New FCE group

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I've just started a new FCE group at school 1359. Today we've had a kind of ice-breaking session to get to know each other. They seem to be quite ambitious 13-year-olds who want to sit the examination in March 2009. They are motivated but rather weak at speaking, but it's just matter of time. The coursebook I've chosen for them is a new promotional series "Spotlight on FCE", which I have to promote for the CenterCom. Therefore, I decided to learn more about it by working on it, though it always takes up a lot of time to get used to a new coursebook. Hope it works out well for myself and the students.
Well, on Thursday (Dec.4th) I'm flying to Siberia (Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk)to examine KET/PET there for J&S school in Omsk. It's going to be pretty cold there, I guess around -15C. So I hope not to get frozen there as it's +5 in Moscow and everything is green here but really it's a "warming up' here, in Europe, but not in Siberia!!! Keep your fingers crossed for me. I'll be back on Monday, 8th. Miss you...

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