In English, please!

A main component of Share Your Own Impression is English teaching. We go every week to Abdulkadir Konukoğlu Lisesi in Gazikent and we also mediate English Conversation Club at Millet Hanı (which by the way, if you are in the area, you are welcome to join... Mondays and Thursdays at 16 pm. Tamam mı?).

 

In High School we have 9^th and 10^th grades. We choose and prepare interesting subjects for them and then all of us discuss them together. A leading question does the trick – “Would you like to live in Australia?”, “Who is Mark Zuckerberg and what did he create?”, anything that can keep them interested, even if it just an English words game! I think the kids enjoy and the feedback so far is being amazing.

We are participating in a theatre project as well. It is a play inspired in the 1970’s British comedy TV Show “Mind Your Language”. All of us are trying to make it funnier than the original, it’s a nice way to make English conversation and the play regards breaking racism/xenophobia prejudice. It’s all good, then!
 

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English Conversation Club is a funny way to learn or develop one’s English skills. There are participants with good and not so good levels of English, so me and Victoria have different ways to approach everyone.
 

English speaking is a problem in Turkey, at least in this area. These people horizons are limited because of English illiteracy, and not because of not being able to communicate with people during those dreamy holidays abroad. Roughly half of “our kids” at High School want to become doctors. If they want to excel at their jobs they need to go to seminars, read the main international publications, and everything is in English.

This is why it is so rewarding when I notice someone’s English capabilities improve due to this effort TAŞEV allows us to do.

Paco