To help students better prepare for their competition, Smart Education Charitable Foundation organized Radio Drama workshops on April 8th and 9th via Zoom. The workshops, conducted by Ms. Becky Baker from the Elephant Community Press, introduced various ways and tips on making adjustments to the scripts, recording, voice acting and creating sound effects. The workshops helped students understand more about the features of radio drama and the skills that are required to make their performance more presentable and outstanding!

Please click the video below to watch the full workshops:

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Congratulations to all the semi-finalists who have been selected by our judges to enter Phase 2 of our Radio Drama Competition. We are encouraged by the schools’ active participation in this competition. Thanks to the support from principals, teachers, parents and students, we are able to let students continue to improve their English proficiency through this interesting competition. We are holding workshops on script writing and voice/sound effects training via Zoom to help students better prepare for the competition:

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• All participating teams MUST attend the training session.
• When teams join the training session, please make sure they use their team number and school name as the participant name.

About the workshop: ☆The workshop will be conducted by Ms Becky Baker from the Elephant Community Press. Ms. Becky Baker is from Manchester, UK where she was born and raised. Having lived, worked and studied in London, Becky gained a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London in 2010, and since then has travelled round Europe, Asia and the U.K. working as a children’s theatre writer and director. She has written and directed both original and adapted stories for organisations ranging from local community libraries in Malaysia, to The National Theatre, England. Becky specialises in writing for young audiences and has developed many stories and plays for children as young as aged 1, as well as scripts and short stories for young people aged 16. With a love of dreamy fantasy and parallel universes, her favourite authors include Oliver Jeffers, Philip Pullman and of course J.K. Rowling.

About the competition: ☆The 12th English Radio Drama Competition is organized by Smart Education Charitable Foundation. ☆This competition is also sponsored by (listed in no particular order) The Standing Committee on Language Education & Research (SCOLAR), ETS TOEIC, TOEFL Junior, TOEFL ITP, KEA Learning International Ltd, EF English Centers, NICI Asia Ltd and Striking Popping Candy. ☆The final competition and prize giving ceremony is tentatively scheduled to be on May 16, 2020 at HKU Graduate House Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall. ☆Reminder: Please help ensure that your students submit the 5-minute radio drama (in MP3 format) with the script to us ON OR BEFORE April 20, 2020. Files can be sent to us via email to Drama@MySmartABC.com.

We would also be grateful if you could fill out the enclosed reply slip to confirm your students’ attendance. Please fax it back to us at 2851 8422 on or before April 7, 2020.

Please visit our website www.mysmartabc.com/drama for more details. Should you have any questions, please feel free to call us at 2851 3822 or email us at Drama@MySmartABC.com.

We look forward to seeing your students on April 8 (Primary School Section) / April 9 (Secondary School Section).