Voluntary work

                                                        VOLUNTARY KIDS

Voluntary work is not a matter of age, education, or wealth but it is a matter of willingness and love of charity.

A debate between Eastern and Western cultures

     By Huguette Jerray

Introduction

It is not among our projects nor is it one of our skills to make here a detailed synthesis about spirituality in Islam with all its richness and largest complexity. Our deepest motivation, however, lies in the fact of trying to listen to and understand what makes the place of the spiritual so special in the Muslim countries.

That’s why we need to understand the different steps that have influenced the thought in the Islamic world, from Revelation through the dissensions and cleavages of yesterday and today.

A revolution in fine arts:The sure-realism

An article that I translated for Mourad Elloumi

Biography

MOURAD ELLOUMI, born on the 27^th - 6 - 1961, graduated from the National Institute of Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Tunis in 1986.

He has been passionate about cinema, art and literature from an early age. He regularly participates in cultural events and especially the training of young people in painting clubs. Between two short rewarding experiences, one as the artistic director of a publishing house and press (Tourist Gazette) and the other as the responsible for his own communication box (Fine Art) ,he landed in 1988 in the world of education and dedicated  himself to the education of fine arts in order to contribute to the development of freedom of expression and  the creativity project at school.

Thus he cultivated his passion for painting and made several solo and group exhibitions between 1992 and 2000 (Sidi Bou Said Museum, Gallery khayachi La Marsa, cultural center abdeaziz Djemail, cultural center el Menzah ....). His commitment to freedom of expression and the human rights deprived him for several years from participating in official exhibitions under the old totalitarian regime.

In the aftermath of the "Arab Spring" the breath of freedom consolidates his career of an engaged artist .His recent thinking fits in this context and leads him to the exercise of a research that meets the foundations of a new plastic writing.

The project of these recent achievements entitled “Synergy” is a plea to the manifesto of the new "Sure realism".

How to test speaking in an English class?

How to test speaking in an English class?

This is a link to a power point presentation about testing speaking in English classrooms.It deals with the different aspects of language teachers may evaluate in a speaking test with different techiques and grading scales allowing teachers to test learners regularly rather than once a year at the final oral exam.

Drama in the classroom

• Various entries into drama

I /Warm up

1-    Name and movement

-Learners will be asked to tell their names through body movements without being allowed to use words.

II/Adverb activity

-Learners will be divided into groups, each group will be asked to choose an action, and then perform it in the way the adverb they chose describes. The remaining groups will guess the adverb the group members are miming.

-This activity may be done through flash cards: Learners will be provided with flash cards showing adverbs and will be asked to perform actions in the way the adverb describes. Their colleagues will guess what the adverb is.