Thanksgiving Day

  The main purpose of the event was to increase the awareness of the Thanksgiving day  celebration.

1. A group of  four students made a power point presentation. Then they asked questions to find our what the rest of the students remembered.

2. Students in pairs made cloze and  matching exercise.

3. Students in groups were given the paper to make a story according to the PowerPoint presentation- ‘The story of Thanksgiving  picture story’  to check what the students remembered from the presentation. And they draw Thanksgiving  Day pictures picture.

4. Students sang the song ' What are you thankful for Genki English’ -  Karaoke.

5.Students wrote ‘ We are thankful for…’ on the leafs and stick them on the Thanksgiving Tree.

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Pioneers

  The purpose of the event was to introduce one of the most famous and the longest overland Oregon train in North America.

1. Lead-in. Students in groups were given new vocabulary to match with English definitions through the help of the example sentences.

2. We made Power Point Presentation about  American Pioneers.

3. Students were given the map of the USA and their task was to draw travel line on it.

4.The game ' Scavenger Hunt' was played in groups to check what the students remembered from the presentation.

5. Students in groups were given the colored paper to make a cup and a ball for the game.(  'cup & ball game'was one of the games that the children played during the Oregon trail.)Competition was held between groups in throwing the ball into the cup.

6. Karaoke. Students sang the song ' Oh my darling Clementine'

Invited guests:

Jerrold Frank - Regional English Language Officer

Judy Elliot - ELCE program trainer

Lika Gumberidze- USA Embassy 

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The history of the most famous sights of the USA

   The aim of the activity was to increase the awareness of the history of the White House, The Capitol, The Statue of Liberty and the Smithsonian museum.

1. Access students were divided into 4 groups and they were given the task to search the information about the 4 sights of the USA for the power point presentation.

2. Groups made presentations about the history of one of the sights of the USA.

3. Students were given short descriptive texts about the famous sights and they had to guess what the sight was.

4. Speaking and miming activity was done to encourage the students to talk./ Two students had to think of a dialogue about the topic 'sights of the USA' and another two students on the backs had to mime their conversation./

5. The activity ' Numbered heads together' was done to check what the students remembered from each others presentations. 

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Halloween

The aim  of the event was to increase the awareness of the Halloween celebration.
   A group of  four students made a power point presentation. Then they asked questions to find out what the rest of the students remembered. 

Presentation:

Students in pairs made  exercise. And competition was held in two groups in: eating apples, curving pumpkin,  making scary costumes from paper, paining faces.


It was really fun and enjoyable.

Summer School

English Access Microscholarship Program – Access Program/Georgia

Summer School – June 25-29, 2013

Education in the USA and in Georgia

Enrichment activity #2  May 23^rd , 2013

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Duration: 2hs  (4:00-6:00)

Topic – Education in the USA and in Georgia

Aim – to increase the awareness of educational system of the USA and Georgia, the most important Universities, Colleges and schools.

Students from both group were divided into groups ( 4 groups- 6 member in each ) and they made power point presentations, which was really catchy and interesting . One group made presentation about  The USA Universities , Second group - The USA Colleges, Third group- The USA Schools and the forth one- Education in Georgia.  Then  we talked about the similarities and differences between the educational system of two countries. This enrichment activity was very informative to the students.

Leadership

Enrichment activity #1   April 11^th , 2013

Place – Gori, Society Biliki

Duration – two and a half hours ( 15:30 – 18:00 )

Topic – Leadership

Aim – develop leadership skills in the students and encourage them to become future leaders in their society

Access students watched the film ‘ Soul Surfer’. It made a great impression on them. Before watching the film brainstorming was done on the topic ‘ Leadership’ / Leader is a person who is …/ The students named top qualities that make a great leader.

Access Group

There are 25 students in Gori Access group. They are really active and motivated. Students  have  at least 24 hours -16 hours face to face and 8 hours of independent work of English Language. They have enrichment activity once a month and Summer Schools.