An English Language Partners’ course is helping migrants on the first step towards getting work driving a truck – getting their Class 2 driving licence. With Palmerston North a major shipping centre for goods around the Central North Island, there’s …
Our Rotorua centre’s ‘hands on’ language-learning classes are based on the concept, ‘Where the hands go, the mind follows.’ These classes have proved very popular with learners. By using crochet, scrapbooking and painting as ways for learners to discover word …
A recent summer course at English Language Partners Wellington enjoyed a creative four weeks with a focus on English through the lens of art! Some of the exciting and inspirational activities their teacher Bridget Porter organised can be seen in …
Expressing her culture through dance is just the latest in many life achievements for this Chinese-Kiwi superwoman. Meet Anna Kong, who migrated from China in 1983 to join her parents who worked in a Chinese restaurant and market garden. Anna …
My name is Zhihui (Bella) Lu. I came to New Zealand from China five years ago. My volunteer ESOL home tutor is Coral Gardiner who has been teaching me English since February 2020. Initially, my English learning goal was to …
A job in beekeeping and desire for a better life and environment in which to raise their daughters were the impetus for Lindenberg Gomes and wife Vivian Maracajá’s move. The family, whose first language is Portuguese, arrived in New Zealand …
Another great bunch of ELP’s graduates are celebrating their success. Nine people in this ‘Professional Speaking for Migrants’ course in Southland completed their course on 30 October and sat the connected Speech New Zealand exam the following day. The assessment …
Visiting a herb farm is a great way to give ‘post-lockdown’ help to a local herb farm, while learning English! 20 learners and 6 volunteers and 1 teacher visited the Herb Farm in Ashurst on 3 November. The visit had …
Getting to grips with a new area of Kiwi English can be a slightly creepy experience – when the area involves learning about New Zealand’s native bugs and insects. Palmerston North’s learners were inspired by the ‘Bugs are amazing’ message …
Te Kawau stream runs through a large part of the north and western suburbs of Palmerston North City. It was an important source of food for the local Rangitane, but has been neglected over the years and become polluted with …
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