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ESC schools 2nd session for 2011

In spite of being tired during Water Festival,

forty of some enthusiastic students did not forget to

come and sit for the entrance test at ESC school on

April 19, 2011. The placement test was held at 9:00a.m. on that day and some former E.S.C students

and new students showed up. After sitting for a two-

hour-writing test, 22 students out of 39 students were

selected to be interviewed. On April 21, 2011, these

students came to sit for an oral test with Ms. Erin, an

American volunteer teacher, to decide who willat-

tend higher level classes. The rest will attend local

teacher classes, Starter A and Starter B. All Englishclasses will start on April 25, 2011, and the session

will last only ten weeks. --by Rainbow

Rakhine Water festival in the Nupo Camp

Led by young Arakanese people, the very pop-

ular Rakhine Water festival, marking the New Year

in Burma, was successfully and joyfully celebrated

from April 13 to 16, 2011 in Nupo Temporary Shel-

ter, Tak Province, Thailand.

The festival was held on the eve of Burmese

New Year as a means of cleansing the bad deeds of

the previous year by pouring water. The Rakhine

Water Festival was held in Nupo for the rst time

and lasted four days.In the course of the festival, young girls and

boys of different ethnicities peacefully participated,

curious to learn about Rakhine water festival, which

they had never experienced before. They joyfully

splashed water at each other to wash away the sins

and to have a good time irting and drinking during

the water festival while older people retreated to the

monasteries.

BurmaStudentS PoSt

Monday April 25,2011 Nupo-Temporary Shelter Issue 2011 -Vol:3 Umphang District, Tak Province, Thailand.

BSP NewsPaper

BSP Newspaper April-25-2011 Page-1

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BSP Newspaper

News ..................................................Page 1

Editorial .............................................Page 2

Article ................................................Page 3

Poem ................................................Page 3

Cartoon ..............................................Page 5

Snappy Joke ......................................Page 6English Lesson ..................................Page 6

Editorial

Hardships, miseries, disasters, and war fares

are what people faced and are facing in their lives.

Crises make people more intelligent and endur-

ance. Since the ancient times, people and animals

encountered numerous troubles and only those who

adapted best survived. Similarly, we currently arein the middle of a difcult situation. Natural disas-

tersfrom hurricane Katrina in the U.S to tsunami

in Japanswept throughout the world. Within a

few years, volcanoes erupted, earthquakes stroke,

hurricanes and typhoons destroyed many parts of

the world; moreover, tsunami and earthquakes dam-

aged a nuclear reactor in Japan. Is our world on the

brink of destruction? Take a glance back to the his-

tory: war fares such as from The Crusade, Mon-

gols aggressions, to seven years war, 30 years war,

and American civil war to First and Second World

Warhad killed lots of people, and the Black Death

The Plague harvested the souls of nearly entire

Europe. On the other hand, atomic bomb takes tens

of thousands at a blink. Nevertheless, many people

managed to survive in such conditions at the time.

Life truly is a challenge; however, we do have a

chance to overcome whatever difculties. Even the

people living in Nazi concentration camps did get

their freedom after The World War II though many

died. Whenever hardships came, some adapted thesituation and got out of the trouble when others died.

If one grasp the hope and never give up, he/she will

certainly overcome the hard test of life. Likewise,

the refugees still have a hope although dim to

grasp and never give up trying to reach it. There is

a saying: If you cannot y, run. If you cannot run,

walk. If you cannot walk, crawl. Always keep do-

ing something you can. Even if you can do nothing,

it is sure there still left many things you can make

done. Never give up trying, and do whatever youhave to before you die.

May all pass the test of endurance and courage of

your lifetime.

Learning to LearnFor all English learners who should know the

different learning styles of learning process. Learning

can cause change and change can cause learning, but

learning does not always cause change and change

does not always cause learning. So why do we need

to think about this? Some students are prepared for

change; others do not want to change. For a while,lets move back to Burma and see the education

system that is a restrictive system. In a classroom,

students should shut up their mouths and copy the

lecture, and the teachers dont want to welcome stu-

dents opinions and ideas. Burmese English learners,

here in Nu Po, brought the bad habit from Burma and

consequently, they do not have self-esteem, and as

a result have no question, comments or complaints;

moreover, teachers rarely get feedback from the stu-

dents.

Bringing new teaching method into the class-

room - Andragogy ( for adults learners ) may be dif-

cult for both the teachers and the students. Andra-

gogy teaching method is based on a student-centered

learning process: expression by the learners, sharing

and building on knowledge and experiences, offer-

ing ideas, responsibility for the learning process, and

independence. Ms Erin, one of the volunteer teach-

ers who is currently teaching at ESC, introduced that

kind of teaching style and she presented like a discus-

sion (meeting) lessons. Personally, I was so nervousabout the strange new method, even though I am a

teacher, and I had already learnt the new method from

Non Formal Education Teacher Training Program. As

a student, I also am attending advanced class and we

advanced students can share knowledge, ideas and

experiences of learning English; however, I didnt

dare to speak for a few weeks. But the rest of my

classmates were eager to speak regarding the lessons.

I felt impressed for them and I myself also wanted

-See page 5

Dear Readers

If you would like to publish your article, poem,

and Cartoon, you can contact and send to ESC School,

directly.

BSP Members

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-From page 1

There are not just the public holidays but plenty of

festivals held in Rakhine State throughout the year,

and water festival is one of the most popular and

famous traditional festivals.

--by BKM (April 20, 2011)

Leran to wall before you run.

He who has hope has everything.

Better do it than wish it done.

Godness must be joined with knowledge.

Conidence is the companion of success.

He who makes nomistakes makes nothing.

Never ind your delight in anothers misfortune

Failure teaches success.The heart of the fool is in his mouth, the mouth

of the wise is in his heart.


PASSOVER

This year for the Jewish holiday of Passover I

will not eat one piece of unleavened bread (matzah).

I will not have any of my moms, Aunt Myras, or

any Jewish mothers homemade mitzvah ball soup

either. I will not possess a haggada (the Jewish book

for Passover). I will not even come into contact with

another Jew, by any denition, during the whole

week. However, I will come to better understand the

meaning of Passover perhaps better than the previ-

ous 24 Passovers in my life.

In the 2nd half of Social Studies today with

the six Burmese student refugees that came to class, I

taught the story of Passover. For Luka, whose father

is a minister at one of the refugee camps churches,

he eagerly listened and modestly corrected some of

what I forgot from Hebrew School as a child. So was

Kim Kim, who is also Christian and knows the book

of Exodus from the Old Testament quite well.For Yoon, Wah-Ler, and San Yae Ayn, who

are Buddhist, they respectfully and silently listened

just as they were during the rst half of Social Stud-

ies as I explained the consequences of World War I

leading up to World War II.

Explaining mitzvah was easy and so was

singing the traditional four questions for Passover.

I felt a little guilty when I could not list all

ten plagues. I also stumbled over the last of the ves

items found on the Passover Seder Plate.All this was trivial to what I really wanted to

teach, or rather discuss, with my students: oppres-

sion and freedom.

Why do we study social studies? Why are

Jews commanded to tell the story of the Exodus and

celebrate Passover every year?

-See page 4It is always good to study proper English

vocabulary and grammar but it is also worth while

to study slang. Slang is dened as words or phrases

that people use in everyday informal conversation.

Often they have meanings that might surprise you.Below are some examples of American slang often

used in the U.S.

Big mouth - (n)someone who tells everyones secrets

Chicken or Scaredy cat- n. someone

who is afraid of something

Bling - (n) possession, especially jewelry, that is

very expensive, big, and showy

Know it all -(n) someone who thinks they know

everything and wants to show off

and get attention

Ride - (n) transportation (ex. bicycle, car, truck,

motorbike, tractor)

--By Amber Dodge

POEM

The Spirit of being Alive

Life of everyone is a challenge

Theres always something that could land

A confict waged without swords or guns

To each individual other than none

The excitement that truly stirs the heart

Like a portion of mixed wine bitter-sweet

If there is no challenge in one to resist

Life would seem as useless as a dead leaf.

--by Robert Chem

American Slang for learners

THOUGHTS

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The rst opening day of ESC s second session

After happy water-festival days and long va-

cation, it is once again to meet ESCs new students

and old students at ESCschool, on Monday( April 25,

2 0 1 1 ) .

T h e r e

are more

than 135

students

for this

s e c o n d

s e s s i o n

2 0 1 1 .

Out of

50 new

students, 22 students are qualied to at-

tend higher level classes: Elementary,Pre-

in termedia te , In termedia te ,Upper- in terme-

diate A,B and Advancedclass. .

Elementary and Pre-intermediate clasess start at 9:00 .

a.m. in the

morning.

In terme-

diate and

U p p e r -

in terme-

diate A

c l a s s e s

begin at2:00 p.m.

Again Up-

per- intermediate B and Advanced calss students have

to attend at 4:00 p.m. and all classes nish at 5:30 p.m.

The other two basic classes, Starter A and Starter B

are handled by local teachers, Miss Grace

and U Myint than. These classes start at

10:30 a.m. and at 12:00, respectively.

Dur-ing their

stay in thecamp, thes t u d e n t ss h o u l d -spend theirtime effec-tively bystudying.There is afamous saying Practice makes perfect. Keepingtouch with English lessons and activities everydayand speaking with native speakers, the students

English levels became higher and higher gradually.Welcome to ESC English Speaking School.

--by Rainbow


-From page 3

Because 3,000 years ago or so, the Hebrews be-

came a free people but there is still oppression in

the world.

All of my students were born as free citizens of Bur-

ma under a repressive regime. When most students

were 12 or 13, the age when Jews are preparing for

their bar or bat mitzvahs (coming of age milestonein Judaism) their families had difcult choices that

today fortunately Jews cannot and do not have to

imagine. Do I stay in this country and risk being

jailed, tortured, and killed (or all three)? Or do I

ee with my family with whatever we can carry and

start a new and hopefully free life in another coun-

try? (still risking jail, torture and death if caught).

The students and their families here are not slaves,

but are certainly not free people. The Sukkas (tem-

porary houses) the Jews dwelt in the dessert here

are make-shift huts made from bamboo. The man-

na that G-d provided for food for the Jews to the

Burmese refugees is rice, rice, and some more rice.

The Promiseland to them is not Eretz Yisrael, but

Norway, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, or the

United States. G-d is not going decide whether and

when they will be ready to enter. Rather, the Thai

government will decide if they should be classied

as refugees, the United Nations High Commission

on Refugees will decide case by case how dire each

familys case is, and the bureaucrats of the WesternWorld will decide what their quota of refugees will

be for the given year, all at a rate I would not con-

sider due process.

The students I teach are not stupid, nave, nor ig-

norant about their situation. I do not sugar coat or

use any euphemisms to describe their present and

hopefully not long future circumstances.

I tell them the important of Passover because it is

the story of a people once oppressed becoming free.

--by JEREMY

Burma Students Post Newspaper

Members

Editorial Group & Esc Students

Layout Design - ESC Group

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-From page 62. Pronouns I, we, she, it, they, me, us, it, them (Personal Pronouns)

mine, yours, hers, his, its, ours, theirs (Possessive Pronouns)

myself, yourself, yourselves, ourselves, themselves (Reexive and Intensive Pronouns)this, that, these, those (Demonstrative Pronouns)

another, anybody, much, neither, someone, anything, both, all, any, few (Indenite Pro

nouns)

who, whom, whose, which, what (Interrogative Pronouns)

who, whom, whose, which, that (Relative Pronouns)

each other, one another (Reciprocal Pronouns)

3. Verbs play, played, played, playing/ invent, invented, invented, inventing (Regular Verbs)

buy, bought, bought, buying/ feel, felt, felt, feeling (Irregular Verbs)

discover, chop, create, establish, desire (Action Verbs/ Transitive Verbs)snore, creep, yawn (Action Verbs/ Intransitive Verbs)

clap, recall, chew, (Action Verbs/ Transitive or Intransitive Verbs)

am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, look, smell, feel, grow, appear, become (Linking

Verbs)

has, have, had, will, would, must, do, does, did, am, is, are, was, were, been (Auxiliary

Verbs)

4. Adjectives huge, lively, beautiful, proper, essential, tiny, eager, soft, intelligent, wide, comfortable

a, an, the (The most common adjectives are the articles.)

Taiwanese, American, French, Shakespearean (Proper Adjectives)

this, that, these, those (Demonstrative Adjectives)

-To be continuing next Issue

--BY D. Demon

Cartoon -from page 2

to try and then tried my best in

the classroom. And the result is

that my speaking skill is gradu-

ally improving and I can get more

knowledge, knowing, and ideas

from my classmates by discuss-

ing.

For all new English learn-

ers at ESC, I would like to sug-

gest that you keep trying your

best in the English learning pro-

cess and dont worry about who

you are, where you are from, or

your educational level. There is

no discrimination at ESC and you

can show your opinions, present

your knowledge and ideas, andgive your advice in the classroom.

But be aware that You shouldnt

bring shyness and fear of speak-

ing!

--By Grace

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Snappy Joke

The modern tortoise storyLong, long ago, there was a big lake in the middle of a forest and a big talkative tortoise lived for

many years in that lake. One day, he noticed the water in the lake became less and less and he began to

worry about his future. So, he arranged for the two egrets who lived in a tree nearby to carry him to a big-

ger lake far from the forest. They agreed and planned to let him bite a stick and they would carry the stick.

But they warned him not to open his mouth during the trip.

During the aerial journey, he tried to be quiet, but while they were passing over a village, the kidssaw and shouted at him. He forgot his promise and shouted back to them. Finally, he fell on to the ground

and died.

It was an old story about a careless tortoise. The young new tortoise generation knew this story ad

they were very embarrassed whenever some other animals talked about this.

Actually, the life-span of a tortoise is more than one hundred years. But, that poor tortoise gave his

life due to his carelessness.

The modern tortoise generation was very intelligent. They were trained not to be talkative and be

quiet. They decided they would never make such a mistake.

One day, a modern tortoise was listening to the B.B.C news in a bush near the lake. He was very

crazy about football news. In the news, he heard about global warming. When he checked the lake in which

he live, he was shocked because the water level in the lake was much lower than before.

The next day, when the egrets came to the lake for water, he asked them for help. At rst they didnt

want to help. Due to previous history, their ancestors were very shameful. But the poor tortoise requested

again and again and nally, they agreed to carry him to a big lake.

The next morning, they started their journey at dawn, It was a beautiful day and the sky was clear,

The sun began to rise up on the horizon. The tortoise did not forget to take his radio and he hoped this time

everything would be alright.

While hey were in the air, the tortoise was listening to BBC news as usual. In the sky the radio an-

nouncement was very clear and he assured even if naughty children saw and shouted at him, he could not

hear them.

At that time the radio was announcing how they played in the last nights foot ball match, Man-chester United vs. Chelsea. When the radio announced Chelsea got a chance to kick a penalty and the ball

directly got into the goal-post, the tortoise shouted GOAL!!! and he fell down from the sky. After a few

moments when other animals came, there the tortoise was dying on the ground and the radio was still play-

ing the famous world-cup song Wakaa Wakaa Hey Hey from on top of a tree.

--By Rainbow

Parsing the SentenceFor any language, words are the basic building blocks. In English, words are classied into eight

categories, called the Eight Parts of Speech. They are nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepo-

sitions, conjunctions, and interjection. Some examples for the Eight Parts of Speech are listed below:

1. Nouns river, mountain, pilot (Common Nouns)Nile, Mt. Everest, Pacic (Proper Nouns)

shoe, car, perfume, thorn, smoke (Concrete Nouns)

beauty, truth, jealousy, prestige, freedom (Abstract Nouns)

camp, award, sheep, deer, mouse, calf (Singular Nouns)

camps, awards, sheep, deer, mice, calves (Plural Nouns)

wisdom, our, cotton, butter (Uncountable Nouns)

scientist, animal, dictator, continent (Countable Nouns)

tribe, committee, ock, herd, gang, crew, staff (Collective Nouns)

bookcase, ice cream, mother-in-law, self-knowledge, South Carolina (Compound Nouns)

the tourists companion, a dogs bark, the birds beaks, the childrens park ( Possessive Nouns)a chip of glass, a slice of bread, a pair of glasses, some grains of salt (Unit Nouns)

a basket of owers, an armful of straw, a heap of leaves (Quantifying Nouns)-See page 5

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