EnglishCentral Easter Challenge 2023

Introduction

Enjoy learning English with videos in the most trendy and interesting topics! EnglishCentral believes that videos can provide students with engaging and impressive learning. With more than 15,000 videos on EnglishCentral, including movies, documentaries, interviews, animation, etc., in addition to the authentic AI speaking technology, students can enhance their listening ability and speaking fluency day by day as practicing with the level-appropriate videos.

With the enthusiastic participation of schools in the previous 2 years, we are holding EnglishCentral Easter Challenge again this year. EnglishCentral Easter Challenge 2023 aims to strengthen students’ English ability beyond the classroom by using the high-quality English videos bundled with speaking, vocabulary and comprehension exercises on EnglishCentral.

All Hong Kong secondary schools interested in joining this challenge are welcome. Teacher-in-charge can apply for trial accounts of EnglishCentral by completing an online form on or before 31 March 2023 (Fri), and encourage students to participate in the challenge! The trial period continues until the end of the Easter Challenge.

For schools participating in eREAP and have applied for EnglishCentral, simply encourage your students to log in to EnglishCentral for participation with their EdCity student account and stand a chance of getting awarded.

Format

Online practices

Target

Hong Kong Secondary Schools, 2 divisions:

Junior Secondary School (S1 – S3)

Senior Secondary School (S4 – S6)

Period

20 Feb 2023 (Monday) – 26 Apr 2023 (Wednesday)

Practices

Students can log in to their EnglishCentral account and complete the following tasks: ‘Watch the Videos’ (6 selected videos), ‘Learn the Words’ and ‘Speak the Lines’.

Students are encouraged to opt for a suitable level, and to nominate for individual awards

Teachers could encourage students to join, and to nominate for school awards

Awards

Student Awards

Junior and Senior Secondary Division

* Student can attempt more than once, while the system will only record the score of the last attempt
** If there is a tie, students with more total completed sentences in ‘Speak the line’ will be the winner

School Awards

Junior and Senior Secondary Division

Procedures

Please follow the steps below to log in to EnglishCentral:

• Visit www.englishcentral.com, and click ‘SIGN-IN’, then click EdCity's logo or ‘Sign in with HKEdCity’
• Use EdCity student account to log in
• Choose the right class based on levels,
  • EdCity Easter Challenge 2023 (JS) for S1 to S3 students
  • EdCity Easter Challenge 2023 (SS) for S4 to S6 students
• Click ‘Class Videos’ to ‘Watch the Videos’ (Total: 6)
• Choose at least 6 (for secondary levels) to ‘Learn the Words’ in each video
• Choose at least 6 (for secondary levels) to ‘Speak the Lines’ and complete the recording task**

**Students can attempt more than once, while the system will ONLY record the score of last attempt

Please refer to Challenge Guideline for more details.

Enquiry

Hong Kong Education City

Tel: 2624 1000

Email: info@edcity.hk

Hong Kong Education City reserves the right to amend the terms and conditions of the scheme. In case of any dispute, our decision shall be final and conclusive.