A LETTER TO A TEACHER

Work alone. This letter is to help you and your teacher to analyse your work during the
term. Complete the sentences with your own ideas and continue the letter if you feel like it.

10.01.2018

Dear Anna Igorevna

It is with great interest that I submit this feedback form as a point of reflection on our
cooperation.

At the beginning of the academic year, the target skills I planned to focus on were
listening and extension of vocabulary.
Looking back I realize that I started my senior English course with quite / rather a
sufficient mastery of writing skills. At the same time my writing skills turned out to be
unstable and undeveloped.
Having the term behind, I’m satisfied with the fact that I`m ready for the following
practise at school. I feel that I’ve managed to improve my listening skills. Mostly I did this
by attending the classes and active participation with the most helpful activities being
various tasks to control our comprehension level.
My favourite activities at class were lexical exercises from “English for seniors”,
because the material is truly useful and well organised.
When I did my English homework, I felt extremely tired and lost, because the number
of hand-outs and books, we were supposed to work on, was unreasonably high (especially
individual work).
I seemed to really did better in English listening comprehension when practising it
every lesson.
What I appreciate most about our work this term is authentical material. I’m really
satisfied with the way we worked. I do feel that we had enough of various tasks that helped
me to improve my professional skills.

Still, there’s room for perfection in any English class. Particularly, I’m afraid that my
lexical skills didn’t develop properly. Sorry to say, I feel that we didn’t focus as much on
checking the exercises and doing tasks with the same vocabulary as we had used to in the
previous years. I wish we had paid more attention to less material than to working on so
many books simultaneously, too. What I don’t quite like about our classes is working after
the break began and too much magistrates practising during our classes.

What I’d like to add is the prohibition of using Russian or Ukrainian after the bell rings.
To sum up, my predominant emotions concerning our English classes were positive. In
my view, the strong point of our classes was working a lot, though sometimes they lacked
understanding how much we would spend on our homework.
 What I expect from our English classes in the second term is development of teacher`s
practical skills (finding the contact with pupils, improving pronunciation and fluency in
speech, arranging everything in time).
Ultimately, thinking about our second term makes me feel full of expectations and

Hope for further cooperation and fruitful work.

Best wishes,
Chechulin O.