Hands across the Oceans

Mr. Zed Al Refai is our guest speaker on the 7th May 2009 at 11am.  We are very pleased that he is coming to the English for Lifelong Learning Exhibition.

Marie Helene

With special thanks to Marks and Spencer for the mannequins.

With special thanks to Virgin for the goody bags.

1  Go to a local museum or art gallery.
2  Introduce yourself.
3  Ask if you can take photos or make a video.  You must get permission
from the curator.
4  Take photos and/or make a video.
5  Collect brochures from the place.  Try to get one big poster size one.
for Lifelong Learning Day.
6  Make your PowerPoint, flowgram or video clip.
7  Include:
-Name, student number, section and teacher’s name
-Introduction
-Map
-Photos with description/name in English
8  Copy presentation to CD-Rom.
9  Put CD-Rom, brochures and poster in box in secretaries’ office.
10 Please send me a copy too.
11 I am not allowed to correct them but I will correct them and send them back after the exhibition is over, and display them in the hands’
blog.

12 You will probably be able to use it for your 162 presentation,
although it is much more detailed and needs more English in it.

13  http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/what_on.htm
List of art galleries, museums, and other places of interest.  Choose
one place only for each presentation.

14 161 students – you can make up a table comparing two places, and then write a paragraph or essay comparing them.

The stars of science shine bright in Qatar » Kuwait Times Website

MakeBeliefsComix offers Earth Day printables for students to write and draw about the environment.  If you´re looking for a good activity today to help students think, write and draw about Earth Day and the environment, you will find a useful graphic printable at MakeBeliefsComix.com that asks the question:

Imagine you were an environmental hero. What brave deeds would you do to save the Earth, and what would you call yourself?

For a copy of this Earth Day printable and more go to
Makebeli Comix and click on the PRINTABLES button at the bottom right. The feature also offers comix templates featuring characters from the web site, along with blank talk and thought balloons that students can fill with text to create their own comic strips.

This new MakeBeliefs PRINTABLES feature is the latest addition to the two year-old comic-generator site where educators and students from 180 countries come to build their own comic strips online and practice language, writing and reading skills. These new printable pages are taken from the popular “Make Beliefs and Pocket Doodles for Kids” books by Bill Zimmerman, and drawn by cartoonist Tom Bloom.

Acrostic Poems

Instructions:

Write an acrostic poem about recycling and water. You may choose any other scientific word, e.g. oxygen, nitrogen fixation, organic compounds, electricity, physics. If it is a poem, it should rhyme (die/lie, life/wife).

http://www.readwritethink.org/MATERIALS/ACROSTIC/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/C42

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A43701086

E.g Guide

Go ahead, I’ll follow you

Until the end of time.

I hope my dreams will once come true:

Dreams, that you will be mine,

Eventually here to stay,

Showing me the way.

1 Recycling

R

E

C

Y

C

L

I

N

G

2 Water

W

A

T

E

R

B Haiku

A Haiku is a 3 line poem

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/teachbasho_self1.htm

1 The Avenues

Sitting in the Avenues

Watching the world go by

I thought about my life

2

Whitecaps on the Bay

A broken signboard banging

In the April wind.

Richard Wright (collected in Haiku: This Other World, Arcade Publishing)

If you are going to enter a PowerPoint presentation for the Lifelong Learning Day, you must follow these guidelines.

1 You must hand it in by the 29^th April on a cd rom, with your name on the cd rom and on the first slide.

2 You must not copy any other person’s work.

3 You must list your sources for photos and charts.

4 It must be on a scientific topic.

5 15 to 20 slides.

First Slide:

Name:

Section:

Teacher:

Title:

Date:

Second Slide:

1 Introduction:

2 Definition:

Body Slides:

1 Include some English text and pictures and/or charts.

2 Talk must last for about 8 minutes.

Third Last Slide:

1 Conclusion:

Second Last Slide:

1 Thank you for listening.

2 Do you have any questions?

Last Slide:

Sources:

http://www………………………….. (April 2009).

1 In alphabetical order.

2 Date you accessed the website in brackets.

Maha Toma Al-Shammari

Once I heard that ” Dreams

are created to not be true ”

but I have always believed that without dreams nothing

can be true …

10 – 6 -2005

Saturday

To climb the highest mountain .. is an adventure

To fight wild animals in that dark forest .. is an adventure

To cross a barren desert with no fear .. is an adventure

But ..

The huge adventure is .. to live in this world happily and die with smile on your face

11 – 6 -2005

Sunday

Sometimes you need to lie to prove to others that you are still what they want you to be ..

12 – 6 -2005

Today .. to live in this world is more frightening than death itself!

Monday

In court you can be on the defense’s side to prove your innocence ..

Or ..

be on the prosecutor’s side where you can prove that man’s guilt

But ..

When ” fate ” becomes the judge , none of us will have the ability to open his or mouth or even breathe, and his or her words will be the last thing you hear ..

13 – 6 – 2005

Tuesday

If you have the ability to create

Then ..

You will have the ability to change this world, for better or worse!!

14-6-2005

Everything dies except love. It remains till the last breath

15-6-2005

Thursday

Only those who don’t believe in normality can change the world .

2 -3- 2006

Saturday

Humans always have a reasonable excuse for their reactions and mistakes, whenever you tell them they are guilty.

25-3-2006

Tuesday

1. Friends are the vein of life..

The heart..

And the smile..

2. A person with no friends has no soul

29-3-2006

Saturday

Don’t be sad cause a year has been added to your

age ..

Be thankful ..

It’s God’s gift to you and remember that if a year was added here, a year died over there on the other side of the world J

1-4-2006

Monday

Don’t forget to play after every storm.

10-4-2006

1  Omar Al-Saad 162/3

DNA
Codes and lines.
Who are you?
You are Divine!

Breath
In and out
Live a day
and go away

Black Holes

In The dark
a start for time,
an endless line.

Death
Above and beyond
fade away today
and rise above the rest

7^th May 2009

English

for

Lifelong Learning

Organised by

English Language Unit

Faculty of Science

Fawzia Al-Khoraifi Building

Khaldiya Campus

Kuwait University

9 to 1pm