Many students get confused when making predictions in English because we can use both Will and Going to. Katie explains the difference between the two.
Some & Any
Some students get confused with when we use “some” and when we use “any”. Today, Rachel clears up any confusion!
See, Look at & Watch
Today, Mick looks at three related verbs which often confuse English language students – See, look at and watch.
Lend & Borrow
In today’s video tutorial, Liliane explains the difference between two related verbs – Lend & Borrow
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
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 March, thousands of events are … Read More
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 every four years throw a … Read More
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 that it’s a small world … Read More
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 their lessons are really interesting … Read More
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 work as a television presenter … Read More
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 the school are so friendly. … Read More
Happy Valentine’s Day from Alpha College!
We’ve had 10 “Alpha Weddings” over the last few years – that we know of… Do we have your photo?
Olga’s Story
Last week Olga had a great story in class so we asked her to tell it again, but this time caught on camera so we could share it with you!
Welcome to our new site!
We have been working hard to make sure that this site is as easy as possible for you to navigate around and get the information you need. If there is something that you think would be useful or if there is something you are having difficulty finding, please let us know and we will do our best to get it … Read More
Merry Christmas from Alpha College!
We had our student and staff party just before we closed for Christmas. The students sang some fantastic Christmas songs with Fergus leading the way on the guitar. We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year break and we look forward to seeing you in 2012!
Valentina, Italy
In Alpha College of English there is all what you need!! People of staff are very friendly and kind. Courses are well organized and you can learn in an easy way. I think that the best “good point” of these courses is the few people in the class that permit you to be relaxed and involved in the lessons. I … Read More