Dear all,
The English Learners Club is delighted to announce the third edition of the English Cultural Days.
The event is due on thursday 16th and friday 17th of April.
You are cordially invited to attend the event.
In the program:Conferences,Workshops,Games,Competitions ...and many other surprises that are really worth being attended.

Mark the date in your calendar and come celibrate with us.

Cordially,

ELC members

ELC's 2008/2009 first activity

This year's very first activity was a presentation of the club.That was an opportunity for us to let people know about the club and the multiple activities it organizes during the whole year.
In spite of the fact that there were not many people attending the activity,the presentation went well according to all students who attented it.
In addition to the objective of introducing the club to the INPT students, our intention,as a matter of fact,was to recruit new members since we are planning to organize the English Days which have been a tradition here in our institute since the year 2005.
After the presentation of the ELC took place, students were given the floor to ask questions and put forward some suggestions .
After a while,the The Big Bang tv show was launched.
At the end, we had a discussion about the show and many other issues.
Many thanks to all the ELC members for contributing to the success of this event.

The "English Competition": First edition

The very first activity that the club organized this year was the "English Competition" on its first edition.
Many people,among whom was Madam IBRAHIMI (English teacher ),attended the activity.They all apreciated the party and asked for more such activities to take place inside the institute.
Either the winners or the other contestants prouved their great
interest in the English language.
First year students won the first place as they managed to beat their colleagues from the second year who,nevertheless,showed their great commitement to win the competition.
Many thanks to all students who took part of this activity,especially the ELC executive committee:
-Lamiae BENHAYOUNE and Amina AIT OUAHMANE for their great performance and courage.
-Amine BENSAADA and JB KODJO for their help and perseverence.
-Wisal KHADROUF and Houda ZRINEH for their animation of the "public questions" part and for the poster too.
-Hamza MIMI for the technical help.
-Abdelhamid ALAMI for his precious help and motivation.
-Rahima KHARBOUCH and Adil MAJAD for their valuable assistance.
Special thanks also to Rachid ASSIAD.He helped a lot with his thechnical knowledge and know-how.

Outsourcing is the KEY!

The 2nd meeting of the English Learners Club took place on Monday, March 5th 8:00 p.m. at the room 112B.

The session started by Mehdi & Saâd's presentation about the Simpsons (the origins & the characters). Then together we watched an episode of the Simpsons entitled "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" that lasted for 21min. Afterwards, we discussed the theme of "Outsourcing" raised by the cartoon and explained by Alaa through a slides presentation. The meeting lasted for one hour.

Special thanks for the 1st year students who participated in the session. "I know you have been working under a lot of pressure this week!"

Michael Moore at the ELC

The first meeting of the new executive committee of the ELC took place on Thursday 21/12 8:00 p.m. at the amphitheatre of INPT. Around fifty students attended the session.

The activity began with Alaa's slides presentation about the American political system. Then we started watching the 122 minutes documentary.
This session was an opportunity for the new members of the ELC to present themselves to their mates.

When the film ended, the floor was given to the audience to express their opinions about the content of the documentary. This enabled us to discover some highly motivated 1st year students that showed their interest in the club, and to answer some of their questions about the activities of the ELC.

As usual, Yassine & Mouad were there. They actively participated in the talk and also told the new attendees about their experiences as former members of the ELC.

After approximately three hours and a quarter, the session ended.

By Abdel.

English Cultural Days at INPT - March 2005

The English Cultural Days were organised by the English Learners Club in March 17th, 18th and 19th in INPT under the theme of “English and cross-cultural understanding”. The purpose of these days is to sensitise young people, in particular academic students, to the importance of English as an aperture on the world’s culture. The schedule of these days contained conferences, projections, exhibitions, galleries, music show, sport, games, tombola and competitions.
These days ended by the ELC National Short Story Contest awards ceremony that the club launched in January 2005.

The English Cultural Days streamer at the Entry of INPT

The English cultural Days were supported by Amideast (America-Mideast Educational and Training Services) Macmillan publishers, the Public Affairs Bureau of the U.S Embassy, the British Council and TypoEdit.

The ELC at the residence of the American Ambassador

Meeting with Brenda Flanagan

Thursday March 3rd, 2005 a reception was given in Honor of Dr. Brenda Flanagan, Professor of African-American Literature at Davidson College, North Carolina in the residence of the American ambassador Mr. Thomas J. Riley in Rabat. The English Learners Club was there.

Brenda Flanagan, a native of Trinidad, is a professor of journalism and creative writing at Davidson College. She is a former cultural ambassador to Kazakstan and Turkmenistan. Flanagan is a three-time Hopwood award winner, including one for this novel. She is also the author of a play, When the Jumbie Bird Calls, and a forthcoming short story collection, In Praise of Older Women and Other Crimes. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Caliban, Calalloo, the Caribbean Review, and the Indiana Review, among others.

Brenda Flanagan was invited by the American embassy in conjunction with the celebration of Black History Month February 2005. The reception that took place in the residence of the American ambassador gathered some of the African ambassadors, Moroccan writers and academic English teachers.

With the American Embassador Mr. Thomas J. Riley

Brenda talked about her experience as a writer then read one of her short stories called “the girl from Bahia”:
“This is her pilgrimage, as Moslems go to Mecca, as Jews to the western wall, as Japanese to Mona Lisa in the Louvre She has come to Corcovado walking in the steps of enchantment.”

Dr. BrendaFlanagan signing her CD for the ELC

Together with Mrs. Alaoui and Ms. Nawal, 4 members of the ELC attended the reception: Lamiaa, Yassine, Redouane and Aymard. It was an occasion to present the club and invite the guests to take part in the English Days.

A short story writer herself, Brenda was delighted to know about the short story contest the club launched in January. She kindly offered us an Audio CD where she recorded some of the short story she wrote.

By Lami@a