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

Week 13 meeting

 Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. 

Frederick Douglass

Good morning team,

We would like to thank Oybek for sharing with us a summary of the main topic covered in our weekly meeting. And we would like to thank Abdullah for sharing his views on teaching reading.

At the end of the week meeting,  Abdullah delivered ten minute talk on teaching reading. He shared with us some guidelines and tips and activities as well as some reading strategies which can help our students improve their reading . then, the floor was open for questions and discussion. 

Teaching students to read in a foreign language is not easy. We need to find material that is suitable for their language level, which they find interesting and relevant. Some teachers prefer authentic material and others look for short passages form different resources. Some teachers let students choose a short fiction book, which they find interesting and suitable for their language level. There is no one solution that fits all students, but the important think is that we all need think creatively and work as a team by sharing our experiences. 

Share with us some positive stories and experiences on teaching reading. 

Making plans telephone call role play with Mr Oybek

Students enjoyed making plans with a friend by doing a telephone call role play. Students had to include information such as time time. place, what, how and with who. Mr Oybek was observing the class so we had the opportunity to do the role play with him. 😃

Mind maps

Students worked in groups to find vocabulary related to their topic.

Using the vocabulary the groups prepared mind maps related to the term topics.

Present continuous and prepositions of place

Students found pictures to describe  to demonstrate their understanding of the material covered.

2 minute hobby

Here the students all spoke for around two minutes on their favorite hobby. The students prepped a week prior with a full outline of what the hobby was, when they did it, where they did it, how they do it, with whom can participate in the hobby, and why they do it whether positive or negative outcomes of doing the hobby. It helped build a lot of confidence in the students to manage time and speak in front of the class.

Family Tree...

Students had to construct family trees.

Week 12 meeting - term 2

We had a short week last week, because of the rain and the weather conditions.We were  back to school on Thursday. 

Thanks for the constructive discussion we had last Thursday!  I would like to thank Oybek for sharing the summary with us.

Here is the brief summary of what we covered:

- Bilal shared with us how informing students about weekly learning objectives can be beneficial for their learning and motivation. He showed us a sample portfolio from one of his groups where students on a weekly basis add a divider page. On this page students write three learning objectives and during the course of the week they add their own work which reflects those objectives.

- Michael facilitated the discussion of the types of questions we can ask students to get their feedback about the activities and lessons. These questions can be asked in a plenary discussion or distributed to students in a form of a small survey (paper or e-versions). We can also put a "suggestion box" in a visible corner of the classroom where students can leave their comments in written form. If comments are in Arabic, our AAs can help with translation.

Mr. Imran Classroom: week 11 Roleplay ordering a meal!

Mr. Imran Classroom: week 11 Roleplay ordering a meal!:

A fun roleplay ordering a meal using requests and suggestions. Following from our field trip students had to make a full conversation ...

Adverbs of Frequency.....with professions - week 10

Students devised sentences with adverbs of frequency describing the actions of the people in the pictures.

Professions....Week 10

Students had to write three sentences about the professions depicted in the pictures.

Presentation and mind-map Contest timeline

Presentation contest winners 2014-2015 Semester 2

Good morning staff

 As you are preparing for the presentation contest; here are some of  the presentations. They are delivered by Jeddah TVTC students. All are from the previous semesters. This will help give students an idea of what the contest looks like:

1- Saleh Abdullah - childhood memories

2-  Hani Laban - Service recovery at hotels

3-  Turki Alsulamani  - Respect and relationships

4-  Ahmad Barnwi - Respecting your parents

5-  Hamza Ali Abdullah - safety 

6-  Ahmed Mohammed Seddeq - My Childhood memories

7- Abdulrahman Fahd Alharbi - American used cars

8- Abdulaziz Alzahrani - introducing himeself
9- Mohammad Abu- bakr Aidaros - Solar energy 
10- Abdul majeed Halawani - Computer networking 
11- Mohannad Alshiri - Learning English
12- Hussian Badaood  - Linux Vs Vesta
13- Sultan Mohammad Bakr - protecting homes from thieves 
14- Ahmad Altalhi - Car tips
15- Abdulrahamn Makki - My training period 
16- Saifudden Alsohaimi - types of networks
17- Ramzi Bafana - Why I choose to study Electrical power
18- Alaa Jameel  Bahhah - Parts of an A.C unit
19- Aied Alnafai - Water power

Contest timeline

week 9
watch students presentations 

week 10
choose your topic

week 11 
collect information

week 12
practice 

week 13 
practice

week 14 
practice 

week 15
Classroom contest 

week 16
program contest 

week 18
mind-map contest

week 19
the big contest  - the winner from 12 sites

Good luck 

CV and Cover letter activities during week 9 (Moose and Falcon)

Students' CV and Cover letter activity in Week 9 (Moose Class)

Country Profiles Activity

Country profiles activity during week 6 (Moose Class)

Jeddah TVTC English Program: List of student presentations from Jeddah program ...

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Jeddah TVTC English Program: List of student presentations from Jeddah program ...: Presentation contest winners 2014-2015 Semester 2 Dear students,  As you are preparing for the presentation contest; here are so...

Mr. Imran Classroom: Week 9: Exciting places: country posters

Mr. Imran Classroom: Week 9: Exciting places: country posters:

Students started a project today. First part of the project was to choose a country other than Saudi Arabia. Make a poster ...

Week 8 Term 2 meeting

Goodmorning team

Mr. Oybek proposed the following agenda for our 
today's meeting:
- Mr. Imran will update us with the preparation for the Football Tournament
- Mr. Oybek will share with us the details of GYP Speaking Competition initiated by 
TVTC

Mr. Oybek will brief us about the topics discussed in his meeting with the 
Country Director on Monday.
- Mr. Oybek will discuss the ways of getting students to use Classroom Language 
to increase Student Talking Time and the use of English.

Work Locations

This week the students worked on prepositions and work location likes and dislikes.  They spoke and wrote about past or future conditions in the workplace that they preferred and didn't prefer.

Student dictation : appearance conversation

students were given a conversation between two people about their appearance. One student was chosen in each group to read the conversation while other students had to write what they hear down. They check spellings and do peer correction at the end.

This is a good exercise to help students with the speaking, listening, pronunciation and spelling. 

SACS BOARD GAMES!! Class 3 week 8 Mr Imran

Students used this weeks class 3 to play some board games. The game had timed questions on cards that they needed to answer in order to progress on the board. They have to use their speaking and listening skills in order to do well in this game. Eid and Anas were our two winners in the end. Well done to the both of them.

week 8 describing people drawing Mr Imran

Students had to draw their teacher. Then as a group had to discuss how to describe him. The students enjoyed talking about hair styles clothes personalities and even how tall their teacher was. Even though I am really short and they were just being nice. It's a fun visual activity which incorporated learning the language within the activity. 

Time.....Week 6

Students had to make clocks with the rules of telling the time incorporated.

How often..... Class debate Week 6 lion class

The class activity was for students to understand adverbs of frequency by discussing what things they do and how often they do it!!

Have a look at the photo of some of the things they agreed on ... Some interesting choices.

Teachers' Day - week 6

Students used the curriculum kitchen to create the poster. 

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Teachers' Day - week 6: students thanked their teachers on Teachers' Day Students from each class celebrated teachers' day. They made a poster a...

Interlink Vision Mission and values

Our Vision

Committed to transformative language education and promoting cross-cultural understanding, INTERLINK strives for a world where humility, respect, and sensitivity prevail, and teachers and students contribute to enhanced communication among diverse peoples.

Our Mission

We provide intensive English instruction, academic preparation, and cross-cultural training, to empower students to succeed in academic, professional, and personal realms. With standards of quality and fairness as our guides, we promote enhanced learning and higher order thinking skills, grounded in an ethos of service. 

Values

Our most precious assets are our diverse students. All our actions stem from a single focus – disciplined attention to student needs. Our faculty embody the highest standards of professionalism, manifested with care, concern, and commitment. Our administrators are clear that they lead best by serving and serve best by meeting student needs.

from Interlink main website

Abdulrahman Al harbi; a good example.

Abdulrahman giving a presentation in his US English class

Link to presentation

Abdulrahman was a students from Mr. Shamsul and Mr. Eyaaz class. Now he is studying in the U.S. When he was in the program his teachers trained and coached him on how to prepare and deliver a presentation.

Abdulrahman is a good example of the importance of training , couching  and encouraging student presentations. We have documented his presentation in the program and shared it with all students.  90% of education is encouragement.

 Link to his presentation in TVTC Jeddah program

Week 3 Student activity - Mr. Raymond Kruk

Picture coming soon

Student assignment 3 on where they live, the climate or weather and what you should wear in that particular weather, including color of clothes and style.  Ss also present in front of the class this assignment for the quiz for the week.

Questions and answers...

Students working in groups had to find picture from newspapers of people doing actions and thereafter devise a descriptive question and answer after discovering the verb.

Building a conversation based on job roles.

Students sitting face to face in pairs. Building a conversation based on job roles. After a class discussion and listening to a conversation students made a list of questions that you would ask someone you don't know about their job. From this students had to both choose a job role and make a conversation with those questions. 

Week 2 term 1 Curriculum meeting

This week curriculum meeting :

Every semester we have a presentation contest. This week Mr,Imran gave us his plan on how to prepare students to give a three minute presentation. At the end of the discussion other teachers give their thoughts and ideas on how to improve on the presentation project.

Week 1 Term One Curriculum Meeting (TTT)

Source: Okaz  Saudi newspaper

Why reduce T.T.T ?
what are the strategies to reduce T.T.T ?
What are the positive uses of  T.T.T?
How to increase S.T.T ?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of T.T.T ?


 We discussed in this session ( TTT) teacher talking time. Teachers  draw their classroom chair arrangement, and their movement inside classroom and how it effected their T.T.T. Then, we shared our views on how to minimize teacher talking time.

T.T.T=  teacher talking time
S.T.T = Students talking time

What percentage of talking time do you give for  TTT and STT in  the  language classroom? share your views with us.

Curriculum meeting week 19 term 3 - Language Games

program buildings

Language games:

This week, we had a training session where we played a game. The teachers were divided into two groups, and there was a chart with numbers from 1 to 20. We can not write notes. Each team must call two numbers and try to match the information in both numbers so that they make sense. 

At the beginning, we were slow, but few minutes into the game everyone was participating and engaged. what was interesting is that Mr. Obek choose sentences what were related to information teachers needed to know at work. That what made the game meaningful and not just a game.

I think the concept of gamification in learning a new language is very important and teachers should give it more attention if they want their classes to be fun and enjoyable.

Also this week, Mr. John Zerling from EGA visited us and made classroom visits, and then had a meeting with the teachers. 

That's all for this week.

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Salah Abdullah Giving a short presentation on his ...

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Salah Abdullah Giving a short presentation on his ...

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Final Presentation Contest week 17

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Final Presentation Contest week 17: Hani Laban from Class C303 Today was the day for our final program presentation contest. We have prepared for this day from term ...

Class C303 and B303Blog : Week 13 Review by class C303

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Welcome to Class C303 and B303: Week 13 Review by class C303

Week 15 Curriculum Meeting

     Last week meeting was interesting. We had our first curriculum meeting with Mr. Oybek our new site- director in the program.We discussed our plan for term three. The events and contests,then we had a question and answer session about the program. 

The questions covered the curriculum and lesson planning and and  using the blogs as tools to document  and share and reflect on our development journey. 

week 16
classroom presentations

week 17
Program presentation contest

week 18
Graduation Ceremony

week (19-20-) 
Reviewing and preparing for the tests

Week 21
Final Exam week


We had a cake and drinks in the meeting to celebrate our first curriculum meeting with our new new site-director. It was not just a another meeting, we also had our share of laughs and everybody participated in asking and answering questions.  

Jeddah GYP TVTC-Interlink Staff Blog: Week 16 Lesson Plan by Eyaaz Bhikhu

Jeddah GYP TVTC-Interlink Staff Blog: Week 16 Lesson Plan by Eyaaz Bhikhu:

We started this blog as an experiment. It is a private blog, for our weekly lesson planning. Only teachers and supervisors can have access to.

Teachers share their weekly lesson plans online using  this blog . The blog helps us keep track of our teaching objectives and learn from each other. It also help us reflect on our teaching. 

Week 13 mind maps Mr Imran

This week our main objective was to discuss topics for our group mind maps. Get vocabulary and check spellings and get into groups to design and make our group mind maps.

Week 12 work - Shamsur Rahman

Speaking and listening....

 link to video:

https://drive.google.com/a/interlink.edu/folderview?id=0B7RdHbMKaDWTa2pZY0t4Tk83OG8&usp=sharing

Week 12 Student work - Mr. John

The students worked on writing dialogues this week to practice the functions related to shopping. It was also an opportunity to review vocabulary and forming questions.

Having written their dialogues students were then able to practise them.

It was a useful opportunity to develop relevant vocabulary and phrases which they can relate to their daily lives.

Week 12 CV video by Raymond Kruk

This week B103/104 worked on CV video in class. The goal was to practice English by talking about their future as related to themselves in respect to workforce experience.  The video featured here is of an A1 level student that showed the best he has to offer, being relaxed and delivering his speech nicely.  The required time of the presentation was to be 1 minute in length.

Communication week 12 Imran

This week the class talked about their favourite sports. The students enjoy playing different sports and games. Most are crazy about football and we had a full debate on why their favourite teams were better than other teams. 

Week 12 Class Project Eyaaz Bhikhu

Plan - Choose three examples of famous monuments. Why was each monument built?
Prepare - GROUP WORK Imagine they are city planners. Design a monument for their city or town where they live. Use these questions and their own ideas to write a short paragraph.
Who or what will the monument honor?
Where will you build it?
What will it look like?
How big will it be?
What will it be made of?
Present - CLASS ACTIVITY Share your monument with the class. Explain why you chose the design.

Michael Week 12

This is a gap fill exercise which i wrote on the board and had the students complete. It addresses the vocabulary from the week. This student has color-coded his work and fixed his incorrect answers after checking with me.

Week 12 Writing

Students were tasked with writing a conversation in pairs where they utilized modal verbs - Can / Could / May / Should and the negatives of the aforementioned to make requests and suggestions.

My favorite snack - week 11

Students selected their favorite snacks and then searched for the ingredients and steps to prepare it.  They were required to use the grammar that was thought in class.  As you can see, the results were class posters that showcased students snacks.

Week 11 by Michael

Today I quizzed the students on the weekly vocabulary. They were supposed to translate the words in Arabic to show that they know the meanings, but a few of them forgot. This student started to, but then stopped for some reason. Then I had them write five sentences using the verbs above.

Week 11

Students worked on "Mind Maps" to build their vocabulary and study skills.
They worked in groups and were able to find quite a lot of vocabulary related to their topic. They were also quite creative in their presentation.

Week 11 work by class a303- Mr Imran

The students this week were discussing places and giving directions. Students enjoyed finding images of different places and making a small town. Then using vocabulary they learnt In class had to give each other directions to get to places in the town.

Week 11 Writing

Students were tasked with writing a descriptive paragraph about their friends. Students were to use descriptive sentences with verb 'be and action sentences. Also they had to use infinitives to describes wants and desires as well as adverbs and adjectives.

Week 11 Grammar Round up - By Raymond Kruk

From the level zero students coming into the A1 level, we finished up this week with some continuous/future grammar work.  The students have had the past three weeks working on the importance of correct use of "to be" grammar through a series of worksheets and activities. From this point on, it will be essential of students to show this grammar ability through live presentations.

Week 11 Post by Eyaaz Bhikhu

Students were required to design a timeline, consisting of past and future events. They had to begin initially by researching about 4 past events that occurred and gather information. Thereafter think of 4 future events which they think will occur in the future. They carried this project out as a group, in which they had to use their imagination and grammar skills which were learnt in class during that week.

Students work from Mr. Eyaaz class week 10 term 2

Link to Mr. Eyaaz classroom blog

28 TVTC centers to train Saudi students

Jeddah TVTC English Program: 28 TVTC centers to train Saudi students:

 from Arabnews.com RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO Published — Wednesday 15 April 2015 28 TVTC centers to train Saudi students Saudi...

 Saudi students will get ample opportunities to shine, as the Technical
and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) has announced the launch of
28 centers.

The centers, to be set up in TVTC-affiliated colleges and
institutes, will seek to discover budding talent among the trainees,
TVTC spokesman Fahd Al-Otaibi said on Sunday.

“These students will be supported all the way from germination of ideas to their implementation with technical advice and other kind of support,” he said.

It will also enable Saudis to take part in international competitions and
exhibitions on innovation, said Al-Otaibi. “TVTC participated last year
with 20 innovative projects in three international competitions — The
42nd Geneva Exhibition of Inventions, ITEX14 Exhibition of Inventions in
Malaysia and the IENA (International Trade Fair Ideas) Germany.”

In Geneva, the Saudi team won two gold medals and four bronze medals, six
gold medals and two silver in Malaysia, and a gold, a silver and four
bronze medals in Germany, said Al-Otaibi.

“This would help them in adopting distinctive innovations, as part of an integrated project that includes all units in all regions of the kingdom” he said.

The TVTC will be providing those students actual and theoretical programs and
innovative educational support, which would help them convert their idea
into reality.The centers will also work to identify and discover
excellence and creativity among trainees in technical and vocational
fields, said Al-Otaibi.


This will be in addition to the competition
and exhibition of technical innovations organized by TVTC annually,
during which valuable prizes are given to distinguished winners.

The TVTC also helps students in gaining access to international events.'

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What Personalized Learning Is Not | Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension

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Creativity in the language classroom | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

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Abdul Aziz Alzahrani B303 - 1st Semester 2015

Jeddah TVTC English Program: Abdul Aziz Alzahrani B303 - 1st Semester 2015

Mr. John's Class B103 and B104 Semester 1 2014-2015 - students work - group mind-maps