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English Department Semester Two Activities Plan

A. Excursions
• Qatar Academy – English encouragement program (library tour, combined English/Arabic literary activity, debate, dramatic performance)
• Qatar Foundation Convention Centre Construction Site (Keo Pty Ltd) – English, the uniting language
• Qatar Diar – English the language of marketing and development

B. English Club
• Reading and writing activities
• Dramatization of graded readers
• Debating
• Conversational English role play
• Dept newsletter
• Weekly broadcasts

C. Department Newsletter
• Fortnightly publication initially, progressing to weekly
• English club students progressively take responsibility for it
• Display of student work
• Encouragement from coordinator and staff
• Sections for: idioms, famous quotes, jokes, words of the week (vocab), and principles of expression in written English

D. Wall Posters
• Essential vocabulary (eg opposites; transport…)
• Basic grammar functions (eg prepositions, verb forms, sentence types)
• Literary genres (eg letters, diary, essay, advertisement, novel, poetry…)
• Student class work
• Excursion reports
• Student assignments