JABATAN: JABATAN PENGAJIAN AM
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Name
of the programme
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English Carnival
2016
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Date
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10,11 and 12 October 2016
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Time
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9.00 am – 4.00 pm
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Venue
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Politeknik
Ibrahim Sultan (PIS)
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Prepared
by
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AKHMALIAH BT
ABD RAHIM
(Programme
Manager)
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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’
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY
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SPELLING BEE – ENGLISH
CARNIVAL 2016
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DATE
& TIME
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PRELIMINARY
ROUND –
Monday
10th October 2016/10:00 – 12:00 noon
FINAL
ROUND
Wednesday
12th October 2016/9:00 am
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NO.
OF PARTICIPANTS
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26
PARTICIPANTS – Preliminary Round
5
FINALISTS – Final Round
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SUMMARY
OF ACTIVITY
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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.
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PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(NOOR AZEELIA BINTI ABDUL MANAN)
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY
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ENGLISH CARNIVAL 2016
THE SINGING NIGHTINGALES
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DATE
& TIME
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Preliminary
round : 10.10.2016 / 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Final
Round : 12.10.2016/ 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
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NO.
OF PARTICIPANTS
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Preliminary
round: 13 participants and 3 instrumentalist
Final
round: 5 participants and 3 instrumentalists
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SUMMARY
OF ACTIVITY
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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.
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PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(POOGANESWARI SITERAM PILLAI)
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REPORT ENGLISH CARNIVAL
2016’
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY
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WE ARE THE BUILDERS
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DATE
& TIME
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11
OCTOBER 2016
2.30pm-4.30pm
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NO.OF
PARTICIPANTS
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50
participants
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SUMMARY
OF ACTIVITY
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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.
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PREPARED BY,
…………………………………
( Tarishini Visvalingam)
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REPORT ‘ ENGLISH CARNIVAL
2016’
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NAME
OF ACTIVITY
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MAGIC HAND
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DATE
& TIME
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11
OCT 2016
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NO.
OF PARTICIPANTS
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30
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SUMMARY
OF ACTIVITY
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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!!!
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PREPARED BY,
…………………………………………
(JULIAWATI MOHD YUNUS)
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