Digitalising Learning with the British Council

We are proud to announce that the British Council, Cyprus have selected the SFL EPS Students' Self Study Centre for their Digitalising Learning Project. Over the next few months, we will be working in collaboration with the British Council to train teachers on how to use the latest language learning technology.

Free Rice - Competition Winners

After weeks of excitement, EMU EPS students beat METU students in the Free Rice challenge between the two universities. EMU students easily won the challenge by donating over 1,500,000 grains of rice and feeding over 100 hungry people.

Congratulations to our highest scorer Hikmet, and his 103-07 classmates Niyazi and Acelya for their amazing contributions to the challenge.

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!!

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!!!

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.

Civic Involvement Project

Elmaziye Özgür Küfi & Zehra Nalbantoğlu were recently invited to Kibris TV to talk about the Civic Involvement Project in the English Preparatory School. 

The programme, in Turkish, can be watched at http://youtu.be/8Cv1elqoBgQ

Well done ladies!!!

Teachers' Day in SFL

We had a potluck party to celebrate Teachers' Day. There was lots of good food, drink but most importantly we spent valuable time socialising with our colleagues!!

Thank you to everyone who came and HAPPY TEACHERS DAY to everyone.