Today I don’t have a car, Isabel and Gina decided go to a Children’s Farm near Tamworth. Before, at half past height, they took me to my English course in Erdington: five hours to learn English with my personal teacher Steph!

When it stopped raining, we went into Steph’s garden to practice new sentences and get some raspberries. In this garden, there ara a lot of flowers and big bees too. Indoors, we continued the lessons: we watched an interesting trailer to the film “The Intern”, starring by Robert de Niro and Anne Hathaway. We will add this to the list of outstanding films we would like to watch.

This morning, in the teacher’s House too, I met Valencian people. This was a nice coincidence in Birmingham, although I have lived in Barcelona for twenty years, we have our family and good friends in Gandia, near to Valencia.

After my course, I walked to our house in England, I didn’t hurry and I wanted to walk. When I arrived, Gina told me about her adventures at Ash End House Children’s Farm: she roud on a little pony, she found a fresh egg to take home, she went on tractor around the paddocks… but I will explain this story another day.

The main activity on the third day of my English course was to walk from Steph’s house  to the town centre. This was the route:

First, we turned left into Rollason road and left again in to church road. On the left we passed by Erditon Aquatics shop. We crossed over Deakin road on the corner of Trafalgar road and Church road. We passed an off license, a place to buy alcohol to take away. And then, we walked up the hill. On the right hand side there was a church, at the top of the hill. The church is called Saint Banabas. We were walking through the church yard. After the church, we turned right on to the High Street. Then we came to the end of the High Street and we saw the Library: it is an old and interesting house. Opposite the library there is a gym.

We went back along the same route. We crossed New Street, there were hanging baskets with flowers on the lamp post. Then, we crossed Barnabas road. Opposite the church on the right is the church house, now this is a Drug Store. Near to the Church House there is an old house too: the funeral house. We passed by Church road, and continued on the Hight street. We crossed York road. At the roundabout (six ways), we turned left in to Woodend road. We recrossed Trafalgar road and Deakin Road. Finally, we turned back in to Rollason road, and we arrived!

At home, after reviewing the tour, we played Scrable: my first time playing Scrable in English! I won the game, or the teacher let me win. I don’t know for sure.

I’m not allowed to speak any Spanish during my personal English course. Today we went to a supermarket nearest to the house. In the supermarket we bought bananas, apples, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, sliced bread. Before, Isabel helped me to write my first English shopping list.

On my shopping list we had broccoli, but there wasn’t any in the supermarket. Instead, there was a wide variety of wine from France, Italy, Spain, Chile, South Africa, California and more. I bought a couple of bottles: a glass of wine is very important in this course.

After coffee time, we played games on the computer which was to support and help my language skills. One of these games was crazy, because it was more technical than educational, however we loved it a lot. The five hours I spent studying English passed quickly, through the multiple learning proposals from Steph. Thank you!

 

 

I arrived by car with my family for my first lesson (I was a little nervous). I started my personal course at half past eight. My personal teacher, Stephanie Manson, lives in a beautiful house near the city center of Birmingham. I take my lessons in her house, which lasts for five hours! This is a very long time, but she teaches English very patiently, and I try to learn English as much as I can.

I started my course by taking one long test, a hundred questions about grammar, vocabulary and syntax. I did this questionare in one hour! Then, I found some objects in the kitchen and I wrote some sentences about them. This was amusing, but the reward was a cup of coffee with hand made rock cake.

Steph has a big nice garden. We walked in to the garden for practicing new vocabulary and new sentences. I learn slowly, but this is very interesting and the hours pass quickly. The first day of my personal English course ends with a glass of wine (Rioja Reserva) for chatting in English. Thanks Steph for this helpful course!