InTuition Languages Blog

My student, Valentina, is fascinated by modern art and very knowledgeable.  I brought her to Tate Britain and Tate Modern yesterday and asked her to do a My favourite artist Malevic (download her presentation on this link, save first then open) on her favourite artist with examples of their art displayed in the Tate. Like [...]

Yesterday, Paddy, my English professor, had planned for me an evening in a famous pub where great bands have played. I had my first taste of very good English beer, brewed in London. Then, we attended a gig. The first band, whose singer is Steve Eggs, played pop music. After, another band called Society played country rock music, [...]

Tonight we will take Frederic to a local pub called the Half Moon which is famous for live and unplugged music.  It has a long musical lineage having boasted small and intimate ‘sessions’ with Jimi Hendrix and Van Morrison.  Frederic says that the english language is much more ‘musical’ than French so this night out [...]

Monday 29th. August. Maria returned from London late last night. She is quite tired although she much enjoyed meeting up with her friends, especially going to ‘Billy Elliot – the Musical’ which she had been wanting to see for some time. She is, however, low in energy today and her English has become less fluent [...]

Hello Everybody! My name is Indra and I am eleven years old. I am from Germany and I live in a village in Baden Württemberg. I am staying with Beatrice and Tim near Cardiff in Wales. My mum is with me here but I am lerning English with Beatrice. I get up at half past [...]

This afternoon was dedicated to visiting the city of Dublin – more exactly the National Museum Collins Barracks. Carmel took me to the train station at about 2.00 PM – just on time to catch the DART for the capital… I entered the station and there was nobody behind the counter office and I had [...]

Started early didn’t take my dog* but instead had to talk about my holiday in Croatia a few years ago. I plodded along the description of mountains (high), landscape (beautiful), sea (blue)… Obviously need to get into collocations ! Actually I enjoyed reminiscing about those days. This afternoon, we visited Gloucester cathedral and were lucky [...]

Four-hour session in the morning. It’s hard work. We usually go quickly through the vocabulary of the previous day. I then make a short presentation about a subject we have selected. Yesterday it was about Gloucester cathedral which we had visited the day before and today I spoke about a book I have just read [...]

I’m back in Paris after a week with my tutor in the Costwolds. When in London on my way back I spent a couple of hours in the British Museum but restricted my visit to the ground floor, part of the Egyptian rooms and the Parthenon.I had not seen the reading room before and found [...]

It was 3.00 o’clock and it was time to leave the house to go to the hill. The weather was a little bite cloudy, never mind it was warm enough. We drove to the bottom of Killiney Hill. We parked the car just in front of the stairs to access this well-known viewing point. We [...]