Do I need creativity to learn English? Good question, easy answer: no, you don’t need to be creative to learn English. You need creativity for your life.
It is believed that creativity belongs to artists, poets, musicians. And ladies!
The colours on the palette before the painter, the naked stone before the sculptor, the musical notes in the ear of a composer could
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“It is dead night… The stars are shining in the sky tonight, the snow lies white all around, the frost is cruel… Here is a lonely old farm where everyone is sleeping. All but one… The Tomten is awake. He lives in a…
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“… Do you understand?” How many times do we hear this question? or do we say it? A teacher to a pupil, a parent to a child, a husband to his wife. What do we mean by asking this question? May I use two examples. First scene. A foreign student comes to a host-family. It is
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Lucy Ann Curtin and her husband Peter Bently work together at their company called “Partners in Rhyme”. Lucy will lead workshops in our Learn&Play course this August, playing around the story and the characters of “Cats Ahoy!“, a rhyming picture book about pirate cats that three years ago has won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, which honours humorous books for
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“It depends who is doing what”, I should say. Timothy Doner is a young man now: 18-years-old, he lives in New York and mastered himself 23 languages, each one in just a few weeks. Cardinal Mezzofanti -who lived two hundred years ago in Italy- learnt and spoke fluently 38 languages without travelling out of Italy.
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Part 1 “Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing with astonishment dismay on the new world round about me, my mother spoke to the wet-nurse, saying: ‘How is my child?’ And the wet-nurse answered: ‘He does well, Madame, I have feed him three times; and never before have
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A popular Zimbabwean proverb says ‘If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing!‘: this is now the motto of “Voices of Lecale“, a community folk choir based in the historic town of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. “The choir was formed in May 2007 and developed out of The Singers’ Circle at
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Did you know that your personality may be different when you speak another language? That your worldview may change if you are multilingual? That the language may shape your thought? In an article published by The Economist about the advantages of bilingualism, it is mentioned that bilinguals are not only capable of a “better performance at tasks involving “executive function” (which involve the brain’s
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activities were selected in relation to their educational significance and also to the available Human Resources in the local community
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English tuition had initially a small space in the schedule and was almost focused on the understanding of daily situations and on functional routines to support students in their social interactions and general communications. It became immediately clear that their experience abroad had a much deeper impact than the original purpose of learning some more
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