Mentakab mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin are working together during the last days of the 2014 school year. These two mentors are visiting their schools; planning and scheduling a workshop on reading and writing skills.

Jimmy's TELL2 mentees Suhana and Afzan from SK Bangau recently had birthdays. Jimmy and Martina were lucky enough to be able to join them for a special birthday lunch provided by the two teachers.

Suhana and Afzan received a very nice cake from their GPK1!

Left to right: Suhana, Martina, and Afzan

From top to bottom: Mentor Jimmy, Cheese Cake, Empty Plate of Food

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As the 2014 school year draws to a close, it is important to remember that mentors continue working with their mentees and students right up until the end of the year.

Mentakab Mentor Martina Gilmartin works with one of her mentees in her TELL2 SJKC Mentakab 1 school in a lesson about different holidays.

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Temerloh mentor Jimmy Ma was preparing for a class with his TELL2 teacher Amiliah from SK Kampong Tengah when the printer malfunctioned. They were unable to print out the pictures they needed for their lesson.

However, both mentor and mentee came up with the idea of drawing the pictures on poster-board. Below are the results. Sometimes, with all the influence technology has on us, we forget that we can still create simple lesson resources using non-technological tools.

This skill of down-grading technology is especially helpful in classes and schools that are lacking in technology.

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TELL2 Mentor Martina Gilmartin had a great class with her mentee: Mr. Veera, from TELL2 school SK Bandar Mentakab. In this lesson, students took a hands-on approach to learning about fruits and "how to" directions. The students had a great time with the class: bringing in fruits, talking about them, making fruit juice, and using English to describe the steps involved.

Another activity from this class was to have students "become" the fruit and describe different characteristics of the fruit using English.

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Another event from October that the Temerloh Mentors helped with was the Brighton FunFair hosted in Bera. This event was hosted in Bera's TELL2 school: SK Durian Tawar by Bera Mentors: Meryl Thomas, Tom White, and Tara White.

Bera's blog can be found here: http://beraclustertell2.blogspot.com/

The FunFair is a great opportunity to use English-language games in the schools to show students and teachers how fun learning English can be. These events and games are open to all students in the schools, not just the level 1 students. This is a great way to introduce more students to the TELL2 program and the approach that TELL2 mentors take to teaching English.

This FunFair was attended by Temerloh Mentors: Jimmy, Martina, and Tom.

Bera's FunFair had a lot of great English-language games!

The teachers were in charge of the many games at the funfair.

The students had a great time with the games, face painting, and other activities at the FunFair! 

Temerloh mentor Martina Gilmartin and Maran mentor Sarah Higgs pose with the DLO from Bera.

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Temerloh cluster started October with a bang with some big events. ELC Tom Hanly helped his TELL2 school SK Seri Songsang with a fantastic reading event sponsored by Scholastic. This event helped put books into the hands of not only the students, but the school library as well.

This event was a great success, supported by: Temerloh mentors Jimmy Ma and Martina Gilmartin, Maran mentors Thomas James and Sarah Higgs, Brighton project manager Ryan Harb, Brighton Project Coordinator Su, and Temerloh PPD DLO En. Zaini.

TELL2 Mentors look forward to bringing this event and this great opportunity to their schools in the future!

Pictured here is DLO En. Zaini giving his commencement speech, Brighton mascots "Brighton" and "Torch," and students receiving their books, and ELC Tom Hanly introducing the mascots.

The Brighton mascots pose with students and all of the visiting teachers.

The Brighton mascots pose with DLO En. Zaini; Maran Mentors: Sarah and Tom; Temerloh mentors: Tom, Jimmy, and Martina; and Brighton administration Ryan and Su.

The Brighton mascots got a great response from both the students and the teachers!

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