Last Thursday we were happy to meet an enthusiastic English teacher who came to Zlatoust for a few weeks to share his experience with the local university students.

Jay Gonzalez who speaks very good Russian gladly agreed to meet with my students and colleagues in our Language Lab. Gulnara Khakimova, in charge of foreign languages at Zlatoust branch of South Ural State University, accompanied Jay to our school. It was her application for a Fulbright English Language Assistant which was considered positively by the Program Administration.

But not the Russian language was the reason for Joy’s visit to our school. He responded right way when he learnt that our school students take intensive English for 6 hours a week as he was used to learning Russian at university.

Jay told us about differences between British and American English and many more things which we usually ask talking to native speakers. He was also interested to learn about our ePals experience and school student projects.