The English Language Centre held the eleventh reading club online on 2nd June 2023. As usual, this event was sponsored by the Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay & Puan Sri Tan Kai Yong Aided ELC Teachers & Students Training Charitable Fund. Organizing a book club based on the Roald Dahl collection has been a yearly event for ELC in Hin Hua High School and this time, it is based on a story called James and the Giant Peach.
The book is a popular children's novel written in 1961 and was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 and a musical in 2010. The plot centres on a young English orphan boy who enters a gigantic, magical peach, and has a wild and surreal cross-world adventure with seven magically altered garden bugs he meets. Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry, but changed it to James and the Giant Peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry”.
The reading club was held online via Zoom and was joined by 82 participants. The event started after Miss Shyne had briefed the participants on some of the rules and regulations of the reading club. The presenters of the day were two Junior Three students, Cheong Jia Yin from J3 Adelaide and Chan Yi Ryong from J3 Washington. Together with the participants, they embarked on an exciting journey into the life of James Henry Trotter, the main character of the story.
Jia Yin and Yi Ryong started off by giving the audience a brief introduction of Roald Dahl and a summary of the story. Then, they moved on to the introduction of some of the important characters of the book. They also took turns to share with the audience what they found interesting about the characters as well as the plot. Not only that, the presenters also encouraged the audience to take part in the sharing session. Most of the participants that evening were shy to speak up but they responded via chatbox. It was fun to see the participants actively exchanging their opinions on the story, moral values and interesting phrases which they had picked up from the book.
Most of the participants that evening came from Miss Wendy’s classes, S1 Athens and S1 Vancouver. “I think this is a good opportunity to get the students to read English books and talk about what they have learnt. I also got them to do a role-play based on the characters in the book in class and everyone had fun,” said Miss Wendy.
The presenters described the experience of chairing the reading club as fruitful. Jia Yin and Yi Ryong stated that not only did they get to build their vocabulary from reading, they also got to sharpen their enunciation skills as well as presentation skills. “We always wondered how to keep our presentation interesting and how to get people to listen to us more attentively. We are very happy to learn all that by chairing a book club!” said Yi Ryong and Jia Yin.
《兴华月报》2023年6月号
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