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Kang GURU and the NEW Joeys Page for SMP
January 2007

They are young. They are lively and they love English. KGRE would like to introduce the latest English language club in the Kang Guru Connection Club (KGCC) network — the Joeys Club, KGCC #100 — Natalya, Sinta, Fatimah, Budi, Ali and Samuel. These students, all English language lovers, go to different junior high schools in their area. They are the Club Committee of this very special and very active KGCC. Here is some information about them for you to enjoy.

Joeys
January 2007
UPDATE

  • Fatimah and Samuel are the club leaders.
  • Fatimah attends a pondok pesantren and Samuel goes to an SMP school near his kampung.
  • Ali and his friend Sinta look after the money. They are the treasurers.
  • Ali goes to a madrasah and Sinta goes to a Saraswati SMP school.
  • Natalya is the timekeeper 'cos she has a watch. She goes to a private school.
  • Budi is the member who looks after all correspondence. He is short-haired and very rajin – they call him Budi Rajin. He goes to a private school too.
  • Sinta wears a flower in her hair and Fatimah always wears a jilbab.
  • Samuel has curly hair and a big smile. Ali sometimes wears a peci.

Like all Indonesian students they study English at school. However, they told KGRE that at their English club meetings they don't just study English, they USE it. They make lots of mistakes talking and listening but this isn't a problem. In fact, that's the fun part. They know that it's impossible to learn how to speak a language without making mistakes.

Their meetings aren't always the same.

The Joeys usually meet once a week, but during the school holidays they often meet twice or even three times a week.

They always have a theme for each meeting.

Some of their topics have been music, families, school life, technology, SMS and the environment. Ali is especially interested in that. He wants to be an environmental scientist.

The Joeys always try to practise speaking, listening, reading and writing at their meetings.

They play games, sing songs in English, and listen to KGRE cassettes.

They read the KGRE magazine, their POUCH bulletins and enter every competition from KGRE.

Joeys KGCC #100

KGRE would like to thank Aldo for his great illustrations

Joeys January Update

Joeys January Competition for SMP/MTs
students (years 7, 8 and 9)

Fatimah and Samuel have just received a new KGRE magazine. They're talking about the magazine BUT what are they saying? What do you think they're saying to each other?

'Australia' by Steve Parish

Send us your answers — one sentence for Fatimah and one sentence for Samuel.

Three winners will get a great book from KGRE called ‘Australia’.

Send your answer by SMS to ‘Joeys’
on 081 238 70479 before February 3.
Don't forget to tell us your name and your year level at school. Good luck!

Joeys January Update

 

A Fun Game for your English!

Would you like to play a fun counting game with your friends or classmates? It's called ‘Eleven’. Here are the instructions.

1. Stand in a circle. Seven to ten people is enough for one circle. The first person says one, two or three numbers, starting with zero. Example: ‘zero’ or ‘zero, one’ or ‘zero, one, two’.

2. The next person continues, choosing one, two or three numbers. The first person to say ‘Eleven’ is out and the game continues until only one person remains. Here's an example of a game:

Person 1: ‘Zero, one’
Person 2: ‘Two, three, four’
Person 3: ‘Five’
Person 4: ‘Six, seven, eight’
Person 5: ‘Nine, ten’
Person 6: ‘Eleven’.
This person (no. 6) sits down and the next person starts again with ‘zero’

You could change the name of the game to ‘Alphabet’. The person who says ‘z’ is out.

Scrambled Words

This is an activity to help you with vocabulary and spelling. It's NOT a competition.

All of these words are school subjects but they're mixed up. Can you unscramble them?

Scrambled Words
Nelrigio Tryshio
Shiglen Rat
Shamt Neccesi

Check out this great envelope
sent to KGRE by
Moh. Gufronul Hakim
from Sampang, Madura.

Thanks for all of your hard work!

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