audios made by you and checked every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by your teacher & in which you will be able to get a more and more performing language.