HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!

2011 is going to go by so fast and we are all eager to welcome a New Year 2012 with a lot of new things. On the coming of 2012, GLN English Club wishes you all the best - best health, best wealth, best luck!!! Thanks for coming and joining us in 2011 and hope to see you soon in 2012. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

NOTE: WE ARE OFF THIS WEEK! SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK IN THE NEW YEAR!!!

Christmas Celebration in GLN English Club

Enjoying memorable moments on Christmas in GLN EC

You don’t like “stay alone at home” or do the same things day by day, and especially on Christmas, right?

You like going out and joining with friends in extremely funny and crazy programs with full of competition?

You really want to have fun, get presents and also practice English at the same time?

Or more specially, you are crazy on getting a lot of attractive gifts and have a meaningful Christmas this year?

Come to a very special Christmas program in GLN English Club at 2:30 pm, Saturday, 24^th December 2011 to explore so many pleasant surprises for Christmas this year. In particular, the Christmas program this year promises to bring you many funny games in English with contests among the member teams. Moreover, the competition among the teams will help you unleash the creative discretion of a wonderful Christmas day. Besides meeting friends, the program promises to bring you many “cute” and “amazing” gifts from GLN English Club!

Because of limited seats, please quickly register to become participants in the "one - in - a year" program!

Please fill in the following form before 9 am on 24^th December 2011:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_GB&formkey=dDRJT1h4czdhczhiNkYwQTJILVZMM2c6MQ#gid=0

Have a meaningful and unforgettable Christmas with GLN English Club!

GLOBALIZATION

Have you ever wondered why society is more developed over time, what makes internet, communication and languages to be so important nowadays, why countries tend to join together. It is no doubt that the world is being globalized. While this tendency sounds promising, there are tremendous complaints against it. The question is whether Globalization is good or bad in the current context of Viet Nam.

You are Vietnamese and you are being effected by the global trend. What do you think about its advantages and disadvantages? Let’s come and share your thoughts with us this weekend, topic: “Globalization”

                                                    GLN ENGLISH CLUB

                                                     GLOBALIZATION

                                                Saturday, December 17th, 2011

                       No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Str, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay


2:30- 2:45: Breaking the ice

• Making friends with others

2:45 – 3:00: Warming up

• Watching an interesting video

3:00 – 3:45: Discussing in pairs

• What is globalization? What are goals of globalization?

• How does globalization affect our economy, politic, culture, and environment?

• Viet Nam is gradually globalized by accession to some international organizations. What are they? Share your knowledge about those.

• What do you think about globalization with positive and negative aspects in Viet Nam?

3:45 – 4:00: Relaxing

• Playing a game called “perfect couple”

4:00 – 4:30: Working in groups

Let’s draw a picture about globalization and present your group idea.

Thanks for coming! Have a nice weekend!

Marketing- vital factor for business success!!!

Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. In reality, it plays an important role in every business’s success. That’s the reason why almost all the companies or businesses take care much on this field. Let’s see how we discover this topic with GLN EC on 10th December.

Some questions such as “what is marketing, How many types of marketing, In comparison with the past how it has changes for orientation of customers’ demand" and so on are excitingly and controversially discussed at GLN EC last week. There are a lot of different ideas from attendants about the nature of Marketing: some people think that Marketing is to answer two questions relating to products: how to produce and how to sell, which sounds a bit strange but correct and is agreed by all the attendants.

As normal, we enjoy a game which is very interesting and extremely critical with the name “Maze”. It is not for relaxing but also helps us understand more about grammar: the differences of Most & Almost. It is really great!!!

Thanks to this topic, we can get further knowledge about marketing so we can apply in our real situation for ourselves especially the people who are working for business field.

MARKETING

Marketers and marketing departments are two important factors that we can see in almost all companies at present. They are really crucial parts in the development of any business. However, “what does marketing really mean?”, how does it actually work? And “Why does a company substantially need marketing?... All of those confusing questions will be found out thoroughly in GLN EC this weekend with the topic: “Marketing”. This is really a promising chance for you, a student who wish to find out about marketing, or for those who have got experiences on relative jobs to figure out and discover this concept more deeply. Let’s come and share with us your ideas about “Marketing”.

GLN ENGLISH CLUB

MARKETING

Saturday, December 10^th, 2011

                       No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Str, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay

    

     2:30- 2:45: Breaking the ice

• Making friends with others

    2:45 – 3:00: Warming up

• Playing an interesting game

    3:00 – 3:30: Discussing in pairs

• What is marketing? What are goals of marketing?
• Can you name and specify some types of marketing?
• How has marketing changed over the past 30 years? 
• Between the past and the present, which one do you think customers are easier to reach your products? Explain your answer.
• Have you gained any experience on marketing jobs or relevant jobs? Can you share with us?

    3:30 – 3:45: Watch a video clip  

    3:45 – 4:30: Working in groups

      Each group will be given a product and your group’s job is to make a marketing plan in order to promote your selected brand product. Present and persuade us by your ideas.

Thanks for coming! Have a nice weekend!

Crimes & Punishments - a really hot topic!!!

“Crime is a salient fact today, an integral part of the risks we face in everyday life. In both scholarly and public opinion, crime is associated with bad effects to the community” is totally agreed at the last meeting on 3rd December at GLN EC.

As we expect, this topic attracts the attendants a lot because of its interesting and useful content and the games. It is considered as one of the most attractive and exciting debates at GLN EC during the meeting. There are a lot of different ideas from attendants about some questions relating to our topic such as the definition of crimes and punishments, their different kinds, the causes and solutions especially the idea “Nowadays, the media seem to emphasize on posting shocked news about crimes but they are often for entertainment rather than education- what do you think about this?”, which leads to the controversial debate, giving more chances for us to raise the voice.

  Preparing for debate: Group 1

                                                          Group 2

Our atmosphere is very hot not only by the topic but by the games. We really enjoy with relax and inspiration before we move to the last part of this meeting-also the most interesting part: Work in groups. We divide into 2 groups to debate with the idea :capital punishment in Vietnam- should it be abolished? Personally, I find it entirely exciting and effective because each of group has their persuasive ideas and supporting ones with one-by-one turn.

                                                     Playing games

In short, besides help us with improvement of the soft skills in debating this topic provides useful and reliable knowledge about crimes and punishment so we can know how to deal with them to reduce and abolish them in our life.

CRIMES & PUNISHMENTS

We are living in a modern and convenient life which is expected to be better for not only our physical health but also spiritual health; however; it seems to be that the ethics issues in our society tend to very alarming with the rapid growth of crimes at any age. “As a citizen, what can you do to reduce this and make our life better?” That is also our topic for the coming program. Come and share with us your ideas about “Crimes & Punishments” this weekend!

Here is the detailed timeline for this outdoor program:

Crimes & Punishments

Saturday, 3rd December 2011

         No 12, Lane 8, Nguyen Thi Dinh Str, Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay 

2:30- 2:45: Breaking the ice

 Making friends with others

2:45- 3:00: Warming up

 Playing an interesting game

3:00- 3:30: Discussing in pairs

 What are crimes & punishments?

 Could you list different kinds of crimes and punishments in Vietnam?

 What causes the above crimes? How should we deal with them (by punishments)?

 “Nowadays, the media seem to emphasize too much on posting shocked news about crimes, but they are often for entertainment rather than education”. What do you think about this opinion?

3:30-3:45: Playing a game

3:45-4:20: Working in groups

Recently, people are concerned about the most severe punishment - capital punishment in Vietnam and suppose that it should be abolished.

=> What do you think about this idea? Give your reasons.

4:20-4:30: Ending the program (with a game if possible)

Meaningful kisses!!!

In our life, we can express our innermost feeling or love by so many ways; however, sometimes silence has the loudest voice. When word fails you, let your lips do the talking by “Kisses”. With the sensitive topic, all the members are excited at some questions discussed: How many types of kisses? What are the meanings of them? Are the kisses different in different cultures? at GLN EC on the last Saturday 26^th September.

After 30 minutes for making friends with others and playing an attractive game, we go to discuss in details with some suggested questions that not only provide us useful information but gives fun for us. All of the members think that Kisses are great and meaningful for our life especially young people because they are the ways you show loves with others. Some attendants raise their ideas about the different kisses in different culture or countries like Western and Eastern countries –Vietnam, Japan, and China with American, England and Australia, which makes us interested in showing our loves.

However, there is an idea that do not support kissing in public, which leads 3 groups to the final debate “Do you agree or not? Give your reasons.” Each group has their own ideas but has in common that “It depends on each culture so we should take kisses right!”

After ending the meeting, all most everyone stays to discuss the further topic very hot and I hope that you are clear about the different meanings of kisses from this meeting so you can choose well to show your love with others.