Getting the full picture

Impress and express The symposium taught teachers creative techniques of reaching out to their students during English lessons.

WITH marker pen in hand, Benard Binguan Pawan is drawing stick figures on a whiteboard. He gives them different arm and leg positions to depict movements, then adds facial features to portray a range of expressions.

The teacher from SK Pangkalan Abai in Kota Belud, Sabah, was showing fellow educators how to express words and ideas through simple line drawings at the British Council’s English Language Teacher Development Project (ELTDP) Symposium in Kuching held for three days early last month.