ESC BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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English Speaking Club Constitution (draft)

English Speaking Club (ESC) of An Giang University was established many years ago. With the enthusaistic contribution of teachers and students, ESC becomes more and more popular and meets more interests and expectations of the participants. The appearance and the existence of ESC depends on the need of English learners who want to have a place to practice English and to relax after studying time.

Learning English requires students to practice as much as possible. The activities in classes are really useful but not enough fot students to develop the skills related to daily communication in real life. Going to ESC not only helps students speak English well but also creates a chance for them to show and to enlarge their knolwedge in games, contests and discussion. In general, the activities in ESC bring to students practical lessons that sometimes, they cannot find in their classes. Therefore, we can conclude that ESC puts the students' benefits on the top. In other words, ESC always wants every participant to get more and more benefits for themselves and when some of them feel unsatisfied about something in ESC, it's time ESC thinks about itself and makes changes if needed.

Running a long time, passing through heavy trials, ESC stills keeps its characteristics. The quality of ESC is combining many activities at once but still being effective and successful in bringing students useful knowledge and joyful laughing.

ESC is held twice a month. Each club has 4 main parts: communication, games, discussion and developing creativity. In the communication part, students learn many different structures used in daily communication, for example, making friends, asking for direction, refusing something, speaking in public place, etc. Most importantly, students have to practice right after learning so they can remember things internally without having to write into their notebooks. Also, students can communicate with foreigners at ESC. Games are more interesting and noisier. There are usually 2 games in each ESC. This is a chance for students to build their confidence, to show their level of knowledge and to gain gifts. The atmosphere becomes more stressful and competitive in the discussion part. People discuss in groups and they can talk about topics that interest them in English. Then some volunteers will present their ideas. The last activity includes decorating, drawing, making handicrafts, etc. It's very impressive because students can throw their stress away and turn into a space of art where they can put their feeling, thinking and passion into their works.

In conclusion, ESC is for various subjects so its activities become more various and suitable to most of the participants. Most importantly, it is an interesting destination for those who want to practice English, to speak English in a comfortable atmosphere. Probably, ESC is not a perfect one but it is an effective solution for students to get advanced in learning English and to mis with community life.

ESC CONSTITUTION

Purpose/Goals:

1.Needs of English learners who want to have a place to practice English
2.To relax outside of studying time
3.Activities in classes are really useful but not enough for students to develop the skills related to daily communication in real life
4.Going to ESC not only helps students speak English well but also creates a chance for them to show and to enlarge their knowledge in games, contests and discussion

Values:

1.Students' Benefit
2.Requires students to practice as much as possible
3.Activities in ESC give students practical lessons that sometimes, they cannot find in their classes
4.Excellence: If a participant is unsatisfied about something in ESC, it's a good time to re-evaluate and make the necessary changes
5.Tris to incorporate many activities while also being dedicated to effectiveness, success, bringing useful knowledge, and joyful laughing

Elements:

1.Communication
2.Games
3.Games
4.Discussion
5.Music

ESC stands for English Speaking Club. This is one of extra – curriculum activities for An Giang University students. It is held once per two weeks at 6:30 pm of each Sunday at Hall A, Campus A of An Giang University.

What is done in ESC?

Main things to do in the week before ESC

   * Designing group draws some pictures for the handouts.
   * IT group design the handouts by using Microsoft Publisher.
   * Networking group sells and delivers handouts (selling for non – ESC member people, delivering for ESC member people).
   * IT group preserve the LCD projector and prepare English songs and PowerPoint slide shows.

Main things to do in the first hour before preparing for ESC

   * Poster board
   * Arrange the tables and chairs
   * Decorate the room (Hall A) so that it can match with the topic of each ESC.
   * Activities group sits at the door of the room and put a seal on the Membership Card of each participant.
   * Coordinators guide the participants where to sit.
   * IT group prepares LCD projector and laptop to show PowerPoint slide shows.
   * While waiting for the participants come, IT group shows some English songs.

Main things to do during ESC

   * Statistic group counts how many people come to each ESC.
   * The Two MC of each ESC open the ESC night by a skit or a question to lead the participants to the topic of that ESC night.
   * Some small games to warm up the atmosphere in the room.
   * Group discussion (the participants can choose groups by themselves or they choose by the guiding of the two MC).
   * Presentations after discussion.
   * The two MC present gifts for the presenters and the best gift for the best presenter.
   * One or two more small games to warm up the atmosphere again. (some handicraft games were chosen)
   * The two MC close the ESC night and also inform the participants about the next ESC and the Movie Night.

What is Movie Night?

- Movie night is one of the extra – curriculum activities of An Giang University. It is held at 6:30 p.m at N9 of campus B once per week.

Main things to do in the first hour before Movie Night

   * Prepare the movie.
   * Make sure there are subtitles.
   * Buy the food (snack or popcorn).
   * Preserve LCD projector.
   * Guide the audiences where to sit.

Main things to go during the movie.

   * Show the movie.
   * Provide the audiences with food (snack or popcorn).

The mission of ESC:

   * One of the problems of English learner is that they can study reading, writing and grammar very well, but they can not speak and listen effectively. Thus, the biggest intention of holding ESC is to create the English Community for English learners. That means we provide the participants with chances to improve their speaking and listening skill.
   * Moreover, ESC is also considered as one of the ways of relaxing for the participants after their hard – working days because they can take part in many funny games during the time when ESC is held.
   * Besides, we also provide them some of grammatical points that make them confused. Furthermore, some cultural points of some nations all over the world are also brought into the ESC. By this way, the participants can communicate with the foreigners more effectively thanks to knowing other countries’ cultures.

Some other ideas about holding ESC:

   * Adding handicraft activities for ESC.
   * Topic with “cues” (sub – topics).
   * Writing contest (Write the feelings about ESC and how to make it better in the future as well).
   * More discussions (situation solving, debating…).
   * Gifts for the students who have gone to all of ESC in a semester.
   * Share about 80% of newsletters’ interest with the classes in charge of each ESC to encourage them.
   * Choose more attractive names for the topics.
   * Make ESC more practical so that students can bring a little new knowledge to home not only go for fun.