Back in Business

The Golden Week is over. Finally spring has come, and developed quickly into summer (nearly 30 degrees yesterday); also, ALL the days of the GW were sunny and warm, which apparently sets some sort of meteorological record!

AESS is back in business, with some good news: next week we'll have our first Academic English seminar (from 1 to 2:30 on Thursday and Friday, room D513-515). The groups are small, but hopefully enthusiastic. Most of the students are worried about their ability to understand spoken English and communicate fluently with their peers, and we'll try to work mainly on that, but the menu will include some English writing on the side, too.

The next piece of news is that, from now on, to use AESS you need to make an appointment (with the seminar starting, I expect to be a little busier than before), by picking up a time slot in the schedule here, and filling in the information on the form here. Right now the online schedule is still "under construction", but the available times will be as follows:

Monday 10:00-12:00; Wednesday 13:00-16:00; Thursday 15:00-18:00; Friday 16:00-18:00.

Very soon, you will also be able to borrow books and software from AESS; we're still waiting for some to arrive, and then we'll catalogue them and get them ready for you. Now, you can see a list of the DVDs in the AESS library on the SYSPRO-GP home page, and a list of books will also be available in the next couple of weeks. Check the HP and this blog for information about the AESS resources and the ways to use them, as I will be posting about that soon.

Looking forward to seeing you all, in class, or in my office.