November 21st, 2008, there was an interesting Friday Talk session at American Cultural Center ( ACC) from 12:30 to 2 p.m. During that day ;the topic was " The Challenge of Spelling in English"; presented by the Regional English language Officer Eran Williams.
How well can we master the english language. Is it enough just knowing how to speak; read ;and write. Sometimes even when we write we get stuck in writing some words. The problem is that we don't know how to spell it correctly. So we end up ; misspelling it.
I guess ; we don't really worry about that because there are different ways of checking the spelling; especially if we use the computer. It corrects are misspelled words automatically. Personally; I don't think it's really good to have the habit of using this system. It doesn't really help us because we won't remember the written mistake we did. Perhaps ; we'll be repeating it over and over again.
Mr. Williams talked about a very famous competition called
" Spelling Bee" where contestants; usually children between the age 9 to 14 yrs old; are asked to spell english words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States, and is usually perceived to be a solely English language practice. Although its only modern usage is in spelling bee, the word bee has historically been used to describe a get-together where a specific action is being carried out.
The earliest evidence of the phrase spelling bee in print dates back to 1825, although the contests had apparently been held before that year.
Spelling english words isn't easy ; especially when the word isn't spelled how it's pronounced.
Why can't we have our own Spelling Bee competition here in english or Malagasy or french. It won't be a bad idea.

We're happy to announce the new opening of our department called I.D.T which stands for the Ice Drama Team. We meet every Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, right before the Ice meeting.
It is very interesting because it will give us the opportunity to improve and practice our english in a different way . So we'll be performing our first play in the month of February for all those who are crazy about english like us. It would be a show for the public. So if you'd never seen a " Play" in english, just come watch us in February. The play script will be written by RASOARIMALALA Volana known as " Moon".
As you know preparing something isn't easy.
For all those who already decided to join I.D.T. , don't forget our appointment every Saturday at 9 a.m.
For those who didn't , watch our play in February.
We'll keep you updated about it , so don't worry.

ICE Movie Session 3 at Amparibe

The third ICE Movie Session (MS3) was held last Saturday in a beautiful place at Amparibe. Thanks to Moon, we had our first MS cake. Prior to the real Movie Projection we had a great time and fun watching the Def Comedy Jam All Stars (thank you Moma) while grabbing a whole sandwich with soda :p as lunch. Then, we kept it up with the “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events”, a fantasy film starring Jim Carrey before ending the session with a tasty cake. You can go and check out now the MS3 photos :D