Hi!

I�ve been teaching English as a second language at the same American School branch for almost 13 years and since the very beginning I was oriented to:

1) Use only English with my students;

2) Prepare additional worksheets  / activities whenever they could be necessary;

3) Start every single work from scratch because they�re very strict concerning copyright.

So you can deduce that it wasn�t that difficult to start here when I registered at ESL printables, I merely kept doing what I was trained to. But I realize that most of schools have different teachers� training and most of the new members face difficulties learning how to participate without infringing the rules and preparing worksheets that will really help the others � so they�ll get downloads and will be able to benefit with the zillions of contributions from other members.

I prepared and published in my blog the rules of ESL printables in Portuguese, so my Google Groups members will be able to read it in our mother tongue and keep it in their computers to check the rules whenever necessary. Since the document is in Portuguese, I posted it here: http://intextos.blogspot.com/2010/11/regras-do-esl-printables-em-portugues.html 

Since my retirement in 2007 I have taught only 4 to 6 classes a semester (used to have up to 17) so from now on I�ll focus on new members and will dedicate part of my time to prepare tutorials for ESL printables new members.

To prevent from attacks or misinterpretation, I�m not advertizing anything. Feel free to ignore this post if you think I am.

Have a nice day!

I feel flattered, ueslteacher, but I�m 53 and have worked for 35 years. In Brazil women can get retirement from 48 y.o. or after working for 30 years.