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How can I use this website?
This website is not a textbook. It's a free resource for independent life-long English learners. The TP website can be useful because it gives you extra support in learning about ways to learn and the resources we can use to do that. Also, if you're a student enroled in my courses, and you miss a lesson, it allows you catch up by offering you info on what we did in class, and a copy of the handouts I gave out, so you can print them. TP is a good excuse for you to use your English every day, because it makes you read English, and it offers you all kinds of info (academic and about the world) and activities.
I don't know how to start! I can't find my way! What can I do?
There are two navigation bars - one at the top of this webpage and the orange one on your left. Click on the links and investigate! That's the first thing you need to do: have a look at the different sections on the site! IMPORTANT: Use the BACK button to go back to previous webpages, especially if you've opened a Word Doc, a PDF File or an External Link. A brief description of the sections on the left-side navigation bar, in How to Use the TP Website.
Can I swap going to class for using this website? What if I skip lessons?
You can't use this website as a replacement of your lessons at our school. If you registered for lessons, you have to come to class. If you don't, you'll get an absent mark. If your absentism is greater than a 30% of the total number of lessons, you will be able to take the Exams at the end of the course, but you will be considered a New Student thereafter. On this website there is an eCampus, which is an e-learning experiment we have here since 2007, but this campus is not a replacement either of attending your lessons.
Can I tell my friends about this website? Can I give them the password?
If you think people you KNOW need to use this site, go ahead. But I'm not very interested in this site getting tons of visits because it'd cost me more money. In January 2008 I had to put a "Donate" button on the Podcast to try to collect some economic support because audios occupy lots, and if this site grows a lot, I'll have to do that here too. I prefer doing that to putting ads, of course. I'd rather never have to put ads, I mean. So I'm not interested in this site being popular, really, but this contradicts my eagerness to be of use to as many English life-long learners as possible! :) Another issue is that I know some people working for publishing houses have ripped off other people's work on the Internet, including my own, and that's not fair. We share our work for non-profit reasons! You can post on the forum if you wish to talk about all this.
I'm an ex student/a friend can I still use the website?
Of course, except the eCampus, because I don't know what to do about the eCampus yet in relation to people who are not coming to class. I'm planning some on-line courses but I don't know who for yet. You are free to use everything else, including the TP Forum where you can register for free.
How can I use this website?
This website is not a textbook. It's a free resource for independent life-long English learners. The TP website can be useful because it gives you extra support in learning about ways to learn and the resources we can use to do that. Also, if you're a student enroled in my courses, and you miss a lesson, it allows you catch up by offering you info on what we did in class, and a copy of the handouts I gave out, so you can print them. TP is a good excuse for you to use your English every day, because it makes you read English, and it offers you all kinds of info (academic and about the world) and activities.
I don't know how to start! I can't find my way! What can I do?
There are two navigation bars - one at the top of this webpage and the orange one on your left. Click on the links and investigate! That's the first thing you need to do: have a look at the different sections on the site! IMPORTANT: Use the BACK button to go back to previous webpages, especially if you've opened a Word Doc, a PDF File or an External Link. A brief description of the sections on the left-side navigation bar, in How to Use the TP Website.
Can I swap going to class for using this website? What if I skip lessons?
You can't use this website as a replacement of your lessons at our school. If you registered for lessons, you have to come to class. If you don't, you'll get an absent mark. If your absentism is greater than a 30% of the total number of lessons, you will be able to take the Exams at the end of the course, but you will be considered a New Student thereafter. On this website there is an eCampus, which is an e-learning experiment we have here since 2007, but this campus is not a replacement either of attending your lessons.
Can I tell my friends about this website? Can I give them the password?
If you think people you KNOW need to use this site, go ahead. But I'm not very interested in this site getting tons of visits because it'd cost me more money. In January 2008 I had to put a "Donate" button on the Podcast to try to collect some economic support because audios occupy lots, and if this site grows a lot, I'll have to do that here too. I prefer doing that to putting ads, of course. I'd rather never have to put ads, I mean. So I'm not interested in this site being popular, really, but this contradicts my eagerness to be of use to as many English life-long learners as possible! :) Another issue is that I know some people working for publishing houses have ripped off other people's work on the Internet, including my own, and that's not fair. We share our work for non-profit reasons! You can post on the forum if you wish to talk about all this.
I'm an ex student/a friend can I still use the website?
Of course, except the eCampus, because I don't know what to do about the eCampus yet in relation to people who are not coming to class. I'm planning some on-line courses but I don't know who for yet. You are free to use everything else, including the TP Forum where you can register for free.
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