Tonight was a really great one. One thing that I had been thinking was a bummer with the school was that the school wasn’t getting us involved in activities outside of the classroom. That was the case until recently when we were invited to a English contest that happened this evening. We even got a fancy invitation with really good English. 🙂
On our campus there are two big groups of buildings. One is where all of the classrooms are and the other group, well, we don’t know what they are used for. It seems that one is used for office space for teachers. The other building in that group is seemingly rarely ever used. It was on the fifth floor of that second building that we had this event and found out that there is something there. The room that it was in was a broadcast room, as you can see in the picture above.
The invitation that we were extended asked us to be one of the judges. In the contest there were two parts. The first part was where a group of ten students gave a speech in English and we, along with four other teachers, had to judge it on a scale from 1 to 10. All of the speeches were very good. What impressed me was that variety of speeches. One gave the story of Snow White, one talked on the importance of learning English and one sang a song in English. 🙂 I gave them all high scores because I saw that they were all trying very hard. It was awesome.
The second part wasn’t a judged event but kind of like a filler contest while the scores from the speeches were tallied. The contestant paired off and there was a quiz game about fruit. The object was that one student would randomly choose a fruit on the board and then relate clues of what the fruit was to their partner. The partner then had to guess what the fruit was. It was pretty funny to hear them try to think of clues to give their friend. 🙂 This activity also explain why there is so much fruit. 🙂
I have been thinking a lot about the kids and their own personal desire to learn English and it was great to see what an earnest desire to learn English can do for the kids. 🙂
