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BROKEN HEART 1990 VS. 2015

NOTHING COMPARES 2 USinead O’Connor (1990)It’s been seven hours and fifteen daysSince u took your love awayI go out every night and sleep all daySince you took your love awaySince you’ve been gone I can do whatever I wantI can see whomever I chooseI can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurantBut nothingI said nothing can

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1 April 2015
Adult Learning

TRUE OR FALSE?

Here is my argument in favor of learning a new language: every person around the world has done it! At some point, in some way, from conversations with parents and friends, following songs or TV shows, children form their vocabulary and start learning their mother tongue – naturally, gradually, step by step, year after year.

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20 January 2015

“I HAVE GREAT NEWS!”

One of my students came to class excited today. He told me how he’d scored 100% on his English grammar test! Well, that made my day. (That, and the red wine and the good company at our little office party later on.)   But seriously. He stopped using me as a dictionary a few months

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13 December 2014
Others

Perception Is Everything

Europe, according to Craig Ferguson (The Late Late Night Show on CBS) …and everything is perception. If you start your language course with dread and negativity, it will probably feel difficult. We are programmed to see what we want to see: in people, in situations, in books and movies – even in the purely geographical

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21 November 2014
Adult Learning

CAN YOU TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS?

At a certain age, we get discouraged by science, claiming that younger people learn easier and faster. They also act cooler and look superior to us. We’ve been conditioned to believe that youth is the time for studying and any other activity involving memory, focus and acquiring new skills. But how about life experience? How

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1 April 2014
Anglais

Camp de la relâche scolaire: du  3 au 7 mars 2014

Bonjour! Nous organisons une semaine d’activités en anglais  pour les enfants  lors de la relâche scolaire * du lundi au vendredi,                                           *3-4 heures par jour, en après-midi. Au programme : enseignement, lecture, film, jeux et autres activités LE TOUT EN ANGLAIS ECLUSIVEMENT.   Les inscriptions débutent le 3 février, et se poursuivront jusqu’au 21 février inclusivement.

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2 February 2014
Anglais

Travailler ensemble pour mieux réussir

L’ENSEIGNEMENT des langues, comme plusieurs autres domaines de la vie privée ou professionnelle, requiert des compétences essentielles, dont la courtoisie, la tolérance et le respect des autres. Chez HORIZONS, nous tâchons de nous adapter au mieux à l’horaire de nos étudiants. Il leur est ainsi possible, par exemple, de changer de groupe si les rencontres ont

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29 January 2014
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Broaden your Horizons

At Horizons, we believe that broadening our horizons makes us more tolerant, more knowledgeable and more confident in our everyday interactions. 

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