English Activities

S1 Poetry Planet

On 9 November 2020, all of the S1 students enjoyed a spectacular performance, Poetry Planet, staged by a professional drama crew. The drama taught the audience everything about poetry and poems around the world in an engaging and exciting journey. 

 
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After the drama performance, all S1 classes participated in an interactive poetry workshop led by the production crew in the following week. Students read aloud and performed selected poems like Spike Milligan’s Ning Nang Nong and Clive Sansom’s The Dustman in creative ways. Together, these interactive and interesting experiences have successfully connected our students with language arts.

 
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All S1 classes joining the post-show interactive poetry workshop in our school’s performance theatre


S4 Drama appreciation: Comedy of Mistakes

On 10 March 2021, all S4 students went to watch an extraordinary adaptation of Sherlock Holmes’ The Speckled Band entitled Comedy of Mistakes at Sai Wan Ho Civic Center. This has been the third year for our school to participate in the SCOLAR English Alliance “From Page to Stage” programme, which not only offered an opportunity for our students to appreciate the theatre, but also to engage in the textual analysis of the detective story. 

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Comedy of Mistakes, a comic adaptation from Sherlock Holmes’ The Speckled Band

 

 

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All S4 students appreciating the theatrical performance in “From Page to Stage” programme

 

 

 

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“The drama is exceptional and phenomenal. At first glance, it was just an adaptation from Sherlock Holmes’ The Speckled Band, but the play was actually teaching us theatrical elements by deliberately ‘making everything go wrong on stage’ with hilarious consequences, so I would recommend this play for S4 students next year.”  

 

Coco Wong 4E

 

Third Time’s the Charm

Whereas this title normally means that it takes three times to succeed, our Form 3 debate team has claimed victory for the third time in a row. On the 17th March, a heated debate took place on the topic of megacities. Our team were to support the rise of cities with a population of over 10 million people. 3A Kary Ching kicked the team off, followed by 3B Chiara Pang, who claimed the prize as best speaker. Finally, 3A Denise Fung closed our team’s case with finesse and poise. Having worked for several months, the culmination of their effort amounted in a resounding success and a third win to put under their belt. Three victories in a row means our team will be proceeding to the Grand Final for the first time in True Light history. Let’s see if they can claim the last trophy.

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Form 3 Debate Team and the Team Coach Mr. Hedley

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Our debaters: (from right to left) 1st Speaker 3A Kary Ching; 2nd Speaker 3B Chiara Pang and 3rd Speaker 3A Denise Fung

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Our students worked as the Chairperson and Timekeeper for the competition


Champion in Debating (HKSSDC) 20-21

Being undefeated against different schools, Hong Kong True Light College English Debating Team 1 (senior) has finally been crowned as the champion of 2020-21 Hong Kong Secondary School Debating Competition (Div II) (Kowloon & HK) in Term 1. On 26 Feb 2021, the team, comprising all S4 students, including 4A Tina Cheung (the first speaker), 4A Anna Chan (the second speaker) and 4A Nicole Chan (the third speaker), spoke as the Negative House on the motion ‘the House supports the use of tiger parenting techniques’ against Tack Ching Girl’s Secondary School. The Finals match was intense and it was a neck-and-neck game. Eventually the adjudicator was more convinced by the solid evidence and research findings presented by our team and declared us the winner.

Despite the pandemic that forces all debates to go online, it has been a fantastic year for our school with victories for all of our three teams (S1-2, S3, and S4-S5). The senior team (Team I) has concluded term 1 with the champion title; while the S3 junior team (Team II) has also secured their spot in the HKSSDC Finals, which will take place in term 2. We look forward to another exciting contest for Team II in their Finals!

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English Debating Team I, Nicole Chan (4A), Tina Cheung (4A) and Anna Chan (4A) with their coach, Ms Yeung, won in the Finals of Hong Kong Secondary School Debating Competition (Kowloon & HK).

I can’t believe our team can do that well considering our little experience in debating! I appreciate my teammates much for all research efforts, practice and mock debates. It is a good experience for me to understand how important dealing with pressure is. I would like to give my huge gratitude to my teacher advisor, Ms Yeung, and my peers!

Nicole Chan, 4A

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Online debating has been a new challenge for our debaters.

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Debating is not only about speaking, but also research, attentive listening, and teamwork.


Victory for Form Three

A team of 5 Form 3 students and their coach, Mr. Hedley, culminated several months of work in a debate competition on Wednesday 20th January. [......]

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Junior Team III – our second speaker, Precious Sit, was awarded the Best Speaker in the debate.

Following the victories of both the Senior English Debating Team I and Junior Team II, our Junior Team III defeated PLK Lee Shing Pik College in their second round of the HKSSDC debating competition on 2 December, 2020. As the Affirmative Team, we argued for the motion “Hong Kong should introduce a residential garbage tax by 2022”. It was the S2 students’ first time debating, and they did a wonderful job! Congratulations to our debaters: 2B Cheryl Li, 2B Precious Sit and 2B Chloe J MacCallum. Also, 2B Jane Chan acted as the Chairperson. They put forth a lot of effort to prepare for the competition, and our second speaker, Precious Sit, was awarded the Best Speaker in the debate.

I think this competition was a good experience for me and broadened my horizons. During the competition, I felt very anxious at first. When I read the script, my heart beat really fast and felt like it might explode. However, I was still able to deliver my arguments in a calm manner. While preparing for the competition, my team and I had a mock debate with the Senior Debating Team, and it really helped us to get better. Miss Yeung’s Senior Debating Team was really well-prepared, and it motivated us. Also, our second speaker, Precious, reminded me that we joined this competition to improve our speaking skills. Precious was right, so I kept working hard in this competition. At last, I want to thank my teammates and Miss Li who encouraged me to do better. Thank you!

2B Cheryl Li

This was such a unique debate competition experience for me because I think a minority of people will have an online debate competition from home (due to the current coronavirus situation). During the debate, the serious atmosphere made me feel nervous even though I was just the Chairperson! Before the debate competition, I finished my chairperson script quickly, so I had spent my time doing my best to help our debaters whenever they needed my help. Now, I’m looking forward to our next debate competition.

2B Jane Chan

Junior Team II – won in their first round of HKSSDC debating competition

Following the victory of the Senior English Debating Team I, our junior Team II comprising all S3 students has also won in their first round of HKSSDC debating competition on 6 November 2020 against PLK Wu Chung College on the same motion on “compulsory charity work” speaking as the negative house. Congratulations are to the debaters, 3A Kary Ching, 3A Denise Fung and 3A Ophelia Wong. Their confident and well-prepared speeches have impressed the adjudicator, in particular the 2nd speaker Denise Fung who was awarded the best speaker in the debate. Sincere thanks are also to Mr Hedley who has been committed to guiding and training our English Debating Team II.

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English Society – Lantern guessing game:

We finally shared some fun and laughter in the first activity after school resumption on 29 September. Can you guess what event was organized? You bet! That is the lantern guessing game organized by the English Society celebrating the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. There was an array of paper lanterns with many brain-teasing riddles printed on them, making the covered playground full of festive colours. One of the riddles that impressed me most was this – “Which bank has never had any money?” I’m sure all of you already know the answer! Apart from learning English with lantern riddles, students promoted communication with their peers when they discussed the riddles together. There is no denying it is an awesome event. 

Sophie Tam, 4E

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In order to promote English as the language to understand cultures around the world and as the means to broaden students’ horizons, the English Society has been formed at the commencement of the year. With our committed members and devoted teacher advisors, we look forward to fostering a happy English learning environment at school this year. 

 


S5 City Forum: Smart lamp posts – 28 November 2019

What could possibly be a better way to learn about social issues apart from reading newspapers and scrolling for feeds on social media? That’s right, voicing our own opinions. Our S5 students have experienced a city forum on the topic of “smart lamp posts”. With different S5 classes representing different stakeholders in society, namely Legislators, the Hong Kong Government, General Public, I.T Companies and Human Rights Group respectively, the forum had sparked some nerve-wrecking, intense yet hilarious moments. Being the Chairperson of the forum, Mr. Hedley directed challenging questions to various stakeholders, who had responded dauntlessly. My most memorable one was directed to the Human Rights Group, which was asked, “if citizens have nothing to hide, why do they care so much about their privacy?” It was backfired by a sarcastic but witty remark – Why should we wear clothes to cover up our bodies then? It was incredible to see the swift and deep thinking of our S5 groups when the forum ended with joyful laughs.

Polly Chow Tsz Yu 5E

 

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S4 Personality test – 7 Nov 2019

I have a vivid imagination… I have a soft heart – Agree or disagree?  Our S4 students have spent an afternoon with Mr Hedley and their English teachers to find out who they are. Listening attentively and responding to Mr Hedley’s list of personality test questions, students have learned about different personality traits and about themselves.

 

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S3 Busking

On 24 October, our S3 students have learned English through language arts and popular culture, in which they enjoyed a workshop on busking, the arts of street performance, with their teachers.

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This has been the first time I met the new NET Mr Hedley. He had some challenges for us by asking us to research and present a busking group. Even though my groupmates and I were all very shy and I found it hard to give a presentation with such a short period of preparation time, we managed to do so under teachers’ encouragement and students’ support. We hope to do better next time.

Jenny Wong Hoi-ki, 3C

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