The Tenth English
Competition for Catalan Schools (THE
FONIX 2017), designed to promote the use of English among
school students through a fun and educational competition in an informal
educational setting, is hereby announced.
The objective of the competition is
to select a finalist from each of the first two stages: local, territorial and
the winners at the final stage.
The exercises in all the stages of
the competition will consist of writing tasks, each based on a different theme
(for example: geography, history or music). The written tasks contain a variety
of activities on vocabulary, reading and writing. In the final stage of the
competition, there will also be an oral section in the test.
STAGES OF THE COMPETITION:
- LOCAL STAGE: The tests
will be held at each school between 12th of January and 16th
February 2017 inclusive.
- REGIONAL
STAGE: The tests during the
regional stage will be held on Saturday 25th February 2017 at 12:00
midday, and will last for a maximum of 55 minutes. The location
of the examination will be made public well before the test date. The organisers will publish
the names of the winners from the regional stage of the competition and the
centres they represent as of 3rd April.
- FINAL STAGE: The final stage of the competition will be
held Saturday 29th April 2017. The test at the Final stage of the competition
will consist of an oral as well as a written section. The test will take
between 40-50 minutes at the most, depending on the educations level of
the candidates. The result of this stage of the competition will be the
total number of marks taken from both parts of the test. The organisers will publish the
classification of the candidates in each category and the school they
attend by 13th May 2017. All students who qualified for the final
stage will be formally invited to the awards ceremony at which the
diplomas and prizes will be presented.
AWARDS:
- All competitors
at the territorial stage, and the schools they attend, will receive a
diploma acknowledging their participation in the “Tenth English Competition
for Catalan Schools”.
- The following prizes will
be awarded to the 120 candidates who classified for the final stage:
- 4 two-week stays in “English
Summer Camps” in Catalonia for the four winners in
the 5º Primary to 2nd ESO categories.
- 4 two-week stays in an
English-speaking country for the four winners in the 3rd
ESO to 2nd de Batxillerat/ Grau Superior de Cicles Formatius categories.
- 8 weekend holiday camps
for the runners-up in each of the 8 categories.
- 32 standard on
line English courses for the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth placed candidates in each of the 8 categories.
- 72 sets of study
materials for the remaining finalists.
- The awards may not be
exchanged for their cash value. However, a finalist awarded one of the
main prizes (e.g. summer camps, stays abroad, in situ English
courses) who is unable to accept his/her award because of the times,
dates, for other reasons etc., will be offered an on line English
course for the duration of an academic year.
