Competition
Dialogue Contest
Before the attending audience, participating students are given a randomly selected situation and have to overcome their public-speaking fears to put together an impromptu English dialogue. Prizes are awarded to students who give the best dialogue (often also the most amusing!)
College Bowl
In front of an audience of their peers, participating students compete for prizes by answering trivial and fun questions asked by attending teachers. Categories of questions include: Travel, Sports, Movies, History, Geography, Celebrities, Holidays, Foreign Culture, General Knowledge, and (of course) English Grammar and Vocabulary.
5-Event Olympics
For this fun-filled competition, students vie for prizes by participating in five activities geared to helping them improve their English pronunciation and vocabulary. Events are different each year, but examples include: vocabulary bingo, crossword puzzles, dialogue unscrambling, tongue twisters, reading comprehension, grammar error correction, and putting a jumbled story in sequence in the fastest time.
Skit Contest
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The Skit Contest is the Language Center’s main annual competition culminating in an awards ceremony held on an evening near the end of the academic year.
To enter, groups of students create, direct and act in video-recorded skits in the region of 10-15 minutes in length. Of the many dozens of skits submitted for the preliminary round of judging, a group of teachers serving as judges nominate finalists for each category of award. The nominated skits are edited if necessary and compiled on disks made available to all Language Center teachers who are invited to view and vote on their preferences. The formal Awards Ceremony evening is held in a plush auditorium before a large audience, with live performances, the viewing of winning skits, and the presentation of prizes.
The Skit Contest involves a large number of teachers who contribute in a variety of ways, including editing skit scripts, coaching actors in the correct pronunciation of dialogue, compiling submitted videos, judging, nominating finalists and arranging the ceremony.
Prizes are awarded for the following categories:
Best Original Skit (the ideas and language of which must be entirely of the students’ own creation),
Best Traditional Skit (the ideas of which need not be original and may be derived from any source, such as traditional stories, folk-tales, and movies)
Best Actor in a Male Role
Best Actor in a Female Role
Best Pronunciation
Best Director
Singing Contest
Held on an evening in the second semester, the Singing Contest is a chance for students, both individually and in groups, to demonstrate their (often considerable) singing talents while competing for prizes. We will also have a band playing in-between performances – so come join us for a night of song and fun!
