Salvatore's Class tomorrow at 3pm SLT

Salvatore's class will start at 3pm SLT tomorrow and only for tomorrow.

Teacher: salvatorepadilla1 Resident. Class Runner: Tuanjana Resident

This class: VOICE - Grammar, Conversation. During this class the teacher will ask questions to which students will answer using a particular verb tense, grammar form, vocabulary and expressions.

We hope to see you in class!!

Music for Lions

DT-ESL - Story Writing Class - 20th July, 2012

1.  Mike worked for the circus.  He helped to set up the tents for each show.  One night the lion tamer was practising his act with one lion while the other five lions sat on their stools.

2.  Suddenly one lion got down off its stool.  It started to creep on its belly across the floor to the door. The lion tamer was looking at the other lion and did not see it.

3.  Since I was child, I have been very much in love with music. I remembered when my dad bought a piano for us children.  It was a small one but it was very useful for me.  I tried to improve and train myself to be skilled although there was no teacher. 

4.  I have tried for a very long time but I want to train to get better.  So I tried to take some samples from the internet.  Greetings everybody.  Now I am ready to train my skills.

Bimbo, Ringo and the elephants

DTESL - STORY CLASS - 12th July, 2012

1.  The woman stopped at the corner to check for cars.
She began to cross the street and then she screamed as a huge truck with two circus elephants on the back came speeding down the road towards her.

2.  She ran fast when she saw the truck with two elephants, then the truck passed by her.  She was stunned there and asked herself “What was going on?  The truck driver sounded the horn so loudly that even the elephants raised their trunks, frightened by the sound.

3.  Her name was Bimbo, today it was her birthday, Friday the 13th.  She couldn't feel her body, as if she was a ghost.  The driver couldn't believe his eyes. He got out of the truck, let the elephants down too, so they could take a pee and a drink, and started to walk towards Bimbo.

Dreams of a little girl and the dancers in the music box

Story Class - Friday July 6, 2012

1.  A little girl sat snuggled on her grandmother’s soft floral armchair and rested her chin on her hand gazing at a smooth glass bottle that played a little Spanish tune. Inside the bottle two tiny ballroom dancers twirled around in each other’s arms in time with the music as their legs twiddled away uselessly beneath them.

2.  The child took the music box with two hands and saw that there are many white doves that fluttered into the sky.  She fell asleep and suddenly dreamed that she was in a beautiful park which had many flowers and it looked like a wedding park. There were many accessories for brides and grooms. She stared around and looked at people dancing.

3.  The girl, Susanne, wanted to dance but no one was inviting her.  She walked onto the dance floor and started to dance alone. It was like she was invisible.

4.  Suddenly, Susanne, saw a table full of food and her eyes widened.  There were so many chocolate cakes and she went crazy.  She went to grab the chocolate. She didn't realize that someone at the corner watched over her. He had a frown, that's why he stood at the corner. He approached her to ask her name. “Hi, my name is James and yours?”

TOO MANY ALIENS, NOT ENOUGH TIME or: How Aliens Think The World Just Revolves Around Them

Story Class 21st June, 2012

1.  It was the year 3000.  John and Elizabeth sat quietly together on the grassy hill side, looking up into the peaceful night sky.  The stars twinkled against their dark, velvety backdrop, when suddenly a bright light streaked across the horizon.  What could that be?

2.  Only one person paid attention to it.  The other one closed their eyes.  But from their right there was a hand that caught that person whose eyes were closed.  Suddenly he was alone.

3.  She felt the hand that held her so cold and small. She turned her head to the direction of who the hand came from.   All of sudden she screamed, "What do you want from me?" She saw an alien beside her and the alien had given her telepathy.

4.  Now she could hear the thoughts of the alien as if she were listening to him. But she could not understand the language, and the alien could not understand hers. She wrangled out of the alien's grasp and went back home, looking for her friend. 

5.  Elizabeth (who was the woman who had been sitting with John, the man) was very afraid now because she had been dragged away by an alien who had given her the power of telepathy. But even having the ability to read his mind made it worse because she could not understand his thoughts.

Article about the school

Did you attend the grammar class two Saturdays ago?
They talk about us in this article on the Examiner.com
If you didn't attend that class you can read about it and contact a Help Team member to try this school.

Separated at birth but a happy ending

STORY CLASS 15th June, 2012

Albert and Greg were finally going to meet at the age of 26 after finding out they were twin brothers who had been separated at birth and adopted by different parents.  Albert was very anxious about it. In the week before the meeting he couldn't sleep.  He was curious and afraid at the same time, but he didn't know why.  

They were twins, so they could feel each other. They tried to resolve the problem.  They relaxed by playing with a bicycle but they suddenly saw dwarfs around them.

The young men finally met and were amazed to see how much they looked alike. They felt very emotional and had many things to talk about and many things to show each other, such as photos and family portraits.

No one in the pictures was a dwarf; no one in their family was a dwarf, so they could not understand why they were seeing dwarfs.  They were not even sure the dwarf was real, because they had seen dwarves only in dream sequences in movies. 

Albert was a little scared, so it was Greg who talked to the dwarfs.  While Greg enjoyed talking with them, Albert asked Greg to stay away from them.  Before Greg stopped talking, they saw a cute fairy suddenly come up.  The fairy talked into Greg’s right ear, “You need therapy, let me help you Greg”.

The story of Jimmy's path to peace and enlightenment

Story writing class is a text only class. No need for voice.
Students write a short story, one or two sentences each. The teacher corrects each sentence while the next student continues writing the story.
Every Friday at 5am PDT [check your local time]
Do you want to join story class?. Contact us for information and assistance.

STORY CLASS 8th June, 2012

Everybody was having a wonderful time and he'd have loved to have joined in with everyone else, however he was big and strong, and had bullied his classmates. This is why he was escorted to the cage by the police and why he was following classes sitting at his desk in the cage.

He was often ridiculed due to not being as tall as the other students. Often Jimmy ended up bullied in situations like this but inside he was feeling a bit lonely. No one wanted to talk to him. He disliked his family and his parents were so busy at work.
He had much hurt inside of his heart. He felt lonely and rejected by anyone around him. But He had a good hobby, he liked to fold origami.

After school Jimmy was left out of the cage. Police took him home and took his handcuffs out. He went to his rooms and started to work on a new origami. The biggest he had ever done.

One day when he fell asleep the origami that he had made became real. He had made a big robot. The robot said, Hi master, "Tell me your wish and I will complete it".

Chinese Time Calendar

Dreams of a broken heart

STORY CLASS 1st June, 2012

"There was a loud knock on the young woman's front door, but when she opened the door nobody was there. She saw a large package on the front door step with her name written on it.  She took it inside and it was very heavy.  She noticed that there was no sender's name or address.  She opened the parcel and found inside........."

She was shocked, suddenly a little puppy appeared in the box. He had a white coat and big eyes. What a cute puppy!  But inside there was another thing... it was shining. Something in the bottom of the box. She felt a chill, but she wanted to know what it was.  So she put a bamboo pole into the box. It looked like something was dragging on the bamboo pole. Suddenly she felt the box raising up into the air and then flying. At first she was very scared, then she got tired and fell asleep.