What’s on the Box: “THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE”
An opportunity to improve your listening and speaking by watching a video and talking about it in English over an aperitif. We... Read More
“Every cloud has a silver lining!”
Air travel never ceases to amaze me! I think it is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. The idea... Read More
“To drive someone nuts!”
For everyone autumn means something different. Many English poets like John Keats in his “Ode to Autumn” paid tribute to its ever-changing... Read More
Special Christmas Edition of “What’s on the Box”
WE TALK ABOUT GLOBALISATION, BUT WHAT DOES CHRISTMAS MEAN TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD? Give yourself the gift of a... Read More
“To Make Someone’s Blood Run Cold”
Have you ever been to the Tower of London? Yes? Then you’ll know that BLOOD is something that the Tower is famous... Read More
“To sit on the fence”
The American Presidential election is drawing near (“si sta avvicinando”) and the News is full of the rhetoric going backwards and forwards... Read More
Conversation Class – What’s New?
WHAT’S NEW? is a conversation class to give students an opportunity to talk about what’s happening in the world at that time.... Read More
“At the end of the day…”
Have you noticed how the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer after we turned the clocks back one... Read More
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places” Tennessee Williams, The Glass... Read More
“Out in the sticks”
A few weeks ago my husband convinced me to go on quite a long motorbike ride to Campo Imperatore, the tallest mountain... Read More