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Poetry — "English Time" Episode 4

5/12/2022

[12 May] Hello to you all! Hinson returns for the fourth episode of "English Time — presented by Forgottenland"! And this time, he brings a friend!

In this episode, Hinson, one of our three heroes in the "To Be Continued..." series, talks about four-line poetry, which he has demonstrated with a friend in Chapter 5 of the story. Do you recall that they follow the Seven Step Verse style to compose a meaningful little poem inspired by items they are holding?

Here they talk about this topic with interesting examples from different boys!

Now, after watching this episode, can you make a similar poem? Instructions are straightforward: 4 lines, rhyming, based on an item, and has a message to send.

Relax...you don't have to complete it in seven steps! Try it yourself and share with us your poem here! We teachers are looking forward to reading your work! Have fun with English poetry!

Dr Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 6 Launched!

5/9/2022

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[10 May] "To Be Continued..." returns after the special holiday and here is the sixth episode where the heroes find themselves in another dimension! They goes into a room with many doors! Interestingly, they have access to different places across the timeline. What do they see and experience in this new chapter? And how are they going to find the last sacred item? This chapter ends with a happy surprise! Watch it again here for all the intriguing twists and the thought-provoking experience!

The dice this time predict the following:
fake, betrayal, manual, seven, feeding, truth

Now, all seven sacred items are found! However, Gauwa is not seen and Bong is missing. What should our heroes do next? Stay tuned and this story is "To Be Continued"...

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. The room of many doors seem to give you access to anywhere in the timeline. If you were in such a room, where would you want to visit when you opened a door? Please explain your answer.
2. What do you think make Chi-yin able to walk again? If you have such an experience, please also share with us an instance when you were suddenly able to do a thing you thought you couldn't do previously.

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(30 Apr) CONGRATULATIONS to our Speech Festival Winners!

4/30/2022

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Our WINNERS of the 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival, holding their pennants.

[30 Apr] Congratulations to all our 26 solo English winners in the 73rd Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival! The winners are:

1B Cheng Yat Long
1C Lo Cheuk Nam
1C Hsu Kei Hang Kaden
1D Lai Moses Abraham
2B Hon Yat Long Adrian
2D Poon Yik Shun
2D Lee Sze Chai
3A Lee Cheuk Him
3B Law Hong Ming Arvon
3C Chan Ching Hei Bill
3C Yeung Shun Yi Isaiah
3C Lam Yick Lai Ivor
4A So Yu Hang
4A To Hei Wai
4B Li Kwan Nok Arthur
4B Wong Harry Sin Lok
4E Tang Cheuk Yiu
5A Wai Chun Yin
5A Yuen Hei Wang
5C Wong Ko Ching
5E Ngai Chun Ching Ethan
5E Lee Sing Yu
5E Yang Cheuk Hei
6B Leung Kwan Yat
6C Choy Tung Lam
6E Cheng Wing Lun

What a fantastic group of brilliant performers! Later, we will show you some of their videoed performances for your reference. We certainly hope that their work inspire more of our boys to take part in many more speech contests to train up their confidence, presentation skills as well as artistic sense!

In this Speech Festival, we also have 30 second places and 24 third places! Clearly, our boys have had so much fun and competence in practising and performing through the Video Submission Mode of the Festival. And we are glad to say that this is our best result among the recent four Speech Festivals!

Thank you for all of you boys joining the event and trying hard for it. And I thank our teachers for heavily involving in the training process for many students. “Speech and Drama” has been an important subject of the English learning experience in YWPS. Keep up your great work and you know what? Our Speech Gala is around the corner...We will certainly see more inspiring speech acts very soon!

Meanwhile, may I invite all our Speech Festival awardees, present or past, to share with us some tips on how to do well in the Festival? Thanks to you all again!

Dr H C Lee

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CONGRATULATIONS to our DRAMA TEAM!

4/13/2022

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Screenshot of our Drama Team with Principal Chan right after their adjudicated performance

[13 Apr] Big CONGRATULATIONS to our Drama Team who performed brilliantly for the Drama Festival 2021/22. The Festival was held in the form of an online Reader's Theatre. Our Drama Team had been trained for months for the play "The Frog Prince Continued" and had their live online performance for adjudication on 11 March. And we received the results from the Hong Kong School Drama Festival yesterday. We are thrilled to be awarded as follows:

Award for Outstanding Script -- Mrs Abanty Paul
Award for Outstanding Director -- Mrs Abanty Paul, Ms Peggy Yau, Ms Jackie Cheng, Ms Kei Yip
Award for Outstanding Performer — Yuen Hei Wang Roderick (5A); Lo Kai Tik Anson (6A); Lincoln Du Powell (4E); Choy Tung Lam (6C); Yeung Ching Long Caspian (4B)
Award for Outstanding Audio-visual Effects -- Ying Wa Primary School
Award for Outstanding Cooperation -- Ying Wa Primary School
Adjudicators' Award -- Ying Wa Primary School

This is our second time winning as many as six awards in the Drama Festival and it is also our second time getting the highest prize, "Adjudicators' Award"! (Refer to our previous Drama Festival achievements here.) In the pre-pandemic days, we would have been invited to perform our play for public as an Adjudicators' Award winner. Now, understandably, this arrangement cannot be made, but we are delighted and excited all the same for our achievements!

Thank you to our drama teachers and drama boys for their hard work to achieve this beautiful feat. We look forward to showing all of you our recorded drama later in our Drama Fiesta 2022! Stay tuned!

Dr Lee

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Interesting Words — "English Time" Episode 3

4/1/2022

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[1 Apr] The third episode of "English Time — presented by Forgottenland" is launched! In this episode, another hero in the "To Be Continued" series, Chi-yin, is the presenter. He is bringing us some interesting words to broaden your knowledge and ignite your curiosity to the English language. The robot is helping out too in this episode! How cute and powerful it is!

Now, after watching this video, do you have another fun English word that you have come across from your reading experience? And what makes that word intriguing to you? Please put down your thoughts in the comment box and share with us! Have fun with English!

Dr Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 5 Launched!

3/1/2022

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[28 Feb] Chapter 5 has arrived! Did you get any inspiration from Na Na's "secret code" you received earlier? Here in this fifth chapter, Bong explores the weird underground place further and discovered the "office" of the Old Wise Man, who finds Bong knowing a little too much...In a different zone, Chi-yin, Hinson and the merboy went to a museum in London. There, they experience a very special contest where they get more than one sacred item! The end of their quest is getting closer and closer! Watch the episode again here:

The dice this time predict the following: confusion, doors, recovery, search, warning, corner

Only one more item to find! But Bong looks somewhat odd here when he returned to the group. Stay tuned and this story is "To Be Continued"...

Click the symbol for Na Na's special video.

Some of you are really getting so close to breaking the code...You just need to see it in a "different" way. But hang on, even if you can "see" it, do you really "understand" it?

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. Have you got any idea what happened to Bong in the period after meeting the Old Wise Man and before Bong reunited with the team? Explain your thought.
2. Hinson and the merboy improvised their poem and it was a success. In your life, have you ever "improvised" anything (creating something immediately without planning) which brought you some success? Share your story here!

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The ABC of Sports — "English Time" Episode 2

1/21/2022

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[20 Jan] The second episode of "English Time — presented by Forgottenland" is launched! The sporty and "muscular???" Bong is the host this time. He talks about "The ABC of Sports", which is to use the first three letters of the alphabet to introduce three interesting things related to sports. He also teaches you some grammatical aspects of using the three words. Check out the video above and enjoy it!

In addition to Bong's sharing, as you can see that three others boys also talk about their "ABC of Sports"! Click below for the full versions of their presentations.

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Now, a challenge for you -- What's your "ABC of ________?" Try to come up with your own ideas (can be in sports or other areas) and explain a bit for each of the three words like how the above presenters did. Enter your passage in the comment box below. Have fun thinking, writing and sharing!

Dr Lee

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 4 Launched!

1/11/2022

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[11 Jan] In Chapter 4, two of our young heroes, Hinson and Chi-yin had a seperate journey from Bong. These two boys stayed in the Underwater Palace as guests but to their surprise, the mermen had another plan! They were trapped in a cell and could only use their wisdom to win back their freedom from a tricky and maths-minded creature - The Octopus, which was guarding them. Could they free themselves and how did they manage to do it? And the dice last time predicted that there should be a new member to their team. So, who might that be? Watch the animated clip again here:

The dice this time predict the following: old man, reunion, poetry, double, secret, wisdom

Bong is completely missing in this chapter. Will the two paths converge into one again? Stay tuned and this story is "To Be Continued"...

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. How would you describe the character of the Octopus? Why do you think it was assigned this job to guard the prisoners?
2. Did the merboy harm the heroes at first and then help them? What was going on in the mind of the merboy?

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"To Be Continued..." Chapter 3 Launched!

1/4/2022

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[4 Jan] Our "To Be Continued..." tale has come to Chapter 3 where Bong, at an underground construction, met a mysterious girl, Na Na, who stole a pipa. Bong was startled to see warriors dressing like those in the Qin Dynasty and to learn that he was in fact at a colossal tomb of an emperor. He ended up receiving the third sacred item but was still away from his teammates, Hinson and Chi-yin. Would Bong return to the group soon? And what secrets did this underground place hold?

"To be Continued..." — Chapter 3

This time, the dice predict the following: Water, New Teammate, Bondage, Code Breaking, Missing Teammate, Palace.

This plot grows bigger and more complicated for sure! Stay tuned and this story is "To Be Continued"...

Now boys, question time. Here are two thoughtful questions for you. Feel free to answer one or both of them:

1. Bong helped Na Na without thinking much. Why do you think he did it this way? And please share with us an experience of yours where you helped a person (particularly in an emergency situation) without consideration.
2. This chapter doesn't tell you about the background of Na Na, can you please guess her background? Give as much detail as possible!

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Roderick Yuen Wins Young Post's Brain Game

1/1/2022

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At 10 years old, Roderick Yuen is the youngest winner in recent Brain Game history. Photo: SCMP

[1 Jan] Roderick Yuen from 5A has been a part of the Brain Game writing competition on Young Post since September 2021. “Brain Game” is a Battle Royale style writing competition that starts with 10 contestants, who are eliminated one-by-one based on the readers’ voting. Gripping the reader’s attention, Roderick made his way through all ten rounds of writing and claimed the championship title in Nov 2021! Let us now glance through all ten writing titles that Roderick triumphed consecutively in:

Round 1: Which celebrity would you choose to be your teacher?
Round 2: What would you do if you could travel to the future?
Round 3: If you could create a new Asian superhero movie, what power would your hero have?
Round 4: If you could be anyone, anything, or even an animal in your afterlife, what do you want to be and why?
Round 5: If the world were to end in 24 hours, how would you spend your day?
Round 6: If your teacher became your student for a day, what would you do?
Round 7: If you could have an extra hour of free time every day, how would you use it?
Round 8: If you could create the perfect haunted house for an amusement park, what would it be?
Round 9: What do you think teens’ lives might be like 100 years from now?
Round 10: If you could produce any movie, what would it be about, and who would be the actors?

This is Roderick's Round 10 article:

My idea would be a sci-fi movie called Key to the New Dimensions, set in three universes in parallel dimensions connected by a wormhole with a specific time of entrance.

In the film, the antagonist, Dr Jacob Reeves, is trying to converge the three parallel dimensions with a super energy converter, the Dimension Door. He wants to release the dark energy between the parallel universes. The key to the Dimension Door is in the DNA of a person called Jonathan Silver and his identical counterparts in the other two parallel dimensions. Professor Robinson, the inventor of the Dimension Door, had implanted the key in Silver.

Twisted Powers, the gatekeeper of the dimensions, knows the secret and tries to stop Dr Reeves. When Silver is kidnapped by Dr Reeves, Twisted Powers saves him and reveals the secret. The two try to warn Silver’s counterparts of the approaching disaster.

Meanwhile, Dr Reeves travels back in time to force Professor Robinson to give him the key but fails. He captures a toddler Silver and an elderly Silver in the other parallel universes. After taking their DNA, Dr Reeves launches an attack on Twisted Powers, targeting the remaining Silver. In the final part of the movie, Dr Reeves takes Silver in the Dimension Door, and activates the self-explosion.

But Professor Robinson had made the programme to permanently trap Dr Reeves inside the wormhole, and Jonathan sacrifices his life in the explosion. The film ends with Twisted Powers at Silver’s funeral, while the other Silvers are safe in their own universes.

I would cast Timothee Chalamet as Jonathan Silver. The male lead in the sci-fi film Dune, Chalamet has recently skyrocketed in popularity. His style of acting is more emotional and sensitive, which is what I want my audience to see in Jonathan Silver. Time magazine has even listed the actor as a “next generation leader”.

For Dr Reeves, I would cast Joaquin Phoenix. I believe that the best actor of the 2020 Academy Awards can become immersed in his role as my film’s antagonist and unleash the character’s dark power.

I hope this film will be engraved in the minds of all sci-fi fans!

As the Brain Game winner, he received a Nintendo Switch, a Kindle and a Muji voucher as his prizes. Congratulations, Roderick!

Ms Peggy Yau

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Poetry — "English Time" Episode 4

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 6 Launched!

(30 Apr) CONGRATULATIONS to our Speech Festival Winners!

CONGRATULATIONS to our DRAMA TEAM!

Interesting Words — "English Time" Episode 3

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 5 Launched!

The ABC of Sports — "English Time" Episode 2

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 4 Launched!

"To Be Continued..." Chapter 3 Launched!

Roderick Yuen Wins Young Post's Brain Game

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