ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION

1.    OBJECTIVES:

  • To provide every student of English with further opportunities for extending their knowledge and experience of the cultures of other people as well as opportunities for personal and intellectual development, further studies, pleasure, and work

 

  • To empower students with the capabilities for lifelong and independent learning, adaptation to change, and critical and exploratory thinking

2.    ENGLISH ACTIVITIES:

Battle of the Books

English Drama

English Lunch Activities

English Study Tour

English Week

English Writing Workshop at CUHK

A Day at HKU

Disney Youth Program

Cathay Pacific English on Air

 

3.    USEFUL WEBSITES:

On the Internet, there are many useful websites for learning and improving your English skills. We have chosen the sites we think are the most helpful for you.

South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/hk

Young Post

https://yp.scmp.com/

The Standard

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/

The Student Standard

http://student.thestandard.com.hk/

English in News

https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio2/programme/einn        

English Campus, Education City

https://www.hkedcity.net/english/

BBC Learning English

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/

Short Stories

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/

TVNews

https://www.hkedcity.net/studentscheme/zh-hant/tvnews

A Guide to Grammar and Writing

http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/index.htm

The Purdue Writing Lab

https://owl.purdue.edu/

Budding Writers

https://www.carmelss.edu.hk/buddingwriters/

Idioms

https://www.idiomstube.com/

Collocation

http://www.freecollocation.com/

Thesaurus

https://www.thesaurus.com/

Cambridge Dictionary

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Oxford English Dictionary

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/