By Viola Chan and Vincy Ng (ELED Year 1 students 2020-21) You may be in the middle of the school year now, busy with schoolwork, but don’t forget to take some time to relax. Here’s a TV show recommendation! It is called “Money Heist”, a Spanish TV series streaming on Netflix. Inspired by some real-life …
By Rainbow Chan (ELED Year 4 student 2020-21) Undoubtedly, people around the world are living a hectic life nowadays. However, under the COVID-19 pandemic, people have started to slow their living pace down and therefore starting to realize the significance of healthy lifestyles. The real question is: What should we do to live more healthily? …
By Elizabeth Lui (ELED Year 3 student 2020-21) Ever noticed the hashtag #MoveforMentalHealth popping up on your social media feed? The hashtag is a part of the Move for Mental Health challenge launched in 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental …
Proverb is a common type of idiom intended to pass on ancient wisdoms, and is usually expressed as warnings. Out of all the “don’t” proverbs, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” seems the easiest to agree with. This bizarre slang has no doubt provoked our curiosity – how people came up with that? …
By Oscar Ho (ELED Year 3 student 2020-21) It’s been a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2020 has undoubtedly been rough for most of us. As we’re still striving in the battle against the virus, there were a series of unfortunate events we felt disheartened by upon hearing. We witnessed the fall of popular …
By Jasmine Wong and Minnie Tso (ELED Year 2 students 2020-21) Five Feet Apart (2019 version), cast by Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson, is a romantic movie about friendships and romantic relationships between Cystic Fibrosis patients. Stellar, Will and Poe need to go to different therapies and take various kinds of medicines just to …
By Ross Ng (ELED Graduate) In accordance with the Teacher Competencies Framework put forward by the former Advisory Committee on Teacher Education and Qualifications (ACTEQ) in 2003, all teachers in Hong Kong are expected to be equipped with extensive curriculum and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Afterwards, with the advent of incorporation of information technology into …
By Ross Ng (ELED Graduate) This article was written in November 2019, when I had just made an important decision for myself as well as my students: to teach the elective module “Learning English through Short Stories” to my F.4 class. Unlike most mainstream schools in Hong Kong, where several elective modules are selected by …
By Elizabeth Lui (ELED Year 2 student 2019-20) Dialogue is a common feature in short stories. Here, Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills like White Elephants’ and Grace Paley’s ‘A Conversation with My Father’, despite their distinct theme and topic discussed, both use dialogue to unveil the power dynamics, explore the theme of escapism, and reflect societal values. …
By Cedric Wong (ELED Graduate) A polysemous word is a word with multiple meanings. In order to understand a passage, interlocutors need to determine in what sense a word is used, or else misunderstanding may occur. Strategies of determining the intended meaning include interpreting the context, and asking the speaker to clarify. This article introduces two …