The annual report summarizes the activities of the Community English Club (CEC) from 2012-2013. It describes several major programs and events held by CEC, including weekly meetups for members, publication of a bilingual magazine, talkshows with guest speakers, outreach activities in local schools, contests for holidays, and a gameshow event. The report indicates that CEC was successful in promoting English skills and connections within the community through these various initiatives during the year.
4. VISION
& MISSION
What is Community English Club? What are our future and potentials? Here comes an overview about them.
Develop CEC into the most prestigious club of CEC operates in form of voluntary membership, basing
language competence, project management, and event on the fund contributed by its members as well as the
planning skills in Thai Nguyen in 2013 by promoting the sponsorship raised by individuals, organizations,
strengths of FLF students’ activeness and confidence. enterprises.
Promote the capacity of FLF students into a practical CEC activities aim at: creating a helpful playground for
and stable level, which helps connect students to students, promoting students’ English abilities of all
employers. majors, providing an environment for students to
exchange learning experience, offering opportunities for
practicing necessary life skills.
CEC also cherish a wish to provide the community
with meaningful and practical support by means of
participating and holding a variety of volunteer and
charity activities
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6. OVERVIEW effectively, taking a tour to Thai Nguyen Museum, carrying
out the 2nd membership interview, getting acquaintance with
Held on every Saturday afternoon, meetup is one of CEC’s new members, etc.
indispensable activities. It aims not only to give members a
chance to share knowledge, interact with one another but These offline meetings were held mainly on Saturday
also promote CEC’s image to new joiners. mornings. With the total members stably of 30 people, CEC
offline meetings were very useful to help all students of FFL
ACTIVITIES to develop their linguistics skills as well as other important
skills.
In order to keep CEC run efficiently, 15 offline meetings In addition, CEC created a relationship with students of
were organized successfully, which involved many useful Technology University and some other universities. After the
topics for students: discussing about freshmen’s difficulties 2nd membership interview, CEC had 5 free members from
at University, improving linguistics skills through games and Technology University. This is supposed to be a promising
other activates, sharing experience about how to make video future for CEC does imagine.
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8. OVERVIEW
CEC bi- zine stands for CEC bilingual magazine. CEC bi-
zine is annually published with many interesting topics. This
term, CEC published the 2nd bi- zine “Welcome the freshmen
of Faculty of Foreign Languages”. In comparison with the last
term, the 2nd CEC bi-zine was improved considerably.
ACTIVITIES
The process of making CEC bi- zine version 2 had 3 steps:
Writing. (2 weeks)
Designing. (1 week)
Publishing. (1 week)
CEC bi- zine 2 had 10 articles with 10 different topics: soft
skills, newsreel report, information technology, etc. The main
theme of CEC bi- zine 2 was “Welcome the freshmen of
Faculty of Foreign Languages”. Obviously, this bi-zine was
supposed to be very useful for all students in FFL in general
and the freshmen in particular.
After CECer’s great efforts, 40 magazines were successfully
published and highly appreciated by students in not only FFL
but also in other universities. However, there were still some
grammar mistakes in the writings’ contents. This should not
happen for the next bi- zine versions.
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11. OVERVIEW Thanks to the attractiveness of each Talkshow,
there were estimated 30 students attending each
Talkshow is a brand new program of CEC in Talkshow. The number of students attending
this term. In a Talkshow, there is one guest Talkshow also increased gradually.
speaker invited to share something that he/
she is interested in. Talkshow provides With the success of 4 Talkshows, CEC helped
CECers a chance to interact with many guest many students of FFL to create mutual
speakers and learn new things, which are not relationships with others. Moreover, this also
taught at school. made CEC’s image become more popular with
students of FFL.
ACTIVITIES In the next term, CEC intend to organize 5
In this term, CEC successfully held 4 more Talkshows with more professional
talkshows with Mr. Thieu Trung Hieu, M.A activities.
(project management), Ms. Dang Quynh
Tram, M.A (traditional values of Vietnamese
and American), Ms. Michelle Brown,
(Fullbright program) and Ms. Petsy, M.A(Can
your culture save our environment?).
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12. CEC OUTREACH
What CECers do outside our school
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13. - Autumn festival with a comedy and some
games. Generally, CEC made a strong
OVERVIEW impression on all pupils of Tan Lap primary
school.
Outreach activities are the voluntary ones organized
to help students from other schools in particular Another important outreach activity of CEC
aspects: education, environment, information in this term was to launch a branch at Duong
technology, etc. In this term, CEC participated in 2 Tu Minh high school. This branch was a
important outreach events. They are: co- operating small copy of CEC at Duong Tu Minh
with students with voluntary club of Technology school. The students of Duong Tu Minh
University to celebrate Mid- Autumn festival at Tan school held successfully the opening
Lap primary school and launching a branch at ceremony of CEC in June, 2013. Further
Duong Tu Minh high school. activities will be implemented very soon.
ACTIVITIES
At Tan Lap primary school, CEC helped members of
voluntary club at Technology University to hold Mid
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14. CEC CONTEST
Contests held by CEC
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15. OVERVIEW
CEC contests are the contests held by CEC on the
occasion of special days: teachers’ appreciation day,
FFL’s establishment day. In this term, CEC organized 2
contests: writing contest for teacher’s day and video
making contest about Faculty of Foreign Languages.
Moreover, all candidates’ writings were complied into a
mini collection, which was highly approved by
slideshare.net- one of the best websites of PowerPoint
documents sharing.
ACTIVITIES
The writing contest was held in November, 2012. In this
contest, there were 5 candidates taking part in the
competition. The competition ended up with 1 first prize,
2 second prize and 1 third prize.
The second contest by CEC in this term was to make
video about FFL on the occasion of FFL establishment
day: December, 31st. There were 2 candidates in the
competition. Finally, there was 1 second prize and 1 third
prize.
In the next terms, CEC will organize more contests to
provide FFL students more chance to compete and share
their ability with the world.
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16. CEC GAMESHOW
The biggest event by CEC
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18. OVERVIEW
In this term, the biggest Gameshow of CEC
was “Tri tue Ngoai Ngu 2” (The second
knowledge quest). This gameshow was for all
students of FFL in all majors. It was one of
the best events of CEC with a strong
impression on all FFL.
ACTIVITIES
In comparison with the last term, the
The second knowledge quest was organized second knowledge quest was more
on June, 4th, 2013. There were 50 candidates successful thanks to its large scale and
coming from all majors of FFL. According to professionalism.
the rules of the gameshow, the winner had to
answer correctly the 15th question. However, In the next terms, CEC intend to celebrate
the second knowledge quest finished with no more gameshows and improve their
first prize. The best candidate won the second quality. The second knowledge quest this
prize came from English education k33 class term showed that CECers were growing up
with 13 correct questions. very fast.
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