MAY OUTSTANDING STUDENT

There are many types of students, but from those, the ones who stand in front of the others are the ones who never quit what they’ve started – no matter if it’s easy of very difficult. The student Manoel Pinto Serqueira is one of these who doesn’t care if it’s not easy or the process of acquiring a new language takes too long – he is here to LEARN. From Lesson 1, he told his teacher a story about travelling abroad (on business) with almost nothing in his vocabulary package, only a few words and the classic “I DON’T SPEAK ENGLISH”. The body language helped him somehow, but that was surely not enough for a fair communication. After some classes, Manoel started demanding the teacher not to speak any word in Portuguese, so that could force himself to understand the message through the situation being exposed.

He is studying SURVIVAL book, and his wife, Vera Serqueira (also a student in the same group) says he doesn’t have any time during the day to practice his English, so he wakes up earlier than everybody in his house and takes a 30-minutes look at the book, and the lesson to be explained on the next class.

By the end of May, he will have seen 11 of the 12 units Survival has, and in the purpose of seeing the native speakers pronunciation, daily routine, vocabulary used and manners, he decided to travel to New York – with Vera Serqueira along. This opportunity will show them the need of understanding English, and mostly ‘traumatize’ them in order to study harder for having the same fluency and naturality.

Manoel Serqueira is the head of the family, so he is used to always giving a good example for his children and relatives (once his wife, two children and an old friend are in the same classroom at UNS Manaus Parque). He constantly pushes them harder when it comes to trying to speak, because when he first watched a class, he claimed he couldn’t speak a word in English, and now he is actually outstanding from any other student because of his self improvement and power of will.

It doesn’t matter your education standards, age, gender or stratum. If you understand how English can be useful to your life, you will try your hardest and face the difficulties in order to conquering your goals.