TO ALL MY ESL STUDENTS and TODAY, to YOU, someone NEW! !

You are all invited to join in and be pro-active! This blog also belongs to you.

Here are some of the ways you can participate:

* COMMENT (even if you make mistakes) C'est pas grave!
You will get better and better! You cannot GO BACK!
PLEASE leave a COMMENT (click on comment at the bottom of post and follow instructions)

* SHARE INFORMATION with your classmates, they will surely appreciate your findings:
New ESL sites, stories, anecdotes, jokes, games ...
* WRITE what's on your mind! How you feel about your learning process.
You are not alone! Group 'therapy'!!!

HAVE a dose of FUN!!!
* LET me KNOW that you are there to encourage... ME TOO (inside joke)!

LISTEN to this INTRODUCTION VIDEO:

NOTE TO THE READER:
- CLICK on Ctrl and +++ to enlarge TEXT
- anything UNDERLINED ia a link to click on



Friday, December 28, 2012

GETTING THOSE RESOLUTIONS READY ...?


HEY! How are you doing?

The festivities are not over ... right!
I personally think that it is a GOOD THING!
I'm having a wonderful holiday time.
And, unexpectedly, a great time 
outside and shovelling and chatting.
Never been so much interaction
with all my neighbours!

The view is incredible this morning.
We haven't seen so much WHITE in years!
 Have fun!!

SUZANNE



Sunday, December 9, 2012


ANOTHER MEANING to 
the JOY of CHRISTMAS!

We all know that CHRISTMAS 
is always the occasion
for family gatherings
 and gift giving
 that bring  joy, happiness
and laughter to all 
especially children and 
their simple way of celebrating!

We all know that children and grand-kids are also
the reason we enjoy it so much!
 We know that children who still believe send their letters
or today, their emails to the most important character
of this period of the year! SANTA as he is well known!
So I thought I would share this simplicity and innocence
that children can teach us 
A very special THANKS to Diane Dutrisac
for sending this to me!! http://www.wimp.com/santadad

IF you wish to SURPRISE a CHILD PLEASE DO,  
in your family, here is a ‘joyful’ link to SANTA:

ENGLISH version Æ http://magicsanta.ca and 
FRENCH version  http://perenoelmagique.ca

Or for you more SAVVY computor users,
a tutorial that shows you how to incorporate
snow flakes in all that you create for Xmas!!



 ENJOY this time of the year
and make a child happy!!!

LOVE to YOU
SUZANNE 


Monday, December 3, 2012

AN ESL TOOL BOX, my gift to you!


Good Monday afternoon to you!

YESSS! 
Today marks the official END of this fall's session.
Today is vacation time for me ... NOT!!!
 What did I just write!! Well, let me put it this way...
A break from the classroom!
That's better and closer to my reality.

As you can see you are still on my mind
and still for a little while until the Christmas holidays
when I will 'change gears' (idiom)  and
start my usual baking all the goodies
 that my friends are going to get
as Christmas presents from THIS SANTA!!!

SO I SENT YOU an EMAIL this morning?
 Maybe you thought that you weren't going
 to hear from me again ... WRONG!
Remember the expression: KEEP IN TOUCH!
Well consider it as the 10th communication
to match the last class or
 MY PRESENT to you for Xmas.

Yes! I am well in advance but SO WHAT!
Today you can do WHATEVER you want or need to do.
Just look at what happened to Boxing Day !?

I have put a final PERIOD (.) to the document
 I have been working on (with passion) 
for the past month. I am very proud of it!!
And it is my gift to you!
Just in time for Christmas too.
YOUR OWN PERSONAL ESL TOOLBOX. Cliquez-moi!
I hope you ENJOY working with it
as much as I enjoyed working on it!

For all of you who will not receive it, it contains many online resources that I have found and worked with over the years. It also is chock-full of TIPS and TRICKS and I must add, comments from the users themselves, all of my wonderful committed students who have found a passion such as I, in learning English! If you would like to get it drop me a line using the COMMENT at the end of this post and don’t forget to identify yourself or else ... it's a NO for you!

 NOW ... No more excuses for me ...
IT'S ON TO my household chores,
and you know how much I looove those ... NOT!
This is what I love doing!

AND

Have a great day!!
SUZANNE