A survey has found that television was the most popular mass medium among students. To encourage students to make better use of TV in learning English, Hong Kong Education City (HKedCity) has collaborated for the second year with the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research (SCOLAR) to present a year-long English-learning project -- "English in the Air".

In this project, 4 TV programmes suitable for teenagers are selected to be aired on TVB Pearl and ATV World starting from October 2003 to June 2004.These programmes are: Road Scholars, Lizzie McGuire, Smallville (season 1) and Sail Away. HKedCity has designed a mini-website (http://www.hkedcity.net/english/tv) housing practical teaching and learning resources for these TV programmes. To let teachers understand more about the project, a series of identical workshops and seminars will be organized. The first one will be held on 17 October 2003 ( Friday) from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at Reading Land, 2/F, Park Building, 476 Castle Peak Road, Kowloon. An experienced teacher from an international school who worked with local students in Hong Kong for over 10 years shall share with you his experience in encouraging students to watch healthy TV programmes to learn English. A discussion session will also be included, allowing all participating teachers to share their difficulties and methods in teaching students to learn from watching TV. In addition, we will explain how to make use of the teaching package we specifically design for you on this project.

If you are interested, kindly go to our website http://www.hkedcity.net/english/tv/registration and register online before the registration deadline which is 15 October 2003. Since the number of seats is limited, registrations will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis. Successful applicants would be notified by email. If you have further enquires, please contact our senior project officer Adrienne Chung at 2624-1022 or 2624-1026.

With best regards

English Campus
Hong Kong Education City Ltd