ULKCP

Once a year, we, a group of English teachers in Kulim will assess students from sekolah agama around Kulim Bandar Baharu for The English Oral Assessment . It is a fun thing to do where we would be away from our schools for a week and go to these rural schools.

For this year, we went to 2 schools - SMA Islahiah, Kg Dingin in Mahang and Maktab Mahmud in Bandar Baharu.

Students in Maktab Mahmud are selected students where the school only accept those with 5As to 2As in UPSR as their students. We had no trouble assessing them.

But, it's totally a different story in SMA Islahiah, Kg Dingin. This school is a small school with only 16 form five students. Their level of proficiency is really low. There was this one boy, he did not know what "rumah" is in English.. Kesian betul..I couldn't really tell whether he was nervous that he couldn't utter a word but come to think of it, house is a very common word, budak 3 or 2 y.o pun tau..

And the girls.., we had to force them to speak louder! They were like whispering! They were able to answer our questions after 2 3 times of "please speak louder"..

And who's to be blamed??