CALL AND RESPONSE, COUNTERPOINT AND HARMONY!

This year’s theme for Duologue and Poetry is ‘MUSIC’, the perfect framing for our youngest and dearest, who through their dialog recitations must follow pretty much the same variables that make or break a musical performance: proper tone, using the right volume, hearing and responding to your partner, making your content legible to the audience, have them enraptured with enthusiasm and conveying your emotions. Did we mention that all of this is achieved by 1st and 2nd graders? 

¡VIVA CHILE!

¡Feliz 18! From all of us at ESU Chile we wish all people that call this beautiful country their home, a great long weekend with their loved ones and call to feel proud for the 214 years of Chilean Independence!

ESU Outreach in the South of Chile

ESU OUTREACH IN THE SOUTH OF CHILE The English-Speaking Union (ESU) recently organized two workshops for English teachers in Puerto Montt, Chile, at the University Austral of Chile (UACh) campus. The workshops were focused on enhancing the pedagogical strategies of local English teachers. The initiative aimed to provide them with updated teaching methodologies and tools […]

AND WE HAVE OUR 12!

AND WE HAVE OUR 12! 12 Teams have entered this year’s ESU Tournament, which brings us back to pre pandemic levels. These are the schools fielded: Deutsche Schule Santiago Dunalastair Peñalolén The Grange School Lincoln International Academy The Mayflower School Nido de Águilas International School CPV International School, Las Condes CPV International School, Providencia Saint […]

TO BE YOUNG, CREATIVE AND WRITE!

The morning was decidedly cold on Saturday, June 8th. With skies overcast and ever-threatening a downpour, our twenty finalists arrived in a steady drizzle up the road to the Mayflower School campus in Lo Barnechea, Santiago. Huddled at the feet of the Andes, all carried multitudes inside themselves, ready to be unleashed on the scariest of adversaries: a blank page.

Ready? Set? SPELL!

Busy, buzzing, spelling bees, from early morning to afternoon. The best English spellers of the land arrived in warm clothes that covered hearts brimming with hope. Heads bursting with words learnt and repeated until etched on their scalps, letter by letter. Each word on stage, taking the trip from the top of the palate to the tip of the tongue.

Riding the Wave of Public Speaking: 2024 Semifinals and Final

It is very difficult to convey to anybody that hasn’t attended one of our events the air of competitive camaraderie between participants. Yes, there are heated arguments in our debates, side glances at our judges and more than one heart crushed at our prize giving ceremonies when their name or team comes up and it’s not under Number 1… but every step of the way, you can hear whispers of encouragement, teasing laughters, hugs of celebration and a few tears being wiped away by comforting hands.

Our PSC Semifinals and Final are just a week Away!

Just one week is left for our in-person 2024 Public Speaking Competition semifinals and finals! Each of the ten semifinalists – after a virtual Round 1 in which they had to submit a video – will have the opportunity to present their speeches to a distinguished panel of judges, who will evaluate their performance based on a variety of criteria, including clarity, delivery, and overall effectiveness. The judges are respected leaders in their respective fields, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to them for their time, expertise, and dedication to this competition.

First Annual ESU Kick Off!

“It’s the deep breath before the plunge,” Gandalf said. Which could be an apt image for our first Kick Off event, right at the beginning of the year and before all others!
Above all, it is a joyous celebration of the talents, enthusiasm, and courage of young people—some of them as young as 1st grade!—who participated and won our competitions in 2023. Our congratulations once again to them all and their teachers and parents who’ve supported them all along the way.