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Just north of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, is the Marine Mammal Center. This is their mission: “Our mission is to expand knowledge about marine mammals—their health and that of their ocean environment—and to inspire their global conservation. Our core work is the rescue and re … Read more
May 10th EC San Francisco will celebrate turning 3 with a student/staff international potluck. The last one was a great success (and really tasty to boot), and we look forward to this group of students sharing their cultures a bit more deeply through the communion of food. We are really proud of wh … Read more
Do you know one of the our fascinating activity, Coffee club?? Last time I led the coffee club, It was really nice. In general, we play some games along with drinking coffee, eating snacks. Coffee club, also to join activities are good chances to make new friend, to improve English. I strongly reco … Read more
A couple weeks ago, our class walked to Hyatt Regency and Ferry Building. This is not too wondering for me, because I’ve been before. Although, the Hyatt Hotel was so big and luxury, I wanna stay there someday. After the Hyatt, I went with my Intermediate level English course, in San Francis … Read more
The favored approach to learning in the U.S. these days is to gain an understanding of concepts. For language learning, this works well enough for things that are conceptual in nature, such as grammar. However, a lot of what you have to do along with the concepts is memorize the details. Understa … Read more
Pongpanote Phongpanngam is taking an 8 week intermediate level English course in San Francisco. A technology teacher from Thailand, here is what Pong says about his time at EC. “Hi, I’m Pong from Thailand. I studied English for 15 years when I was a student in Primary school until univ … Read more
Hi, I’m Karl, a Senior Teacher here at EC. In addition to currently teaching the Advanced class and the Cambridge FCE, I teach an Intermediate level English course in San Francisco (Intermediate Writing, here at EC San Francisco). I think it’s a great place to work and study, and I’ve been around. … Read more
Last week, I went with my Intermediate level English class in San Francisco to get some ideas for writing, by visit the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Ferry Building. All I knew about the Hyatt was it was it opened in 1973. And when I entered this building, a lot of shiny things appeared above us. I … Read more
Once students have a basic grasp of the most common tenses in English, vocabulary tends to become the most commonly mentioned obstacle to communicative competence. Students working on vocabulary in an Intermediate level Engish course, in San Francisco or elsewhere, find that the organizational simp … Read more
For EC’s second annual Giving Back Day, EC San Francisco chose the San Francisco Food Bank for our volunteer activity. Ten teachers and staff members participated and we had a GREAT time. The Food Bank is very well organized, from the on-line sign up process for volunteers, to the quick, ef … Read more