{"id":534,"date":"2014-08-24T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2014-08-24T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:01:19","slug":"fun-at-english-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2014\/08\/fun-at-english-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun at the English Centre, Pekanbaru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-534 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2014\/08\/fun-at-english-centre\/samsung-digital-camera-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pekanbaru-10k-2014-a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2014\/08\/fun-at-english-centre\/joining-city-marathon-with-ez-members-june-2014\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Joining-city-marathon-with-EZ-members-June-2014-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/2014\/08\/fun-at-english-centre\/breakfast-after-10k-run-june-2014\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Breakfast-after-10K-run-June-2014-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>SEEDS members working in Pekanbaru run an <a title=\"English Resource Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/seedssg.com\/work\/education\/english-centre\/\">English Resource Centre <\/a>with daily discussion groups, pronunciation labs, student-led beginner\u2019s level discussion groups and monthly special events. \u201cEnglish only!\u201d says the sign that encourages all visitors to keep the centre a place to be truly immersed in the English language. Nobody will laugh at you or call you \u201carrogant\u201d for speaking English here!<\/p>\n<p>Common informal activities play a big role for the English Centre, strengthening the community there. Often these activities take members and staff outside of the centre and provide additional opportunities to practise English. With much enthusiasm and dressed in Malay-patterned running shirts provided by the municipality, about 20 English centre members and SEEDS staff members participated in the Pekanbaru city 10K run that was held on the 1<sup>st\u00a0<\/sup>June 2014 in celebration of the city\u2019s 230<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>As the 10K run was open to international participants this was a good opportunity for English Centre students to practise their English with guests from abroad and make them feel welcome. It didn\u2019t matter that, except for two ladies, the majority of the English Centre community never finished the run! At the after-run breakfast together there was no sign saying \u201cEnglish only!\u201d, but the English Centre students are always happy to practise English with each other even outside of the walls of the English Centre \u2013 of course mixed with a bit of Bahasa Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEEDS members working in Pekanbaru run an English Resource Centre with daily discussion groups, pronunciation labs, student-led beginner\u2019s level discussion groups and monthly special events. \u201cEnglish only!\u201d says the sign that encourages all visitors to keep the centre a place to be truly immersed in the English language. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seeds-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedssg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}