Help a Gazan improve their English
Volunteer for Gaza? We need conversational English speakers for learners in Gaza
Help reduce a Gazan’s isolation, learn a few Arabic words and do what you do best- speak English with them. We use WhatsApp and also Zoom, Google Meets, Facetime and Messenger to give Gazans free 1-1 video sessions in improving their conversational English. If you can give just 30 minutes a week for six weeks, please email us at info@twingaza.com. The aim is ultimately to help Gazans earn money online- doing translation, website design, graphics- in fact anything that can be done on the internet- even business accounts. Download the flyer promoting this here
This is only possible because, right now Gaza is surviving thanks to its tech ‘Digital lifeline’ – Gaza tech workers give glimpse of possible future – BBC News
If you want to schedule a 30-minute Zoom meeting to talk to the chair of the Edina-Gaza Twinning Association about the scheme, arrange it by using this scheduler: www.tinyurl.com/SeePete
So- if you want to sign up- then you- as a tutor- need to commit to just 30 minutes a week (more if you can!). You will find that:
- Learners in Gaza are motivated and grateful
- You make a real difference in their lives
- We have a flexible & informal setup; you can use your imagination – use any materials that work best – or use ours.
There are teaching materials below, that tutors may want to use to follow a structured programme approach, if the student wishes that.
[TO GAZANS– to sign up to this programme, please email info@twingaza.com explaining your situation, providing your phone number (the courses are on WhatsApp) and say a little bit about yourself: your age, your work, etc. and how much English you know already. And if you want to study outside Gaza, please look at https://www.twingaza.com/edina-gaza-twinning-association/#Palestinian-students إلى أهل غزة – للتسجيل في هذا البرنامج، يرجى إرسال بريد إلكتروني إلى info@twingaza.com تشرحون فيه وضعكم، وتوضحون رقم هاتفكم (الدورات على واتساب)، وتحدثون قليلاً عن أنفسكم: عمركم، عملكم، إلخ، وكم تعرفون من اللغة الإنجليزية بالفعل. وإذا كنتم ترغبون في الدراسة خارج غزة، يرجى الاطلاع على https://www.twingaza.com/edina-gaza-twinning-association/#Palestinian-students ]
After six weeks the two of you (tutor and Gazan student) can have a review and decide if you want to do a further six weeks, and then another six weeks, and so on.
TEACHING MATERIALS
ELEMENTARY LEVEL IN ENGLISH
Face2Face Starter Workbook https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Face2Face-Starter-Workbook.pdf
Face2Face Student Book https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Face2Face-Starter-Students-Book.pdf
The three audio files to go with this book can be downloaded here: CD1 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CD1-for-Elementary-Level-Face-to-Face.mp3 CD2 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CD2-for-Elementary-Level-Face-to-Face.mp3 CD3 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CD3-for-Elementary-Level-Face-to-Face.mp3
Face2Face Teachers Book https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Face2Face-Starter-Teachers-Book.pdf
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL IN ENGLISH
Workbook TBA
The three audio files to go with this book can be downloaded here: CD1 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CD1-Intermediate-Audio.mp3
UPPER INTERMEDIATE IN ENGLISH
Workbook TBA
The three audio files to go with this book can be downloaded here: CD1 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CAMBRIDGE_2007_face2face_Upper-Intermediate_CD1.mp3 CD2 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CAMBRIDGE_2007_face2face_Upper-Intermediate_CD2.mp3 CD3 https://www.twingaza.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CAMBRIDGE_2007_face2face_Upper-Intermediate_CD3.mp3
ADVANCED IN ENGLISH
TBA
GROUP TEACHING
Sometimes we do group sessions too. Here is an example of our work with the JREAS Hub in Gaza, where our TEFL tutor Mike Hauxwell is sitting in his living room at home, whilst working online with 12 Gazans in Gaza at once, using Zoom and Google Meets. Sameh Jreas, the Executive Director of Jreas Hub, posted this video on Linked-In showing a class in progress:
We can set up free group teaching projects with other Gazan hubs on request- please send an email to info@twingaza.com
And here is a picture of one of our volunteers with a youth group in Gaza, along with a video clip from a class:
Here are two girls practising English on a day out that we funded to the Gaza Zoo; we also paid for tee-shirts and a trip to the beach:
Pay a Gazan to help you learn Arabic
Arabic is spoken by around 422 million people, making it one of the five most-spoken languages in the world. Everywhere from Morocco to Oman you will find Muslims and others who will approach you in a far more positive way if you communicate with them in their native tongue.
And of course, Arabic, is the language of Palestine. For the next few years, it will be more important than ever to speak the language of the oppressed and here is a way to learn it that will help Gazans too.
Local dialects vary ( in Morocco, two is “juge” and in Palestine it is “itnine”) but most of the words are the same- Arabic is all based on the Koran, after all, so every Muslim, even to as far as Bangla Desh, knows some Arabic. The Palestinian Arabic is closer to Koranic Arabic than lands more distant from Mecca. And of course, Palestine holds the Al Aqsa Mosque in Al Quds, (or Jerusalem), the third most holy place in Islam (pictured on the teaching book cover that we use, below).
The teaching book with CD is £50 from Café Palestina in London or from the Edina-Gaza Twinning Association. The conversation classes are with communication expert Rozan Khazendar, who has recently been displaced from her home in Gaza City and speaks very good English.
Classes are £20/hr, on the free applications WhatsAp, Messenger or Zoom– sessions are 1-1, by arrangement, as often as you like. Zoom sessions are free up to 40 minutes, so if you wanted to use Zoom, you could do two 30-minute sessions, one after the other. Rozan holds a copy of the teaching book, so if you purchase the book from us, both of you hold a copy and it will make learning Arabic much easier for you.
Pay Rozan direct using Western Union or Shift or Paypal or bank transfer.
If you want to learn more, please email info@twingaza.com and Pete will arrange an introduction to Rozan.