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Some Benefits of Reading for Pleasure

Making the Most of Summer Breaks Students can use their summer breaks in any number of ways. They can step back from school, and risk forgetting a lot of what they learned; they can work ahead in certain subjects; they can participate in specialized camps that teach them things ...

 

Making Use of the Library

I was working with a student last week, and she was complaining that she was so bored she started reading. Imagine! And then she read all the books in her house so she was starting to reread them. Her parents didn’t want to keep buying books on the Kindle so she had run out of.  ...

 

Musings on Learning English

The Multilingual Experience in Switzerland My experiences learning English―what can we take from that as a English native learning foreign languages? I grew up in Switzerland, a little country in the middle of Europe and with 4 official languages: Swiss German (the written language is ...

 

Scheduling Study Time Using Online Calendars

usMany of our students ask, “How do I make time to study and complete homework?” These students are understandably overwhelmed: Classes take up 35 hours a week. Most students also balance hours of sports, extracurricular activities, home lives, and work responsibilities. Making time between ...

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