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Today marks the end of one of our student’s course at EC Cape Town. At the same time, it also marks a new beginning! Academic Year student, Mohamed Ali Alkateia of Libya received his certificate today and over the course of six months, made an impressive improvement of over 40% in all his skil … Read more
by Sheetal Makhan / AYC As part of their lesson, teacher Una’s Beginner class decided to extend their class…to Roman’s Pizza in Long Street. Leading up to their outing, students had been learning about how to order food as well as structures like “Can I [please] have..?” … Read more
by Sheetal Makhan / AYC Last week, my High Intermediate class studied Modal Verbs for their Grammar Point. To practice using them in the correct context, the students wrote letters to a made up character called “Abby” (very similar to Agony Aunt). This is someone who we share our problem … Read more
What makes EC Cape Town special is that it attracts students from all over the world. Our first student from Azerbaijan, and hopefully not the last, is Nurlan. He was asked to write a comparative essay between the two countries and here is the result: Azerbaijan and South Africa Azerbaijan and South … Read more
Last week the Upper intermediate class had to write a bucket list as part of their homework. There were many excellent pieces of writing. Here is one particularly well written assignment by Kim from South Korea: “Before I kick the bucket, I really want to go to trip with my parents. I’ve … Read more
by Sheetal Makhan / AYC Last week Thursday, my High Intermediate class visited the Heart of Cape Town Museum at Groote Schuur Hospital. It was an excursion that drew on the theme for the week – “Medicine”. Students were taken on a tour and were able to relive the historic m … Read more
by Sheetal Makhan / AYC Last week, my High Intermediate class had a listening lesson – with a twist! Since the theme for the week was “Sport”, we invited two guest speakers to the class. The first was a fellow classmate, Ziya from our class who has been boxing since he was young. T … Read more
Yesterday afternoon, Linda did the FREE Listen Up activity The focus of the lesson was listening for specific detail and the actual activity was a live interview with none other than the schools Registrar, Zubeida. The students listened to Zubeida answering to questions about her role at the school, … Read more
Alexandra joined EC in May 2013 and is currently on a 24 week *Academic English course at EC Cape Town. Check out what she had to say about her time here so far: ” Hello! My name is Alexandra, I’m from Colombia, today I want to tell you about my experiences in Cape Town. When I arrived here I … Read more