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News @Ascend

A monthly newsletter to help you stay in touch with activities at Ascend

Inspiring and empowering our students to communicate with confidence November 2014

Who says ghosts and goblins

only come out at night?

Ascend’s Halloween party

attracted ghouls of all kinds.

it was a spooky good time!

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Meet & Greet

Starter class Upper-Int class

Vietnamese rolls Russian crepes

TEACHER FACT FILE

Name:Bart Van Laere

Nationality:Belgian

Favourite food:

Mediterranean

Favourite Sports:

Reading, swimming,

travelling

Most Interesting

places I’ve visited:

Angkor Wat and the

Killing Fields in

Cambodia. Also, many

places in Thailand

which I’ve had the

chance to visit during

my 5 years stay

there.

I’m afraid of:Not a

big fan of any living

creature that has 6

legs or more.

If I wasn’t

teaching……… I’d

probably be a tour

guide as I like

travelling and meeting

people from different

origins and cultures.

…Bart

We had a Meet & Greet session on 17th October. It

was really fun and exciting. Some students

volunteered to bring traditional dishes. We ate

plenty of delicious food such as satay, noodles,

curry puffs, onigiri and food from different

countries.

In addition, we played “Forming-A-Circle” teamwork

game. Everyone enjoyed the game!!

The best things that happened during the Meet &

Greet session was that we conversed in English and

we met all the students in Ascend.

It was a great learning experience which I enjoyed

thoroughly.

-Akiko Furukawa (Intermediate 1)

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things to do this weekend! Hi Everybody,

I am Phong. I have been studying in Singapore since 1st September. My day starts at 7am & I go to

school from Monday to Friday. When I finish school, I go back home and do house work. I only have free

time on weekends.

When you move to Singapore, you would know Orchard Road which is the biggest central shopping area.

If you don't like to shop, you can go to Sentosa, which is a famous recreation island. You have to go to

Vivocity before you arrive in Sentosa. Vivocity is such a nice place. You can go shopping here. When you

finish shopping, you can go outside, sit and see the ocean. You can smell the ocean in the breeze. There

are some ships far out at sea. After that, you can go to the top of the building and you will see a small

splash pool where lot of children play. They look very happy.

In the evening, you can go to the restaurant on the top of Vivocity. I think it is a Swiss restaurant. It looks

like a buffet restaurant. It has a lots of food - Japanese, Chinese, French, Swiss... All of them are so nice.

They will give you one card and then you choose your food. They will check and you must pay when you

finish dinner at the restaurant.

I enjoyed myself so much when I came here at the weekend.

I hope this gives you an idea for your weekend.

Ba Phong (Intermediate

2) gives ideas on what

you can do this

weekend!

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party

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Written &

Speaking

Speaking

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Module 3

to Ascend.......

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Lazareva Mariia

Legend:

Exams

Public Holiday

New module starts

Birthdays –

*Jonathan C.

(Upp-Int) Nov 1

*Irina K. (Pre-Int)

Nov 4

*N. Angel (Pre-

Int) Nov 24

*Lyubov P. (Pre-

Int)

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