Monthly Archives: February 2009

How much Paperwork is ENOUGH?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 20, 2009
For the past months, I have been flooded with requests for paperwork! I do understand the necessity of writing evaluation reports on my students’ progress… yet I am wondering how many of these reports are too many… Maybe public servants who are in full-time French training can be assessed every month… They get an average [...]
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Ouch!… Deux Tests Corsés!!!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 17, 2009
Time to test your knowledge again… I wanted to come up with something different and I found exactly what I was looking for… I warn you though, the two quizzes you will take are tough! The first one is about definitions… I got 25/25 and I am still surprised because I hesitated quite a long [...]
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Sometimes I Seriously do Wonder…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: February 15, 2009
This morning, when I turned on my computer, my Sympatico MSN home page had an article by Marc Saltzman featured at the top and… I could not resist the temptation of clicking on the title and reading it. It was an interview with Stuart Ackerman, the Toronto-based founder, writer and host for Tutorgiant (I think [...]
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