Summer homework assignments:

  • English summer homework should be hand-written on A-4 paper.
  • Homework should be handed in to your class teacher in the first week of the new academic year.
  • Your English summer homework constitutes 10% of the continuous assessment of the first term.
  • You should hand in 4 different pieces of writing on:
    (a) a description of an important piece of world news that happens during the summer vacation together with your feeling or your own views towards this piece of news. Write about 100 words.
    You should also hand in (b) 3 journal entries of something you have done during the vacation that is exciting/ interesting/ memorable. Write about 200 words on each entry.
  • In addition, you should work on the weekly online English reading comprehension exercises to further enhance your English proficiency. These exercises will be available from July 14 to September 22 on the ELC webpage. When you have finished all of them, you can check your answers on September 26th. You are strongly encouraged to write about your independent learning in your last journal entry.

In addition, you should work on the weekly online English reading comprehension exercises to further enhance your English proficiency. These exercises will be available from July 14 to September 22 on the ELC webpage. When you have finished all of them, you can check your answers on September 26th. You are strongly encouraged to write about your independent learning in your last journal entry.

Health in America Sept. 1 2008

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ELC Staff

The English Language Centre offers courses under General Education required subjects, namely English I – IV for all year one to year two students to help them reach an acceptable English standard roughly on a par with those from tertiary institutions in Hong Kong

It also provides specific assistance to students to enable them to study their major disciplines more effectively. The Academic Reading and Writing course is tailor-made for students in different majors so that they can increase their vocabulary, refine their writing skills and be able to write term papers in English.

It helps Year 3 and Year 4 students to further enhance their English skills by offering three hours of non-credit bearing required courses each semester -- Effective Oral Communication I and Effective Written Communication I for Year 3 and II for Year 4.

Besides these, the ELC runs quite a number of extra-curricular activities every week to provide students additional English exposure to enhance their English proficiency.

The objectives of the ELC are as follows:

  1. To enhance students' general proficiency in English to a level appropriate for university study,
  2. To equip students with relevant communicative skills in both academic, business and social contexts,
  3. To provide authentic situations as far as possible for students to develop their proficiency in all four language skills in an all-rounded manner.