VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, [4] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 08:40:22 06/27/03 Fri
Author: Renata Rodrigues
Subject: Task 8

My first contact with English took place when I was only five years old. At that time, I listened to the radio quite a lot and most songs were sung in English. I knew that that language was not mine so I asked my father what language was. He told me it was English. Since then I have been interested in searching for information about English language. It is worth mentioning that, when it comes to music, I always got interested in songs sung in English, not in Portuguese. For you to have an idea, I do not have any CDs by Brazilian artists. Mainly are by British and American artists. A lot of people find it very strange.
Later on, when I was eight, I started buying international soundtracks of soap operas. I listened to them for hours. By this time, I asked to an aunt of mine to teach me how to count some numbers in English. I also learnt that when I was at ‘5ª série’, I would begin studying English and then I waited for that time to come anxiously.
When I entered ‘5ª série’ and started studying English, I found out I had a huge facility for it. I paid close attention to the classes, did all activities and studied very hard for the tests. When I was at ‘8ª série’, I asked my father to enrol me at an English course, called “Follow Me”. This was in 1993.
Since when I began studying at private English schools, the classes already carried communicative function and many activities involved students in realistic communication. I found it very interesting, since we were encouraged to speak in English most of time and we were free to take chances on communicating and interacting with each other.
I studied at English courses until 2000, which enabled me to be good at the four abilities. Nowadays, I do not attend private English schools anymore, because in my opinion the university gives already a good basis for learning English. But after graduating I really want to re-start studying at English courses, for I intend to take CAE and then I need to prepare for it.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.