Are you fluent?

“Mesmo a classe média que normalmente freqüenta cursos particulares de inglês durante 5/7 anos geralmente perde a fluência alcançada no curso depois que termina seus estudos”. Moita Lopes, 1996, p.131

MOITA LOPES, Luís Paulo da.  A função da aprendizagem de línguas estrangeiras na escola pública. In: ______. Oficina de lingüística aplicada. Campinas: Mercado das Letras, p.127-136, 1996.

In your opinion and according to your life experience: is it common to a person that have been studying English for such a long period of time (five to seven years, for example) to lose so easily his/her fluency?

Take a look at the students!!!

 English students from UFMT, Rondonópolis.

Students from FECILCAM, 
Campo Mourão- PR




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Opinion examples to help you

To help, here are some examples of how express opinion, agree or disagree about something. Remember, these are just examples, and you have to comment using as much English as you can, avoiding translators programs :)

Opinion Examples

• In my opinion, a good English Language Teacher is someone who cares/ shares/ dares…

• Someone who cares about his/her own students and tries to give them everything new in English language…

• Someone who shares his/her own ELT teaching experiences with his/her colleagues and tries to cope with all new findings in ELT world…

• Someone who dares to teach English language effectively, efficiently…

• "I would say that a good teacher needs to be passionate about his/her tasks ahead.

• You need to understand the needs of your students, how they learn in order to help them in that process. You need trigger their curiosity and provide them with the necessary tools to continue learning".

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Mercedes

How to disagree about someone's opinion:

• "I have to disagree with you, Hemant, because even the ads creators know those posters would just lead to raised eyebrows and laughter."

• "True, but the guy is very close to being fired as..."

• "I thought the same as you until I've started reading up on intercultural communications and such.. there were a few leads pointing at this direction, hence my question...

Giving your Opinion

• In my opinion / view...

• Generally speaking, I think...

• Personally, I haven’t the faintest idea about / whether... (starting with this expression may be interpreted as off-hand and could suggest that you have nothing else to say!)

• To my mind...

• I’d just like to say...

• As far as I’m concerned...

• I’m quite convinced that...(only use this expression to express a very strong opinion!)

• To be quite honest / frank...

• If you ask me...

Examples of disagreement

• I wouldn't do that. I would...

• But if we...

• I'm afraid I have to disagree with you.

• Don't get me wrong,

• Even so, if...

Partner Universities in this project

UESC- Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz- Bahia

http://www.uesc.br/











UFV- Universidade Federal de Viçosa

http://www.ufv.br/

UFMT- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

http://www.ufmt.br/

FECILCAM
Faculdade Estadual de 
Ciências e Letras de Campo Mourão
http://www.fecilcam.br/

These are the Professors/Researchers involved in our project

From UFV:
Dra. Ana Maria Barcelos

http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4796276T1

From UESC:
Dr. Rodrigo Camargo Aragão

http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4770329A9

From UFMT:
Dr. Danie Marcelo de Jesus

http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4730325Z6

From FECILCAM:
Dra. Maria Izabel Rodrigues Tognato
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=N844658

Me. Marileuza Ascencio Miquelante, 

http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=N841929

Daiane da Silva Lourenço, 

http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4247398A7

These are the students!!!

UFMT- Rondonópolis

FECILCAM- Campo Mourão- PR

Do you know me?

Hi everybody!!!

That's a special space for our participator. Here you can tell about your experience as a "Letters Course" student in your University.

How did you choose this course?

How have you felt about studying English?

How long have you being studying this language?

Do you like it?

Briefly, tell a little bit about your experience. Everything about  learning and teaching English is important here.

Thanks!!

Rules to our blog

How we work in a collaborative space, it`s important to organize the way we are going to share our opinion and post our comments.

So, these are some good rules to improve our discussion.

1- First of all, you have to tell your experience about as a "Letters Course" student in your region and in your University. For that, we've created a especially post called "Do you know me?", that is located in a gadget to the left of the page. So, go there and make a comment about yourself.

2- Every Sunday we are going to post a new topic to discuss about. It's very important that every participator do a weekly comment (from Monday to Saturday), in order to created a social network and have an interesting experience with our group.

3- Every participator can discuss any topic, giving his/her opinion and reflecting based in your own experience, or according to your readings, your beliefs, or your observation. Remember this is a collaborative learning experience, that`s why your contributions are going to give you the opportunity to be a better professional and, in addition, it will be a good way to practice English, significantly.

4- Become our follower!

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