First Voice

First Voice Gathers in 2008

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Tables were prepared for the different groups to write.		This is the table for the Chinese writers.
Students sat and prepared them selves for the speaker.		They listened attentively.
These are the Chinese Writers and their teachers.		This is the Afrikaans table.
These are the Fijian writers		These are the Spanish writers.
These are the French and German writers.		These are Arabic, Tuvaluan and Malawian  writers.
These are Korean writers.		These are Hindi and Vietnamese writers.
This is the Portuguese table.		These are Thai and Tamil writers.
Many people in the community helped.		Here are three different groups of writers.
When people had finished, they read a book.		Many students enjoyed reading.
It was quite a collective activity.		Disussion in the first language helped define the focus of their writing.
A group of Thai teachers came by to see what the students were doing.		Both groups got on very well.