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English Campus, a dedicated website providing teaching and learning resources on English language, has seven channels - Watch, Read, Practise, Play, Create, Meet, and Teachers' Corner, and other resources - EC Highlights, Projects, Activities and Festivals. We hope that through all these resources, teachers can teach and students can learn the English language in a fun way.

Channels
Watch
Learning English by watching movies is fun! You can find practical learning resources developed based on movies here. Crossword puzzles, trailers, scripts, vocabulary & phrases, thematic topics, film reviews, and books for further reading are provided. Games with free movie tickets are offered from time to time.
Read

Here you can find a "Library" of books in different genres. You can read excerpts of the books online. In the "Better Reading Club" , you can find interesting story books with reading comprehension and cool words. You will also have fun listening to the audio clips of the excerpts of the books.

Practise
This is the place where you can practically brush up your English language! Try our online exercises and browse the resources links for Grammar and four skills of English language - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. A series of video clips on spoken English of teenagers covering interesting topics can be found in Youth Speak II. Exercises and tips on HKCE and HKAL examinations are also provided.
Play

Learning languages is fun and never boring! This channel introduces interesting ways to learn English - games for fun, word games, grammar games, crossword puzzles, music and songs, etc. After trying these games, you can also rank your favourite ones!

Create

English Campus welcomes you to submit your creative works including short stories, essays and poems. From time to time, we have special festive topics or competitions for you to exercise your creativity and writing skills. The editor at English Campus will choose good pieces every week as "Editor's Choice". Sign up as our member and then send us your works. See if you can be selected!

Meet

This is an online meeting place for you to chat! Do you have questions to ask on English language? Our native-speaking English teacher will help you at "Ask Graham". If you want to share your joy, frustration, opinions on school issues and learning experience, come to "Chat" and post your messages.

Teachers' Corner

To support teachers in classroom teaching, we have prepared "iWorlds", "TV News", "English in the Media", "Youth Speak II", "School-based Assessment" and "HKedCity resources". "iWorlds" are online communities with teaching resources developed based on the curriculum. "TV News" are self-access English learning exercises developed based on local TV news. "English in the Media" is a series of online TV programmes with teaching and learning packages. "Youth Speak II" houses teaching plans developed based on video programmes Youth Speak II. "School-based Assessment" is a one-stop platform providing SBA-related learning and teaching resources such as books, films, teaching packs and assessment materials. "HKedCity resources" are other teaching & learning resources provided by HKedCity.

Other Resources
EC Highlights

You can find an archive of teaching and learning resources on special topics such as festivals and current issues.

Projects

These are English-learning projects organized by English Campus. Some of them are co-organized with outside parties. You can find lots of useful resources in these mini web-sites.

Activities

English Campus will update you with the latest workshops, seminars and events related to English teaching and learning organized by English Campus, HKedCity and other organizations.

Festivals
These are mini-websites housing teaching and learning resources related to festivals such as Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Easter, etc.  You can find lots of resources including interactive games, vocabulary & phrases, video & audio clips, books, poetry, fun stuff, etc.

Updated on 18 October 2005