As usual, we met at Alpha College on St Patrick’s Day before the parade and made our way to O’Connell Street to get a great view of the festivities. If you have any photos or videos of St Patrick’s Day, please send them into us!
Happy International Women’s Day!
Today is International Women’s Day so we decided to get a photo of as many of our female staff and students who would pose for a photo. In this photo we have French, Swiss, Italian, Polish, South Korean, Czech, Venezuelan, German, Brazilian, Spanish, Saudi, Japanese, Colombian, Russian, Dutch and of course Irish women. Annually on 8 [...]
First Certificate Class and Phonetic Sounds (featuring the Turtles!)
Ian’s FCE class were experimenting with Phonetic sounds and wanted to see how often some sounds appear in songs.
Pre Intermediate Frankenstein!
Eva’s Pre Intermediate class enjoyed reading Frankenstein last week that they decided to do a very mini version of the classic tale.
Happy Leap Day!
Today is the 29th of February. This date only happens once every four years and has some interesting stories and side effects. The current Lord Mayor of Dublin Andrew Montague is celebrating his 11th birthday today! Many people whose birthdays fall on Feb 29th celebrate every year either on February 28th or March 1st but [...]
Happy Pancake Tuesday!
Today is Pancake Tuesday in Dublin so Marianne made some pancakes for staff and students to enjoy! The Nutella option was very popular and the jar almost ran out before the pancakes…
The world is tiny!
One of our senior teachers, Liam Bradshaw, headed off on a new adventure recently to set up a new Language Department in a school in Mexico. After a very long flight he was walking through Benito Juarez Airport and randomly bumped into a former student of Alpha College from Korea! It just goes to show you [...]
Mizuki’s time at Alpha
“The staff at Alpha College of English is kind and when I asked them something, they were always smiling. Every Friday, after we finish the morning class, a staff member gives students some sweets. I thought it is fantastic! I like the teachers in Alpha. Of course teachers are really kind, friendly and lovely, and [...]
Sung-Bae Lee comes back to Alpha College
We had a great surprise this afternoon when our former student Sung-Bae Lee dropped in to say Hi. Sung-Bae was a student in Alpha 5 years ago and has since gone on to work in the television industry in his native Korea. While he was studying with us he always said his dream was to [...]
Braulio “flying home” to Mexico
Today is my last day in the school and I feel so happy to have taken the decision to come to Ireland for 6 months to improve my English. When I arrived here, for the first month, I didn’t understand when other people spoke. Now my English is very good. The people, in general, in [...]
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