In order to motivate students’ interest to read and enhance their English speaking and presentation skills, The Commercial Press (H.K.) Limited., Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., Caritas Tuen Mun Marden Foundation Secondary School and EdFun Limited. jointly hosted Story-telling Competition 2011 for primary and secondary school students on 16th April 2011.

 

Prof. Chun Ka Wai (Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Dr. Sharon Yin-yue Wong (Director, EdFun Limited), Mr. Douglas Thomson (Lecturer, HKU School of Professional & Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong), Mr. Peter Coroneos (English Tutor, EdFun Limited) and Ms. Florence Chung (Project Editor, ATHENS Education), Ms Frankie Yip (English teacher from Caritias Tuen Mun Marden Foundation Secondary School) were invited to be our honorable adjudicators for the competition. On that day, over fifty guests, teachers, parents and participants were gathered at the Assembly Hall of Caritas Tuen Mun Marden Foundation Secondary School. The competition was divided into two groups – the Primary Section (for P5 and P6 students) and the Secondary Section(for S1 to S3 students), the participants came from schools in the districts of Tin Shui Wai, Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.
 

In the competition, all participants were well-prepared in which their outstanding performance made it hard for the adjudicators to determine the winner. Finally, Wong Yuk Fong (Taoist Ching Chung Primary School) of the Primary Section and Betty Chan (STFA Tam Pak Yu College) of the Secondary Section greatly impressed the adjudicators with their confidence, gesture and good interaction with audiences and finally won the Champion in the competition.

Wong Yuk Fong won the competition with good interactive skills			Participants concentrated very much on other students’ performance

On the other hand, a student workshop was held to enhance students’ English speaking and presentation skills. It has been our honor that Mr. Pavol Dutko (Tutor, EdFun Limited) was able to join us to be the speaker. Throughout the workshop, he provided useful tips and guidelines for students to reinforce their presentation techniques. In order to be a good English speaker, Mr. Dutko said, we could manipulate our voice, gesture and facial expression to draw the audiences’ attention. He also demonstrated with pictures and interactive mini-games to get students involved into the workshop.

Our excitement came to a climax when the prizes were presented to the winners. Congratulate to those students who won the prize. Once again, let’s share the joy with the winners and thank for those participants who have put so much effort in the competition. Hopefully, students were very much enjoying the competition. 

Prof. Chun presented prize to the Champion of Primary Section, Wong Yuk Fong			Betty Chan, the Champion of Secondary Section, received prize from Mr. Douglas Thomson

Dr. Sharon Yin-yue Wong encouraged students to develop a whole-hearted learning attitude			Prof. Chun highly praised the performance of students