Outside the classroom: CISL students participate in local soccer game
What happens when students from around the world get together? A soccer game turns into a samba lesson! Earlier this month, 21 CISL San Diego students met up with students from other international schools in the San Diego area to play soccer and mingle. While mostly boys participated in the game, plenty of girls came [...]
Student Writing Contest Winners: “What’s the best meal you’ve had in San Francisco?”
Last week, we posted the writing samples from the winners of CISL San Diego’s March writing contest. The prompt was “What’s the best meal you’ve had in San Diego?” Congrats again to Areum and Fernanda! Today, we are posting the winners of the CISL San Francisco writing contest. Sophie and Maram sent beautiful submissions detailing [...]
Student Writing Contest Winners: “What’s the best meal you’ve had in San Diego?”
What is the best meal you have eaten in San Diego? We asked our Converse students this question at the beginning of March and were so impressed with their responses; in fact, we were so impressed that we couldn’t choose just one writing contest winner: we chose TWO! Congratulations to CISL San Diego students Areum [...]
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in San Diego and San Francisco
St. Patrick’s Day may have originated in Ireland, but Americans have certainly adopted (and adapted) the holiday into a celebration of everything green. San Diego and San Francisco both host fun events to celebrate the holiday, and the following is a list of some of the more popular parades, parties, and public events. We hope [...]
St. Patrick’s Day Vocabulary
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner! Soon Americans will be wearing green clothes, eating traditional corned beef and cabbage, and drinking green beer. What a strange–and fun–holiday! To prepare our students for this celebration, we have some St. Patrick’s Day and Irish-related vocabulary and idioms. Enjoy! USEFUL ST PATRICK’S DAY VOCABULARY Ireland The [...]
A day in the life of a CISL SF student
What is life like for a CISL student? Today Barbara, a student at CISL San Francisco who will soon take the Cambridge Exam, gives us a glimpse into her daily schedule. Thanks, Barbara, for sharing your day with us! One day in my new life By Barbara, CISL SF Student It’s a typical [...]
Lesson of the Month: December 2011
DID YOU KNOW: WORD BORROWING English has borrowed a lot of words from different languages, and sometimes from languages you might not expect! What languages do you think the following come from? 1. ALCATRAZ (The island prison off the coast of San Francisco) 2. SOIREE (A very elegant evening party) 3. SIESTA ( a short afternoon [...]
My Experience in San Francisco
Raúl Hervás Díaz, Spain I have been living in San Francisco for nine weeks. My purpose to be here is studying English because I want to work abroad in the future. I finished Civil Engineering five months ago in the city I was born and raised: Madrid, capital of Spain. I chose San Francisco because [...]
Balboa Park: a natural place in the center of San Diego
If there is one place where one could linger for several days, it’s here: the 490 acres of Balboa Park are home to fifteen museums, an art colony, theaters, restaurants, clubhouse botany, zoo A field of “petanque” on grass and a plethora of buildings with various architectures, which blends Spanish baroque, southwestern and traditional contemporary [...]
CISL San Francisco – blog entry by Isabelle (France, Premier Course)
To Wanda, “I’m sorry, I haven’t done my homework”… What is my excuse today? After three days, I’m still feeling jetlagged or maybe I should look for another explanation of being tired. As a matter of fact, I attend class all day long and in the evening I run to meet Bill and participate in [...]
