PE Newsletter (Sept - October)

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Were Doing Great And Getting Better!

Food for Thought

Just for Laughs

Brain Teaser

Slices of Paradise

English

The Doctor is In

The Doctor is In

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Slices of Paradise EnglishAround the World

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014

Teacher Jing shares the essence of her conversationwith one of our students so you can well appreciate thebreadth of student variety at PE.

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It was a pleasure teaching and speak-ing with one of our students whose careerhad been in the field of medicine. This re-markable man is Armin Lenz from Bregenz,a quaint city on the eastern shores of LakeConstance in western Austria. Armin wasenrolled in a 2-week Intensive EnglishCourse which is just right to combine busi-ness with pleasure or in his case, study withvacation on one of the worlds best beaches.

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The Doctor is In

One of the perks of working or study-ing at Paradise English is that you get to in-

teract with a wonderful mix of students hail-ing from different parts of the globe asshown below.
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PARADISE ENGLISH SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014

PE continues to have a fairly consistent distribution of men and women inthe classroom which belies the thinking that only women are interested in learninga language.

For the past couple of years studying English for travel and employment pur-poses has remained about equal in importance for PE students.


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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014PARADISE ENGLISH

Armin is a retired doctor. His fieldof expertise was in occupational healthand psychotherapy. He divulged to me,however, that it wasnt his original plan to

become a doctor. Upon finishing highschool at the age of 19, he received a cer-tificate qualifying him to teach in elemen-tary schools. He then went to a universityin Innsbruck with his twin brother and to-gether they majored in math and sports.

At 26, however, realizing that hewasnt meant to be a teacher, he packedhis bags and went to Vienna and studiedmedicine. He was a very diligent studentand while others needed 6-7 years to finishthe course, he obtained his degree inmedicine in just 5 years. He then went onfor a 3-year residency at Bregenz CityHospital.

Eventually he had his own clinic asa family doctor for 10 years, during whichtime he began to specialize in occupa-tional medicine while also dabbling inacupuncture, homeopathy, and other prac-tices. At around the same time, he was

also the director in charge of medical-related claims for a health insurance com-pany.

In 1990, he focused on psychother-apy after realizing that working as a fam-ily doctor also meant that he was not justhelping people with their physical illnesses

but also their mental and emotional well- being. Thus, in 1997 he founded a small

clinic specializing in psychotherapy andwas dedicated to it until his retirement in2012.

In his younger years, he had dreamedof having a profession with a social impactand being a family doctor and psychothera-pist for five generations of patients helpedhim realize this dream.

Now in his reclining years Armin is aman with many varied interests. He is anavid mountain climber and sports enthusiast,sings in his local choir groups, travels everynow and then, and studies English once aweek with his twin brother. He also takesgreat joy in being a grandfather to two ador-able little boys.

When asked for advice about studyingEnglish, he said: Go to a country whereonly English is spoken. Do things that areconnected with the language. Study and singEnglish songs; gospel, spiritual songs andread about their history. Read about topics inthe language. Learning would then be fun.Studying should be a joy, not a boring activ-ity.

The Doctor is In

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Does it have apples in it? -No. What about pine? -No pine either.Perfect! Well call it a pineapple.

The word "pineapple" in Englishwas first recorded in 1398, when it wasoriginally used to describe the reproduc-tive organs of conifer trees (now termedpine cones). The term "pine cone" for thereproductive organ of conifer trees wasfirst recorded in 1694. When European

explorers discovered this tropical fruit inthe Americas, they called them"pineapples" (first so referenced in 1664due to resemblance to what is nowknown as the pine cone).

The pineapple plant is indigenousto South America and is said to originatefrom the area between southern Braziland Paraguay. Thanks to the Spanish, the

pineapple was introduced to the Philip-pines where in addition to the

pineapples culinary uses its leaves are usedto produce the textile fiber pia which is em-ployed as a component of items such as wall-paper, furnishings, table linens, bags, matsand clothing.

In the American cartoon SpongeBobSquarePants, SpongeBob's home is apineapple under the sea.


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Just for Laughs Brain Teaser


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