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English Teacher's Forum

English Teacher's Forum – Tripoli

Alshati Language and Training Center, will be hosting the last meeting for the year 2007 of the English Teacher's Forum.
(please see map)

The Topic:- Language acquisition
Interference with the mother tongue - translation: pros & cons.

The meeting will be held on Saturday, 15th December 2007
From 10.00 to 12 .00 am


The Forum's Agenda:-

• A brief summary of the English Teacher's Forum accomplishments for the past year.
• A short presentation by one of the Center's teachers.
• Teachers will be grouped to discuss selected topic.
• Each group leader will very briefly discuss ideas obtained.
• Refreshments.

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Long time no see !

Upon our trainees’ insistence of the continuation of our center’s blog we would now like to update and post all what’s happened ……………

So here goes TA DA …

***** These are some of our trainees , anyone remember them ????

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KET and PET Results

We are happy to announce the names of our trainees who have passed the University of Cambridge ESOL Exams ( KET and PET ) .

We thank all staff members who have contributed to the succcess and last and not least our trainees for having studied and passed.

K E T
Pass with Merit

Ahmed Alhadi Almeshaal
Anas Abdalla Baiou
Amira Srika
Rabie Hanka

Pass
Khalifaadel Mohamed
Mabrouk Bilgasem
Salah Abered
Ziad Alhajaji
Amer Abodani
Khaled Atomi


P E T

Pass
Abir Mohamed A Baso
Afaf Hassan Ben Younis
Amani Farage Ganfud
Asma Abdulwahed Harib
Ahmed Mabrouk Moussa
Basher Abdalla Basher
Hassan Ali Hassan
Mohamed M Abdusslam Salb
Nuri Mohamed Aboujanah
Omran Masbah Bobaker


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Tripoli Medical Centre Children's Day

Thank to Akram Adam( my non biological son)for informing me of the event and introducing me to :

The doctors at the TMC Pediatric Dept.who made us as welcome as possible and did an excellent job in organizing everything.

Since my children have all grown up I feel a need inside me to help other children in whichever possible way I can. This involves great patience, care and love.
Here in Libya we celebrate Mother's and Children's Day on the 21st March .Being a wife , mother ,homemaker, teacher , taxi- driver , leading a very stressful but rewarding life ALHAMDULILAH.

So hearing about the cancer stricken children at TMC from Akram (my non-biological son ),I decided to help out with whatever we could, to make this day, a day to remember for the mothers and children at TMC.
As you can see the children's faces even when painted have such sadness that you want to hug them and tell them it'll be over soon. I asked a teenager ( Basma) the oldest of the children on the ward what she had, to which she replied Leukemia . Such a big word for a child , I hugged her and felt her pain and she knew it . I had tears in my eyes as I desperately tried to comfort her to which she said it was the wish of Allah . She introduced us to the other suffering children as she was the oldest and knew what everybody had.

At our center we collected the money needed to make this day a happy one for both mother and child. Now, how we collected is something I have to tell you all about :
You see at our center id's are a must, but our trainees have to always be reminded of wearing them . It was that the idea occurred that whoever hadn't the id on would have to pay the penalty of paying up !
So what do think happened ??? They paid up and more ! At the end of the day everybody chipped in for the children………..

In the photo you see the box which was used as a piggy bank, for the charity, being opened and the money counted……..

The children who could walk and were not on chemo currently were invited to attend in a large colourful room with decorated walls with balloons and all the trimmings. The other cancer stricken children we had to visit in their wards. I have only photographed the ones who were well enough.
Many had just been operated on their brains and were not a sight to be seen….

WE hope we have helped in making the mothers and children happy, by visiting them and feeling their pain even if only for one day.
May Allah help cure and bless them all…….
May Allah bless all who participated in which ever way they could and did not want to be mentioned.

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Very sad news......

ANNOUNCEMENT


With hearts full of grief, we would like to extend our sincere condolences to:


Mr. Abdulmugheit Loukili

on the death of his mother.


May Allah bless her soul and may she rest in peace.


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Announcement

We would like to inform you that courses at Alshati Language Center will stop on Thursday 28th December,2006, and will resume on 07th January, 2007.
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English Teacher's Forum – Tripoli

Announcement

Monthly forums for English teachers and those interested in teaching English.

This is a new idea to get English teachers in Libya together once a month with the purpose of open discussion about all aspects of teaching English as a foreign or a second language. Each month a different topic will be discussed – such things as : pair and group work, tests and exams, music in classrooms, strategies for getting students to write, blackboard and whiteboard use etc. No one person will be asked to prepare a presentation – the idea is that all the teachers come prepared to discuss and share their ideas with one another in the hopes that all will improve their teaching abilities.
The first gathering will be held on Saturday, December 16th at 10:00 am. The venue is Al-Shati School.
We will be discussing the concept of the teacher's forum at the first meeting and setting an agenda. The meetings will be held at a different school or location each month – this will be discussed at the meeting.
Please feel free to share this with those who might be interested.

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EID MUBAREK !

Wishing all our staff and trainees a Blessed and Joyous Eid !!

Morning classes will resume on Sunday 29th October 2006 at 9.oo

Afternoon classes will begin on Sunday 5th November 2006 at 16.00



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The Holy month of Ramadan

Wishing all our staff members and trainees a blessed and peaceful Ramadan.


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In The Middle Of The Night

I woke up in the middle of the night so scared; I heard a voice like cracks of something. I got up from my bed and went behind the door of my room. I knocked my door; I took my mobile phone and phoned my mother to come to me. My mother came, we checked together all the doors and rooms. We found them all closed. Suddenly we heard the sound again. We went to the source of the sound; we found a plastic bag moved by the wind in our balcony. We laughed, then we went to sleep again.

Omnia Abusaeda
Pre-Intermediate Read more!

Golden Rose

Wait and listen
Can you hear the rhythm of life?
It’s so fast, so slow
But inside there is golden rose
Which has a special smell
Which is made of music.

It’s like a rabbit
Someone catch it
And fondles its velvet feather
Somebody doesn’t notice it
But it’s always around us.

I catch it by my piano
My precious mother show me that secret door
The secret door’s key is note
Like pieces of puzzle
When you unify the meaningless pieces
Find a mystery picture
Which is painted by you

When you push the key of piano
Something grows faster and faster in your heart
In there, there is a stick of world in your hand
When you eat a vanilla cloud

Strike me like lightning
To make me understand
The life is like a golden rose
When I smell!

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A Post Card

Dear Naji,

I am in Gaber Awon. I am on holiday with my friend. Gaber Aown is a beautiful city. Our hotel is very old, simple and comfortable. The people are very friendly. And The Food is fantastic, But it ̓s very expensive. Gaber Awon is a nice place .Some people said, Gaber Awon is paradise on the earth, and I think that so. The weather is horrible. It̕ s very hot. We usually go swimming in the lake.


See you soon my brother.


My regards
Fadel
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My post card

Dear Asma,

I am in Germany. I am on holidays this month with my parents. Germany is a very beautiful country. The buildings are modern. The people very tall, funny and strong. The Food is fantastic and very cheap. Our hotel is comfortable. The weather is lovely.
I have two friends in Germany. Amjad and hanan. Hanan is Amjad ̓s wife. They are friendly. They have one child. His name is Mohammed. They live in munchen. Their house is far from the city centre. It is very modern. We spend great time together. We usually go shopping together in the evening.


See you soon.
I love you


Eman sannogha
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Rough boy

No one could have taken the risk for a walk out that afternoon. The heat was stifling, and a hot east wind burned the skins as it blew. The streets were deserted. There was an empty silence which was occasionally broken by motor-cars.
He was in his upper room too uneasy to take a cat nap. His mother would not allow him to get out in“this killing heat”. “Children are supposed to give their bones a rest in such a heat” would say his mother. But his bones were aching for freedom outside those stifling walls: his bones were craving for the sand that would embrace his naked feet.
After moments of hesitation, he made up his mind. He jumped out of the window into the warm street. At the stadium, he joined his friends (whose mothers would not object or ask their children for a rest). They were awaiting him.
“You’re late mate.”
“Let’s start then friends” He answered them with a glorious and beaming smile. He played well that afternoon. He was happy and free in spite of his left foot. That damned foot hurt him when he jumped out of the window.
When he went back home, extremely satisfied, nor his mother nor her big stick could have robbed him the pleasure his younger brother had missed.

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The Love Letter

There was once a boy who loved a girl very much. The girl’s father, however, didn’t like the boy and didn’t want their love to grow. The boy wanted to write the girl a letter, but he was sure the girl’s father would read it first. At last, he wrote the following letter to the girl.


FIND ITS CODE

The great love I said I have for you
is gone, and I find my dislike for you
increases every day. When I see you,
I do not even like the way you look;
The one thing I want to do is to
look the other way. I never wanted to
marry you. Our last conversation
was very dull and in no way has
made me anxious to see you again.
You think only of yourself.
If I were married, I know I would find
life very difficult, and I would have no
pleasure in living with you. I have a heart
to give, but not a heart
I want to give you. No one is more
demanding or selfish than you, and less
able to care for me or be of help to me.
I sincerely want you to understand that
I speak the truth. You will do me a favor
if you consider this the end. Do not try
to answer this. You letters are full of
things that do not interest me. You have no
true concern for me. Good-bye! Believe me,
I do not care for you. Please do not think
I am still your loving friend.

Anonymous

To know the code read comment N0 1

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Friendship

To have a close friend is a very important thing in my life; I cannot imagine my life without one.
As far as I am concerned, I have a confidant, she is my best friend. I met her at the university in the first year. We enjoyed our time a lot. We had such a good time that we cannot forget. We laughed and sometimes we cried.
Now I know I can depend on her and I know when I have any problem she will try to help me, and if she cannot she will try to make the problem less serious.With my close friend I see my life with other eyes may be I see it simpler and happier. So thank you my best friend.
Manal Zletni
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Things I should have done

In my life I have made many big mistakes and things I should have done instead. There are three main things that I should have realized at the first place. First, feeling sorry about my mother. It’s so painful to remind myself about the death of my mother, it’s the worst thing that makes me sad and regret, I always feel guilty about her. She suffered many painful diseases and I couldn’t help release her from suffering. I’m not satisfied because I think I didn’t make sufficient effort regarding her illness. I am really grief-stricken and my feeling is getting worst. If only I could go back in time, I would devote all my life to help her more and I’d be more satisfied now.
Second, I’ve just realized lately that I should thought deeply about migration to a European country. I think life wouldn’t be as terrible as it is now. I thought about living abroad ten years ago, but I hesitated in making the right decision. If I had taken the plunge to live in Europe, I would have had a better life and a decent job as well.
Third, being a geologist is interesting and I like the geological sciences, but I have discovered recently the geological jobs are restricted to the oil companies and limited places which are not available outside of Tripoli. I should have studied Civil Engineering instead of Geology.
Now I should think about the future and leave what happened behind. We only live once so we should give up thinking about bad experiences.
Ali Issa
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Student Writing

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Our Crazy Language

If pro and con are opposites, is congress the opposite of progress?
English is the most widely used language in the history of out planet. One in every seven human beings can speak it. More than half of the books and three-quarters of international mail are in English. Of all languages, English has the largest vocabulary — perhaps as many as two million words and one of the noblest bodies of literature. Nonetheless, let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, neither pine nor apple in pineapple and no ham in hamburger. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candy, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, public bathrooms have no baths and a guinea pig is neither a pig nor from Guinea. Any why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, humdingers don’t hum and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese — so one moose, two meese? One index, two indices — one Kleenex two kleenices? Doesn’t it seem loopy that you can make amends but not just one amend, that you comb through the annals of history but not just one annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but one, what you call it? If the teacher taught. Why isn’t it true that the preacher praught? If a horsehair mat is made from the hair of horses and a camel’s-hair coat from the hair of camel’s, from what is a mohair coat made? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you also bote your tongue? Sometimes I wonder if all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? Recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim change and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposite, while quite a /ot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
Did you ever notice that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown, met a sung hero or experience requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, grunted, ruly or peccable? And where are the people who are spring chickens or who actually would hurt a fly? I meet individuals who can cut the mustard and whom I would touch with a ten-foot pole, but I cannot talk about them in English. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill a form by filling it out and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on. English was invented by people and not by computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t really a race at all). They are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up this essay I end it.

Condensed from “Crazy English”. Richard Lederer. Read more!