Contest Report

MOULAY BAAMRAN HIGH SCHOOL TICKET ENGLISH CONTEST 2009 Report By: Abdelouahed OULGOUT Target Audience: His first year Baccalaureate students This contest took place on the 15th May, 2009, at BAAMRAN high School, specifically in "Teachers' Class". The contest, which has been designed and managed by the teacher of English Mr. Abdelouahed OULGOUT, targeted groups of students from within four classes under his supervision. The contest's basic aim is firstly to provide a learning opportunity for students to practise and recycle their previously learned lessons, and secondly to honour and reward some students who performed well this year. The contest took place on Friday 15th May, 2009, in Teachers' class, from 15 h to 17: 30h. Half an hour before the contest started, Mr. Abdelouahed OULGOUT was busy organising his stuff (the data shower, the laptop, the tables, the prizes, the music, the prizes...etc) with help from his students, friend, and school headmaster. At 15 o'clock, Mr. OULGOUT launched the contest welcoming the audience and giving the word to the school headmaster. The later expresses his thanks and gratitude to Mr. OULGOUT and his friend Mr. Abdelilah CHOUKRI, the teacher of Islamic Education, for their respectful efforts to organise such activities. He also expressed his thanks to Mr. Mohamed ELMAHFOUD, the president of the Association of Students' Parents, for his help and sacrifice. After then, Mr. OULGOUT drew the audience's attention to the contest's objectives stating them on the screen as follow:

Contest objectives: By the end of this contest, the students WILL: • have revised their TICKET English lessons, notably: Vocabulary, grammar, functions, listening, and speaking. • have tested their English Learning potentialities. • have been given MERIT Prizes and Certificates. Then, Mr. OULGOUT showed the participants the rules underlying the contest as follow:

Contest Regulation: • The contest consists of five rounds: Vocabulary Round, Grammar Round, Functions Round, Listening Round, and Public Speaking Round • The participants jot down their answers by just ticking the correct option of each question. • After each round, the participants will collectively find the right answers. The audience will take a crucial part in the correction process. • As for scoring, here are the points devoted for each question in details:

At that moment, Mr. OULGOUT noticed that one group was not present except three of its members, so he-the contest-manager- had to engage the three present members in one of the other groups: FLOWERS Group. The participants started answering the questions on pre-designed sheets, going through the five rounds as mentioned above. Between a round and another, there were pauses exploited to collectively check the correct answers, estimate and announce the total score of each round, for each group. During the correction process, Mr. OULGOUT provided more insights on the

questions related to each round for further understanding and internlisation of the target learning items. At the end of the five rounds, Mr. OULGOUT announced the Total Scores in this Contest. “LIFE OF MATHEMATICS” group(class of Mathematics) won the first grade/prize, “FLOWERS” group (Class of Empirical Sciences)hold the second rank, and the last group was “PEACE” (Class of Literature, group 2).Here are the results in details:

TICKET English Contest Total Score Group: LIFE OF MATHEMATICS Round VOCABULAY R. GRAMMAR R. FUNCTIONS R. LISTENING R. PUBLIC SPEAKING R. TOTAL SCORE: RANK:

Scores 7/10 4/6 5/5 5/5 9/10 30/36 1/3

TICKET English Contest Total Score Group: FLOWERS Round VOCABULAY R. GRAMMAR R. FUNCTIONS R. LISTENING R. PUBLIC SPEAKING R. TOTAL SCORE: RANK:

Scores 6/10 4/6 4/5 5/5 8/10 27/36 2/3

TICKET English Contest Total Score Group: PEACE Round VOCABULAY R. GRAMMAR R. FUNCTIONS R. LISTENING R. PUBLIC SPEAKING R. TOTAL SCORE: RANK:

Scores 3/10 4/6 3/5 0/5 6/10 16/36 3/3

In the last phase of this contest, Mr. OULGOUT rewarded all the participants, giving them valuable prizes and ELL certificates and acknowledging their hard work and active participation in ELL. During this phase, Mr. OULGOUT gave moral and educational piece of advice for each winner and involved the guests in handing the prizes to the contestantswinners. Then, a memorial photo was taken for all the audience, notably the participants, the contest manager, the guests and the school head master. The contest manager thanked the whole audience for their attendance, swearing Allah to grant the winners more success in their learning career and future life.

Written on the 2nd June, 2009. The reporter: The contest manager, Mr. Abdelouahed OULGOUT

School Headmaster