Newspaper articles Moose class Week 17

Students wrote articles for a specific section of the newspaper.  This is a copy of on group's work.  They wrote an original article for the sports section.

Mind map preparation week 17 lion class Mr. Imran

Students were busy finishing off their mind maps for the mind map competition week 17.

Mind map contest - Evaluation Form By Mr. Oybek - week 17

Evaluation form

These the criteria:

1- The students used a wide range of vocabulary.
2- The vocabulary is relevant to the students level.
3- The topic is well explored and and all subcategories.
4- The work can be helpful for another student of the same level to produce a written or spoken presentation.
5- The work is genuine, not copied.

"Learning how to learn is life's most important skill"

Tony Buzan

Teachers evaluating students mind-maps to choose the winner according to the criteria mentioned above. The results will be announced Sunday of next week. Each mind-map was checked and evaluated by all teachers. Next week we will post the winning mind-map. The forms that were designed by Mr. Oybek helped us focus on the main objective behind the whole contest.

We want students to use mind-maps to learn English and to help them learn practical skills to continue learning. Mind-maps are not hard to learn, but we need to implement them every week, if we want it to become a learning habit.

How red are you? A quiz from students

Shark and Tiger group students created quizzes about things they associate with colours. The quiz "How red are you?" in the picture above is about Al-Baik fast food restaurants. Do the quiz and find out if you are an Al-Baik fan!

Mind map contest

Students prepared mind maps to develop their vocabulary relative to the weekly topic.

The mind map will be entered in the inter class competition in week 17

Continent/Country Factsheet posters

Country factsheet project / Objective 3 from Unit 11 of Blue Book

Students have been working on a project about a country of their choosing since the beginning of the week. They were put into groups of three, choosing a continent for their own group. They then chose a country each to find information about. Once their research was completed, they produced an A3 factsheet poster showing the details of their findings. They will present the poster and use Google Earth as a visual aid in their discussions to the class.

info map project

In the previous two weeks the students worked in groups to learn geography around the world outside of the Middle East. In conjunction with a brainstorm mindmap, the students also made an information map to aid in visual communication of presenting what they found out about another country that was interesting in wanting to visit and about the country's natural surroundings.

Mohammad Alrefai and Malik Alameri - Winners of the Presentation Contest 2015-2016 Semester One

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Week 16 - Mr. Ted Lang visit

Mr. Theodore Lang the (assistant country director ) at Interlink visited the program this week. It was three day visit. He gave a three day workshop and he visited the classes and met with the teachers.

Summary of the workshop:
 Our first session was about teaching mixed abilities classes.The session was interesting. Everybody participated, and trainer talking time was to minimal. I thought it was good hour of practical training.

Session two and three was was about project-based-learning (PBL) and smart objectives. We also trained on using material form the resource room. We ended the workshop reflecting on the process of teaching and learning.  We thank Mr. Lang for his visit and for the workshop and we hope to see him next Semester.

Week 15 curriculum meeting summary

" if everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself"

Henry Ford

We explored how the project ideas on the Interchange resources website can be used in Project Based Language Learning. We created a weekly plan for one of the topics to be covered in the following weeks based on these ideas.

We gathered the names of the  Presentation contest winner students from each class.  Week 16 will be  the College Stage Presentation Contest. The College Level Presentations will be held week 16 on Wednesday, 16 December in the Auditorium.

I would like to thank Mr. Oybek for his help and support and for keeping us  informed of the important topics related to the curriculum, and I would like to thank all the teachers for their continuous  help and support.

Week 15 Class presentstion week

class of  2015 -2016

"There is no such think as a presentation talent, it is called Presentation Skills" 

David JP PHillips

All classes gave their final presentations in class this  week (15) . The winner from each class will participate in the program presentation contest that will be held in the auditorium week 16.
I attended two classroom  presentations contest. It was a busy week. Students are working with their teachers to finalize  their presentations. Some classes had the event on Tuesday others on Wednesday. Students were worried and excited at the same time. I thank Mr. Oybek and all the teachers in the program  for their efforts and support. It was a fruitful week.

Week 14 Exam Week