“The highlight for me was Questions for conversation …
“My name is Phyo
Wai Win and I’m from Zigon Township , Bago West Division situated in the lower
part of Myanmar bseside Bago-Yoma mountain area”.
When did you first take English? “I first learn very basic English language when I was
in ‘first standard,’ known as primary
school. I was 5 years old. But I did not
speak English. Not really”.
When did you begin to speak English? “I began to speak English when I was 25 when I joined
the English class with my friend and studied English at a higher level”.
What is interesting about the Cuso English class? “By joining the Cuso English class, I have many
opportunities to speak English fluently with a native speaker and my classmates,
and I understand more about the language, the structure group work
methodology, critical thinking, problem
solving, debates and questions for conversations with confidence”. In
our class, Alice gives us a chance to participate fully with the topic
presentations everyday. Topics could be
review, fashion, family life in Myanmar, Myanmar culture, parliamentary work,
my hero, global citizenship begins with me that we have just learned in the
Road to Gender Equality and the ASEAN Citizen units.
I think that the
most interesting thing in the class is that we get to choose the writer which
is a Scriber; Brainstormers who are really critically thinkers, Presenters who
has to listen deeply to everyone’s comment; Audience who has a chance to listen
carefully to the presenter and to ask the right questions for conversation that make sense to show that
we have carefully listened to the presenter.
According to the topic we participate our parts, we have a chance to collect a lot of facts
and it is really excited to work with my group and with others groups, because we have the
facts to share with each other and good relations with my friends to
participate with questions for conversation that Alice has taught us”.
How has Cuso English helped you with your
parliamentary work? “My Cuso English class has helped me significantly
with my parliamentary work by applying
the writing briefing paper research work . I Write Burmese briefing papers that
I translate from English to Burmese.
This information, I use from my Cuso English Class and collect data from
the Basic Health Staff website from different countries. I create subheadings
from a variety of International newspapers that
becomes the Current Affairs Digest
newsletter for MPs. This, I delegate
to my junior staff to write and make sure that they understand that they need
to think critical instead of copy paste directly from the web. This is where I use a lot of
questions for conversation model that I learned from Cuso class. I
also use with my staff solving the
problem in the work with critical thinking
that I keep in mind that Alice always remind us to think about when we
negotiate with others in class
Would you recommend Cuso English training? Off course, I recommend Cuso English training to my
friends, and my colleagues, my
parliamentary junior and senior staff, also my brother and sister and my
family. I think that they will have a
chance to speak with a native speaker with many different topics to discuss
about current issues, healthy living, language acquisition, leadership and make
questions for conversations with a lot of critical thinking that we do in
class. I like most Alice class because
she encourages us to always ask “questions for conversation. She could handle
the class well and she knows how to manage the class with Stop, Look and
Listen. it is also important to mention
that Alice is fun and makes us laugh, so we don’t want to be absent from the
class.
What was the highlight of Cuso English
class? The highlight or me is that I now use both ‘questions for conversation’ and the ”group work methodology concepts” with everything that I do with my
parliamentary work and with everyone that I work with; my colleagues, my
friends and even my family!
More later ... in the meantime, wishing you fun reading and lots of laughter for the rest of May 2018….:)
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