Mood:  happy

Hello, everybody!

You're one of the best classes I have ever taught. Your enthusiastic reponse and keen participation in class activities make lessons very enjoyable indeed.

Instead of writing in exercise books, which allows only me reading and responding to individual thoughts and feelings, I would like all of you to contribute to a common blog, which facilitates group sharing much more effectively.

Like the English Chat Room, form yourselves into groups of two or three. Each week at least one group member writes for this blog, about anything you like. For the 'title', enter the group number and name, e.g.  Group 1  -   Key  Man.  

I won't do any editing as I believe in free speech (I'm sure you will show respect for others). As a matter of fact, I won't even correct your grammatical mistakes because the focus of this blog is on exchanging thoughts and feelings, and correcting mistakes only serves to discourage you from expressing yourselves at ease. And that will be good for me too, obviously. Proof-reading takes time. If we don't have much spare time but still want to keep this a regular practice, errors have to be tolerated. I'm sure I will also make careless mistakes, so don't be afraid of making mistakes. Think and speak up. Don't be a slave to fear!  Don't let fear gag you! 

Ah, guess who will be the next one to 'speak' to us.

Attention! The next one is......