Dear friends hello,

I have a great pleasure to write to you for the first time,

I am a russian lady from Kiev the capital of Ukraine which is an european
country in the west of russia.

Also I am trying to prepare myself to exams of the pedagogic institut
to become a teacher of english in school.

I would like to ask you to help me & send me:

1- school essays (compositions) on different possible subjects(topics,
themes),because they are the important part of exams.

2- typical exercices of english grammar in school & high school with
corrections(separately),

3- english proverbs of UK, UK)

4- any other idea or method about teaching & studing english as a foreign
language for russian people.


an other important question: me & my husband we need very much to
practice our speaking english in an english speaking country (UK,USA,
or Canada), because without good speaking english we have problems in
jobs & very low wages!

so for that we seek an english speaking family or person who may
host one of us for a month or more, & who may be interested in us
as: -tutors of our languages for free to their childs or to them(I can
teach russian or ukrainian, my husband can teach russian or french or arabic,
he is a journalist, a translator & a teacher),-or just as friends or futur
representants in Ukraine if they have interests or business.

it's just an idea so I am ready to answer any your question.
& thanks a lot for any proposal or idea or help.

I must tell you that I have only off-line, so I can not visit the web,
& my email system is premitive! (without windows, only uupc via dos!)
so I can not decode attachements (besides begin 666 file.*, if it's not
a very big mail!)

I'll be very glad to find penpals among you, to improve my english, exchange
ideas about teaching & studing, & know good people & other countries.

any reply will be deeply appreciated.

I wish you all the best!

Sincerely,

Oksana Travnikova, Kiev, Ukraine.(in the former soviet union.)
tel:+380 44 4639663 (at home).