IELTS Olympiad among schoolchildren in Astana at the Gumilev Eurasian National university.

February 2, 2018    Olympiad in the form of IELTS (International English Language Testing System) among schoolchildren, gymnasiums and lyceums in Astana was held  at the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages   of Gumilev Eurasian National university. 

The Olympiad took place on the Open Day of the Philology faculty  and was vocationally oriented. The number of schoolchildren – schoolchlidren  of the 10th and 11th grades - exceeded 200 schoolchildren from 25 secondary schools in Astana: School-lyceum 1, G. Kairbekova School-gymnasium 2, School-gymnasium 3, School-gymnasium 6, School-gymnasium 10, A.Taibergenova Secondary school, School-gymnasium 17, School-gymnasium 22, School-lyceum 27, School-gymnasium 31, S. Maulenov Secondary school 37, Kazakh School-Lyceum 38, A. Margulan Secondary School 40, School-gymnasium 51, School-gymnasium 52, School-lyceum 56, Secondary school 63, School-lyceum 64, School-lyceum 66, School-lyceum 72, School-lyceum 73, School-lyceum 74, Gymnasium 78, Gymnasium 81 for gifted children "Astana English School", Kazakh-Turkish Lyceum for Girls.

Registration of participants was carried out in two stages: online registration and registration on the day of the Olympiad.  The staff of the Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages  held the Olympiad  with large number of participants  in four prepared lecture rooms 111, 112, 207, 307 of the educational laboratory building. 

IELTS Olympiad was held in three rounds:

Round I - IELTS listening, where all participants were asked to answer 40 questions (40 points) according to four texts that students listened to for 40 minutes.

Round II - IELTS reading, where students had to read the text and answer 13 questions (20 points) for 20 minutes.

According to the results of I and II rounds and counting commission calculations, 36 schoolchildren were enrolled in the next final round.

Round  III - IELTS speaking, where pupils of the 10th and 11th grades spoke to the commission on the given topic for 2 minutes with a preliminary preparation (1 minute).

 So, the results of the Olympiad among schoolchildren in Astana pleased both schoolchildren and their accompanying teachers:

The first place was awarded to Erasyl Nuragambetov (a student of Gymnasium No. 81 for gifted children of "Astana English School") and Alina Shmanova (a student of the School-Gymnasium No. 6 in Astana).

The diploma of the second place was awarded to Ahmet Bayseitov (student of the Gymnasium No. 81 for gifted children of "Astana English School"), Mariam Dosayeva (student of the School-Gymnasium No. 31 in Astana), Behrouz Saliev (a student of the Gymnasium No. 81 for gifted children "Astana English School" ), Aruzhan Tulegenova (student of the School-Lyceum No. 72 in Astana).

The diploma of  the third  place was awarded to Polina Ivakhnenko (student of the School-gymnasium No. 6 in Astana), Milena Li (student of the School-gymnasium No. 22 in Astana), Alikhan Amangeldy (student of the School-gymnasium No. 51 in Astana), Leila Erken School-Lyceum No. 66 in Astana), Elnara Taszhurekova (student of the Lyceum School-66 in Astana) and Ayiana Tulegen (a student of the Kazakh-Turkish Lyceum for Girls in Astana).

All the accompanying English teachers  of Astana  schools  presented at the Olympiad were awarded letters of thanks  from the dean of the philological faculty Zharkynbekova Sh.K   for the assistance in organizing and holding this event

The  Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages  and it's head  Beisembaeva Zh.A  congratulates all the winners of the Olympiad and invites all schools to close cooperation.