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.

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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.