ANNUAL REPORT

2012-2013

COMMUNITY ENGLISH CLUB Sharing knowledge-Connecting community

CONTENTS

Vision and Mission 03

CEC Meetup 04

CEC Bi- zine 06

CEC Talkshow 08

CEC Outreach 11

CEC Contest 13

CEC Gameshow 15

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Develop CEC into the most prestigious club of language competence, project management, and event planning skills in Thai Nguyen in 2013 by promoting the strengths of FLF students’ activeness and confidence.

Promote the capacity of FLF students into a practical and stable level, which helps connect students to employers.

VISION MISSION CEC operates in form of voluntary membership, basing on the fund contributed by its members as well as the sponsorship raised by individuals, organizations, enterprises.

CEC activities aim at: creating a helpful playground for students, promoting students’ English abilities of all majors, providing an environment for students to exchange learning experience, offering opportunities for practicing necessary life skills.

CEC also cherish a wish to provide the community with meaningful and practical support by means of participating and holding a variety of volunteer and charity activities

What is Community English Club? What are our future and potentials? Here comes an overview about them.

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CEC MEETUP Weekly offline meetings of CECers

OVERVIEW Held on every Saturday afternoon, meetup is one of CEC’s indispensable activities. It aims not only to give members a chance to share knowledge, interact with one another but also promote CEC’s image to new joiners.

ACTIVITIES

In order to keep CEC run efficiently, 15 offline meetings were organized successfully, which involved many useful topics for students: discussing about freshmen’s difficulties at University, improving linguistics skills through games and other activates, sharing experience about how to make video

effectively, taking a tour to Thai Nguyen Museum, carrying out the 2nd membership interview, getting acquaintance with new members, etc.

These offline meetings were held mainly on Saturday mornings. With the total members stably of 30 people, CEC offline meetings were very useful to help all students of FFL to develop their linguistics skills as well as other important skills.

In addition, CEC created a relationship with students of Technology University and some other universities. After the 2nd membership interview, CEC had 5 free members from Technology University. This is supposed to be a promising future for CEC does imagine.

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CEC BI- ZINE Annual bi- zine of CECers

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OVERVIEW

CEC bi- zine stands for CEC bilingual magazine. CEC bi- zine is annually published with many interesting topics. This term, CEC published the 2nd bi- zine “Welcome the freshmen of Faculty of Foreign Languages”. In comparison with the last term, the 2nd CEC bi-zine was improved considerably.

ACTIVITIES The process of making CEC bi- zine version 2 had 3 steps:

Writing. (2 weeks)

Designing. (1 week)

Publishing. (1 week) CEC bi- zine 2 had 10 articles with 10 different topics: soft skills, newsreel report, information technology, etc. The main theme of CEC bi- zine 2 was “Welcome the freshmen of Faculty of Foreign Languages”. Obviously, this bi-zine was supposed to be very useful for all students in FFL in general and the freshmen in particular. After CECer’s great efforts, 40 magazines were successfully published and highly appreciated by students in not only FFL but also in other universities. However, there were still some grammar mistakes in the writings’ contents. This should not happen for the next bi- zine versions.

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CEC TALKSHOW A chance to interact with guest speakers

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OVERVIEW

Talkshow is a brand new program of CEC in this term. In a Talkshow, there is one guest speaker invited to share something that he/ she is interested in. Talkshow provides CECers a chance to interact with many guest speakers and learn new things, which are not taught at school.

ACTIVITIES

In this term, CEC successfully held 4 talkshows with Mr. Thieu Trung Hieu, M.A (project management), Ms. Dang Quynh Tram, M.A (traditional values of Vietnamese and American), Ms. Michelle Brown, (Fullbright program) and Ms. Petsy, M.A(Can your culture save our environment?).

Thanks to the attractiveness of each Talkshow, there were estimated 30 students attending each Talkshow. The number of students attending Talkshow also increased gradually.

With the success of 4 Talkshows, CEC helped many students of FFL to create mutual relationships with others. Moreover, this also made CEC’s image become more popular with students of FFL.

In the next term, CEC intend to organize 5 more Talkshows with more professional activities.

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CEC OUTREACH What CECers do outside our school

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OVERVIEW

Outreach activities are the voluntary ones organized to help students from other schools in particular aspects: education, environment, information technology, etc. In this term, CEC participated in 2 important outreach events. They are: co- operating with students with voluntary club of Technology University to celebrate Mid- Autumn festival at Tan Lap primary school and launching a branch at Duong Tu Minh high school.

ACTIVITIES

At Tan Lap primary school, CEC helped members of voluntary club at Technology University to hold Mid

- Autumn festival with a comedy and some games. Generally, CEC made a strong impression on all pupils of Tan Lap primary school.

Another important outreach activity of CEC in this term was to launch a branch at Duong Tu Minh high school. This branch was a small copy of CEC at Duong Tu Minh school. The students of Duong Tu Minh school held successfully the opening ceremony of CEC in June, 2013. Further activities will be implemented very soon.

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CEC CONTEST Contests held by CEC

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OVERVIEW

CEC contests are the contests held by CEC on the occasion of special days: teachers’ appreciation day, FFL’s establishment day. In this term, CEC organized 2 contests: writing contest for teacher’s day and video making contest about Faculty of Foreign Languages. Moreover, all candidates’ writings were complied into a mini collection, which was highly approved by slideshare.net- one of the best websites of PowerPoint documents sharing.

ACTIVITIES

The writing contest was held in November, 2012. In this contest, there were 5 candidates taking part in the competition. The competition ended up with 1 first prize, 2 second prize and 1 third prize.

The second contest by CEC in this term was to make video about FFL on the occasion of FFL establishment day: December, 31st. There were 2 candidates in the competition. Finally, there was 1 second prize and 1 third prize.

In the next terms, CEC will organize more contests to provide FFL students more chance to compete and share their ability with the world.

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CEC GAMESHOW The biggest event by CEC

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OVERVIEW

In this term, the biggest Gameshow of CEC was “Tri tue Ngoai Ngu 2” (The second knowledge quest). This gameshow was for all students of FFL in all majors. It was one of the best events of CEC with a strong impression on all FFL.

ACTIVITIES

The second knowledge quest was organized on June, 4th, 2013. There were 50 candidates coming from all majors of FFL. According to the rules of the gameshow, the winner had to answer correctly the 15th question. However, the second knowledge quest finished with no first prize. The best candidate won the second prize came from English education k33 class with 13 correct questions.

In comparison with the last term, the second knowledge quest was more successful thanks to its large scale and professionalism.

In the next terms, CEC intend to celebrate more gameshows and improve their quality. The second knowledge quest this term showed that CECers were growing up very fast.

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Community English Club 2012- 2013

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