First challenge of Phase 3 available now!
Choose your level to start, or check out the detailed schedule. Teachers, please enrol for your school by 17 July if you haven't.
Choose your level to start, or check out the detailed schedule. Teachers, please enrol for your school by 17 July if you haven't.
TVNews provides online exercises based on local news videos (from News Archive) for self-access learning and teaching. It is available to teachers and students in Hong Kong with their HKEdCity accounts.
Choose your level and start the News Practices (modules). If you are new to TVNews, we recommend that you go to [Module 0 - Trial] to familiarise yourself with the format before you start Module 01.
IMPORTANT: If this is the first time you access TVNews in 2020/21, you must click on either button to enrol yourself to the right level.
There are two levels for students to choose from:
Students are encouraged to opt for a level that is suitable to their abilities.
TVNews exercises are built on local news videos, testing students' vocabulary and comprehension of the videos. The exercises are delivered through a VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).
There are 4 items in each News Practice (called 'Module' in the VLE):
There are marks allocated for different items in each News Practice (Module). Students with the highest marks in each phase and level will get awarded.
In the VLE, there is a trial module for students to familiarise themselves with the navigation and format of a News Practice. Students' work in this trial module does not affect their overall results.
Students can also check their completed work and progress through 'Grades' in the VLE.
For each month,an interactive video is available as a time-limited bonus challenge for students to Watch, Learn and Speak.
Watch the video: Click any word on the subtitles to see its meaning.
Learn the words: Type the missing word in the video and see if you got it right.
Speak the lines: Speak a few lines in the video to see how well you’ve done. Pronunciation and fluency matter!
Students can earn bonus marks by watching the video and finishing the survey.
Teachers can refer to the school report for students' performances in each module.
Meanwhile, teachers also can view the practices as a student in the VLE.
Local news videos in English and Chinese are available.
Senior Level: Exercises are updated every Tuesday and Thursday.
Junior Level: Exercises are updated every Tuesday.
Detailed schedule:
Date |
Senior Level |
Junior Level |
5/10/2020
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Module 01 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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Module 01 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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6/10/2020
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Module 02
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Module 02
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8/10/2020
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Module 03
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13/10/2020
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Module 04
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Module 03
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15/10/2020
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Module 05
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20/10/2020
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Module 06
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Module 04
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22/10/2020
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Module 07
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27/10/2020
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Module 08
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Module 05
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29/10/2020
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Module 09
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1/11/2020
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Module 10 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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Module 06 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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3/11/2020
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Module 11
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Module 07
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5/11/2020
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Module 12
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10/11/2020
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Module 13
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Module 08
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12/11/2020
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Module 14
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17/11/2020
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Module 15
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Module 09
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19/11/2020
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Module 16
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24/11/2020
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Module 17
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Module 10
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26/11/2020
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Module 18
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1/12/2020
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Module 19 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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Module 11 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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1/12/2020
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Module 20
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Module 12
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3/12/2020
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Module 21
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8/12/2020
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Module 22
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Module 13
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10/12/2020
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Module 23
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15/12/2020
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Module 24
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Module 14
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17/12/2020
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Module 25
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22/12/2020
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Module 26
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Module 15
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24/12/2020
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Module 27
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29/12/2020
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Module 28
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Module 16
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31/12/2020
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Module 29
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1/1/2021
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Module 30 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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Module 17 (Monthly Time-Limited Bonus Challenge)
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5/1/2021
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Module 31
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Module 18
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7/1/2021
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Module 32
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12/1/2021
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Module 33
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Module 19
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14/1/2021
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Module 34
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19/1/2021
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Module 35
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Module 20
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Students and schools with excellent performances will be awarded.
Schools that have enrolled are entitled to win school prizes. Teachers can enrol online for the whole school with their HKEdCity teacher accounts by 15 August 2021.
The teacher-in-charge having enrolled will receive award notification for both student and school prizes.
For each level in each phase, the 10 students with highest marks will get:
* If a student is eligible to be awarded at more than one level, they will get awarded at Senior Level.
For the whole year (Phase 1 + 2 + 3), the 10 schools with the highest participating rates will get:
Phase 1: 19/2/2021
Phase 2: 11/6/2021
Phase 3: 3/9/2021
Results will be announced on this website. Awarded schools and schools with awarded students will receive a separate notification through email.
Here are the results for Phase 3 of TVNews Award Scheme 2019/20. The schools with awarded students have been notified of the prize pickup arrangement.
Each awarded student will get HK$150 gift vouchers and a certificate.
School | Student |
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Cheung Chuk Shan College | Yau Hiu Chung |
Christian Alliance Cheng Wing Gee College | Kwan Lai Man Sally |
Christian Alliance Cheng Wing Gee College | Liu Tsun Ming |
Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten (Primary Section) | Lui Tsz Ham |
North Point Government Primary School | Chau Yu Yiu Zabrina |
Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School | Yeung Hok Yi |
Shatin Methodist Primary School | Hon Nicole |
St. Paul'S Co-Educational College | Man Ho Fung |
Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School | Ng Yee Man |
Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School | Wong Yu Chun |
School | Student |
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Christian Alliance Cheng Wing Gee College | Ho King Chung |
Christian Alliance Cheng Wing Gee College | Lou Yuk Ting |
Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten (Primary Section) | Mohammed Ameera Khera |
La Salle College | Chan Ho Oscar |
La Salle College | Chio Shing To |
Pentecostal Gin Mao Sheng Primary School | Yim Ho Pong |
Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School | Kwan Yan Yu |
Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School | Zheng Jiaqi |
St. Mary's Canossian School | Koo Cady Wing Tung |
Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School | Chan Yu San |
Each awarded school will get HK$1,000 gift vouchers.
School |
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Christian Alliance Cheng Wing Gee College |
Fung Kai No. 1 Secondary School |
Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten (Primary Section) |
Lung Kong W.F.S.L. Lau Wong Fat Secondary School |
Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School |
Po Leung Kuk Lee Shing Pik College |
Pun U Association Wah Yan Primary School |
Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School |
TWGHs Chang Ming Thien College |
Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School |
Here are the highlighted vocabulary items covered in TVNews:
Module |
Vocabulary Items |
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Module 01 - Bonus Challenge 01 (A Floating Cinema) |
entertainment | floating | theater | maintaining | screening |
Module 02 - Ocean Park and bars reopen
|
entertainment | even though | due to | beverage | even if |
Module 03 - Livestreaming shopping
|
consumer | live stream | compensation | celebrity | social media |
Module 04 - Outstanding Young Persons
|
award | outstanding | graduate | encourage | give up |
Module 05 - Transitional homes
|
public housing | transitional | lottery | standard | permanent |
Module 06 - Bonus Challenge 02 (The Power of Programming)
|
access | code | program | discipline | complicated |
Module 07 - ‘Deceptive’ sunscreens
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sunscreen | claim | advertise | sunburn | adequate |
Module 08 - VR game for psychological treatment
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innovative | virtual reality | treatment | psychological | open up |
Module 09 - Local tours resume
|
Michelin-starred | relax | exemption | tag along | itinerary |
Module 10 - Some University students lose subsidy
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deny | subsidy | complaint | enrol | response |
Module 11 - Bonus Challenge 03 (If I Were a Balloon Captain)
|
balloon | air | imagine | control | steady |
Module 12 - COVID-19 tracking app launches
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mandatory | trace | track | inform | licence plate |
Module 13 - Travel bubble delayed
|
worsening | spreader | disappointment | dialogue | alarming |
Module 14 - Online training for SEN beneficial
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feasible | beneficial | deficit | distraction | remote |
Module 15 - Gov’t urged to subsidise theatre arts sector
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live | audience | theatre | impractical | compensate |
Module 16 - Beauty death case
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convict | sentence | judge | defendant | jury |
Module 17 - Bonus Challenge 04 (Not the Normal News)
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website | online | view | unique | news media |
Module 18 - Face mask test
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necessity | variety | determine | satisfactory | fall short |
Module 19 - 4th round of Anti-epidemic Fund
|
gym | beauty parlour | relief | compassionate | strike a balance |
Module 20 - Government launches personalised digital platform
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personalise | identity | postal | automatically | registration |
Module |
Vocabulary Items |
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Module 01- Bonus Challenge 01 (Books for Summer Reading)
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self-centered | captures | content | epidemic | economics | ||||
Module 02 - Ocean Park and bars reopen
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even though | due to | struggle | curfew | even if | ||||
Module 03 - Sneaky method to cut staff pay?
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sneaky | owe | legitimate | outrageous | mediate | ||||
Module 04 - Livestreaming shopping
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live stream | compensation | celebrity | wholesaler | counterfeit | ||||
Module 05 - Minimum wage level to remain?
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minimum wage | consensus | pay rise | source | moral | ||||
Module 06 - Outstanding Young Persons
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award | graduate | give up | soprano | echo | ||||
Module 07 - Subdivided home tenants speak
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tenant | overcharge | utility | maintenance | regulation | ||||
Module 08 - Transitional homes
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public housing | transitional | permanent | beneficiary | be a far cry from | ||||
Module 09 - Increase in antiviral spending
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pledge | hepatitis | budget | ramp sth up | think sth up | ||||
Module 10 - Bonus Challenge 02 (Not All Hackers Are the Same)
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unauthorized | steal | hacker | interact | system | ||||
Module 11 - ‘Deceptive’ sunscreens
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sunscreen | sunburn | adequate | allergy | clog | ||||
Module 12 - KMB joyride
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joyride | amusing | double-decker | licence | permission | ||||
Module 13 - VR game for psychological treatment
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innovative | virtual reality | holistic | psychological | defensive | ||||
Module 14 - Wine & Dine Festival goes online
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comeback | virtual | uniqueness | contain | resume | ||||
Module 15 - Local tours resume
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Michelin-starred | relax | exemption | itinerary | outlying | ||||
Module 16 - Ombudsman probe
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outsource | time frame | initiate | erratic | frontline | ||||
Module 17 - Some University students lose subsidy
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subsidy | complaint | response | requirement | follow up on sth | ||||
Module 18 - Gov't seeks to build more flats
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approve | grant | administration | secure | construct | ||||
Module 19 - Bonus Challenge 03 (How to Travel in Your Mind)
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dismiss | revisiting | shove | dusk | cumbersome | ||||
Module 20 - COVID-19 tracking app launches
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mandatory | trace | track | surveillance | discretion | ||||
Module 21 - Budget airline to slash salary
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woes | steep | slash | exclusive | terminate | ||||
Module 22 - Travel bubble delayed
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worsening | spreader | alarming | mechanism | cluster | ||||
Module 23 - Live gigs and party rooms banned
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tighten | spike | boom | compulsory | offset | ||||
Module 24 - Online training for SEN beneficial
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feasible | beneficial | deficit | therapy | accreditation | ||||
Module 25 - Gov’t to revamp Liberal Studies
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revamp | vet | reduce | strengthen | insist | ||||
Module 26 - Gov’t urged to subsidise theatre arts sector
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theatre | impractical | compensate | practitioner | incur | ||||
Module 27 - Taxi drivers to undergo COVID-19 test
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intend | undergo | dedicated | inspection | comply | ||||
Module 28 - Beauty death case
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convict | sentence | defendant | manslaughter | verdict | ||||
Module 29 - Former HKU professor jailed for life
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life sentence | guilty | testimony | in mitigation | plead | ||||
Module 30 - Bonus Challenge 04 (Failing Means Living)
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turned down | imagination | defeated | dismissed | go into | ||||
Module 31 - Face mask test
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necessity | determine | fall short | persist | efficacy | ||||
Module 32 - Some face masks need improvements
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tension | unsatisfactory | inconvenience | rocket | reassure | ||||
Module 33 - 4th round of Anti-epidemic Fund
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relief | compassionate | prudent | strike a balance | scrutinise | ||||
Module 34 - Tuen Mun-Lantau Tunnel
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officiate | open-top | sub- | toll | franchise | ||||
Module 35 - Government launches personalised digital platform
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personalise | automatically | registration | verification | encryption |