Thailand has a day set aside to celebrate the Thai language and encourage its use. Thai Language Day aims to raise awareness among Thai citizen of the value and necessity of the national language, and to help preserve its use in Thailand. National Thai Language Day falls on the 29th of July every year, but Suksasongkhro Chiang Mai School celebrated the Thai Language day on 14th of August, since 29th of July is public holiday.
The school celebrated the day by administering competitions involving Thai language. For instance, singing competition, Thai proverb competition, and Thai verse competition. Singing competition was open to all students who wanted to join. Each participant sang the same Thai song. The winner of the singing competition came from grade 9 or mattayom 3. Meanwhile, Thai proverb competition was done in team, each team consisted of three students from the same grade. The participants were from grade 6 or mattayom 1 (team 1), grade 7 or mattayom 2 (team 2) and grade 9 or mattayom 3 (team 3).
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The school freed all students from their classes in order to celebrate the Thai Language Day. The competitions were finished by mid-day, and I spent the rest of the hour at school finishing my teaching plans.
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