{"id":1781,"date":"2014-02-18T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1781"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:10:33","slug":"teaching-english-through-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1781","title":{"rendered":"Teaching English through Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Dear Aunt Mimi,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">How are you doing these days? Is everything going on well? I was regrettably informed of your reluctance for Elton\u2019s joining the English Drama Team. I hope you can change your mind after reading this letter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">I\u2019m a member myself in the English Drama Team, and from my first hand experience, I can say that it really exposes its member to the art and its culture both in broadness and in depth. Elton can not only learn to act, but also appreciate the literary gems produced by all-time great playwrights like Shakespeare and Dickens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Joining the team can also let the students\u2019 English studies flourish. As far as Elton is concerned, he\u2019s very affected to English, and has very good results in the subject, too. He can definitely further his spoken and written English skills through practising the lines and writing the play script. So rather than hampering his studies, joining the Drama Team would help him sharpen his language skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Last but not least, acting can boost one\u2019s confidence. I\u2019m a perfect example in this case. I was before a timid little boy afraid of facing strangers as you can remember, let alone taking the stage. Now after joining the team, things are no longer the same. I\u2019m sure it can have the same effect on Elton, who\u2019s not that outgoing either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Joining the English Drama Team is good to both his personal attainment and future prospects. Moreover, many teenagers in the city nowadays are engaged in various problems arising from an aimless life. Isn\u2019t it just elating that Elton has got his own pursuit in life? Please, Aunt Mimi, he\u2019s already 14. Give him a chance and let him go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><span style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 24pt; line-height: 1.3em;\">Best regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\"><em style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 24pt; line-height: 1.3em;\">Chris<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">Dear Aunt Mimi<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">How are you doing these days? Is everything going on well? I was regrettably informed of your reluctance for Elton\u2019s joining the English Drama Team. I hope you can change your mind after reading this letter.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;\">I\u2019m a member myself in the English Drama Team, and from my first hand experien.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1781\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-35"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/3395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}