ENGLISH FESTIVAL 2016

English Festival is one of a big event that organized by EFEC in the last period of 2015/2017 to celebrate the anniversary of the 30 years EFEC.This event aims to improve English language skills and a sense of competition among high school and university students in Pekanbaru. This event was held on 28 to 30 November 2016, entitled "Globalize the Culture through English as International Language". The theme has its own charm, as evidenced by the height of the competitor who registers from a variety of different Universities and High School.

Are you guys excited?? So here it is!! A lot of excitement you'll get at English Festival. EFEC held several interesting competitions such as debate, speech, scrabble, acoustic and selfie contest, English Festival also provide food bazaar, book fairs and bazaars of other sponsors. In this event, participants not only train the ability to speak English but also can buy snacks and cheap books.

The event has been held running smoothly. On the first day of opening, All of the organizers, competitors, and guests who attended were very enthusiastic to follow the entire events. The event opened with a dance offering from some members and continued with speeches from Faisal Habibi as CO English Festival, Andika Satya as Chief of EFEC, Speech from the Governor of students and the official opening by the Vice Dean III Rev. Mr. Hamidi. After That, the event was followed by debate competition between university and  high school students.

On the second day, the competition went to the next section. Starting from the semi-final debate, speech contest and acoustic competition at the end.

On the last day, EFEC English Festival closes with some interesting events hosted by  member EFEC sist Rizky  Pasu and Pipin. At the end of ceremony, in addition to invite all participants and guests, EFEC also invited the alumni as well as bring in a handsome foreigner from Canada as the performers.

This event begins with the cutting tumpeng  as gratitude for the achievement EFEC for 30^th years by the core committee with the Governor EFEC period 2015-2016 Faculty of Economics. The event continued with EFEC Magazine Launching by Public Relation which is a special gift on birthday EFEC this year. This magazine is the first magazine in Riau University by using the English language. Therefore, the magazine received appreciation from Deputy Dean 3 and guest. English Festival more interesting with dance performances for this event.

In the end, EFEC showed their solidarity by doing manniquine challenge and photos with the committee. The entire committee consisting of members of EFEC period 2015/2016 and newbie so excited, English Festival is the last event for EFEC period 205/2017 and that’s realy memorable. Work haard never betrayed result. See you next year! 😃