English Competition

And guess who won......???
YES MY STUDENT!!!! He is number one from the whole Chiang Mai province and deserved!
He needed to talk for a few minutes about a subject. Because Ben saw at another teacher and student preparing in a school in Fang making a whole presentation as well as a text, he told me to do the same. So with only two days left I made a new text for the boy to study and collected all things for a presentation. It was about health and food so I made plastified pictures of cheese, meat etc and had real eggs, tofu, fruit and vegetables in bowls and serving trays. A neat collection it was. But one thing I didn't know was that there were two categories in English; one with only speaking and the other was more a presentation with a simple use of English. So we ended up having a perfect text plus a presentation!
Terry, the student, is really good at English but only finds it hard to write. He understood it all and together we made the text the way he liked it. Unlike the other contestants he knew what he was talking about and that made all the difference. Most students studied hard to learn a text by hearth but had no understanding at all and used words I had never heard about. So the questions afterwards were answered very well by him! He did a great job!

Here you see Terry presenting!
One funny thing I just have to tell: I told him to bring two boiled eggs to schools so while he was practising the text he made a bend and looked rather shocked,,, what happened was he forgot that he had put eggs in the pocket of his pants and worse, he had forgotten to boil them!!! So of egg was cracked and was running down his leg... I couldn't help myself and laughed very hard. He tried to clean things up but we got him some other pants. Lucky the cook brought us that afternoon new eggs who were boiled a long long time.

Many schools presented themselves and made the nicest 'rooms' with materials used in school, art work and fun things to do. It was a kind of fair.














Many schools came with a big bus with students and teachers to enjoy both days. Unfortunately my school is very different,,, Terry was alone stuck with me and a Thai teacher! Not much fun there! I tried to feed him ice creams to make it a good day...
On the photo you see Thai dancing. The competition was so big,,, there were nearly 50 categories! art, music, dance, language, maths etc etc. Just great!