Grade 5 and 6 English Speech Contest!

Wednesday was time for the grade 5 English speech contest. Since I was so busy with the speech contests a few of my grade 6 classes got moved around and I actually ended up teaching less classes than my schedule. Mrs. Kim changed the schedule so that all of our classes were done by lunch and I only ended up teaching each grade 6 class once this week instead of twice like the schedule said. I'm not one to complain about schedule changes or teaching less classes, especially grade 6, they are devils.Back to the grade 5 speech contest. While the students waited for the contest to start they sang Britney Spears song, Everytime. Listening to them sing it in unison together in the gym was AWESOME! I was really impressed that they could read the lyrics and sing the song so well. Now, here are a few pictures from the grade 5 speech contest: 

A view of the gym filled with all the grade 5 students. This was during their singing of Britney Spears. As you may notice, the boys in the back had better things to do than sing. 

There were four judges for the grade 5 speech contest, but only myself and the grade 5 English co-teacher were necessary. Here I am asking an interview question.

These girls from 5-1 were the first contestants and both have been to school abroad. the tall girl on the right lived in America for about a year and her English is phenomenal. Her partner went to school in Japan, but her English speaking level was not as good. 

This is Ye-eun Heo and Seo-jin Kim from the 5-6 class. They won the grade 5 speech contest, with their topic, 'Rock and Roll'. It was a very in-depth speech, but really well done. The girl on the left (Ye-eun Heo) speaks almost fluent English. 

Thursday was the last day for English speech contest and it was the grade 6's. I was not looking forward to judging them because they seem to speak the worst English out of all the grades I teach and they have been learning it the longest. However, I was surprised by how well the grade 6's did in the speech contest, in fact, I have to admit they were probably the most enjoyable followed by the grade 4's. Here are some pictures from the grade 6 speech contest: 

This group of boys were good, but with four of them it was hard to judge, especially since two of them were really good and the other two were just average. 

Two of these three girls didn't even bother to memorize their speeches, so as far as I was concerned that showed lack of preparation. The girl in the middle was the only one who bothered to memorize her part and she did really well, it's too bad her partners let her down. 

Unfortunately, these are all the pictures I can offer from the grade 6 speech contest. The two girls who won the speech contest were from 6-8 class and their topic was on 'Let's love Korean products!' It was a really well done speech, but one girls answer to my question I asked was absolutely amazing, so that alone in my opinion won her and her partner the contest.