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Dear all. I've got two news to share with you - the first is happy but the second - is not. The happy one is shown in the photograph. It's a reward given to school 1359 for the exceptionally good achievements in teaching in 2007. In fact, the students of this school really have proved to be among the best in all-Moscow foreign language contests (olimpiads). Among these students are many of my best FCE and CAE girls and boys. I really take pride in contributing to their success and their winning positions in the language contests. Not only is it outstanding in itself, but it'll give them a real chance to enter the top Moscow Universities such as HSE, Plekchanov Academy and others. Good luck! They really deserve this. However, after the big CAE day (March 8,) they came up with the idea of writing a complain about the arrangements (Listening on the same day as written papers) provided by BKC IH. I agreed to help them as it's not fair to candidates to put them in such inad

Dear all. I haven't written for a long time as I had some problems with my LAN internet provider. Now I'm writing from my dacha and want to tell you more about my best loved CAE group from school 1359. All these boys and girls have passed FCE with flying colours, and tomorrow they are sitting their written papers and Listening CAE. They are doing this with the BKC International House and the situation in itself has caused a lot of concern from both their side and mine. The point is that I don't think doing Listening after all those written papers is a good thing as it is a kind of violation of the exam regulations. I do hope my students will somehow manage, but still the stress and pressure of the written part of the examination will inevitably affect their performance in Listening. We agreed that they would come to see me the following week and we'll decide what to do, in case they experienced problems. Anyway, what we can do now is to keep our fingers crossed for them