The other day someone said that people would do anything to get points. That is true, we need points in order to be able to download materials but, from this.. to simply imitate/steal the type of worksheet people publish, that�s unbelievable.

After the success my worksheet had yesterday, today, there�s a huge number of similar worksheets. How strange is that? Well I didn�t upload 8-9 pages of exercises+key just to get points, I did it because that�s how I work, mainly with advanced students who are big worksheet consumers. I don�t have time to draw butterflies and flowers on my worksheets and I do provide keys because they are time savers when it comes to correcting papers. My students would solve 50 to 100 rephrase exercises an hour so that�s why I placed such a large amount of exercises. I could have split my worksheet in 10 �. that�s how people do here .I need points but because I need to find out how other teachers work with their students, methods used ,so that I could learn from them and become a better teacher. I don�t need points to qualify for a gold medal! �

Well.....

Now, it is hard for me to believe that there are so many people who are desperately trying to imitate somebody�s style in order to get points. Come on, points are not money! Then, dear Cami, what you imply here is that there are some people who hurried to imitate your style yesterday and produce the same worksheets as you did two days ago. Or maybe they already had them?  If you are right, then we must congratulate them on being so busy bees, don�t we?

Yes, actually you are right, maybe I jumped to conclusions �.I see you�ve got some experience here and you�re entitled to make good observations. And Kecika is right. Thank you anyway!

First of all thanks Cami for your contributions.I am glad that the problem was solved.Domnitza has always wisdom in her words.Secondly I wanna ask a question to all members.Do you think imitation is bad???If you ask me,I try to be original in my worksheets.But I don�t blame others who imitate. I feel proud if s.one imitates my work cos this shows taste.And also he/she may find my work useful and wanna increase the opportunity of much practice with similar exercises.I just wanna see them as inspirations rather than imitations.I think everyone cannot be in the thought of gaining points by doing so,but I may be wrong..

Thanks for all your answers. Fortunately I�m not a moody person and I get over thinks really fast. I�m �a Taurus and when I see red� I say whatever crosses my mind at that moment.�

Spring I�ve never thought that imitation might be a good thing but I see there�s a point in what you�re saying. �You might be right!

As for myself, living and working in a never-ending transition from bad to sometimes worse ( Long live our politicians!) I never find enough time for nicely coloured worksheets! ( is that envy?) . I always try to get the most out of something .

Learning by imitating �is a good thing but too much imitation makes us less creative. So I give my SS models which they should take for granted but I also ask them to be creative. �

There�s a difference between what we are doing here and what we are doing in class. If I knew that they imitate for, and only for the benefit of their students I wouldn�t mind...

The aim should be THE STUDENT!

maybe the rules on the website all wrong. People would be more creative if there weren�t any restrictions! I mean a teacher should come here and upload materials just for the sake of sharing and not because they need points so as to be able to download other teacher�s materials.

thanks anyway!