Belmont International English website last updated February 13,
2019.
Welcome to our website
This
site has been created as a medium for teachers and adult students of English for speakers of other languages to use to share experiences. It is designed primarily
for intermediate to advanced students and their teachers.
School Closings due to bad weather We are approaching that time of year when we might have snow or ice or other severe weather conditions.
Our school will follow the same bad weather schedule as Nashville-Davidson County Metropolitan public schools. If Metro
schools are closed, we are closed. If Metro schools are open, we are open. The formal name of our schools is Nashville- Davidson County Metropolitan
Public Schools. On television, our schools are sometimes called Metro Schools, sometimes called Davidson County Schools, sometimes
called Nashville Schools. All these mean the same thing. If we are open, we will start on time. That is, if it is announced
that Metro schools will open one hour late, we will still open at 9 a.m. Almost all local television and radio stations
will start announcing school closings very early in the morning. You may listen to the radio or television, or you may
follow the following link to go to the web site of Weather Channel
4.
Click here to go to channel 4 school closings
We have a very congenial group from many different countries. In the front row are our wonderful volunteers.
Next to me is Sherry Loller, then Joyce Eyler, Ellen McPherson, Joan Nicoll, Irene Boyd, and Sally Tiven. On the
end is Jinjing Meng, our associate teacher from Peabody.
We work hard, but we have fun, too.
Language is an integral part of life, and we enjoy working together, playing together and talking together
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Various topics are
discussed on the pages of this site. To find the topic you are interested in and to download material, click on the "Topics" heading in the navigation bar in the upper left corner of this page.
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About Belmont International English
An English language school
for international students has been in operation at the Belmont United Methodist Church since 1966. Through the generosity
of the church members, around four thousand students from many countries have been helped to improve their proficiency in English and
their understanding of American culture. We welcome new students. We work hard, but we have fun, too.
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Director The director
of Belmont International English is Dr. Frank Jones. Dr. Jones received the M.D. degree from
the University of Tennessee in 1958, the M.S. degree in Orthopedic Surgery
from the Mayo Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in 1967, the M.A. degree in French from Vanderbilt in 1995, and the M.Ed. degree, with emphasis on ESL, from Tennessee State University in 2000.
He has been teaching English since his retirement from practice in 1998.
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