Archive for March, 2010

St. Patricks Day Newsletter

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Hi Everybody,
here some news from the Slaney Language Centre:

Special Offer for Easter Family Course

If you have children between ten and fourteen years of age we would be delighted to offer you a 20% discount on our Easter Family Course which will take place from Monday 29 March to Friday 9 April.  Why not get away for a relaxing and educational break for you and your child?  We guarantee that it will be an experience that neither you nor your child will ever forget.

July and August Family Courses

Hurry!  There are ONLY two children’s places left on the August family course and a few more for the July courses, so book immediately to avoid disappointment!  Family courses offer you the chance to have an enjoyable, relaxing and educational, family holiday.  They allow you to improve your English skills while providing your children with the opportunity to learn and develop their English in a fun, child centred approach to second language acquisition.  This is an experience that will benefit your children’s future.

More infos: www.wexford-language.com/courses/parents%20and%20children.html

First Certificate Exam Results 

Congratulations to our evening class students, Sonja, Joanna and Marcin, who recently took their FCE in Dublin City University.  They passed with amazing results.  We are so proud of you for your hard work and dedication to the course.  Well done also to Alfonso who also recently passed the FCE.  He has been with us twice on Summer courses and we hope to see you again soon.  We will have another evening course for the June FCE exams starting soon and a Fluency Development and FCE preparation programme in Summer.  If you have been working towards doing your First Certificate Exam this course would be ideal for you as we give advice and guidance on all five papers and tips to answer each question.  A breakdown of the marking scheme is also valuable to achieve the highest results possible.  Please note that it is now possible to take your FCE exam in Ireland in August.  Check out our brochure for further details. 

More infos: www.wexford-language.com/courses/first_certificate_exam.html

Review your experience

You now have the opportunity to tell the world about your experience with us in the Slaney Language Centre!  We would love you to share your memories and experiences with others who have not been as lucky as you to spend time in Wexford and in our school.  Please let them know that there are no strangers at SLC, only friends you haven’t met yet!

www.my-language-travel.com/language-school/THE-SLANEY-LANGUAGE-CENTRE

Internet Addicts

Don’t forget that we are now on facebook and twitter and we would love you to join us and keep us up to date with what is happening!

www.facebook.com/Slaney.Language.Centre

www.twitter.com/Slaneylanguage

How Irish are you???
Take the Irish test, if you’re brave enough!

www.wexford-language.com/misc/quiz.html

Results:

Score 0–5: Quick!  Book a flight to Ireland – we need to educate you!

Score 6-14: You’re learning but you still need to visit us!  There’s so much more you need to learn.

Score 15-19: You must have had a few pints of Guinness or a few hot whiskeys.  You’re almost Irish!

Score 20: Well done! You’re an honorary Irish person!  St. Patrick would be proud of you! (and Sinéad)

St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and we celebrate his life on 17 March.  This is a national holiday.  We have parades in every town and city in Ireland dedicated to his memory.  The biggest celebration in Ireland will take place in Dublin but parades also take place in America, with one of the biggest in the world held in New York each year.  On 17 March everyone wears shamrock and green clothes.  We also paint our faces, drink green beer and eat green ice-cream.  Everybody sings and dances and celebrates on the street.

If you miss Ireland – watch this!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWMC6wOuSY

Video – Mary’s Bar
 

On Saint Patrick’s Day,

May God grant you always a sunbeam to warm you,

A moonbeam to charm you,

A sheltering angel so nothing can harm you,

Laughter to cheer you,

Faithful friends near you,

And whenever you pray,

Heaven to hear you.

Lá Fhéile Phádraig shona daoibh go léir!

Wishing you peace and happiness from all at the SLC on St. Paddy’s Day.

Sinead

Anna-Lena from Germany

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Me, Rocío and Mariana at The HookHello!
I want to tell you about my experiences in Ireland:

If I look back on my last month in Wexford, Ireland I throughout remember positive things.
I stayed with a hostfamily and I really lost my heart for the Irish way of living. There is NO better possibility to make your English fluent than with a hostfamily.
But especially the Slaney Language Centre does a great job. Lisa is the best manager you can imagine for a language school and Anita arranges everything so lovely. I liked the small classes and my teachers Emma and Susan just taught us in such a sucessful way. I enjoyed every single day! ( I can’t remember that I liked my school in Germany so much ;-) )
It’s just so pleasant to work with a small group and to learn so many things day by day! To my mind Wexford is a perfect place to stay. There are lots of possibilities for activities in your freetime. One of my class mates worked as a volunteer in an Oxfam-Shop in her freetime after school. I think, it’s a great thing: You can combine the voluntary work with meeting lots of Irish people and you learn to understand the different accents. Her English was getting better so quickly!
Another thing that I liked were the activities in the afternoon. One day Jim, the bus driver, took me and the other two girls of my class to the Hook, the last operating lighthouse. We had a nice walk on the cliffs and Jim told us lots of stories and legends. I really enjoyed it - THANK YOU JIM!
After a three-weeks language course I did a work experience in the office of the Slaney Language Centre.
I’m quite sad that the beautiful time in Ireland is over now :-(

But I think I will come back and have another great time here!

Kind regards.
Anna-Lena