February Student Activities at NYLC

Our Student Activities bring students from all four NYLC schools together, and these activities are a way for our students to apply what they've learned in the classroom into real life situations. The month of February is considered the coldest month, yet it is also quite eventful in NYC, and students who participate get a taste of the excitement. 

The 8th Annual Dance Parade!

Parade On Saturday, May 17th 2014 starting at 1pm 
10,000 dancers from 142 Groups representing 77 Styles of Dance Will Dance Down Broadway in this years Dance Parade Festival 

On Saturday, May 17th 2014 starting at 3pm DanceFest will have 4 Stages: a main stage, a teaching stage, a family stage, a celebration stage as well as site specific performances around Tompkins Square Park. A FREE not to be missed event. 


Official After Party May 17th at 10pm The Official After Party with Erick Morillo at Pacha NYC - See more at: http://danceparade.org/wp/#sthash.JShgsTOA.dpuf

NYLC Group Activity: Coney Island-Night of Horror

New York Language Center Activity:

Coney Island

Night of Horror

Friday

October 26^th

ONLY $15 (Special 50% NYLC

Discount!)

 Coney Island, New York’s famous amusement park, does Halloween! The park will have Halloween decorations, scary rides, and people dressed up as zombies, monsters, and more.

Your $15 ticket gives you admission to Luna Park, unlimited trips on 12 rides, and 2 mazes.

Meet at NYLC Midtown (226 West 37^th Street, between 7^th and 8^th Aves, Manhattan) at 5:30pm. From there, we’ll take the N/Q downtown/Brooklyn train to Coney Island/Stillwell Ave in Brooklyn. The park closes at 12:00 am. You can leave when you want to.

  

Email activities@nylanguagecenter.com or speak with Cassandra at Midtown NYLC (1-212-268-6500) for more information and to sign up for this activity. We only have 15 tickets- sign up today!

NYLC Group Activity: Karoke at "Kareoke Cave"

Karaoke (21+)

Thursday, March 22^nd

^{6:00 - 8:30pm}

Meet James at 6:00 pm at Midtown NYLC (11th floor, 226 West 37th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues) and then we’ll take the train to Karaoke Cave in Union Square (9 E. 13^th St, Manhattan)

Cost: Drinks- Buy one, Get one free ($6-10 each)

Songs- free with a drink, or $1

Food- $6-$12   

Email activities@nylanguagecenter.com or speak with Kelsey or Cassandra at Midtown NYLC (1-212-268-6500) for more details and to sign up for this activity. You must be at least 21 years old to do this activity. Please bring photo identification showing proof of age.

NYLC Group Activity: Fat Cat

Fat Cat

Thursday, February 16th

Games and Live Jazz

Meet Stephen at 5:00pm at Midtown NYLC (10th floor, 226 West 37th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan). We will take the 1 train to the Christopher/Sheridan Square stop in the West Village (Manhattan). Fat Cat is at 75 Christopher Street at 7th Ave. If we get there before 6pm, admission is free ($3 if after 6pm). This event is all ages and open to everyone.

pool, ping pong & shuffleboard: $5.50/per player/hour

chess, checkers, scrabble: $1 per person, unlimited time

foosball: $1 per game

beer and wine (21+ only, with ID): $5-7

More information/sign-up: Speak with Cassandra at Midtown NYLC (212-268-6500) or email activities@nylanguagecenter.com.  

Elena's English Expression!

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions"

George: So, are we all set?
Allan: Yup, let's go! I can't wait to feel the sun on my face while I'm enjoying a margarita.

 

Can you guess this weeks' idiom? Comment with your answers! 

FREE French Culture Nights, Haven Night!

Register online first and receive FREE admission!

The Harry Potter Exhibition in Times Square!

Enjoy reading the Harry Potter series? This summer, check out the exhibition devoted to recreating a world of wizards, right here in New York!

From Time Out New York:

"Harry Potter: The Exhibition"

Discovery Times Square, Apr 01 - Apr 07 10am. Ongoing 226 W 44th St (between Seventh and Eighth Aves)

(866) 987-9692discoverytsx.com

Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Sq Get directions

$25, seniors $22.50, children 4–12 $19.50, children under 4 free

Devoted Harry Potter fans who are feeling blue about the film series’ end now have some cause for celebration. After debuting at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in 2009, "Harry Potter: The Exhibition," which boasts more than 400 props and sets recreated from the films, will be in New York through the summer. The show may not shed new light on the Potterverse, but it will let you relive it.

Elena's English Expression

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions"

Mark: Have you seen Maria's fiance, yet?
Jackie: Not yet, but a little bird told me that he is a senator!

Did a "little bird" tell you anything interesting this week? Comment with your answers =).

Elena's English Expression

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions"

A: What happened to Jane and Sebastian?
B: Haven't you heard she turned him down? They aren't getting married anymore.

Can YOU figure out what this expression means? Comment with your answer!

Elena's English Expression

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions"

 

Mika: I need to brush up on my French. I learned it at school but I haven't spoken it for years.

So who can figure out this weeks idiom? Make sure you share your answers with everyone!

Vote for the Reason You Love New York!

New York has maintained its reputation as one of the greatest cities in the world for decades. Now here's a chance to vote for your favorite feature of the "Big Apple".

If you love New York for a reason other than those shown above, comment with your answer below! =)

Elena's English Expression

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions":

Chris: I hate this job, Leon.

Leon: Well, if I were you, I would stop complaining. I understand it's not the position you've been dreaming of, but it might help you to  get your foot in the door.

  Leave a comment with your answer!

Elena's English Expression

Elena, one of NYLC's teachers, asks in this week's note, "Elena's English Expressions":

What does it mean when someone is called a "bad egg"?

A: Please don't tell Mike about what happened to Lisa.
B: Why? He's my friend,too.

A:Yeah,but I think he's a bad egg.

How to Spend Labor Day Weekend

Time Out created a list of things to do to ensure you take advantage of the long weekend!

TimeOut:  1)Start with a scare
You may not be able to sleep after watching the creeptastic 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Rubin Museum, 150 W 17th St at Seventh Ave; 212-620-5000, rmanyc.org; 8pm; $7 bar minimum). Australian author Georgia Clark (She’s with the Band) will introduce the film, in which “pod people” take over the earth, one sleeping person at a time. Tonight’s screening is the final one in the museum’s “Memento Mori” series, which features films that examine death. (We recommend finding a puppy to hug once the movie’s over.)

2) Send in the clowns, and the pies
The Brick theater starts it’s three-week-long clown festival with a pie right in the kisser. At today’s New York Clown Theater Festival (starts at Union Square subway station, Union Sq East at 14th St, and continues at the Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Ave between Lorimer St and Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-907-6189, bricktheater.com; 5pm; free), a goofball crew of jugglers, stilt walkers and more perform, before hopping on the L train to stage a public pie fight outside of the Brick Theater. That’s right, a public pie fight! Once you’ve wiped the cream from your eyes, the evening finishes with festival highlights from Clown Cabaret. Thankfully, the festival runs through September 26, so you’ve got plenty of time to shower and wash your clothes.


3) Hey, you, come join the one-wheel ride
We hope you’re a balanced person, because that’s what you’ll need to take part in the epic Brooklyn Long Distance Ride (2–7pm, free) that kicks off the New York Unicycle Festival (locations and times vary; visit nycunifest.com for details. Fri 3–Sun 5; free). If your unicycle riding is a tad rusty, join the ride at the Brooklyn Bridge, or later at Prospect Park to get back in the saddle away from cars. The festival takes over Governors Island on Saturday (noon–5pm, free) with freestyle displays, basketball and hockey games on unicycles, and a mass ride around the island. You’ll want to at least join in at the end of today’s ride, because that way you’ll end up at the…


4) …Coney Island’s firework finale
Is it just us, or is Labor Day a disappointing holiday? Where are the hours of colored, coordinated explosions? Have we fallen asleep and awoken in Communist Russia? Get your fill of fireworks at the last of the weekly Friday Night Fireworks at Coney Island (fireworks can be viewed from the boardwalk between 5th and 21st Sts, Coney Island, Brooklyn; coneyislandfunguide.com; 9:30pm; free). Stake a spot at Beer Island (beerislandconeyisland.com) and settle in, or fork over $26 for four hours of unlimited rides at Luna Park (lunaparknyc.com) and see the fireworks upside down.


5) All Tomorrow’s Parties, today!
We, too, are tired of our übercool friends gushing about how excited they are about All Tomorrow’s Parties this weekend while we spend the weekend in the city. So indulge yourself in a little smugness by seeing Beak at the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St between Bowery and Chrystie St; 212-533-2111, boweryballroom.com; 8pm; $20), before it hits ATP on Saturday. A three-piece from Bristol that includes Portishead’s producer and multi-instrumentalist, Geoff Barrow, the trio combines lockstep rhythms, psychedelic melody lines and a hard-edged, near-punk sensibility that will leave you texting your ATP-bound friend, “I can’t believe you missed this!”


6) Hunker down with some cool techno
DJ Spinoza’s regular, and regularly banging, night of house and techno, The Bunker, at Public Assembly (70 North 6th St between Kent and Wythe Aves, Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 718-384-4586, publicassemblynyc.com; 10pm; $20, before midnight $10), touches down with another installment, this time featuring Jan Krueger and Daze Mazim of the Hello?Repeat Soundsystem label, celebrating the imprint’s fifth birthday with machine funk all night long. The front room is given over to another great label—the Netherlands’ Clone—with Space Dimension Controller, Dexter and head honcho Serge joined by Bethany Benzur, of Brooklyn’s own Kiss & Tell shindig.

Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/80781/things-to-do-in-nyc-this-weekend#ixzz0yThwzGxm

Where to Go, Lower East Side edition!

Neighborhood: The Lower East Side

What to do?:  There are a lot of fun vintage shops, restaurants, & bars.

Where to go?: Washington Square Park

What to eat?: Shake Shack found in Washington Square Park, is a local's favorite for delicious & cheap burgers and shakes!