The Flatmates are celebrating their 2nd birthday and to mark the occasion we have competitions and prizes galore for you!

Today we're launching our episode writing competition.

The competition
How would you like to write an episode of The Flatmates and have your episode be the one that we record and publish on The Flatmates website on Tuesday 31 July? Well here's your chance!

We're running a special 2nd anniversary competition to find the best student writer for an episode of The Flatmates.

The rules

1. The competition is open to any English language learner.


2. Your episode should be based round the four current flatmates (Alice, Helen, Tim and Khalid) though you don't need to use all four.


3. You can have other characters in your episode if you want but no more than two of them.


4. Your episode should have no more than 120 words.


5. The judges reserve the right to amend or adapt your work for clarity, style, length or accuracy.


6. The judges decision is final.

The deadline
You should send your entry to us by email no later than Monday 16 July 2007.
Send your entries to: learningenglish@bbc.co.uk. Please put Flatmates episode competition in the subject line.

The prize
The winning episode will be the featured episode on The Flatmates website on the 2nd anniversary - 31 July 2007.

So get your creative juices flowing to make the best ever episode of The Flatmates.

Good luck!

Keep checking the Learning English website for details of our other competitions.