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Language Arts:

Learning English through DRAMA

This year our S1 students dramatically
performed their version of the popular book and
movie, Matilda! With weekly drama lessons
from Mr. Chris Carmen and Mr. Scott Fountain,
they were able to enjoy learning, enhance
their confidence in using English and express
themselves through drama. After putting on an
entertaining performance, the judge gave the
following awards.

S1 Drama Competition - Matilda

Best Supporting Actress: 1B Sonia Tam
Best Actress:
1A Rosabelle Chan I felt very surprised when my name was called for the Best
I really enjoyed the class, Supporting Actress Award. I think all the performers played
and I would like to thank Mr. Carmen for his instruction, their own characters to such a high standard and their
especially regarding voice projection. Even though learning appearance and delivery was great too, so I felt amazed that I
lines was hard and rough, I learned a lot in my lessons, was chosen.
and I enjoyed it every single time. I feel really lucky to have During the drama lesson, my deepest impression was the
won the Best Actress Award and I honestly really thank Mr. numerous practices. I believe that practice makes perfect, so I
Middleton because he pushed me to be even better. At first, read the script and acted the same scene over and over again
I wanted to be a tree, but I gained the confidence to go for with my partner. Luckily, I improved my acting skills during the
a bigger role, which was Miss Honey. Learning this made lessons and acted smoothly on stage. I learnt that the most
me feel amazed, and inspired me to do much more in my important thing in drama class was using props and my facial
life. When I received the award, I felt really thankful for what expressions just like I do in real-life
the teachers had taught me, and I will forever cherish them. situations. This helps the audience to
This experience was extraordinary and I can’t wait to live the immerse themselves into the show and
moment again. feel impressed with our performance.

Most Comedic Actress: Best Overall Group: 1A Group 1 Best Teamwork Award: 1D Group 1
1C Yoyo Kwan (Reflection by Yanni Chan) (Reflection by Christy Chan)
I am so honoured and glad to In this English drama class, we have When our group won the Best Teamwork
have won the Most Comedic learnt how to say our lines loudly and Award, we felt very excited and touched
Actress Award playing Matilda’s confidently, and use our body language because we worked very hard to prepare
brother. When my name was to show our characters' traits and for this competition. Although we were
called I was pleasantly surprised. personalities. Inhale and speak loudly very nervous, we knew we could do great.
It also made me realise that my and clearly from our belly, that's what our We were very nervous because this was
efforts were worth it.
drama teacher taught us as he sat far our first time in a drama competition, and
The first rehearsal was something away to see if he could hear us projecting some students were afraid to stand up
that I will always remember. Since our voices loud enough. and speak up on stage and act out their
I am very shy, my voice is usually At first, when we were waiting to go on character.
too soft. However, my classmates stage, we just felt excited and looked It impressed us the most when we were
gave me a lot of support and forward to it. However, when we were watching other classes perform, as we
encouragement, and this gave on stage, the lights hit our faces and it could learn from them to do better in the
me the courage to speak up. I am all became a bit scarier! In the end we future. Although our class did alright,
very grateful to all the teachers finished our lines without error, and that's we think we still have a lot of room for
for enabling us to have a very thanks to Mr Carmen's guidance. improvement. The most valuable thing
smooth performance!
This experience has taught us to speak that we have learnt from the drama class
louder and use our body language to is teamwork. As this performance requires
show our confidence in speaking everyone to participate, if someone does
English and presenting in class. I not cooperate, then
hope next year we can also have t he perf ormance
similar fun English classes to improve will be incomplete.
our English speaking and confidence. Teamwork really does
make a difference.
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