Student Night

A lovely sunny day in Maroochydore was appropriately followed by a fun night out at the Pig n’ Whistle.

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SANG

Congratulations to our six graduating SANG students- Tariq, Turki, Yazed, Mohaned, Khalid and Abdulmohsen!

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Work, Work, Work!

The award winning Maroochy RSL is looking for highly motivated and customer orientated hospitality staff to join our team in the following casual position:

COFFEE SHOP & BISTRO WAITSTAFF

To be considered you must:

• Be willing to work hard and show initiative in a fast paced, high pressure environment

• Be willing to work hard and be part of a large team

• Provide great customer service to our members and guests

• Possess an aptitude for learning and an ability to be cross trained in other areas

• Be neat, tidy and well presented at all times

• Be available to work on a flexible roster which includes weekends and nights

• Hold a current Queensland RSA certificate

• Have a minimum of 2 years previous experience in a similar role

If you meet the above requirements to be part of our Coffee Shop & Bistro team, we look forward to receiving your cover letter and resume.   

An immediate start will be offered to the successful applicant/s.

Please understand that due to the anticipated high volume of applicants, only short listed candidates will be contacted and no phone enquiries will be canvassed. www.seek.com.au

 

Mushroom picker – Mt Sippy Mushrooms

Mushroom picker

Would you like to come and join our current team of 25 ladies picking the mushroom crops on any of our three locations on the Sunshine Coast.

There is no season for mushrooms as they grow all year round. It takes a person approx 3 months to become experienced at picking and  grading etc., so therefore this job is not suitable for backpackers or holiday visas.

You must have your own vehicle and be prepared to work any of 7days for approximately 30 to 35 hours per week.

We commence work at 7 am and work until the crops are finished for that day. The mushrooms grow in air conditioned rooms so the work is not affected by the weather, and is pleasant in both summer and winter. A reasonable level of fitness is a requirement as the crops are picked at various levels from a stepped mobile trolley. Experience is not essential but ability to work as a team member and to follow instruction is essential.

If you think you are suitable please send your resume to mtsippymushrooms@bigpond.com

 

Baristas – Maroochydore – Zarraffa’s Coffee

Zarraffa’s Coffee Maroochydore has available positions for Baristas to join their enthusiastic team.

 Barista responsibilities will include;

  • Customer Service
  • Cashing Orders
  • Making Coffee
  • Cleaning
  • WHS

The positions available are casual, offering 35 – 40 hours per week. Flexible availability is essential, weekend work is also required. Previous experience as a Barista is preferred, but not essential.

If you feel you meet this criteria, have the desire to succeed and enjoy a challenging and rewarding career, please forward your resume with cover letter by email through the ‘apply’  button below. All applications will be received via email only. Please do not apply in store. www.seek.com.au

 

 Promotional Staff – Bella Venezia

Bella Venezia Restaurant 

(Mooloolaba, Sunshine Coast, QLD)

“Winner-Sunshine Coast Excellence In Business Awards 2007 & 2009″

We are Offering:

  • $ Attractive Pay Rates & Incentives
  • A Great Team Environment
  • Casual Positions
  • Various Shifts 12pm-5pm & 5pm-9:30pm
  • Career Advancement Opportunity

Positioned in the heart of Mooloolaba, the Sunshine Coast’ s leading Restaurant is seeking highly motivated promotional team members.

This role will utilize your outgoing personality, food sampling & takeaway menus to bring additional patrons to our establishment.

The Award Wining Bella Venezia Restaurant & Bar seats over 150 patrons and has a upmarket service bar & lounge bar with “Fashion TV” playing around the clock.

Candidates will need to send a cover letter explaining why we should select you above the additional large number of expected applications. We highly recommend that you send your photo/portfolio with your application.

Attention
The Director
Bella Venezia Restaurant & Bar
Po Box 1099
Buddina QLD 4575
Enquiries phone:(07)5444 5844
email: bellav1@bigpond.com

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Discovery Group!

James from the Discovery Group came into Lexis today to give a quick presentation about the Noosa Everglades. The talk was thoroughly enjoyed by all of the students, especially Sandra who won an awesome prize! Thank you so much James and congratulations Sandra!

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Comparatives and Superalatives

The grammar point for this week in the Pre-Intermediate class was comparatives and superlatives. So of course it was the perfect opportunity to create certificates for ‘student of the month’. Students chose an appropriate superlative for a classmate then presented their certificate. Highlights included ‘the wildest hair’, ‘the most considerate’ and ‘the kindest’.

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Pool

After a very busy weekend of partying a relaxing afternoon of pool and beer was welcomed by the Lexis students. The games were action packed with entertainment as the balls were sent bouncing through the pub and every ball except the coloured ones were consistently shot into the holes. All in all the afternoon was enjoyed by all, see you next time!

Sunshine Coast Events!

Noosa Winter Festival from 5th – 6th May

The Festival includes a variety of events for participants including the Noosa Blue Water Swim, Noosa Paddle, Bendigo Bank Family Ride, Subaru Noosa Century Cycle, Noosa Half Marathon, Mizuno Noosa 10km Run and the Noosa News 5km run/walk

Creamfields Music Festival

5th May Supreme Court Gardens, Perth  /  6th May Gold Coast Parklands, Gold Coast

David Guetta, Above & Beyond, Dirty South & more…

Body Art Carnivale from 12th -13th May, Eumundi (20 mins from Noosa)

The Australian Body Art Carnivale is Australia’s premier body art event, attracting artists and spectators from across Australia and overseas. Amazing artwork and music all weekend…And it’s FREE!

Noosa Food and Wine Festival 17th – 20th May

Four days of superb cuisine, fine wines and fabulous foodie events featuring more than 200 top Australian and International food and wine personalities and producers plus world class entertainment. Job opportunities available!

 Music Lovers – Florence & The Machine!

17th May Burswood Casino, Perth  /  26th May Riverstage Brisbane

Australian History buffs check out the – Captain Cook ‘1770’ Festival!

The CAPTAIN COOK 1770 FESTIVAL has been an annual event for nineteen years, commemorating the visit of the Endeavour and the landing of Lt. James Cook and his party on May 24 at the town of Seventeen Seventy, as it is now known. This was the first landing for Cook and his crew in Queensland!

Wakeboarding

Lexis was represented by 18 students at the wakeboard park this afternoon. It was the first time for many, so they began with the kneeboard and progressed quickly to the wakeboard. The experiences snowboarders, surfers and kitesurfers caught onto the technique easily and were keen to progress to the jumps in the next session. Overall it was a very enjoyable afternoon!

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Lexis English | What’s on…from West Coast to East Coast!

UP-COMING May Events 2012

Feel free to speak to a Lexis English staff member to assist with bookings and information, or click on the pictures for further (website) information.

 Perth International Comedy Festival from 2nd – 20th May

Presenting the best International comedians to Perth and Australian audiences

Noosa Winter Festival from 5th – 6th May

The Festival includes a variety of events for participants including the Noosa Blue Water Swim, Noosa Paddle, Bendigo Bank Family Ride, Subaru Noosa Century Cycle, Noosa Half Marathon, Mizuno Noosa 10km Run and the Noosa News 5km run/walk

Creamfields Music Festival

5th May Supreme Court Gardens, Perth  /  6th May Gold Coast Parklands, Gold Coast

David Guetta, Above & Beyond, Dirty South & more…

 Body Art Carnivale from 12th -13th May, Eumundi (20 mins from Noosa)

The Australian Body Art Carnivale is Australia’s premier body art event, attracting artists and spectators from across Australia and overseas. Amazing artwork and music all weekend…And it’s FREE!

Noosa Food and Wine Festival 17th – 20th May

Four days of superb cuisine, fine wines and fabulous foodie events featuring more than 200 top Australian and International food and wine personalities and producers plus world class entertainment. Job opportunities available!

 Music Lovers – Florence & The Machine!

17th May Burswood Casino, Perth  /  26th May Riverstage Brisbane

Australian History buffs check out the – Captain Cook ‘1770’ Festival!

The CAPTAIN COOK 1770 FESTIVAL has been an annual event for nineteen years, commemorating the visit of the Endeavour and the landing of Lt. James Cook and his party on May 24 at the town of Seventeen Seventy, as it is now known. This was the first landing for Cook and his crew in Queensland!

Fishing

On a beautiful sunny afternoon in Maroochydore there was no better way to spend the afternoon than to go fishing, on the Maroochydore river. It was the first time that the Korean, French, Japanese, German and Spanish students had been fishing, so we began with  a brief rundown of technique. Then each student cast their reels in hope of catching a fish!

Saki was the first to catch a fish but unfortunately due to both the fish and Saki being frightened, it got away. Taka reeled in a lovely little fish and kindly fed it to a local pelican, Great effort everybody!

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Student Night!

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Joim us at Student night every Thursday. See the notice board or ask Beth for details.

Looking for Work?

Short Order Cook – L’espresso Coffee House
Short Order Cook – Weekends & some Thursday nights / Salary: $20 – $24.99 per hour
Duties will include food preparation, heating & serving, as well as general cleaning.

Pamphlet Deliverers Required – Earn extra cash while walking
Maroochydore areas: 0410 477 575

Holiday Call Centre Sat 9am-2pm                                                                               Come join our enthusiastic & friendly team promoting some of Australia’s top holiday destinations at discounted prices. The job’s fun, the people are great, and the pay, bonuses, and incentives are fantastic.NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY

Meet Taka and Ryan

 

Takanori from Japan and Ryan from South Korea signed up for the new EAP course and this is what they have to say about it:

 

Taka finds EAP (English for Academic Purposes) challenging but enjoyable. He really likes the academic style reading and listening as it is so different to his General English course and pushes him to work really hard. Taka hopes to go to Tafe when he finishes the course and his dream is to work as a Zookeeper at Australia Zoo in the future. Good luck Taka, keep working hard~we hope to visit you at Australia Zoo one day!

 Ryan says that the EAP course motivates him to work harder than he ever has before. He thinks Alison is an awesome teacher and he actually enjoys doing his homework. Another reason that Ryan loves his class is that he has great classmates who are all working towards their goals. Ryan’s philosophy is that ‘Life is always changing’ and his goal is to attend University in Australia. With Ryan’s positive outlook and strong work ethic we’re sure he will achieve his goal!

 EAP  is an academic course which prepares students for further studies. It also combines IELTS components for those needing to sit an IELTS test in the future. Good luck to everyone in the current EAP course~we hope you all achieve your personal goals!

 

 

 

Easter Break!

Have fun and enjoy your Easter long weekend!

Holidays
The school will be closed on:
FRIDAY 6th April
MONDAY 9th April

School starts again on:
TUESDAY 10th April at 9:00am

Food + Alcohol
ALL shops will be closed on FRIDAY
That includes food stores and alcohol stores
You will need to buy your food and drink on THURSDAY

Bars + Nightclubs
ALL bars will be closed on FRIDAY (some re-open at midnight)
NO ALCOHOL is served on FRIDAY
You can only buy alcohol when dining in a restaurant

Church Services
Check the  local papers for all services throughout Easter

Lexis English Welcomes Nina Schiller as Cambridge Exams Manager!

Lexis English is proud to announce that we have been given full accreditation as an open Cambridge Exams Centre.

 Nina has a long history with Cambridge exams. Before coming to Australia, Nina taught and ran Cambridge exams in Switzerland. Since joining Lexis she has taught Cambridge Pet, First and Advanced before being appointed as ADOS and Cambridge Professional Development coordinator.

Nina says, ” I am delighted to take on this role as Cambridge Manager. There will be two open centres; Lexis Cambridge East  Coast covering Byron Bay, Brisbane, Noosa and Maroochydore and Lexis Cambridge West Coast covering our Perth Beach school.

Lexis Noosa, has already established a reputation as a Cambridge centre of excellence and we are proud of being able to offer high quality Cambridge tuition and our superior results.   I am especially proud of our 100% pass rate at CPE level”.

“Students will now have the benefit of an efficient central registration of exams and the convenience of sitting exams locally. I am looking forward to travelling to our schools in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, to meet the new Cambridge teams and lead Cambridge professional development”.

PRAGUE LEGEND by Katie

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At the same time when eccentric emperor Rudolf II. (1552 – 1612) ruled Prague there was a large Jewish commune that was lead by Rabbi Low.

He was a very clever and learned person. He had also some magic skills which he sometimes used to help poor Jewish people.

In those days, people from the Jewish commune had many problems with Christian people. They were often fighting together on the streets and sometimes someone was killed.

Then Rabbi Low decided to use his magic skills to create a big strong creature which would protect the Jewish people. He used mud and clay and modeled a robust man with a small hole in his head. If the rabbi put a small magic marble into this hole the clay man came alive.

Rabbi Low gave him the name Golem.

For a long time the Golem was very useful. He helped the rabbi defend the Jewish people from Christian attacks. But one day the rabbi was away from home, the Jewish people tried to use the Golem by themselves and the Golem went crazy and hurt one Christian child. Fortunately the rabbi came back and took the magic marble from his head, then he decided to destroy the Golem.

Many of the rabbi’s friends tried to persuade him not to do it, but they weren’t successful. On this day the Golem disappeared forever.

Nobody knows what happened with Golem. Manny people believe that the Golem wasn’t destroyed. Maybe he is hidden somewhere but no one can find him….

 

I head first time this story from my gand father when I was a child

Happy St Patricks Day……

Many Australians come together on St Patrick’s Day to celebrate Irish culture and remember St Patrick’s life and achievements. Many people also wear the color green on St Patrick’s Day. They may also wear a symbol of Ireland, such as a brooch in the shape of a four-leaf clover or a harp. Our lovely Irish teacher, Yvonne had her SANG students wear green to class today to help celebrate this special day. Well done boys ~ we hope your first week at Lexis English has been enjoyable!

AND THE FACEBOOK PHOTO COMPETITION WINNER IS……..

CONGRATULATIONS TO REBECCA!

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Well done to all our Lexis students who submitted such fantastic photography, and a BIG thank you to all of you who participated in the competition.

Lexis | English – Facebook photo results, as of 5pm last friday:

Rebecca (Brisbane campus) – 380 likes

Tanja (Perth campus) – 287 likes

Angela (Sunshine Coast campus) – 159 likes

Paula (Noosa campus) – 144 likes