Today I'd like to tell a thing, which I wanted to tell a while
ago, but owing to lack of time, I haven’t done it yet. So, the subject is my
English tutor. She does her best in order to teach us language, so we should be
grateful and do a little bit more then we do usually.
Firstly I want to tell you
how I came up with the idea to publicize this post. Yesterday in the
Tatiana’s blog I saw warm article about one of her student and idea suddenly came
in to my mind: “I really should write an article about her teaching because it
filled with kindness, care and love and I do want to show it from student’s
side”.
When we decided
to learn English, as far as I remember, it was the end of 2010 year, we were
looking for a tutor who could help us to pass our exam in university, and we
have found Tania (thanks to Denis school, it’s a long story). I can hardly
believe that we started out first lesson from recalling the alphabet and we
were so far from English, it obviously was elementary level. After we had
learned a lot of grammar structures, words, and some linkers, we started
speaking and writing, it took half a year totally, and at that time we could
say that we reached pre-intermediate. What’s more, those were lovely days when
I suddenly realized that I could speak, not a lot but nevertheless I could. At
that moment I was so inspired, I wanted learn English everyday, I did homework
with enthusiasm, I wrote out some words which I wanted to remember, as well as
a lot of other things.
But
unfortunately, we had a 3-month break because of summer that resulted in
forgetting almost everything that we had learned. Then fall of 2011 had started
and we met again with a vestige of knowledge in our heads.
But Tania again
awoke our interest in English, which was triggered by creative lessons,
kindness, and love that she used despite mood, weather, and time. We were
engaged in lessons sort of academic year, whereas we were overloaded with our university
lectures, seminars and projects, so we cancelled a lot of classes and couldn't
do our homework properly, despite this we learned many useful things and increased our level
again.
The summer of
2012 we had decided prepare for IELTS and stopped canceling classes and worked
with diligence. There were changes for Tatiana either, she had quitted from her
job and started working on her's own. Since that moment she have made even more
interesting, inspiring and creative lessons, just as more people are glad to be
her students. She is pretty dedicated teacher, she creates lesson for students,
taking into account their possibilities and needs.
To sum up I
would go so far as to say that for me it is very complicated to me write such a
long post, because while I was writing I kept loosing my central idea sometime,
apparently I was making mistakes and as a result it might look sort of messy.
Nevertheless
throughout this post I want to thank Tatiana for believing and loving her
students. And I wish her a lot of smiles and more grateful people; she really deserves
it because she makes the world better.