Using Verbs With Gerunds

Samina Noor; Last week I made my students perform a group activity ,the purpose of this activity was to learn to use adjectives with the preposition (in)and use of (to be) verbs with help of gerund. These types of structure are excellent for learning to speak English. They soon became fluent in speaking and formation of sentences. I found that this type of activity is very progressive and fruitful for the students from speaking aspect. The results were fantastic and I felt a lot of improvement in students too.

Conducted by Samina Noor from Karachi English Teacher Training

Getting Aware About Cancer

Hooriya Rehman Khattak; On Feb 6, 2015, we attended a session on “World Cancer Day”. Session was given by four students of college. These students have also been a part of last year’s Access Program. We learned a lot of things about cancer like; how we should treat the cancer patients and how can we help them. Mostly this day is celebrated on Feb 4. In our world, about 7.9 million people are prone to death due to cancer and 3.4 million of population is living with cancer. The reason of cancer is lack of exercises that increases chances of cancer in our body, the main causes of cancer include smoke and air pollution. Cancer is one of the most dangerous and disastrous disease, that is present in today’s world .We should treat the cancer patient with care because they are very sensitive, we should take care of them and be empathetic to them. On this day we made cards for them and on Feb 7, 2015 we visited a hospital and met with cancer patients. I was surprised to see that most of them were young kids. We provided them with cards and chocolates and also hugged them, leaving the message that we are there with them in their hard times.

Contributed by Hooriya Rehman Khattak from All Pakistan Access Institute

Seeding and Plantation

Rahmeen Urooj; Today we did seeding and plantation at our Access Center. We are growing many plants like tobacco, red chili, green chili, tomato, potato and many others. It was a great experience, I really enjoyed it.

Contributed by Rahmeen Urooj from Pakistan Access Leadership Institute

Session on Improving Speaking and Writing Skills

Naila Ali; Yesterday I had a session at a private school on Improving Speaking and Writing skills. Not only the students attended my session but teachers were also there and they really enjoyed it. I shared some activities and energizers with them too. The owner, teachers and students of that school provided me with positive feedback. It was my first session in any another school.

Conducted by Naila Ali from PALI

Celebrating World Water Day

Hadiqa Rais; Today I and Hania Mansoori from CNN Center celebrated “World Water Day” at our Access Centre. It was a great day and on this day I would like to spread the message “save water”. I would plead you guys to convey this message further because if we ‪‎save water,‪ we will ‎have water

Conducted by Hadiqa Rais from Pakistan Access Leadership Institute

Workshop on “Conversational Manners”

Shafqat Zaidi; Dear KETT family, it is matter of pride that we all are delivering our best what our learned trainers have taught us. Yesterday, I conducted a workshop for the administrative staff of University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore, under Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Program. The venue was Shamas Auditorium. The topic of my workshop was “Conversational Manners”. The workshop was integration of the activities I have learned at KETT. It was very interactive session because all the participants participated in these activities very actively. I extend my gratitude to the honorable trainers. I am also very thankful to Ms. Kashifa for designing pre and post-test for the participants.

Conducted by Shafqat Zaidi from Karachi English Teacher Training

Poster Exhibition on World Celebration Days

Sumera Shan Ahmad; I conducted Poster Exhibition on “World Celebration Days”. I divided my classes into groups, there were 5 members in each group, and there were about 150 students. Students were assigned “Different Days” which are celebrated globally. They then had to conduct research on following points;

* Origin, when and how people started celebrating this day?

* How it is celebrated?

* Advantages and Disadvantages of celebrating this day.

* Should we celebrate this day in future? In the same way or differently?

* If not, what we should do instead, which can be more beneficial?

Conducted by Sumera Shan Ahmad from Karachi English Teacher Training

Understanding the Usage ‘I Can’

Salman khamosh; I had taught my students the usage of I Can statements with the activity “3 Slips of Paper” and taught the importance of thinking I Can instead of I Can’t when facing any difficulty in the Annual Examinations.

Conducted by Salman Khamosh from Karachi English Teacher Training

Improving Interest Of Youth In Learning English

Shazia Abbasi; Alhamdulillah! New session has started, facing big challenges in terms of my new class, ‪as  students of class are not able to identify the alphabets of  English language even. I have started their coaching by making them familiar with alphabets first. After consecutive efforts of 10 days, today I made them work on word making through the puzzles. It was a group activity. Winner group of this activity was awarded with prizes by me. Students were very happy by this strategy and got to learnt many new words. This also improved their interest for learning English.

Conducted by Shazia Abbasi from Karachi English Teacher Training

Learning English with Energizers

Rukh-e-Zehra; I conducted a session at our language camp started by our alumni at our Access Centre. There I did energizers like “see see see see masa” and “bo the lyly”. I made my audience play a vocabulary game “name , place , animal , and things” in a very different way, with my PALI fellow  ‪Rahmeen Urooj Zaidi and did different tongue twisters too. Participants were happy.
Thanks to Sir Syed Muhammad Ahsan Rizvi and Sir Shuja Abbasi for teaching us these wonderful energizers, everyone enjoyed them a lot.

Conducted by Rukh-e-Zehra from Pakistan Access Leadership Institute

Promoting English Language through Initiating Language Camp

Bakhtawar Khan; I and my colleague Gul-e-Zahra have recently started a ‪‎Language ‪Camp which would last for ‪‎5 days. Today was the first day of this camp and many students have participated. They were all very excited about this camp and to learn new things. Many activities were conducted today, for instance; self-introduction by using 3 slips, activities enhancing the use of proper form of verb and many more. In the end the students got to play the game ‘Simon Says’ with these activities the first day of the camp was quite successful.

Conducted by Bakhtawar Khan from Karachi English Teacher Training