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4th YALS online spring meetup for 7th and 8th graders

Reported by Jovana Kostić

On Friday, 30 May, 7th and 8th graders had the opportunity to participate in the fourth joint lesson organized for Yals schools.
Students were led through the murder mystery by teachers from Britannica Niš, Jovana Kostić, Marija Vojvodić, and Milica Gojković.
Their main task was to find out the name of the victim, the name of the murder weapon, and the name of the murderer through various interesting exercises.
while solving the mystery, the students practiced their listening, speaking, and reading skills, and they revised modal verbs of prediction.

Britannica team would like to thank all the students and the teachers from 4 different schools, Oxford School Leskovac, Lingva Valjevo, Lingva Belgrade, Livingston Belgrade, who attended the joint lesson.

YALS 2019 Literary & Multimedia Competition Winners Announced

Reported by: Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlović

In the month of May, YALS organized its traditional literary and multimedia competition for young students of its member schools at all CEFR levels. The general theme for multimedia creations was My World, while the topics for literary works were as follows:

A1: My Favourite Animal
A2: An Exciting Adventure
B1: It was a Fantastic Party
B2: Having heaps of money is as much of a problem as not having enough
C1: Language Learning in Your Country
C2: The only child in the family tends to be over-protected and spoilt

It was very difficult to choose the best from among the multitude of contributions. The YALS Jury, consisting of Coordinator Mirjana Lacić, from Oxford School of Kruševac, Biljana Barna from New English School of Pančevo and Dijana Kisić from Big Bird School of Belgrade had a complex task of determining YALS award winners, so in many cases there are multiple winners.

As in the previous competitions, the most successful authors will receive public recognition and their works will be published on YALS web site. The winners will also be awarded books and other surprise prizes.

Here are the young creators’ masterpieces:

YALS 2019 Literary Competition Winners
YALS 2019 Multimedia Competition Winners

Winners of YALS 2017 Literary & Multimedia Competition

Reported by: Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlović

This year too, in the month of April, YALS organized its traditional literary and multimedia competition for young students of its member schools at all levels. The general theme for multimedia creations was My Free Time Activities, while the topics for literary works were as follows:

A1 – My Favourite Animal
A2 – I love Summer
B1 – A story ending in “And then I heard a knock at the door…“
B2 – A letter to the teacher – Do you agree that students should wear school uniforms?
C1 – An essay on Online Shopping and the End of the High Street Shop
C2 – A letter to the editor on a problematic situation and how to deal with it

We had such an incredible group of contestants this year and thought that all are worthy of award recognition. YALS Jury, consisting of Coordinator Danijela Veljković, from Penguin School, Jagodina, Dijana Kisić, Big Bird School, Belgrade, and Eva Bako, Blue Moon, Kula, had a difficult task of determining who would receive the prizes from YALS, so in many cases there are multiple winners.

As in the previous competitions, YALS will publicly praise the most successful authors and publish their works on its web site. The winners will also be awarded books and other surprise prizes.

Here are their masterpieces:

YALS 2017 Literary Competition Winners

YALS 2017 Multimedia Competition Winners

YALS 2016 Literary & Multimedia Competition

Reported by Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlović

The traditional YALS Literary Competition, accompanied with a parallel contest in multimedia project work, was held this year in April. Over 70 students from YALS member schools all over Serbia took part in the competition and the winners were officially announced on 26 April.

In the category of literary works, students were invited to write on themes set by language proficiency levels (A1 to C1), and the contestants in the multimedia category were asked to send a contribution on the general topic of “Me and My World“ in diverse formats – electronic posters and mental maps, slide presentations, oral presentation videos and – for the first time this year – electronically published Lego stories.

The contributions on the set topics were of the highest possible quality and it was not at all an easy task for the jury consisting of Dijana Kisić from Big Bird School, Belgrade, Eva Bako, Blue Moon, Kula, and Mirjana Ljiljak-Vukajlović, Lingva, Valjevo to choose the best ones.
As in the previous competitions, YALS will publicly praise the most successful auhors and publish their works on its web site. The winners will also be awarded books and other surprise prizes.

Here are the names of this year’s winners and links to both literary works and multimedia projects:

YALS 16 Literary Competition Winners
YALS 16 Multimedia Competition Winners