State Spelling Bee Contest 2018

Aguascalientes
PROGRAM
Nancy: Good morning all of you, we give you the most warming welcome to the second
edition of the State Spelling Bee Aguascalientes 2018. I am pleased to introduce the authorities
present here:

1. _______________________________________
2. _______________________________________
3. _______________________________________
4. _______________________________________
5. _______________________________________SEO Assistant
6. _______________________________________SEO Assistant
7. _______________________________________English State Academy Secretary
8. _______________________________________ English State Academy President

We are also pleased to have The Spelling Bee contest judges this morning. We appreciate your
participation in this important event.

Teacher Mayela Ríos González

She graduated from Autónoma de Aguascalientes University in 2001, she has a bachelor in
language teaching. She has been studying and teaching abroad in different occasions. In 2008
she participated in a summer Course with COMEXUS in Arkansas, from 2013 to 2014 she
participated in a cultural interchange, she taught Spanish in Ponderosa High School in Springs
Hills California. In 2017 she participated once again in a summer course at the Arizona
university. In 2015 her passion for languages took her again to the UAA but this time she
studied the bachelor in French and Spanish as a second language she quit after two years but
she learn to express herself in French and refreshed her techniques in teaching English as well.
She has been teaching English at the middle school 31 Rosario Castellanos since 2003.At
present she is taking a master degree at Escuela Normal Superior Federal de Aguascalientes.

Teacher José Fernando Montantes Castañeda

Het graduated from Autónoma de Aguascalientes University in 2009. He got a Bachelor in

Arts in English Language Teaching. He has worked for different institutions from higher
education such as UAA, UTNA and Cuauhtémoc University. He has also worked in different
Elementary schools in the state. He has got national and international certifications for ESL
teaching. Recently, He has taken courses for language teaching improvement and updating at
Jamestown Community College in New York State in 2015 and at the University of Texas at San
Antonio in 2017. During this school term 2018-2019 he started working for the high school
system teaching English to high school students.
An applause please

Nancy: The great objective of education is not knowledge, but action.-Herbert Spencer

The English language has been the Lingua Franca for more than one hundred years and has
been the basis of communication between distant people and nations, as well as the language
of technological development and research. Mexico has been given great impetus in its
learning since the establishment of the Free Trade Agreement with the USA and Canada. Since
then, efforts have been made within elementary education, high school education and
Undergraduate to train and update students in this language to achieve a comprehensive
educational transformation that impacts society and the world of work.

Nancy: The campuses that are represented in this contest are:

_______________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________

We ask _____________________________________________, to do us the honor of

inaugurating the activities of the State Spelling Bee 2018 from UEMSTIS Aguascalientes.

As an opening we will listen to the song I’ll see you in my dreams by the student Isaac Nahum
León Diaz de León.

We are going to continue explaining to all of you the rules of the event. It will take place in
rounds starting with the students from FIRST SEMESTER, then from THIRD SEMESTER and
finally the FIFTH GRADERS.

(Each participant will pick a word from the bowl, and pass it to the judges, then one of them
will say the word out loud, after that the participant will spell the word. Remember to say the
complete word before starting spelling and repeat it when you finish).

We will start with students from FIRST semester to the first row. (They are calling to the front
according to the order of participation)

Now it is up to the THIRD graders go to the first row of participation. (They are calling to the
front according to the order of participation)

Finally, students from FIFTH semester go to the first row too. (They are calling to the front
according to the order of participation)

As the judges deliberate we will enjoy the song “Do you want to know a secret” by the
students Isaac Nahum León Diaz de León, Angel de Jesús López de Luna and Gerardo Esaú
Corona Alonso.

Nancy: Next, prizes will be awarded to third places.

NAME 5TH: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 3TH: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 1ST: _________________________________________________________________

Nancy: Now the second places:

NAME 5TH: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 3RD: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 1ST: _________________________________________________________________

Nancy: Finally, the prizes will be awarded to the first places

NAME 5TH: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 3RD: _________________________________________________________________

NAME 1ST: _________________________________________________________________

Nancy: To finish with this event, we asked _________________________________ and

______________________________ to do the favor of presenting the acknowledgments of
support for this event to the judges.

Nancy: Next we ask ________________________________ to address some words to the

public and the contestants.

Nancy: Finally, we ask _____________________________ to close the activities of the Second

State Spelling Bee.

Nancy: Thank you for coming to the second State Spelling Bee Contest and we hope to see you
in our next year edition.