A different day for Khagrachhari kids
Students of two Khagrachhari schools had a day full of fun learning English as they took part in an 'English Language Fair' in the hill district yesterday.
Under English in Schools (EIS) programme, The Daily Star and mobile operator Robi jointly organised the fair in coordination with the education ministry to encourage development of English language proficiency among secondary school students. Adcomm Ltd is the creative and event partner of the fair.
The fair was held at Khagrachhari Government High School auditorium in the district town and Srila Talukdar, headmistress of the school, formally inaugurated the programme at around 10:30am.
About 100 students of the two schools-Khagrachhari Government High School and Natun Kuri Cantonment High School-participated in the programme.
The event started with the screening of Lion King, a globally renowned movie, followed by students' participation in spot quiz, vocabulary test, one word question and quick questions---all based on the movie. Selected students also took part in extempore speech on different topics and role-play.
English teachers of Khagrachhari Government High School Nikhil Kumar and Md Kajimuddim and English teacher of Natun Kuri Cantonment High School Haripoda Devnath were the judges.
Sajib Barua, Khagrachhari area manager of Robi, distributed the prizes among the winners at the end of the programme.
The three-year EIS programme, initiated two years ago to promote the learning of English in secondary schools, covers seven lakh students in a thousand schools, including 317 government and 683 non-government ones, across the country.
Three complimentary copies of The Daily Star, with a special page of English lessons prepared by the Centre for Languages of Brac University and coordinated by the education ministry, are given to each of the thousand schools five days a week under the EIS initiative.
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