Hello everybody!
Welcome to the Speak Up English Language School. It doesn’t matter if you’re young and you need English just to understand computer/video games or want to improve your language skills or your employer wants you to learn English. We’re here for you. Or maybe you want to meet some new people via the Internet? To video conference with them or just exchange mails? Or you want to take one of the Cambridge ESOL exams? The reason is yours and the rest is ours. Just call us and be a member of the winning team.
Develop the skills for the 21st century!
With 18 years of experience, we’re the oldest English Language School in Serbia, located in Kragujevac, a town south of Belgrade. Although not a very big school, we’re very enthusiastic.
We began working on 16th April 1990. Our aim was to help children learn how to use all the language skills. And we did it! As a result, our students were awarded at international competitions organized by “Penguin” (“Write a Penguin Review” competition in 2000, where Tamara Dancetovic and Zoran Mujic were Junior Category winners for the reviews of “Babe– The Sheep Pig” and “Braveheart” respectively, and Nemanja Pantic (15) in the Senior Category Winners for the review of “King Solomon’s Mines”; Anja Rakic and Sanja Vuckovic for there stories” A Trip to the Valley of Pearls” and “Believe It or Not” at the “Be a Penguin Author” in 2002 ), “Longman” (a group third place for the photo story at the “Snapshot Competition” in 2001) and BBC World Service (Milica and Marko Vuckovic were awarded for their stories “Public Library” and “Ten Tips How to Make Reading Interesting” in 2003; the students were recorded by the BBC World Service and an interview was made.)
We connected our students with schools around the globe. Each student is assigned to a monitored e-mail, which makes them very exciting. All of the children are included in one of many projects, depending on their language skills.
And more than sixty of those who attend our classes are the owners of one of the Cambridge ESOL certificates, from the young ones, aged 7, to the adults who passed the CAE.
As the headteacher, I gave an interview for the New York Times in February 2008 and, if you follow the link you can read what Steve Lohr, the journalist who I was talking to, wrote. www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/business/24social.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
And in April 2008 I was invited to join the Advisory Board of the ePals, the largest global teaching community. Here's a part of the e-mail I received from the Curriculum Developer of the web site:
Dear Mirjana Milovic!
Thank you for your interest in the new ePals' Global Advisory Committee. I wanted to get back to you to answer some of your questions about how the committee will work. Our intent with the Global Advisory Committee is to gather teachers whom we consider to be stellar examples of both educators and participants in the ePals global community. With that in mind, we hope to work with and learn from you in order to make ePals the best education community possible. We hope that you will join us in our mission to make ePals the most user-friendly and comprehensive teacher site on the web. I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Best,
Rachel Goldman
Curriculum Developer
ePals, Inc.
