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(AD)English Challenge - Next Stop London is out now!(Please Forward to Your Teacher)

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The English Challenge has started!
Bigger. Better. Even more exciting than last year. It's time to try your hand at the English Challenge - Next Stop London 2011!

Next Stop London is a World-wide competition for preliminary, secondary and high school students in three steps. The competition starts now with a multiple-choice Quiz, after which the top-scoring students will be nominated to write a short essay.

To add to the thrill of the competition, EF is proud to announce the top prize: a fun weekend in London for your entire class! The lucky winning class gets a class trip of their dreams, with sight-seeing, shopping and English lessons with EF, the world leader in international education.

Here's how to begin:
The teacher of the class can register the class for the English Challenge at www.nextstoplondon.org. You will find full instructions on the website. If you took part in the competition last year, you can update your existing account and invite your students to participate in the competition.

Students take part in a multiple choice English test.
The test is made up of three integrated sections which test the students' language knowledge.
The test comes in three different levels, one for preliminary school students, one for junior high school students or equivalent and one for high school students or equivalent.
The Quiz starts in October and runs until end of November. Every student will get to do the Quiz three times - once to practice and twice to take the test itself. The best time and result will be recorded and they will be scored on how accurately and quickly they answer the 30 questions.
For further details and to register, please visit
Three steps to win
Step 1
Students take part in a multiple choice English test.
Step 2
The fifty top-scoring participants from each country will be nominated to write a short essay of between 250-750 words. The nomination takes place in December and the Writing Challenge in January. The essays will be scored using the following criteria: content, impression on the reader, grammatical range and accuracy, appropriacy and organization. All participants then get to vote for the best contribution nationally according to the first two criteria.
Step 3
The essay with the most stars from each participating country will go into the final round: the World Council of Language Teaching (WCLT) will select the final winner. WCLT WILL MARK the essays according to the last three criteria stated above and the overall winning entry will be selected. That persons' class wins a class trip to London for each of the participants in the competition in his or her class. The 2nd prize is free Englishtown interactive studies for the whole class and the 3rd prize is a visit from a native-Speaker guest teacher.
Win class trips to London
The happy winning class wins an exciting and educational class trip to London. The largest city in Europe, London is a COLOURFUL mix of cultures and languages, designer boutiques and funky street markets, old tradition and high fashion. Come to London to learn English and you'll be enchanted by Europe's most astonishing city. Join an English class in EF's lovely Victorian SCHOOL BUILDING and PRACTISE what you've learned outside the class room.
Prize includes:
? Flights and transfers from your nearest international airport to London
? Three nights accommodation
? All meals
? English lessons at the EF School in London
? Shopping tour to Camden Town
? Guided sightseeing in London
? and much more!
Runners-up will win:
? Englishtown online language course for the entire class
? A lesson of a native speaking guest teacher
WCLT
World Council of Language Teaching (WCLT) The World Council of Language

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