8th Form Translation Competition RESULTS

The annual 8th From Translation Competition was held on 4th December at Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium. The event started at 10.00a.m.till 1.00p.m. Differently from previous years, the students were typing their translations and they could both paper and online dictionaries.

There were 24 participans from 11 different schools (Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium, Võru Kesklinna School, Võru I Basic School, Parksepa Secondary School, Kääpa Basic School, Antsla Gymnasium, Rõuge Basic School, Krabi Basic School, Varstu Secondary School, Vastseliina Gymnasium and Kuldre Basic Scool).

The best of the best translators were:

Annika Jaakson from Parksepa Secondary School ( Instructor Valentina Hmeljuk)

Kaisa Vink from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium (Instructor Marju Purge)

Hanna Hillak from Antsla Gymnasium (Instructors Krista Noor/Merle Paat)

Karoli Eks from Võru Kesklinna School (instructor Ingrid Kirk)

Raido Kiss from Kääpa Basic School (Instructor Aiki Jõgev)

Good translators:

Hanna-Reet Ruul from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium (Istructor Tiia Raag)

Marianne Toots from Vastseliina Gymnasium (Instructor Terje Mägi)

Joosep Ivask from Vastseliina Gymnasium (Instructor Terje Mägi)

Mati Jaeski from Parksepa Secondary School (Instructor Valentina Hmeljuk)

Otto Kitsik from Parksepa Secondary School (Instructor Valentina Hmeljuk)

Johanna Viiksaar from Võru I Basic School (Instructor Hille Juss)

Rene Mõttus from Võru I Basic School (Instructor Hille Juss)

Getrin Valge from Võru Kesklinna School (Instructor Ingrid Kirk)

Kadi Võro from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium (Instructor Maila Vilu)

Markus Meier from Antsla Gymnasium (Instructors Krista Noor/Merle Paat)

Henrik Narusberg from Osula Basic School (Instructor Hille Narusberg)

Lota Vana from Kääpa Basic School (Instructor Aiki Jõgeva)

Thank you to all participants, the teachers who helped the students to prepare and everyone who helped with the organisation!

See you next year!

details on translation contest

Dear all, 

I would like to inform you of some arrangements for Thursday, 4th December. 

The contest begins at 10:00 in Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasium and please, be on time, considering also the fact that you need to put your clothes away, change your shoes (all available in the basement) and find the computer classrooms. Both computer rooms are located on the second floor (one across the headteacher's room, room nr 225, and the other is in B-korpus). 

The participants will receive a coupon which means that they can have a free school meal in our school canteen after the contest.

If you feel the need for dictionaries, then please, take them along as well, other than that, the students have the whole wonderful WWW to use.

Bests, 

Ruth Talmet

ruthtalmet@hotmail.com

offer on pronounciation training session

Tere Võru ja Põlva maakonna inglise keele õpetaja, 

Meil on väga hea võimalus kutsuda Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasiumi esinema inglise keele foneetika õppejõud Geoff Lindsey, kes on õpetanud aastaid inglise keele foneetika „hällis“ ja peamises uurimiskeskuses ehk University College London' is.  Eestis on ta käinud viimase kümne aasta jooksul koolitamas Tallinna Ülikooli suulise tõlke üliõpilasi ning teinud mitmepäevaseid intensiivkoolitusi, kus põhikuulajaskonna on moodustanud tõlgid, aga osalejaid on olnud muudeltki elualadelt, nt õpetajate ja ülikooli õppejõudude hulgast.  Koolitusele on tuldud paljudest Euroopa riikidest, läbi aastate on tagasiside olnud ülipositiivne ning paljud inimesed on tulnud koolitusele mitmendat korda uuesti.  

Koolitus toimub 13.jaanuaril 2015.a. (teisipäev) algusega kell 13:30 Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasiumi peeglisaalis. Koolitus toimub kahes osas (kumbki 90 minutit) ning vahepeal on paus (20-30 minutit). Õpetajad saavad osalemise kohta tunnistuse ning seetõttu on vajalik eelregistreerimine 13.detsembriks 2014.a. Koolitusel osalemise soov palun saata Ruth Talmeti meiliaadressile ruthtalmet@hotmail.com

Koolitus toimub koostöös Põlva maakonna inglise keele õpetajatega (maksimum osalejate arv on 60).

Geoff Lindsey kodulehekülg on http://www.englishspeechservices.com/, kus on ka ajaveeb kõige värskemate tähelepanekutega tänapäeva inglise keele foneetika arengute kohta, mis on  väga hea abimaterjal õpetajale igapäevatöös. 

Soovitan seal värsket artiklit "Generality" http://englishspeechservices.com/blog/generality/

5th Drama Festival

The 5th English Drama Festival took place on 22nd November at Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium.

Programme

1. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – 5A,C VKG (Tiia Allas)

2. Halloween – Mõniste Põhikool (Marin Kuslap)

3. The Canterville Ghost – 7B VKG (Ere Tumm)

4. The Fox and The Stork – VKK (Ingrid Kirk)

5. The Turnip – Haanja Kool (Svetlana Yavnashan)

6. The Adventures of Robin Hood – 5B VKG (Marju Purge)

7. Do it yourself! - Parksepa KK (Livia Telles)

9. Forest Party – Kääpa Põhikool (Anita Kikas)

10. Room on the Broom – 3B VKG (Tiia Allas)

Pancake time (11.30) in the canteen

11. Stuart Little – 6B VKG (Tiia Raag)

12. The Dead Parrot Sketch – 9B VKG (Tiia Raag)

13. The Greedy Sister – 7A VKK (Ly Kõiv)

14. Peggy, the Pint Sized Pirate – 9B VKG (Ere Tumm)

The DVD of the Festival will be available at Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium's Languages Centre.

Thank You!

Dear teachers,

All  who  participated at our 5th Drama Festival!

Thank you so much! You 've done awsome work! We hope you don't regret the spent time and energy. We, participants, know what it takes but it's rewarding as well. Let's hope we can do it again next year. You are welcome to send your ideas and  suggestions - how to do it again or perhaps in a new way.

Brilliant ideas and enthusiasm with your students!
Best wishes,

Marju and Tiia

reminder: translation contest

Dear all,

1) The contest takes place on 4th December 2014 (Thursday) at 10:00-13:00 in Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasium.
2) Register your students (name, class, teacher) by 27th November by sending me an email, ruthtalmet@hotmail.com
3) Each school may send max 3 students to the competition (it is advisable to organise a pre-contest in translation beforehand at your own school).
4) The students should bring along their own (or their school's) dictionary/ies, if you or they feel the need for it.
5) After finishing their work, the students send their work to merlepaat44@gmail.com

6) We need a teacher or two who could stay with the students 10:00-13:00. It's possible to share shifts. Let me know if anybody is available and willing to invigilate. 

Regards, 
Ruth Talmet

Reminder: Drama Festival

Dear colleagues,

Those who haven't sent your data in time: We are sorry but the list is closed by now. We can't afford a longer delay.

The festival will take place on Saturday, 22nd November, from 10.a.m. till 13.30 p.m. at Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium's Assembly Hall.

The house will be open from 9.15 a.m. so everybody who wishes to test out the stage will have the chance to do so. We have the 1st floor (second floor in Estonian system) at our disposal. Each team will have a certain classroom to change their clothes in (tags are by the doors). The students have to be supervised all the time! There will be no moving around the school house during the performances! The classrooms' doors will be locked and the so-called key girls will be in the assembly hall.

We kindly ask everybody to bring your indoor shoes with you.

Should you have any more questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Marju and Tiia
tiia@vkg.werro.ee 

pre-info about the translation contest

Dear all, 

We'll have the translation contest on our doorstep  and therefore I'd like to remind you of the technicalities. As we decided, the competition will not be in hand-written form but typed, using a Word document program. The students will be allocated in our school's computer rooms and they have access to internet.

1) The contest takes place on 4th December 2014 (Thursday) at 10:00-13:00 in Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasium.
2) Register your students (name, class, teacher) by 27th November by sending me an email.
3) Each school may send max 3 students to the competition (it is advisable to organise a pre-contest in translation beforehand at your own school).
4) The students should bring along their own (or their school's) dictionary/ies, if you or they feel the need for it.
5) After finishing their work, the students send their work to merlepaat44@gmail.com

6) We need a teacher or two who could stay with the students 10:00-13:00. It's possible to share shifts. Let me know if anybody is available and willing to invigilate. 

Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to cantact my by sending an email to ruthtalmet@hotmail.com 








Regards, 
Ruth Talmet

Call for details: Drama Festival

Dear everybody,

The 5th English Drama Festival for Froms 4 to 9  will take place on 22nd November 2014.

We need detailed information about the participants to get everything ready. We need the following information:

1. name of the teacher/supervisor
2. name of the school and form number
3. number of students coming
4. the title of the play (in English and Estonian)
5. short summary of the plot (in English and Estonian)
6. approximate length of the play
7. full names of the students 
8. number of the students who will eat pancakes

Please send the info by 9th November the latest!

Tiia

tiia@vkg.werro.ee

Methodology Day Seminars for Teachers of English

On 21st October another annual Võru County Methodologu Day took place at Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium. The event started at 10.00ap and finished at 14.30pm. This year, there was a separete block of seminars and workshops for teachers of English where new practical and fun ideas for English classes were shared by colleagues.

11.00 – 11.45  Computer-based programs for English language learning by Ruth Talmet (Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium)

Ruth introduced the following online programmes that can benefit the students and make learning more fun.

• Kahrds (alternative to quizlet)
• vocabulary.com (challanges students to learn words)
• omnilexica (focuses on names)
• poplingual (reading, listening with scripts, latest info, activities about texts)
• simpliscripts (plays)
• howtospell (dictation tests)
• freedrama.net (transcripts, video examples)

 

12.00 – 12.25 Using films and videos in foreign language lessons by Maive Salakka and Eve Unt

(both from Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium)

Eve and Maive explained why and how using video clips can benefit language learning and introduced different methods of how to exploit videos for different purposes.

12.30 – 12.50 Thinking in the English class by Tiia Raag (Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium)

 Tiia told us about why thinking should be taught in foreign language classes, brough out the most common problems that might stop students from being successful and introduced some fun actvities that might help to challenge our students to think.

13.20 – 13.40 Teaching grammar creatively by Merle Paat (Antsla Gymnasium)

Merle gave an overview of Herbert Puchta, Günter Gerngross, Scott Thornbury's book Teaching Grammar Creatively (Cambridge University Press). She focused on how to make students more aware of the language by discovery,  creative practice (brainstorming, reading model texts, reconstructing model texts and creating new texts). Teacher should be the provider of conditions to "discoveries" and cater for students with different learning styles. Imagination and emotional depth make the learning more personal and therefore also more successful.

13.45 – 14.05 Rhymes and Rhythm for Pronunciation by Maila Vilu (Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium)

Maila provided the listeners with some handouts containing examples and practical exercises on English language stress and rhythms. The materials were based on  Michael Vaughan-Rees' book Rhymes and Rhythm (Garnet Education). She focused on stressed and unstressed syllables and the beat of the language. It was quite eye-opening to hear and see the way native speakers pronounce different sentences.

14.10 – 14.35 Grammar songs and raps for young learners and early teens by Marju Purge (Võru Kreutzwald Gymnasium)

 Marju based her seminar on introducing Herbert Puchta, Matthew Devitt, Gunther Gerngross, Christian Holzmann's book of the same title. The activities in this book help to balance serious wotk with fun activities. It often exploits mnemonic techniques and the raps help to revise both certain grammar or vocabulary items. Marju also stressed the importance of having a model first and then creating new sentences by immitating theexample.

A big thank you to all the performers for the useful and fun ideas!