English Carnival

JABATAN: JABATAN PENGAJIAN AM
Name of the programme
English Carnival 2016
Date
10,11 and 12 October 2016
Time
9.00 am – 4.00 pm
Venue
Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan (PIS)
Prepared by
AKHMALIAH BT ABD RAHIM
(Programme Manager)

English Carnival 2016 was organized by English Unit, General Students Department (JPA) with the main aims to promote communicative competence among Politeknik Ibrahim Sultan (PIS) students. It was 3-day programme held at CdeC lobby on 10 to 12 October 2016.

Total estimated number of 618 PIS students have benefitted from the programme. The participants were from every department. Meanwhile, a total of thirty (30) students were entrusted with the responsibilities to be the facilitators for this programme.

A total of five activities, namely, ’10 station games’,Spelling Bee”, “The Singing Nightingales”, “Magic Hands” and “We are the Builders” were carefully selected, prepared and conducted according to time slot given. For Station games, they were carried out simultaneously for 3days and open to all PIS people.  On 10 Oct, Spelling Bee was conducted at 10 to 12pm and the total number of participants was 24 students. Following was ‘The singing Nightingales’ started at 2.30 pm and ended at 4.30 pm. Only 5 of them go to final round out of 14 participants.
The following day was start with Magic hands where the 6 groups participated were gave time to draw and color an English quote on a piece of white clothes and presented in front of judges. On the evening, ‘We are the Builders’ took place with massive number of participations around 50 students. A report from every activity was attached with this report.

Closing ceremony took place on 12th October and began by 9.00 with final round ‘Spelling Bee’. After that, continued with final round ‘The Singing Nightingales’ which brought final 5 contestants to show their undeniable talents. Closing speech was given by Mr. Jahabar as EEP coordinator and the ceremony has come to the peak of event which is prize giving ceremony.

On the whole, English Carnival 2016 has created a fun, interesting and meaningful language learning experience for all the participants. Thus, it can be considered an essential platform towards developing the students’ interest in learning the language.










ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016 ACTIVITIES REPORTS’
NAME OF ACTIVITY
SPELLING BEE – ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016

DATE & TIME
PRELIMINARY ROUND –
Monday 10th October 2016/10:00 – 12:00 noon
FINAL ROUND
Wednesday 12th October 2016/9:00 am
NO. OF PARTICIPANTS
26 PARTICIPANTS – Preliminary Round
5 FINALISTS – Final Round
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY














The Spelling Bee Competition was held in conjunction with English Carnival 2016. 26 volunteered participants were involved in the Preliminary Round. During the Preliminary Round of the competition, participants were first briefed about the rules and regulations before the competition commenced at 10:00am. Preliminary Round was conducted using Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary audio software and students were then asked to spell the words by writing their answers on the sheet provided. Participants spelt the words based on the pronunciation they listened through the headphones that were directly connected to the laptops. Facilitators were stationed at each assigned Spelling Bee stations and participants proceeded to their stations to complete the tasks.
FIVE (5) finalists were selected from the Preliminary Round and the Final Round was executed using the conventional means; the spellers spelt aloud the words read by the pronouncer.  Mohammad Dzahir Bin Salim from Department of Tourism and Hospitality was announced as a winner of English Carnival 2016 Spelling Bee Competition.
PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(NOOR AZEELIA BINTI ABDUL MANAN)

NAME OF ACTIVITY
ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016
THE SINGING NIGHTINGALES
DATE & TIME
Preliminary round : 10.10.2016 / 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Final Round : 12.10.2016/ 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
NO. OF PARTICIPANTS
Preliminary round: 13 participants and 3 instrumentalist
Final round: 5 participants and 3 instrumentalists 
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY














The Singing nightingales activity was carried out for two days which are on the 10th of October and 12th of October 2016. The participants were required to register latest on the 5th of October 2016. Upon registration the students were required to submit their minus 1 and lyrics to avoid sensitive and inappropriate content. 13 students registered: However on the day of the competition only 11 students participated. The five finalists were chosen by the two judges: Mr. Razak Salim and Mr. Yeow Chee Keong. The final five students performed with a new selection of songs on the 12th of October and the esteemed judges were Mr Rowland and Mr Mohd Fadzli bin Zulkeflee. The following is the list of finalist according to their final placing.
First place
MELVIN RAJNATH A/L PUSPANATHAN
Second place
RAZHANN ALWI BIN ATING
Third place
BATRISYIA BINTI AB RAJAK
Fourth place
SEBASTIAN TEHERAN ANAK SAMAWI
Fifth place
ZAZ ZAILAND ALFAND BIN ZAINUDDIN MUHAMMAD
PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(POOGANESWARI SITERAM PILLAI)




REPORT ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016’
NAME OF ACTIVITY
WE ARE THE BUILDERS

DATE & TIME
11 OCTOBER 2016
2.30pm-4.30pm
NO.OF PARTICIPANTS
50 participants
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY














There were 10 groups participated in this competition. I had a short meeting with the representative of each group a week before the event. They were briefed on the information, rules and regulations of the competition. They were asked to draw lot on the buildings that they have to construct during the competition. Each group was given RM20 for their expenses.
During the competition each group was given 3 feet X 3 feet plywood as a base for their building. WE ARE THE BUILDERS competition started exactly at 2.30 at CDEC’s hall. Participants used minimum 3 recycle items to construct the buildings. Judges for the competition, Pn Kavitha and Pn Poogan arrived at 3pm and started to evaluate the groups. Each group will be evaluated based on the creativity & use of recycle items, interactive skills, time management and language. Participants able to use English as mode of conversation during the competition. Each group given a chance to present about the building to the judges and audience. The competition ended at 4.45 pm after the 5 finalist teams were announced.  Prize giving ceremony was conducted on the next day during the English Carnival’s closing ceremony. Placing for the competition also  were announced on the closing ceremony.

PREPARED BY,
…………………………………
( Tarishini Visvalingam)                                       
REPORT ‘ ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016’
NAME OF ACTIVITY
MAGIC HAND
DATE & TIME
11 OCT 2016
NO. OF PARTICIPANTS

30
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY














Magic hand is a mock mural painting activity which objectively to discover new arts talent in students and develop better painting skills besides ascertain student’s communication level and skills pertaining English.  Through this activity, students were able to enhance communication skills during group discussion in order to come out with a great artwork. Each drawing need to be included English phrases such idioms and motivational quotes.
Thirty students were involved and divided into a group of five members. They were given 3 hours to complete their task. After completed the mural painting task, a representative from the group need to explain about their artwork detailing and answer questions thrown by the judges who were Pn Farahdiba Md Said from JPA and Pn Fa’izah Hamzah from CISEC.
Cash prizes had been given to the winners and the best mock mural had been displayed for the whole week of the program at CDeC. It is a great activity which enable students across department to show their hidden talent and developing better communication skills through the presentation and group discussion and of course their English.
More and more fun and entertaining activities to be carried out by JPA and supported by other department after this. Don’t freak out, just speak up. Congratulation!!!

PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(JULIAWATI MOHD YUNUS)
 

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