📖 From the teacher's desk: In my multicultural classrooms at ELT Hub in Brittany, I quickly learned that emotions are universal but expressions are cultural. My students from different countries showed feelings very differently! Being…
📖 From the teacher's desk: Saint-Pierre is the second-largest town in La Réunion — it has a beach, a market, a harbour, and some wonderful restaurants. Moving here from Sydney, I had to quickly learn…
📖 From the teacher's desk: In my years managing restaurants in Sydney, the busiest days were Friday and Saturday — always. Now in La Réunion, my son asks every morning "Is it a school day?"…
📖 From the teacher's desk: My family is wonderfully spread across the world — from Dhaka to Sydney to La Réunion. My partner Vanessa and I are raising our son here in Saint-Pierre, and family…
📖 From the teacher's desk: Managing restaurants like Uccello and Popolo in Sydney meant talking about food every single day. Back in La Réunion, our kitchen is a beautiful mix — rougail saucisse, Bengali dhal,…
📖 From the teacher's desk: At my son's crèche in Saint-Pierre, the teachers use "Simon Says" in French every morning — "Simon dit: touchez votre nez!" I now play the same game in English at…
📖 From the teacher's desk: La Réunion is one of the most colourful places I've ever lived — turquoise lagoons, orange cliffs called "Piton de la Fournaise," and deep green sugar-cane fields everywhere. I often…
📖 From the teacher's desk: At Merivale in Sydney, counting was everything — 16 covers on table 4, 3 bottles of Bollinger for table 12! Numbers in English felt natural to me because I used…
📖 From the teacher's desk: When I first arrived in La Réunion, my little one came home from crèche one day and said "Bonjour!" to everyone she met — even the cat! Greetings are the…
We use the present perfect to talk about experiences at some point in our life. We do not say exactly when — the focus is on whether the experience happened at all.
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