Friday, December 23, 2011

Charity Bazaar at EMU



Our Intermediate Prep School Students are holding a Charity Bazaar in the grounds of the English Preparatory School today. All proceeds will go to Ozen Old People's Home and the Animal Protection Association. Hurry and buy your cakes, books, DVDs and hand-made crafts before everything sells out!!




Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Free Rice Challenge

Steve Neufeld and METU (N. Cyprus) have challenged the SFL teachers and students to take part in the FREE RICE CHALLENGE.


What is Free Rice?

Free rice is a website where users play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to fight world hunger. For every question the user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated.


How Do I Play?

1- Go to www.freerice.com and sign up. (EMU email addresses do NOT work, so please use an alternate email address)

2- Search and join the EMU SFL Instructors Group.

3- Start playing to donate rice and beat the METU staff.


How Can My Students Play?

1- Go to www.freerice.com and sign up. (EMU email addresses do NOT work, so please use an alternate email address)

2- Search and join the EMU SFL Students Group.

3- Start playing to donate rice and beat the METU students.

Good luck!!!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The 4th Forum on Curricular Issues

The English Preparatory School hosted the 4th Forum on Curricular Issues (FOCI) on 9th - 10th December. This year's theme was Collaborating with Colleagues to Consolidate  the Curriculum.  Various Universities from Turkey attended the forum including Sabanci, Koc, Izmir Economy and Istanbul Technic.