WORDS for FUN !!!: March 2016

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJCdihPWqc

NOTE TO THE READER:

- CLICK on Ctrl and +++ to enlarge TEXT

- anything UNDERLINED ia a link to click on

Sunday, March 27, 2016

I'M 70 and LOVING IT!!!

* un message suit pour les amies et amis

TODAY is my BIRTHDAY!!!

and here is a fun image
that I found on Google

Yes! I feel really fabulous!

It all has to do with growing up

and choosing what you love and

what you want for your life!!

AND one of them is TEACHING!!

And I am still at it !

LOVE to you my dear students!

You are the best and you make my life WONDERFUL!!

You keep me smiling every Tuesday and Wednesday!

But most of all, you help me stay young!!!

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And what would life be....

without humour...

* QUOTES from The Wise and the poets:

"The spiritual eyesight improves

as the physical eyesight declines." Plato

Another from the poet,

Thomas B. Aldrich, that I just LOVE:

Voici une traduction libérale

de ces paroles précédentes:

- Garder un cœur sans ride, avoir la foi,

être généreux, joyeux et respectueux,

sont les secrets de la jeunesse

qui , elle, n'a pas d'âge!.-

MERCI pour toute votre générosité

de paroles et de souhaits de fête!

Lorsque je souffle sur les chandelles,

voici mon vœux pour cette année:

revoir toutes les belles personnes

que vous êtes et profiter de votre présence.

Aujourd'hui vous m'avez aidée à faire 'le plein'!!!

SUZANNE xoxoxo

Thursday, March 17, 2016

HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY 2016

Hi! To each and everyone of YOU!!!

And Happy Saint-Patrick's Day.

To the Irish part of you, from your ANCESTRY,

and we know that it is a fact that Québec greeted

so many Irish immigrants over the centuries that

you could be a quarter, a fifth, a half, or an eighth

which ever ... the Irish is in you and in me.

BEST WISHES!! and

may the LUCK of the Irish be with you today!!

SUZANNE

Monday, March 14, 2016

A WELL MET CHALLENGE!!!

A WELL MET CHALLENGE!

WELL CHOSEN words!!!

for JULIE'S hard-working skills!!

Why do you ask?

Well Julie is a student that was 'parachuted' into

the intermediate group after only one session as a beginner.

Because I had to close this group and didn't want her

to lose what she had invested time and moneywise

I suggested that she 'graduate' rapidly.

I also did the same for Lynda L. her then classmate.

BOTH are doing fine!!!

Here is Julie's adventure story!!
with a few tweaks from the teacher...;)

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AN UNLUCKY SITUATION

Three summers ago, my family and I went on vacation to Ontario. We always like to go camping every summer with our caravan (trailer home).

On one day, while we were there, we went to Marineland and after to Red Lobster’s, my favourite restaurant. After dinner we returned to the campground. On the way there, the police arrested me because I was driving too fast. I didn’t know that the speed limit in Ontario was lower than in Québec. Normally I’m not nervous but this time I realized that I didn’t have my driver’s license.

“Oh! Oh! I’m in trouble!” I said to myself.

The police officer, mmmm…, the ‘big’ police officer walked towards my car with an angry face. I said, “Sorry! My husband drank a lot and I wasn’t supposed to drive. So I don’t have my permit with me. So sorry!”

The officer said nothing and returned to the patrol car. He took a long time and when he came back, he said, “Because you are a very responsible person, I’m going to give you a ticket of 46$ instead of 246$” I responded by thanking him so very much.

When we arrived at the campsite we saw my cousin and he had been waiting for us to come back. The awning of our trailer had been broken by the wind.

My husband’s reaction was to exclaim,”TABARNAC!” Something he never says.

Right now as I am writing this and thinking back, it makes me laugh but at that time, it wasn’t so funny.

GOOD JOB, Julie!!!

I’m really glad that you took the challenge!