Sensible teachers pace their energy expenditure from holiday to holiday, but the week before a vacation, it can feel like we’re engines running on empty. The teaching jalopy tends to glide to a sputtering halt on the day school breaks up…
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My class, have been busy fundraising. Theoretically, we give all year round, but the approach of Christmas has sent everyone into a giving frenzy. December is donation time. Firstly, the senior students are mobilising all members of our community to give to…
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It’s that time of the year again, the ‘no’ time: no sun, no rest, no let up. The pace of lessons is heating up for everyone, although the students may not feel it as keenly as the teachers. It’s only when exams are days away that the ones facing the blackboard…
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We’re all taking a breath, it’s coming to the end of the year, and the older students are leaving, exams over, a whole summer ahead of a whole new life of vast possibilities stretching out before them. It’s wonderful to see the relief on their faces as they leave the room knowing no exam looms…
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It’s okay, I’m not about to launch into the first chapter of my own version of a Russian novel. Instead, I’ve been considering one of the teacher’s less pleasant roles: how to respond to the unwilling learner. This came about because I did something last week I hadn’t done for a very long time…
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If the hassle of the Galeria is too much, there is a way to slow down and shop in style right in the heart of town. Escape the bustle by taking yourself to the Lulu Living Concept store on ul. św. Tomasza. As you approach the attractive gates the atmosphere begins to calm down, , and walking into the…
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I’m caught up in the student hysteria that is meeting the deadline for exam work, as well as the anxiety of revision for mock exams or, in some cases, the real thing. One of my private students has just taken her CAE exam at the British Council and the week before she was anxious…
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Want a gift for someone special? Head to ul. Gasowa 11, where you’ll find a shop that, from the outside, looks like an ordinary door into a block of flats. Step through the chunky door by the Black Jack sign and you’ll find some dark stairs leading to… another chunky door. A bell lets Black Jack…
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If you like spending money ethically and buying attractive items, go to ul. Meiselsa 4, where, tucked away, is a
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New Year’s resolution: “I shall not procrastinate.” Good vocabulary, at least. This is the first one I picked out of
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