English History Project This is an activity that you will be developing between now and December to help you think about the history of Hong Kong Popular Culture using English language arts like drama, role play, interview, poetry etc.
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Hong Kong Popular Culture
Hong Kong Popular Culture Cartoons/Newspapers Food Culture Pop Music Movies Martial arts-Wu Shu,Kung Fu etc Neighbourhoods/Architecture Eg Wet markets, Temple Street, Shamshuipo Superstitions –Feng Shui etc Majanhn/Popular signs etc
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The 1950’s-2007
Idea to be developed in English lesson You can choose any aspect of popular Hong Kong culure from after WW2 to now using role play,interviews, video, drama,poetry, historical news report, poetry etc. Explore through one of these methods either a popular figure (person e.g. Teresa Tang) or the time that they lived. You can make a drama about people who lived during that time to try to give some idea about what it was like to live then. This will count for your course mark in English and history subjects
Group Discussion Try to think of famous people who lived and influenced Hong Kong from 1950 – 2007 Try to think of things that have happened in Hong Kong from Try to think of popular entertainment in Hong Kong from
Hong Kong Popular Culture Group Work Work in group and discuss the following:_ 1. From Hong Kong Popular Culture what would be a good topic for your project? 2. How you would present your topic?
How have these things changed from 1950 to 2007? Why have these things changed from 1950 to 2007? E.g. Films,TV, Movies, Comics, Dramas, Newspapers, entertainment
Hong Kong Popular Culture Topics Films Dramas Newspapers Advertisements Comics Television Popular Entertainment Children’s Toys Music Songs Singers Street Culture (Markets etc) Eating and Food Culture Sports and Leisure Activities Hong Kong Popular Culture –Before and After the Handover Popular Culture and education Theatre and Art Martial Arts (Kung Fu, Judo,Karate etc) Transportation
Hong Kong Popular Culture 1950 –2007 Presentation Mini Dramas Video News Report Documentary Poetry Mini Musical TV Programme Music Video Remember that Presentation must be in English so if some content is in Chinese it must be translated.
Provisional Schedule Week 1:Develop and present proposal Week 2:Develop and present proposal Week 3 Rehearsal in Class Week 4: Class Competition December 14 th Form 3 Competition In Hall. The best Project from 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F will perform in the Hall.
Group Work 1. Get into your project groups and discuss what would be a good topic for your project. 2. You should discuss how and why it (the chosen topic) has changed from 1950 – You should further discuss what would be the best way to present the topic in order to make it easy to understand and enjoyable.