Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

Dear All,

Thank you for your hard work and support throughout the year.

IIA is closing from 27 DEC 2010 to 9 JAN 2011.

Enjoy your 2 weeks Christmas Holiday.

All the best for 2011.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 

[Student's Essay] Who won the Gingerbread house?

Hi guys, we had a Gingerbread house competition last week.

Guess who won the gingerbread house?

<Raul & Zoe, Elementary teacher>

Raul from Elementary class won the Gingerbread house!!! He wrote a very interesting story :)

You will enjoy and laugh at the characters of this story if you know who the people are in real life.

This is a True Story!

It's about Gingerbread houses and their power dangers. In a little country very far away from here, a certain type of Gingerbread houses dwell in the jungle. Anyone who catches them becomes very sick and dies. In this country there was a dude that liked to go hunting the damned gingerbread houses in order to exterminate them.

But the real problem was the man who was making them and our dude had been looking for him for ten years. He finally found him in a city named Brisbane, where this ruthless person lived, his name was "Darth David"and his major weapon was hypnosis by grammar, he has two very wicked assistants, their names are Pam and Zoe, their major weapon was homework from the red book.

The wicked staff worked in an institute named IIA. When the dude came to the institute the evil "Darth David" was making the gingerbread houses in a classroom with his two malicious assistants that have caught a few poor Chinese guys with their homework of the page 65 & 92.

When our dude entered the classroom everyone was impressed so they asked him "who are you?" but he didn't speak any English, Darth David immediately offered our dude a general English course. After some negotiations our hero accepted the course with a 25% discount.

Sadly, after the events, our dude completely forgot about his mission.

P.S. Gingerbread houses keep still killing people with their bad flavour!!



Surprising Birthday Party!!

Celebration is the theme to our module in Upper Intermediate class this week.

As it turned out, we had a good reason to celebrate because it was Danila’s birthday.

Today we began our class by surprising Danila with balloons and a birthday song from her classmates.

We had a wonderful Celebration buffet with foods such as….

Brigadeiro, Coxinha, Bolinho de Queijo and Good old Aussie Chocolate Mud Cake!  

Soooooo delicious!

We mingled for a while, played a couple of Christmas songs….

And then it was time for grammar J

News from our Upper-Intermediate Class :)
 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

Win the IIA Gingerbread House!!!

The IIA Gingerbread house goes to the writer of the best Christmas story...

Your story must be between 150-200 words and include :

                                                             - IIA

                                                             - Brisbane

                                                             - Christmas

                                                             - Gingerbread House

The winner will be announced Friday 17th of December

IIA Christmas Party just finished!

3 Dec. 2010. The IIA Christmas BBQ party  just finished!

Delicious BBQ sausages, salads, drinks and snacks!  All for IIA students!

It was not just a normal BBQ party. We also had a lucky draw for all the students.

Some students received Christmas prizes like $50 gift cards,

a free airport pick up voucher, gingerbread and so on....

Natalia said "I got a prize!!!"

All our students, teachers and staff had a fun day.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!



[Student's Essay] My First Impression Of Brisbane's City

MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF BRISBANE’S CITY

Beautiful! That was my first impression when I arrived in Brisbane.

It was late at night, but that wasn’t a problem because I could see all the lights in the city, the buildings and the calm of the river. It was very nice.

Brisbane is wonderful, you can find a lot of different things to do, my first day here was an absolutely shock! Because the first thing I noticed when I got on the bus to come to the city was the diversity of people. There were many different nationalities on the bus and there are even more in the city.

I am certain that coming to Brisbane was one of the best decisions I have made in my life. And choosing international institute of Australia to study was even better! The standard of education is really high, and all the staff and teachers are incredible, always trying to help you to improve your English or with anything else you need.

There are a lot of things waiting to be discovered, people to meet and things to learn. I hope enjoy this opportunity as the much as I can.

Victoria from our Intermediate class

IIA Christmas BBQ party!!!

• DAY:            Friday 3rd December
• TIME:           12:00pm
• LOCATION:   7th Floor
• COST:          FREE to all current IIA STUDENTS

             Delicious BBQ sausages, salads, drinks and snacks!
             You will enjoy a HOT christmas party!! Also, there are Prizes to be won!!!!!

             ** See our BBQ party photos  => http://iia-diary.blogspot.com/2010/09/iia-bbq-party.html **