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Do you want to study in the USA? SAT Preparation Summer Courses Forming Now!
Training courses for summer 2017! Morning and afternoon schedules This course is aimed at students applying for admission to North American universities. It is designed for students starting 1st or 2nd year of Baccalaureate with an advanced level of English. The objectives of the course are: To understand in depth each area of the exam: reading comprehension, mathematics and
Happy Holidays from Kids Club 2
This week in Kids Club 2 we celebrated the upcoming holidays! We discussed Christmas vocabulary and practiced recognizing and pronouncing holiday words with an I Spy: Merry Christmas book. We also read the classic Christmas story The Night Before Christmas and talked about what our families usually do on Christmas Eve. We wrote sentences about our
Hello from Kids Club Fall 2016
Welcome to Kids Club! This quarter we have been quite busy learning new songs, games, and traditions from North America. In November, we learned about the Native American people and some of their traditions. We even made dream catchers and wrote about our own dreams in our journals. November was also a month to remember
STEAM activities for children (9-11 years): All Hands on Tech!
February 25 – April 1 (March 18 not taught) Saturdays | 10:30-12:00 9 to 12 years old This mini-course is a workshop of STEAM activities (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) focused on electronics. Students will learn to design and build circuits and apply them to different objects in a fun and interactive environment.
American Expression: Liberty 3.0: American Outlaws
NEW ACS COURSE WINTER 2017 This quarter we will examine America's fascination with and susceptibility to outlaws both real and imaginary. How does culture simultaneously perpetuate and embody that fascination? What are its historical foundations? These are a few of the questions we will consider throughout the trimester. Instructor: Andrew Bennett, PhD Language Skills developed
American Art History: Photos Telling Stories
NEW ACS COURSE WINTER 2017 This course will focus on the stories that well-known and lesser-known photographers have told about America through iconic photos that still resonate today. From the weary eyes of Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, to the panorama of Robert Frank's Americans, the misfits of Diane Arbus, and all the searing news images that made
Limelight: Theater and Improvisation for Adults New session and new content!
New session and new content! Limelight Theater and Improvisation a mini course for adults on Mondays, from February 6 to March 13, 18:30 p.m. – 20:30 p.m. Through the study of scenes, monologues, and improvisation techniques, students perfect the tools necessary to interpret characters with different roles, interviews, and speaking in
American Literature: Short Stories: Paths to the Canon
NEW ACS COURSE WINTER 2017 This trimester we will examine some of America's best-known short stories and short story writers, and explore the ways in which these works and authors gain the necessary prestige and popularity to be called “canonical.” How many paths to the canon are there? How do they function? Who decides what
Happy Thanksgiving from Young Learners 2!
This week in Young Learners 2, we celebrated Thanksgiving. We read a story called Spare the Turkey about a boy who had his first vegetarian Thanksgiving. After that the class was split into two groups and we placed Guess Who? and Memory with Thanksgiving vocabulary cards. Lastly, we made fingerprint turkeys with paint and we each wrote
YL2 Shapes and Silhouettes, Shapes and Silhouettes
Young Learners 2 did a creative project with shadows using recycled paper on October 22nd. The students read a story together about making animal shapes using hands and a flashlight. Only the description of one of the shapes alluded to Halloween, with its howling dog, but as you can see in the pictures, its theme is there in the legs of a zombie, a bat, and a