ELC Events and Activities

The ELC Spring Events hosted a 1 hour iPad Piano Lesson last week on March 14th. Students who attended the one hour event enjoyed learning a popular beginner piano song called “Chopsticks.” They also played a jeopardy review game in which they learned about different facts relating to the piano. […]

On Thursday, March 13, 2014, ELC Teaching Fellow Kerry Pusey hosted an event titled “Music and Cultural Exchange”. As implied by the event title, this gathering focused on exchanging ideas and experiences related to music and culture. Participants from various ELC classes joined the event and enjoyed some free snacks […]

ELC teacher Dan Burge (pictured right) took three UMAC students to Macau for a fun night of pool playing and darts. It was a great opportunity for a few people to have fun and use English in casual settings. Dan, an English teacher from England, business student Gabriel from Brazil […]

Last week students enjoyed an afternoon playing English games during “Game afternoon with Marie: Stop the Bus and Tongue Twisters.” ELC teacher Marie Webb introduced a game that she created to practice fun, fast, unique, English vocabulary skills. The event took place in the American Corner on Thursday, February 27th […]

The English Language Centre (ELC) spring semester 2014 events kicked off with Bowling Night at the Macau Dome Bowling Centre on February 21, 2014. This was the second time to hold such event in response to the satisfaction of participants last semester. This time, 14 students enjoyed free bowling and […]

Students enjoyed the holiday season making their own Christmas ornaments at the final ELC event of Fall, 2013. During the Christmas Ornament Workshop, teachers Marie Webb and Kerry Pusey helped students make 3 kinds of Christmas ornaments. The first ornament was a snowman made out of Styrofoam and other decorative […]

On Tuesday the 17th of December at six in the evening, English Language Centre Teacher Dan Burge hosted karaoke night with nine students in attendance. The aim of the activity was to have UMAC students practicing their English while singing a variety of English songs, some from many years ago, […]

Last Thursday, December 5, 2013, the second of two Movie Nights was hosted by the ELC – once again in the American Corner of the UM Library. The film shown was The Heat (2013), an action/comedy/crime movie about two unlikely partners who get paired together to work on a criminal […]

Last Wednesday, December 4 the ELC’s Pacific Coffee and Study Break event had its 4th meeting. Students who attended enjoyed speaking English and learning about holiday Mad Libs. Mad-libs are a great way to learn any language or to simply have fun with friends or relatives. By filling-in a word […]

Last Wednesday Dec. 4, the ELC hosted its first Hac-Sa beach clean-up as part of the Fall 2013 Semester Events. Students from the UM community met at Hac-Sa and spent their afternoon picking up the tiny pieces of litter that plague our ocean’s environment.  Each student was given an ELC […]

Watching movies is a great way to learn English, as it builds listening and reading fluency, and also provides a window into different cultural practices and norms. With this is mind, the ELC hosted the first of two Movie Nights this semester last Thursday, November 28. The film shown for […]