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Issue 9710 July 2009

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Summer holiday is coming. What are you going to do during the summer holiday? Let's learm English every day. You can find a lot of useful learning resources in English Campus.

TVnews - Archive

TVnews Archive

Do you like practicing your listening skills during the summer holiday? Watching news report provides us chances to listen to native English speakers. You can watch the news report from TVnews Archive every day to know about latest news and practice your listening skills. You need to login with HKEdCity account to watch the news.


Read

Summer holiday is a good chance for us to read more. Let's read some abstract of the books in Library.

Book1

The Promise
Pedro had lost hope. He had a baby boy but he had no money, no work. How could he believe the promise of the old negress?

'Your boy will grow up and become famous,' she told him. 'Be a good father to the boy. One day he will be a good son to you.'

Book2 Billy Budd
1797- the Mediterranean. Britain and France are at war. British warships are fighting French warships.

Young Billy Budd arrives on the British warship, Indomitable. Billy is strong and handsome. Most of the sailors on teh ship like Billy. But he has an enemy -- John Claggart, the master-at-arms.

Claggart hates Billy. And he has a plan. He will make trouble for the young sailor.

 

Book4 The Princess Diaries
Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother and her cat, Fat Louis, in an apartment in Greenwich Village. She is an ordibary New York teenager. Ordinary, that is, until Mia finds out the Shocking truth-she is a princess!

Ask Graham

AskGraham

Our Native English Teacher, Graham, answers questions on English language. You can learn how to ask questions in oral exam in Question 291. Learn more about the correct use of the word 'matter' in Question 292. You can also learn about different types of doctors in Question 293. There are more answers here. If you have some questions, please feel free to ask Graham!


Create

create

Let's write what you have done during the summer holiday. Share your Short stories, Essays, Poetry or other forms of writing with us. You can also give feedback to others' work.


Activity

"The Sunday Smile" Drawing and Writing Competitions
(The submission deadline is extended to 23rd October, 2009.)

The competitions are based on the English radio programme for primary school children, “The Sunday Smile”, which is broadcast every Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on RTHK3 (AM567, AM1584/ FM106.8 HK South, FM97.9 Happy Valley & Jardine’s Lookout & Parkview Corner, FM107.8 Tseung Kwan O & Tin Shui Wai). The competitions are categorised into lower and upper primary levels:

(i) Listen and Draw (for Primary 1-3 pupils) and

(ii) Listen and Write (for Primary 4-6 pupils)

Detailed information about the competitions and the entry forms can be downloaded from "The Sunday Smile" website.


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