This is CEC Annual Report 2015

1. 2015 ANNUAL REPORT
C O M M U N I T Y E N G L I S H C L U B

2. CONTENTS
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About CEC
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Meet-ups
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Contests
10
Events
12
Outreach
16
Budget
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Projects
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4. ABOUT
CEC
Founded as a student-led organization on February
19th, 2011, Community English Club (CEC) is going to
celebrate its fifth birthday in 2016. As the year 2015 is
coming to an end, it is time for CEC to look back on
this eventful and successful year. For the past one
year, CEC has succeeded to follow its missions.
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5. • Assisting its members in advancing
English competence and applying for
scholarships through regular meet-up
activities.
• Implementing Bookworm’s Corner and
Vietnam Skype Project.
• Building up confidence, critical-thinking
and problem-solving competence for the
members.
• Reaching out to the community with a
volunteer campaign during summer
vacation.
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6. CEC
MEET-UPS
Meet-ups often take place every Saturday morning at the
School of Foreign Languages. This year, CEC focused on
students’ oral English proficiency, team-building, leadership
skills and outdoor activities. Offline meetings not only help
students improve their English but also strengthen a close
relationship among CEC members. Meaningful numbers that
illustrate 2015 offline meetings are as below.
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7. • 19 out of 28 meet-ups were outdoor
ones.
• Approximately 80 activities on various
aspects of English practice and soft
skills were planned and completed.
• 3 teams with at least 15 students of
various abilities were involved in
designing games, discussion topics and
other activities every week.
• Outdoor meet-up “Scavenger Hunt” in
April 12th was the biggest meeting with
54 participants.
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8. CEC CONTESTS
Besides meet-ups, CEC also organized lots of mini
contests to create many wonderful playgrounds for
CEC members as well as students at SFL to join in. In
2015, CEC successfully held two contests.
The first contest was an English speaking competition
named “Talk to my teacher” which lasted from
November 9th to November 20th as a salutation to
the Vietnamese teacher’s day. This contest placed
an emphasis on students’ speaking skills and how
they use English to express themselves on a certain
topic. CEC received eight videos as eight
candidates taking part in the contest, showing their
respect and admiration to their cherished teachers.
The contest ended with seven awards.
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9. The second contest was called “Bookworm’s photo
contest” which lasted from November 24th to
November 30th with thirteen candidates and four
awards. This contest aimed at introducing
Bookworm’s Corner to larger groups of students as
well as inspiring them with the passion for reading.
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Overall, after organizing two contests, CEC received
many positive feedbacks and is expected to create
more exciting large scale contests next year.

10. CEC
EVENTS
In 2015, CEC’s roles in events maintained both leading
and collaborating. Together with the Youth Union of SFL,
CEC successfully organized one event and took part in
two big events.
Book Bucket Challenge was held by CEC in April 18th to
celebrate Global Youth Service Day. More than 200
books were donated by students in this event. Because
of the success in organizing a community involved event,
CEC was recognized as the official partner of YSA - Youth
Service America. In the first semester of academic year
2015 - 2016, CEC also participated in two big events:
Welcome freshmen to SFL and Halloween Disguise Party.
The haunted house that CEC members designed and
disguised as scary characters made a great impression
on both SFL teachers and students.
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11. CEC & Book Bucket Challenge
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12. CEC
OUTREACH
2015 is another memorable year for CEC
when we held a special volunteer campaign
in summer called “Summer Kids Camp” at
Thai Nguyen social aid center in the middle
of August. This was the first time CEC visited
such a place with full of loss and homeless
people. In the morning, CEC visited the senior
citizens living in the center. CEC members
had an opportunity to listen to their stories
and thoughts about life. Those sharing helped
CECers discover more about the unusual lives
in the community.
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13. In the afternoon, CEC met the children,
most of whom are orphans. After some
attempts to communicate with the kids in
the beginning, CEC finally got them
connected together through interesting
activities. In the evening, CEC ended up
with holding a small party with cakes,
cookies and soda for the kids, and also
promised to come back in the near future.
“Summer Kids Camp” was unforgettable
for CEC’s members because we became
more aware of doing practical campaign
to benefit the community.
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14. CECPROJECTS
Initiated by Ms. Duong
Huyen Tham, an English
lecturer at SFL, Bookworm’s
Corner has become one of
the two big projects that
CEC is running.
Bookworm’s Corner, located at English Department room, is
considered to be a mini library for those who desire to learn
more about written English and practice extensive reading.
With 120 book titles of various categories ranging from basic
to advanced reading competence, all written in English,
Bookworm’s Corner welcomes visitors six days per week and
offers extended days of borrowing for engaged readers. Up
to December 2015, 150 books have been borrowed by both
lecturers and students. Ms. Tham and CEC Team running this
project have just finished writing a proposal to raise funds for
this library.
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Vietnam Skype Project was started by Ms. Tran Thi Hai Yen,
an English lecturer at SFL, in 2014. This year, Vietnam Skype
Project has been conducted by CEC in larger scale. This
project is meant to assist students in their speaking skills by
having them practice English with an international partner
over Skype. Each online lesson on a certain topic lasts at
least 45 minutes. Students participating in this project were
interviewed and selected carefully by CEC Board. Nearly
80 participants including English tutors from such many
English speaking countries as the United States, Great
Britain, Australia, Canada, the Philippines and so on, and
English majoring students at SFL are engaged in this project.
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Meet-ups $140
Events $210
Projects $125
Outreach $300
Contests $60
Total $835
BUDGET

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