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Word Games: A group of 10 th grade English students at Colegio de Santa Ana, west of San José, play a game in which they have to read an article from The Tico Times, discern what it's about and paste it under the correct headline on the board. Mónica Quesada | Tico Times |
Race to the Finish: Students working in teams race to paste Tico Times articles under the correct headline.
Mónica Quesada | Tico Times |
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A Break from the Routine: Members of a 10 th grade English class at Colegio de Santa Ana gather with their teacher, Elsa Castro (far right), Tico Times Reaching Out coordinator Rodrigo León (left of Castro), Tico Times Online Editor Amanda Roberson (kneeling, right) and Scotiabank communications director Pierre Michand (left kneeling). Employees from Scotiabank, the school's Reaching Out sponsor, visit this class once a month to lead educational games using current editions of The Tico Times. Mónica Quesada | Tico Times |
Reaching Out : Scotiabank's Pierre Michand leads a group of students at Colegio de Santa Ana through a reading comprehension exercise using an article from The Tico Times.
Mónica Quesada | Tico Times |
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Reaching Out is a Tico Times initiative in conjunction with the Public Education Ministry (MEP), the U.S. Embassy and the private sector to put the newspaper in the hands of Costa Rican students learning English.
The Tico Times has always had a close relationship with MEP, and this program was started as part of The Tico Times' 50th anniversary celebration in 2006. The program grew to reach more than 2,000 students at seven schools throughout the country by the end of that year, and it's continuing to grow.
Through this program, businesses sponsor schools to provide copies of The Tico Times to students each week at the schools targeted by the MEP for English-language education. The Tico Times provides the newspapers at cost and distributes them to the schools throughout Costa Rica. The U.S. Embassy provides teachers training on how to use the newspaper to teach English. Both teachers and students have reported that the paper is a great learning tool.
For more information on Reaching Out or if your business would like to sponsor a school, please contact Reaching Out coordinator Ricardo Rojas at 2258-1558 or rrojas@ticotimes.net. |
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2006 Sponsors and Schools |
Pfizer -
Colegio de Señoritas
Intel -
Liceo Experimental Bilingue de Belén
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- Liceo experimental Bilingue de la Trinidad de Moravia |
Wal-Mart -
Liceo Tronadora
Procter & Gamble -
Colegio de Santa Ana
Hewlett-Packard -
Liceo del Este
Glaxo Smith Kline -
Colegio Experimental Bilingue de Turrialba
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2007 Sponsors and Schools
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- Liceo Experimental Bilingue de la Trinidad de Moravia and Colegio de Santa Ana |
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