Interview and Placement Test for the New esc-STIPRAM Students Academic Year 2011/2012

Finally, after the long process of interviewing and giving placement written tests for the new students of Stipram, esc classes started its first class on Monday, 8 August 2011, at 2:00 pm. 

Esc opened seven classes, named after Indonesian traditional spices, such as cinnamon, lemon grass, coriander, candlenut, shallot, turmeric, and ginger, with a total of 230 students.

Esc classes offer a variety of activities, from class discussions, games, role plays, group work, debates, guiding, outing, and other fun activities. Hopefully students can enjoy themselves and improve their English at the same time. At the end of a term, students will be given a certificate and they can move on to the next level. There are six levels in esc – pre- elementary, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, post-intermediate, and advanced. When they have completed all the six levels, students can join the TOEFL preparation class to reach a TOEFL score up to 500. These certificates will be useful when students are applying for a job.

Actually, there are still more students who haven’t joined the test. So, why wait? Take the tests now. Good luck guyz J Happy learning.

wisnu.doc - august 2011

"Lemon Grass" Community Chat Session with Mr. Robert

This morning of Saturday, August 13, 2011, the “Lemon Grass” community held a chat session with Mr. Robert Konstantin from Germany. The session started at 11:30 am and participated by a dozen of students.

Lots of interesting topics were shared during the chat, from simple local traditional food – lotek, gado-gado, and pecel – to discussing popular movies, such as transformer 3 and iron man 3. Surprisingly, Mr. Robert is very fond of eating lotek and gado-gado, especially with extra chilly. 

But, he can’t stand gudeg because it’s too sweet. He likes living in Indonesia and one of his hobbies is swimming. He usually swims at UNY swimming pool where he sometimes dives from the 10 meter diving tower there.

Mr. Robert is not new to Stipram. In 2009, he became a guest lecturer for the diploma 3 and the bachelor classes. “Wow! I was surprised when I first arrived at this campus this morning”, he said. “There were so many students!” he continued. “Stipram has changed and improved and there should be more discussion activities with foreigner like this so that students can practice their English and become more confident in using it”, he pointed out.

Yes, we agree … and so …… lets speak English guyz!!!

wisnu.doc - aug 2011