Inter School Choral Speaking Competition 2012

Pada 21 Mac 2012 yang lalu, pasukan Choral Speaking SMV Betong telah menyertai pertandingan Choral Speaking  Bahasa Inggeris peringkat sekolah sekolah menengah Bahagian Betong. Pertandingan telah diadakan di SMK Kabong. Sebanyak 12 buah sekolah telah menyertai pertandingan tersebut dan di antara sekolah yang bertanding adalah SMK Saratok, SMK BM Saratok, SM St Agustine, SMK Kabong, SMK Agama Saratok dan SMK Kabong. Pertandingan pada tahun ini lebih sengit kerana semua sekolah yang bertanding telah membuat persediaan yang cukup sebelum hari pertandingan lagi.

VOKBET VOICES beraksi

Satu sejarah telah tercipta buat pasukan VOKBET VOICES kerana telah mendapat kedudukan ke-3 buat kali pertama di dalam pertandingan tersebut. Keputusan ini sememang tidak diduga kerana persaingan pada hari tersebut sangatlah hebat. Selain daripada itu, SMV Betong juga telah memenangi kategori Konduktor terbaik sekali gus memadamkan tradisi SMK BM Saratok yang sentiasa memenangi kategori ini. Tahniah buat adik Wan Rudzfikal yang telah merangkul kategori tersebut. Tahniah juga kepada Cikgu Ophelia Jane Liew kerana telah berjaya membentuk sebuah pasukan yang terbaik. Tempat ke-2 keseluruhan telah jatuh ke tangan SMK BM Saratok dan Juara pertandingan Choral Speaking Bahasa Inggeris 2012 telah menjadi milik SMK Saratok. Tahniah kepada sekolah-sekolah yang berjaya.

Adik Wan Rudzfikal menerima hadiah kemenangan beliau

Kenangan Manis Tercipta 

Spelling: How to improve?

English spelling may be a nightmare but here I'm showing you there are many things you can do to help yourself improve.

1. First - don't despair! Some of the world's cleverest people have struggled with English spelling - you are not alone! Try out these ideas and you should soon see an improvement.

2. When you are practising spellings, use as many senses as you can:

• Look closely at a word, try to remember what it LOOKS like.
• Think about the SOUND of a word.
  that will often give you clues about the spelling
• To learn a word, WRITE it or TYPE it - or both

3. Dictionaries can be a help - sometimes - if you know how to spell the start of a word! If you need a lot of help with spelling, you might consider getting a specialist dictionary.

4. Playing word games with sympathetic friends will help your spelling. There are many games that involve making words from a random selection of letters, for example:  Scrabble, Boggle, Word Spin.

5. Read a lot - not just books but everything around you e.g. food packets, newspapers, catalogues, billboards, road signs etc.

This will fix the look of many common spelling patterns in your memory - which will help you to spot if one of your spellings doesn't 'look right'.

Fun Riddles and Puzzles

Let us take a break and try to answer these riddles and puzzles...Good luck

1. I have a face and hands but no legs. What am I?
2. What comes down but never goes up?
3. I have 19 eggs. All but 14 turned bad. How many good eggs have I?
4. What goes up when the rain comes down?
5. What has an eye but cannot see?
6. If 3 cats can catch three mice in 3 minutes, how long will it take 50 cats to catch 50 mice?

Do write your answers in the comment box...I'll reply back...

Debate...Training...Memorizing...Rebutting....Summarizing...

On 19th to 20th April 2011, the VOKBET debate team is going to be competing at the Parlimentary Style debate, Betong divisional 2011 at SMK Kabong. The training under Mr. Thomas and Miss Ophelia and with the help from Mr. Sangin, the training has started since last two weeks to improve all the weaknesses that we had during KAT, Miri. We try to improve on it and perform the best.
For this year competition, VOKBET debate team is a bit lucky as we don't have to go through the first round and we are going to start the competition at the quater final round against SMK Kabong...the pressure is on as SMK Kabong is the organizer this year. Obviously, they are going to have a great support from their own supporters...but VOKBET won't give up easily and we believe..the best will win once they start to speak on the stage. Nadi Bahasa Vokbet wishes all the best for the debate team and try to be the best among the best and try to win all the stages. We believe VOKBET can do it.
These are the titles for this year competition:

1. This house believes that competition can bring more progress to civilization than cooperation (1st Round)
2. This house believes that freedom of press is the greatest motivation to social change (Quater Final)
3. This house believes that technology will eventually destroy civilization (Semi final)
4. This house believes that in national development, software strength is more important than hardware strength (Final)

Vokbet Debate team

Experience Is The Best Teacher

The competition has over....and proudly to say...Nadi Bidang Bahasa is so proud with our Choral Speaking team this year as they have performed their best in the Inter-School Choral Speaking competition in the divisional level. They have make all the teachers in charged to be proud with their performance which is much more better and has improved a lot compared to last year. Even though we didn't win the competition but we managed to improve our ranking from no 7 in 2010 to no 4....which is so closed for VOKBET team to grab the throphy for second runner up place. Never mind as "Experience is the best teacher" and that will make us to work harder and improve more for next year competition.
Here is the result for 2011 Inter-School Choral Speaking Competition, Betong divisional level. Congratulation to all the winning team...for VOKBET....we still have next year for us to prove that VOKBET BOLEH!!!!

CHAMPION - SMK BM SARATOK
1st RUNNER UP - SMK SARATOK
2nd RUNNER UP - SMK KLAKA
3rd RUNNER UP - SMV BETONG

BEST CONDUCTOR - SMK BM SARATOK

Ready?

So orange...but nice

VOKBET Conductor in action

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Choral Speaking Training

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

It has been a week for us, Mr. Thomas, Miss Ophelia, Mr. Sangin and Madam Suhadna training our form 4 students in the preparation for the Inter-school Choral Speaking competition for the divisional level. It seems hard based on last year experience but the determination between four of us have made it accomplished. We confidently believe that there is nothing wrong if we try and work hard for it. Nothing is impossible.
This year, the response was amazingly shocking as 53 students turned up for the audition but unfortunately only 35 students can be selected...Sorry guys...(If we could, we would like to bring all of you). This year the host for the competition is SMK Saratok....Here VOKBET comes.....Wish we all luck for the competition with our topic "TEACHERS". The competition is on 4th of April 2011.
Here are some pictures of our training session.

Shukri...The Choral Speaking Conductor.