In love with Shakespeare

愛上了莎士比亞

Objectives

This competition aims to cultivate students' interests in learning English, Cantonese and Putonghua by exposing students to stories written by William Shakespeare. In addition, through engaging students in mastering story-telling skills, students could enhance the speaking skills of the three languages.

Target participants

All students (including full-time and part-time UGC students, self-funding students and postgraduate students) are welcome to participate.

Regulations

Each participant will perform individually. There will be a screening test for an applicant to become an eligible participant. An eligible participant has to use the story excerpt provided by the Competition Organizer. Each participant has to choose one story excerpt and tell the story according to the language required. Each story excerpt consists of three parts in which Cantonese, Putonghua and English are used respectively. Extra points will be awarded if the participant can recite the script.

Participants can use more creative methods, e.g., the use of props, costumes, background visuals and music, facial expressions, hand and body gestures to make their performance livelier and more engaging. The duration of each performance should not exceed 10 minutes.

Stages

There will be a briefing session, storytelling workshop, training sessions, and a competition.

Briefing Session and Story-telling Workshop for the Participants

Date	28 February 2019 (Thursday)
Time	3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Venue	Rooms H of ASLLC, B3-G/F-05
Remarks	Before the competition, participants are encouraged to attend the briefing cum workshop session to polish their storytelling techniques and improve their presentation skills e.g., diction, pronunciation, facial expression, body gesture, hand gesture, voice projection. The workshop will be conducted in English by an experienced drama teacher, Dr. Priyanka Jain.

Storytelling Workshop by Dr. Priyanka Jain

Participants have grasped useful storytelling skills in the workshop.

Participants of the competition have to submit a video in the first run of competition before 7 March 2019 (5 p.m.) to Ms. Natalie Lau at nkylau@eduhk.hk For further details, participants may refer to the powerpoint slides of the briefing session and the storytelling workshop. (Please click the underlined words.)

Training Sessions for the Finalists

Date

Time

ASLLC Room A1

Dr. Tse Chun Yip

ASLLC Room A2

Mr. Anson Wong

ASLLC Room B

Ms. Lau Tak Sin

14 March 2019 (Thur)

3:30-4:10 p.m.

Hamlet

(Cantonese)

Romeo and Juliet

(English)

The Merchant of Venice

(Putonghua)

4:10-4:50 p.m.

Romeo and Juliet

(Cantonese)

The Merchant of Venice

(English)

Hamlet

(Putonghua)

4:50-5:30 p.m.

The Merchant of Venice

(Cantonese)

Hamlet

(English)

Romeo and Juliet

(Putonghua)

The Final Competition

Date	22^nd March 2019
Time	2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue	ASLLC Open Area

All the full-time and part-time EdUHK students are welcome to be audience of the competition. There is also a lucky draw and admission tickets are free! You may get the ticket from the counter of the ASLLC during office hours (Mon to Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:20 p.m.).

Scripts