By AFP  June 12, 2018 | 08:17 am GMT+7 Last year the draw for the English League Cup was held in Bangkok with former French international footballer Emmanuel Petit. Photo by AFP First round draw will happen in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday. Vietnam will stage the draw for the first round of next season's English League Cup on Friday. The League Cup, won by Manchester City in February, is sponsored by a Thai energy drinks firm and two rounds of last year's tournament were also drawn in Asia in Bangkok and Beijing. Organizers will hope the latest overseas draw fares better than the first in Thailand, which was marred by embarrassing technical glitches. An on-screen graphic showed Charlton playing twice and other clubs were given the wrong opponents before the issues were corrected. Former Liverpool and Real Madrid star Steve McManaman, ex-Manchester United striker Louis Saha and former Chelsea captain Dennis Wise will conduct Friday's first round draw in Ho … [Read more...] about Vietnam to host English League Cup draw
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Staging English language plays, a creative education method
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The students of HCM City Open University’s foreign languages courses on June 2 translated a classic English novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, into a play and staged it at the Drama Theatre in HCM City’s District 1. Everyone was delighted by the production’s quality as the amateur actors acted in a language that was not their mother tongue. The play was the third in a programme called THEATRE IN EDUCATION: English and American Literature Classes’ Performances this year. The final performance is an adaptation of My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which will be staged at the Drama Theatre on June 9. The programme began in 2016, and has been attracting more and more student performers, building a diverse audience of students and expats, along with adding more volunteer native English speakers to advise the performers. One of these advisers is an American teacher at ILA English Centre in HCM City, Ilse Zoerb, who … [Read more...] about Staging English language plays, a creative education method
France 24 launches news broadcast in English in Vietnam
At the meeting, the Chairwoman and CEO of France Médias Monde, and Director of France 24 also introduced the media corporation, its France 24 channel and its English broadcast in Vietnam to local audiences. Marie-Christine Saragosse (R), Chairwoman and CEO of France Médias Monde briefs local audiences on France 24 To prepare for its official broadcast in English in Vietnam, France 24 had already signed new distribution agreements with 5 local operators, namely VTVCab, Viettel, HTV-TMS, Clip TV and K+, to broadcast news programs of France 24 in English across the country. In fact, France 24 was licensed in November 2016 by the local authorities, and its programs have been on offer by FPT Telecom and VNPT Media Corporation since then. But with these recent agreements, the channel will officially broadcast its news programs in English on the local paid T.V networks and reach millions of Vietnamese viewers. According to the Director of France 24, from its … [Read more...] about France 24 launches news broadcast in English in Vietnam
English tutor fined, training centres dissolved
A still from the footage which shows an English tutor in Hà Nội verbally fighting with one of her students. — Photo vietnamplus.vnViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — An English tutor in Hà Nội was fined for using inappropriate terms to address her student and running tuition classes without a licence. Inspectors from the Hà Nội Department of Education and Training on Tuesday imposed VNĐ5 million (US$220) on Nguyễn Thị Kim Tuyến and VNĐ20 million ($880) on the MST English Training Institute where she was director. The department also decided to dissolve all three English training centres under MST. Tuyến will be barred from all teaching activities, it said. The decision comes after the department’s inspection of MST at its headquarters on May 6-7. It concluded that the three MST English training centres, located in narrow alleys, were not registered for foreign language training. Last … [Read more...] about English tutor fined, training centres dissolved
Ancient inscriptions in My Son Sanctuary to be translated into English…
My Son towers (Source: VNA)Accordingly, the Sanskrit inscriptions on steles at the My Son World Cultural Heritage in Duy Phu commune, Duy Xuyen district, in the central province of Quang Nam, will be translated. Specialists will study the steles and help Vietnam translate the epitaphs from Sanskrit, the ancient liturgical language of Hinduism, to Vietnamese and English. The project aims to aid the preservation of the sanctuary and shed light on the cultural, historical, religious and architectural values hidden in the towers for thousands years. The complex has Sanskrit epitaphs engraved on 31 steles made of brick and stone, the main materials used in building the sanctuary./. Compiled by BTA … [Read more...] about Ancient inscriptions in My Son Sanctuary to be translated into English…